Theological Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Theological Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A New Wave in the Modern History of the Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church: Literature Overview, 2018–20204
The Color Line, Race, and Caste: Structures of Domination and the Ethics of Recognition3
Synodality and the Francis Pontificate: A Fresh Reception of Vatican II3
Maurice Blondel and His Prodigal Children: Phenomenology, Charity, and Metaphysics3
COVID-19: A Crisis and a Tragedy—What’s Next?3
Restoring Social Trust: From Populism to Synodality3
Historical Crucifixion: A Liberationist Response to Deep Incarnation2
Hierarchicalism2
Envisioning a Just Response to the Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis2
Virtue Ethics and Action Guidance2
Expanding Horizons 150 Years after Vatican I: Toward a Renewed Relationship between Synodality and Primacy2
The Holy Spirit as the Protagonist of the Synod: Pope Francis’s Creative Reception of the Second Vatican Council2
Pope Francis’s Contribution to Catholic Thinking and Acting on War and Peace2
Mass Intentions: The Historical Development of a Practice: [Mass Intentions—Part One]2
Order, Reform, and Abolition: Changes in Catholic Theological Imagination on Prisons and Punishment2
Data Ethics, AI, and Accompaniment: The Dangers of Depersonalization in Catholic Health Care2
Synodality and the Sacramental Mission of the Church: The Struggle for Communion in a World Divided by Colonialism and Neoliberal Globalization1
Reconfiguring Ignacio Ellacuría’s Symbolic Conception of “the Crucified People”: Jesus, the Suffering Servant, and Abel1
The Law of the Cross and Climate Change1
Book Review: Welker, Michael: In God’s Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit1
Moral Leadership: A Challenge and a Celebration1
A Blemished Offering: Economy, Eucharist, and the Limits of Epiphanic Conversion1
Anger, Lamentation, and Common Ground1
Umwelt-Theory, Self-Transcendence, and Openness-to-God: Attending Theologically to Human Animality1
Sanctuary for Asylum Seekers: Revisiting the Religious Principle and Practice of Refuge in the Church1
Godly Diversions and Gifted Teachers: Learning Joyful Stewardship from the Birds and the Lilies with Søren Kierkegaard1
Synodality and the New Media1
Did Christ Have a Conscience? Revisiting the Debates on Christ’s (Un)Fallen Humanity1
Mass Intentions: Twentieth-Century Theology and Pastoral Reform [Part Two]1
White Ecclesiology: The Identity of the Church in the Statements on Racism by United States Catholic Bishops1
The Chimera of a “Deinstitutionalized Church”: Social Structure Analysis as a Path to Institutional Church Reform1
Human Trafficking, Coercion, and Moral Agency in Agricultural Labor1
Book Review: Burkhard, J. John: The “Sense of the Faith” in History: Its Sources, Reception, and Theology0
Book Review: Marx, Nathaniel: Authentic Liturgy: Minds in Tune with Voices0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Shorter Notices: Bulgakov, Sergius: The Eucharistic Sacrifice0
William of St. Thierry: The Meditations: with a Monastic Commentary0
Shorter Notice: Slater, R. Michael, Erin M. Cline and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds): Confucianism and Catholicism: Reinvigorating the Dialogue0
Book Review: In the Image of Her: Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition, by Amy E. Marga0
Book Review: Coblentz, Jessica: Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression0
Book Review: Slattery, P. John: Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church0
Book Review: Schaab, L. Gloria: Liberating Pneumatologies: Spirit Set Free0
Arentzen, Thomas, Purpura, Ashley and Papanikolaou, Aristotle. (EDs.): Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality0
Shorter Notice: O’Neill, SJ. William: Catholic Social Teaching: A User’s Guide0
Francis, (Pope): Laudate Deum: Apostolic Exhortation to All People of Good Will on the Climate Crisis, with Selections from Laudato Si’0
Book Review: Ryliškytė, Ligita: Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Shorter Notices: Duns, G. Ryan and T. Derrick Witherington (EDS): René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture0
Book Review: Collins, Drew: The Unique and Universal Christ: Refiguring the Theology of Religions0
Books Received0
Book Review: Stefanos Alexopoulos and Maxwell Johnson: Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies0
Anatolios, Khaled: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation0
