Theological Studies back issues from September 2007:
From the editor's desk.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2007; ... [Theologians at the end of the 17th century] introduced "dogmatic" theology. It is true that the word "dogmatic" had previously applied to theology. But then it was used to denote a distinction from moral, or ethical, or historical theology. Now it was employed in a new sense, in ...
"The synthesis of all heresies"--100 years on.
Sep 01, 2007; ... To discover who people think they are, what they think they are doing, and to what end they think they are doing it, it is necessary to gain a working familiarity with the frames of meaning within which they enact their lives. --Clifford Geertz (1) IN THE FALL OF ...
Homo theologicus: toward a reflexive theology (with the help of Pierre Bourdieu).
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN RECENT YEARS INDIVIDUAL THEOLOGIANS have become increasingly self-conscious about the various social, cultural, and historical factors that condition or affect their theological production. Reflexivity in the social sciences refers to examining social practices (in this case, theology) ...
As long as we wonder: possibilities in the impossibility of interreligious dialogue.
Sep 01, 2007; ... The application of George Lindbeck's cultural-linguistic approach to interreligious dialogue calls' into question our ability to communicate across the divide of different religious traditions. Examining his postliberal theology and accepting Lindbeck's caution about the difficulty of ...
From statements to parables: rethinking pluralist identities.
Sep 01, 2007; ... ACCORDING TO PETER BYRNE, "The doctrine that all major religious traditions refer to a common sacred, transcendent reality is at the heart of pluralism." (1) Others have expressed their pluralist positions similarly, in terms of identical reference. Thus John Hick, in the most ...
The Johannine of Augustine's Trinity: a dogmatic sketch.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE NECESSITY OF A PROPER ACCOUNT of Augustine's trinitarian theology for the present dogmatic context is discernible in calls from both sympathizers (1) and those who disparage him as the progenitor of a dubious legacy. (2) In a context broader than merely trinitarian (or even explicitly ...
From Oxford to Rome: Newman's ecclesial conversion.(John Henry Newman )
Sep 01, 2007; ... CONVERSION IS AN ABOUT-FACE, a significant change of direction, a fundamental horizon shift from one reality to another, indeed, from one world to another. (1) It often involves two distinct moments: a negative deconversion from and a positive conversion to. (2) On October 3, 1845, John ...
Yves de Monteheuil: action, justice, and the kingdom in spiritual resistance to Nazism.
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN RECENT DECADES, deep reflection and impassioned debate have been provoked in Christian theology by the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people and other groups, the personal suffering inflicted on numerous individual lives, and the countless heroic acts of ...
On the (economic) trinity: an argument in conversation with Robert Doran.(QUAESTIO DISPUTATA)
Sep 01, 2007; ... OF THE MANY THEOLOGICAL LEGACIES for which Western Christianity has Augustine to thank, none has been subjected to more scrutiny and criticism in recent years than the "ad extra rule." The question it applies to is whether all God's doings "outside" the Trinity are done by the "whole" ...
Two points or four?--Rahner and Lonergan on Trinity, incarnation, grace, and beatific vision.(QUAESTIO DISPUTATA)
Sep 01, 2007; ... IN A RECENT ARTICLE in Theological Studies Robert Doran brought to light developments in the work of Bernard Lonergan that move in the direction of what Doran is calling a unified field structure for systematic theology. (1) This structure provides an integration of theologies of beatific ...
Addressing the four-point hypothesis.(QUAESTIO DISPUTATA)
Sep 01, 2007; ... I WELCOME THE DISCUSSION that my article "The Starting Point of Systematic Theology" has occasioned, and especially the attention that is drawn by this discussion to the relative merits and difficulties of Bernard Lonergan's hypothesis relating the four divine relations to four created ...
The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE EPISTLE OF JUDE: ITS TEXT AND TRANSMISSION. By Tommy Wasserman. Coniectanea Biblica: New Testament 43. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 2006. Pp. xv + 400. 55.50 [euro]. Swedish scholars have pursued a longstanding, lively interest in the epistles of Jude and 2 ...
Theology as History, History as Theology: Paul in Ephesus in Acts 19.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THEOLOGY AS HISTORY, HISTORY AS THEOLOGY: PAUL IN EPHESUS IN ACTS 19. By Scott Shauf. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 133. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. x + 377. $135. At least one member of every dissertation committee poses the ...
Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... CHRISTOLOGY AND DISCIPLESHIP IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK. By Suzanne Watts Henderson. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 135. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Pp. xv + 287. $90. Henderson's ground-breaking book addresses a long-standing difficulty in Marcan ...
Prophecy and Discernment.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... PROPHECY AND DISCERNMENT. By R. W. L. Moberly. Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Pp. xvi + 281. $80. Throughout their religious histories, the occasional Israelite or Christian has claimed the mantel of the prophet, that is, they have ...