Book Review: Bernard McGinn: The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France0
Book Review: Meza, Rosalia: Toward a New, Praxis-Oriented Missiology: Rediscovering Paulo Freire’s Concept of Conscientização and Enhancing Christian Mission as Prophetic Dialogue0
Book Review: Renewing Theology: Ignatian Spirituality and Karl Rahner, Ignacio Ellacuría, and Pope Francis, by J. Matthew Ashley0
Book Review: Anna Rowlands: Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times0
AI as Person, Paradigm, and Structure: Notes toward an Ethics of AI0
Book Review: Zaretsky, Robert: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas0
Book Review: Rom-Shiloni, Dalit: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible0
Shorter Notices: Fessard, SJ, Gaston: The Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola0
Book Review: Soskice, Janet: Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture0
Book review: Soloviev, Vladimir Sergeyevich: The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love, and Ethics0
Enhancing Ressourcement: Johann Adam Möhler’s Retrieval of Anselm0
Book Review: The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, by Robert M. Doran0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Shorter Notices: Halík, Tomáš: Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, & Transformation0
Books Received0
Odorisio, David M. (ED.): Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters0
The Fragility of Grace in the Karamazov World—and Ours0
Book review: Daymond, Antonia Michelle, Fredrick L. Ware and Eric Lewis Williams (eds): T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology0
De Lubac and Suárez: A Reappraisal0
Herder Publishers and the Second Vatican Council0
Shorter Notices: Metz, Johann Baptist: Remembering and Resisting: The New Political Theology0
Unintended Ultramontanism0
Book Review: Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian: No Lasting City: Essays on Theology, Politics, and Culture0
Book Review: George, P. William: Mining Morality: Prospecting for Ethics in a Wounded World0
Book Review: Peters, Ted. Foreword by Rick Warner: God in Cosmic History: Where Science & History Meet Religion0
Book Review: Kaplan, Grant: Faith and Reason through Christian History: A Theological Essay0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Book Review: O’Connell, H. Maureen: Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness0
Book Review: Bloechl, Jeffrey: Levinas on the Primacy of the Ethical: Philosophy as Prophecy0
Lohfink, Gerhard: Prayer Takes Us Home: The Theology and Practice of Christian Prayer0
Shorter Notices: Oyer, Gordon: Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology0
The People Who Do All Things Together: Living Base Ecclesial Communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo0
Book Review: Lamet, Pedro Miguel: Pedro Arrupe: Witness of the Twentieth Century, Prophet of the Twenty-First0
Shorter Notices: Collinge, J. William: Historical Dictionary of Catholicism0
From Luminosity to Love: Metaphysics and Empathy in Hearer of the Word0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Shorter Notice: Griffith, Colleen M. and Ospino, Hosffman (Eds.): Formative Theological Education0
Book Review Editor’s Introduction0
Shorter Notices: Howells, Edward and Mark A.: The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology0
Book Review: Ciraulo, Jonathan Martin: The Eucharistic Form of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Sacramental Theology0
Shorter Notices: In Christ Now Meet Both East and West: On Catholic Eucharistic Action0
Book Review: Levering, Matthew: Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism0
Book Review: Boland, Vivian: The Spirit of Catholicism0
Book Review: Ucerler, M. Antoni J., SJ: The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan0
Book Review: Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross: A Catholic Public Theology for the United States, by David E. DeCosse0
Book Review: Vogt, Markus: Christliche Umweltethik: Grundlagen und zentrale Herausforderungen0
Book Review: Sobrino, Jon: Theology without Deception: God, the Poor, and Reality in El Salvador0
Book Review: Goergen, OP, J. Donald: Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin: Christian Humanism in an Age of Unbelief0
Shorter Notices: Lefebure, D. Leo (ED.): Theology without Borders: Essays in Honor of Peter C. Phan0
René Girard and His Critics: The Theological Compatibility and Framework of His Early Mimetic Theory0
Race, Gender, and Christian Mysticism: The Life of Zilpha Elaw0
To Dream in North and South America: Reflections on the Sixtieth Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech0
The Limitations and Hermeneutical Implications of Vatican I’s Prophetic Mode0
Book Review: The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa Halensis, by Justin Shaun Coyle0
Catholicity and Translatability: Renewing Rahner on the World Church0
Book Review: Hoover, C. Brett: Immigration and Faith: Cultural, Biblical, and Theological Narratives0
Shorter Notices: Hübenthal, Christoph and Christiane Alpers (eds): T&T Clark Handbook of Public Theology0
Book Review: Scholz, Susanne and Santiago Slabodsky: The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic: Engaging the Scholarship of Marc H0
Healing and Creating in Christian-Muslim History: Charles de Foucauld, Louis Massignon, Christian de Chergé0
Book Review: Wheeler, Rachel: Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition0
Book Review: Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis, by Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, and Christian Barone0
Book Review: Ackerman, Susan: Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel0
Book Review: Hole, Sam: John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood0
Shorter Notices: Palmquist, Stephen: Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason’s Light0
Shorter Notices: Kronman, T. Anthony: After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy0
Book Review: Keenan, SJ, James F.: A History of Catholic Theological Ethics0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Books Received0
Book Review: Hawksley, Theodora: Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching0
Book Review: J. Budziszewski: Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Divine Law0
From the Editor’s Desk0
The “Hierarchy” of Truths in a New Context0
Book Review: How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures, by Robin Dunbar0
Overcoming the “Distance”: Robert Doran as a Bridge between the Trinitarian Analogies of Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar0
O’Malley, SJ. W. John: The Education of a Historian: A Strange and Wonderful Story0
Book Review: Kate Ward: Wealth, Virtue and Moral Luck: Christian Ethics in an Age of Inequality0
Book Review: Molnar, Paul: Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: In Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance0
Shorter Notices: A Reader in Chinese Theology0
Book Review: Lloyd, Vincent: Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology0
Shorter Notices: How We Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture’s Style and Meaning0
Is Presence Always Complicity? An Analysis of Presence, Its Moral Objects, and Scandal in Proximity to Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia0
Book Review: Battin, J. Steven: Intercommunal Ecclesiology: The Church, Salvation, and Intergroup Conflict0
Shorter Notices: Grumett, David (ed): Henri de Lubac and the Shaping of Modern Theology0
Dislocation as Graced Opportunity: Theology for a Synodal Church0
Coakley, Sarah: Spiritual Healing: Science, Meaning, and Discernment0
Dorrien, Gary: In a Post-Hegelian Spirit: Philosophical Theology as Idealistic Discontent0
A Theological Exploration: Nonviolence as Intersectional Praxis0
Book review: Papanikolaou, Aristotle and George E. Demacopoulus (eds): Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism0
Shorter Notices: Walking with Pope Francis: The Official Documents in Everyday Language0
Book Review: Doak, Mary: A Prophetic, Public Church: Witness to Hope amid the Global Crises of the Twenty-First Century0
Book Review: Sheldrake, Philip: A World Transfigured: The Mystical Journey0
Book Review: Wong, H. Joseph and Harvey D. Egan: The Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner0
Books Received0
Shorter Notice: Graybill, Rhiannon, Kaltner, John and McKenzie, Steven L.: What Are They Saying about the Book of Jonah?0
Book Review: Jesuit Art, by Mia M. Mochizuki0
Shorter Notices: Bednar, J. Gerald: Mercy and the Rule of Law: A Theological Interpretation of Amoris Laetitia0
Book Review: Groome, H. Thomas: What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations0
Book Review: Hansen, Danielle Tumminio: Conceiving Family: A Practical Theology of Surrogacy and Self0
Shorter Notices: Fabing, Robert SJ: Only Your Love and Your Grace: On Directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola0
Book Review: McManus, Kathleen, OP: Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God: A Feminist Epistemology0