Eastern Christianity.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... EASTERN CHRISTIANITY. Edited by Michael Angold. Cambridge History of Christianity 5. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Pp. xx + 722. $180. This massive work, one of nine projected volumes, covers the Eastern Christian period from the late Middle Ages (ca. AD 1000) to the ...
Bound Choice, Election and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... BOUND CHOICE, ELECTION, AND WITTENBERG THEOLOGICAL METHOD: FROM MARTIN LUTHER TO THE FORMULA OF CONCORD. By Robert Kolb. Lutheran Quarterly Books. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. xiii + 381. $35. Robert Kolb presents a fascinating study of the formation of Lutheran ...
Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ERASMUS, CONTARINI AND THE RELIGIOUS REPUBLIC OF LETTERS. By Constance M. Furey. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Pp. xiv + 255. $65. Furey imaginatively examines epistolary interactions between Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, Margaret More Roper, Gasparo Contarini, ...
A Brief History of Vatican II.(Vatican II: Forty years later)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... A BRIEF HISTORY OF VATICAN II. By Giuseppe Alberigo. Foreword by John W. O'Malley, S.J. Translated by Matthew Sherry. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2006. Pp. xv + 141. $20. VATICAN II: FORTY YEARS LATER. Edited by William Madges. Annual Publication of the College Theology Society 51 ....
Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Apuntes in Honor of Justo L. Gonzalez.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... HISPANIC CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AT THE DAWN OF THE 21ST CENTURY: APUNTES IN HONOR OF JUSTO L. GONZALEZ. Edited by Alvin Padilla, Roberto Goizueta and Eldin Villafane. Nashville: Abingdon, 2005. Pp. xiv + 314. $25. As his Festschrift's 30-page bibliography demonstrates, church ...
Yves Congar: Theologian of the Church.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... YVES CONGAR: THEOLOGIAN OF THE CHURCH. Edited by Gabriel Flynn. Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs. Louvain: Peeters, 2005. Pp. xvi + 503. 28 [euro]. On the occasion of the great Dominican's centenary, this collection examines and assesses Congar's contribution as ...
Theologie 1st Biographie: Erinnerungen und Notizen.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THEOLOGIE IST BIOGRAPHIE: ERINNERUNGEN UND NOTIZEN. By Herbert Vorgrimler. Munster: Aschendorff, 2006. Pp. 400. 12.80 [euro]. America first met Vorgrimler through his cooperative writings with Karl Rahner for the Theological Dictionary (1965) and the well-received five-volume ...
Presence et Parousie.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... PRESENCE ET PAROUSIE. By Jean-Yves Lacoste. Geneve: Ad Solem, 2006. Pp. 337. 30 [euro]. Lacoste is a philosophical theologian in continuity with the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger. He is often anthologized with those who express varied forms of post-modernism. Here I ...
Jesus and Creativity.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... JESUS AND CREATIVITY. By Gordon Kaufman. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. Pp. xvi + 142. $20. Many today agree that, just as the message of Jesus was transformed through its movement from a Jewish into a Greek cultural matrix, so too entry into the scientific framework of our cosmic ...
The Trinity: Rediscovering the Central Christian Mystery.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE TRINITY: REDISCOVERING THE CENTRAL CHRISTIAN MYSTERY. By M. John Farrelly, O.S.B. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Pp. xviii + 307. $88; $32.95. Participating in the contemporary retrieval of the mystery of Trinity in Christian praxis, Farrelly traces the development ...
Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... HEART OF THE CROSS: A POSTCOLONIAL CHRISTOLOGY. By W. Anne Joh. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2006. Pp. 192. $24.95. While this study, through the use of postcolonial theory, poststructuralist psychoanalysis, and political-liberationist-feminist hermeneutics, provides ...
The Dynamism of Desire: Bernard J. F. Lonergan on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE DYNAMISM OF DESIRE: BERNARD J. F. LONERGAN ON THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA. By James L. Connor, S.J., and the Fellows of the Woodstock Theological Center. Saint Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2006. Pp. xii + 492. $31.95. This volume, emanating ...
Alone in the World?: Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ALONE IN THE WORLD? HUMAN UNIQUENESS IN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY. By J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. xviii + 347. $40. Following on his Duet or Duel? (1998) and The Shaping of Rationality (1999), van Huyssteen here avoids generalizations about ...
Theology as Performance: Music, Aesthetics, and God in Western Thought.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THEOLOGY AS PERFORMANCE: MUSIC, AESTHETICS, AND GOD IN WESTERN THOUGHT. By Philip Stoltzfus. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2006. Pp. xii + 284. $135. Stoltzfus claims that the theological potential of music has yet to receive the attention it deserves. Joining a contemporary search ...
Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... SONG DIVINE: CHRISTIAN COMMENTARIES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA. Edited by Catherine Cornille. Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts. Dudley, Mass.: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. 219. $40. The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of comparative theology as a branch of ...
Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... JUST LOVE: A FRAMEWORK FOR CHRISTIAN SEXUAL ETHICS. By Margaret A. Farley. New York: Continuum, 2006. Pp. xiii + 322. $29.95. Farley's eagerly anticipated book delivers exactly what it ambitiously promises: a framework for Christian sexual ethics. Its first five chapters ...
Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... PRACTICING CATHOLIC: RITUAL, BODY, AND CONTESTATION IN CATHOLIC FAITH. Edited by Bruce T. Morrill, Joanna E. Ziegler, and Susan Rodgers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. vii + 325. $69.95. Originally delivered at a conference in November 2002 at the College of Holy Cross ...
The Handbook Of Reparations.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE HANDBOOK OF REPARATIONS. Edited by Pablo de Greiff. New York: Oxford University, 2006. Pp. xxxiii + 1020. $150. Pablo de Greiff, Director of Research at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), has edited a magisterial volume dedicated to the central and ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned?(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? By Eileen M. Schuller. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006. Pp. xvii + 126. $17.95. Schuller's volume began as lectures given in 2002 at the University of Victoria, marking 50 years since the discovery of Cave 4 at Qumran. Unlike ...
The Honeymoon Is Over: Jonah's Argument with God.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE HONEYMOON IS OVER: JONAH'S ARGUMENT WITH GOD. By T. A. Perry. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2006. Pp. xxxvii + 250. $19.95. Those accustomed to historical critical methods will find here a fresh reading of Jonah proposed by a specialist in Romance philology and comparative ...
The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE BOOK OF PROVERBS IN SOCIAL AND THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT. By Katharine J. Dell. New York: Cambridge University, 2006. Pp. x + 225. $85. Dell's discussion of Proverbs focuses "on three areas that continue to be at the center of scholarly discussion": wisdom's social context; its ...
The New Testament and Literature: A Guide to Literary Patterns.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE NEW TESTAMENT AND LITERATURE: A GUIDE TO LITERARY PATTERNS. By Stephen Cox. Chicago: Open Court, 2006. Pp. xii + 394. $25.87. Cox assesses the literary quality of the NT by identifying patterns and combinations of ideas, what he calls the NT's "'DNA," that give the NT its ...
Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament.(Shorter Notices)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... CONSTANTINE'S BIBLE: POLITICS AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By David L. Dungan. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007. Pp. xii + 224. $17. Dungan argues that the fourth-century cooperation between bishops and the Roman government enabled the forced definition of the NT canon and ...
Early Irish Monasticism: An Understanding of Its Cultural Monasticism Roots.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... EARLY IRISH MONASTICISM: AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS CULTURAL ROOTS. By Catherine Thorn, R.S.J. New York: Continuum, 2006. Pp. xxix + 226. $130. Believing that pagan Celtic culture heavily impacted Christianity, most scholars of early Irish Christianity will endorse the central ...
The Privilege of Poverty: Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE PRIVILEGE OF POVERTY: CLARE OF ASSISI, AGNES OF PRAGUE, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A FRANCISCAN RULE FOR WOMEN. By Joan Mueller. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2006. Pp. 192. $40. Relying on papal, political, and civic documents, Joan Mueller provides a "case ...
After Anti-Catholicism? John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845-c. 1890.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... AFTER ANTI-CATHOLICISM? JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND PROTESTANT BRITAIN, 1845-c. 1890. By Erik Sidenvall. New York: Continuum, 2005. Pp. xi + 207. $59.95. Sidenvall here enlivens Newman studies as well as current discussions about pluralism and religious liberties. The book follows a ...
Teilhard's Mass: Approaches to "The Mass On the World.".(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... TEILHARD'S MASS: APPROACHES TO "THE MASS ON THE WORLD." By Thomas M. King, S.J. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 2005. Pp. xiv + 172. $17.95. Thomas King offers another excellent instance of his Teilhardian scholarship, in this case particularly valuable because of the broad interest in ...
Christ the One and Only: A Global Affirmation of the Uniqueness of Jesus Christ.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... CHRIST THE ONE AND ONLY: A GLOBAL AFFIRMATION OF THE UNIQUENESS OF JESUS CHRIST. Edited by Sung Wook Chung. Foreword by Alister E. McGrath. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2005. Pp. xviii + 242. $24.99. This volume brings together diverse Protestant theologians who ...
Habermas And Theology.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... HABERMAS AND THEOLOGY. By Nicholas Adams. New York: Cambridge, 2006. Pp. ix + 267. $75; $29.99. Adams advances well beyond most previous discussions of Habermas and theology, both in his analytic comprehensiveness and in his focus on that which attracts theologians to Habermas ...
Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... FRIENDSHIP: INTERPRETING CHRISTIAN LOVE. By Liz Carmichael. London: T. & T. Clark, 2004. Pp. vi + 250. $120: $29.95. Writing from many perspectives (physician, Anglican priest, chaplain, and theology tutor at St. John's, Oxford), Carmichael offers a uniquely comprehensive study ...
The Work of the Spirit: Pneumatology and Pentacostalism.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT: PNEUMATOLOGY AND PENTECOSTALISM. Edited by Michael Welker. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. xvii + 236. $35. This aptly titled collection joins three major dialogue partners: theologians and biblical scholars from the so-called mainline churches; ...
Jesus and the Gospel Movement: Not Afraid to Be Partners.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... JESUS AND THE GOSPEL MOVEMENT: NOT AFRAID TO BE PARTNERS. By William Thompson-Uberuaga. Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy. Columbia: University of Missouri, 2006. Pp. xii + 266. $39.95. Thompson-Uberuaga's book is neither a typical work on Christology nor a ...
Understanding Islam: An Introduction.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... UNDERSTANDING ISLAM: AN INTRODUCTION. By Christopher T. R. Hewer. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. Pp. xiv + 256. $35. This is a wonderful book, an excellent introduction for beginning students to the study of Islam. Its ten chapters deal with subjects such as the Prophet Muhammad, ...
Encountering Jesus and Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ENCOUNTERING JESUS AND BUDDHA: THEIR LIVES AND TEACHINGS. By Ulrich Luz and Axel Michaels. Translated from the German by Linda M. Maloney. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. Pp. xv + 231. $22; $16. This book began as two lecture series on "Jesus and Buddha" presented in Bern and ...
Ecofeminism in Latin America.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ECOFEMINISM IN LATIN AMERICA. By Mary Judith Ress. Women from the Margins. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2006. Pp. xii + 243. $28. Ress provides an invaluable and engaging analysis of the ecofeminism movement in Latin America. A North American by birth, she has lived and worked in ...
L'antroplogia della teologia morale secondo l'enciclica "veritatis splendor": Atti del simposio promosso dalla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, Roma, settembre 2003.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... L'ANTROPOLOGIA DELLA TEOLOGIA MORALE SECONDO L'ENCICLICA "VERITATIS SPLENDOR": ATTI DEL SIMPOSIO PROMOSSO DALLA CONGREGAZIONE PER LA DOTTRINA DELLA FEDE, ROMA, SETTEMBRE 2003. Atti e documenti 24. Edited by Real Tremblay, C.Ss.R., Luis F. Ladaria, S.J., and Angel Rodriguez Luno. Vatican ...
Il lavoro tra riconoscimento e mercato: Per una logica del dono.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... IL LAVORO TRA RICONOSCIMENTO E MERCATO: PER UNA LOGICA DEL DONO. By Gianni Manzone. Brescia: Queriniana, 2006. Pp. 360. 22 [euro]. From 2001 to 2006, Gianni Manzone, the Pontifical Lateran University's Professor of Social Ethics, has written four important books on the market, ...
Tested in Every Way: The Catholic Priesthood in Today's Church.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... TESTED IN EVERY WAY: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD IN TODAY'S CHURCH. By Christopher Ruddy. New York: Crossroad, 2006. Pp. xi + 178. $16.95. What light can a gathering of mainstream American Catholics, clergy, religious, and laity, with both pastoral and academic expertise, shed on ...
The Ark of Speech.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE ARK OF SPEECH. By Jean-Louis Chretien. Translated by Andrew Brown. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. v + 170. $90. This beautifully written and insightful book makes a sustained case for the role of language in orienting the believer toward the fullness and beauty of God in the ...
Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... MICHAEL POLANYI: SCIENTIST AND PHILOSOPHER. By William T. Scott and Martin X. Moleski, S.J. New York: Oxford University, 2005. Pp. xiii + 364. $45. Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was an important scientist-intellectualhumanist who defended religious faith by claiming that all ...
Toward A Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... TOWARD A THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS: RELIGION, LAW, COURTS. By Michael J. Perry. New York: Cambridge University, 2007. Pp. xiii + 253. $70. Opening with the love command from John's Gospel and with a Buddhist imperative to extend an unlimited heart to all beings, Perry's study in ...
Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2007; ... MIND AND EMERGENCE: FROM QUANTUM TO CONSCIOUSNESS. By Philip Clayton. Oxford: Oxford University, 2006. Pp. 236. $27.95. For understanding our world, Clayton proposes that the perspective of emergence is the best choice when compared to the two more common options of physicalism ...
Books received.
Sep 01, 2007 ... SCRIPTURAL STUDIES Brock, Brian. Singing the Ethos of God." On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xxi + 386. $34. Brueggemann, Walter. The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah. Old Testament Theology. New York: Cambridge ...