Re-Presencing The Presence of God0
Shorter Notices: Robinson, Timothy H.: A Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality0
Mitchell, W. Donald: My Life of Dialogue: Engaging Buddhists and Muslims0
Book Review: Massimo Borghesi: Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis0
Book Review: Congdon, David W. (Ed.): Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views0
Changing Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament0
Book Review: Seewald, Michael: Catholic Perspectives on Reform0
Book Review: Seitz, R. Christopher: Convergences: Canon and Catholicity0
Book Review: Aers, David: Versions of Election: From Langland & Aquinas to Calvin & Milton0
Shorter Notice: Alvis, E. Robert (ed.): A Science of the Saints: Studies in Spiritual Direction0
Shorter Notices: Condic, L. Maureen: Untangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos0
On the Way to Divine Providence: From the Abyss of Time to the Throe of Eternity0
Shorter Notice: Smith, Ted A.: The End of Theological Education. Theological Education between the Times0
Books Received0
Shorter Notices: Hansen, Tobin and María Engracia Robles Robles, ME.: Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum0
Shorter Notices: Nichols, OP. Aidan: Romance and System: The Theological Synthesis of Matthias Joseph Scheeben0
Shorter Notices: Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision, by Gregory K. Hillis0
Book Review: Van den Brink, Gijsbert: Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory0
Book Review: Brouillette, André: Teresa of Avila, the Holy Spirit, and the Place of Salvation0
Eighty Years after Mystici Corporis Christi: Rereading Mystical Body Theology in the Early Twentieth Century0
Book Review: A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith throughout the Christian Tradition, by Paul A. Soukup, SJ0
Shorter Notices: Howard Ecklund, Elaine: Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear0
Shorter Notice: Anatolios, Khaled: Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year0
Book Review: Pearson, M. Paul (ED): Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton0
Shorter Notices: Keenan, F. James and Mark McGreevy (EDS): Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics0
Shorter Notices: Chalamet, Christophe, Elio Jaillet, and Gabriele Palasciano (eds): La théologie comparée: Vers un dialogue interreligieux et interculturel renouvelé?0
Shorter Notices: Called to Witness Hope: The Ministry of Catechist0
Shorter Notices: Jr. Cobb, B. John: Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology0
Book Review: Giambrone, Anthony, OP: The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins0
Beyond “The Anonymous Christian”: Reconsidering Rahner on Grace and Salvation0
Book Review: Senior, Donald: The Landscape of the Gospels: A Deeper Meaning0
Books Received0
From the Editor’s Desk0
Books Received0
Book Review: McGrath, E. Alister: The Territories of Human Reason: Science and Theology in an Age of Multiple Rationalities0
Book Review: Yuengert, Andrew: Catholic Social Teaching in Practice: Exploring Practical Wisdom and the Virtues Tradition0
Latin American Social Integration as a Methodological Lens for Francis’s Teaching0
Book Review: Frohlich, Mary. Foreword by Ilia Delio: Breathed into Wholeness: Catholicity and Life in the Spirit0
Book Review: Nehring, Przemysław: St. Augustine’s Essential Letters0
Book Review: Steck, SJ. Christopher: All God’s Animals: A Catholic Theological Framework for Animal Ethics0
Shorter Notices: Weinandy, OFM, Cap., G. Thomas: The Trinity: Eternity and Time0
Book Review: Prevot, Andrew: The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism0
Book Review: Joseph P. Chinnici: American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War through the Council0
Book Review: Petrusek, R. Matthew and Jonathan Rothchild (eds): Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity0
Shorter Notices: FitzGibbon, Scott, Gavin, John, SJ, and Soza, Fernanda: Social Justice and the Sacred: Exploring the Thought of Saint Alberto Hurtado, S.J.0
Book Review: Morrill, T. Bruce: Practical Sacramental Theology: At the Intersection of Liturgy and Ethics0
Book Review: Baptists, Catholics, and the Whole Church: Partners in the Pilgrimage to Unity, by Steven R. Harmon.0
Purely Penal Law: A Reconsideration0
Astell, W. Ann (eds): Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality0
Book Review: Lennan, Richard: Tilling the Church: Theology for an Unfinished Project0
Book Review: Yaden, B. David and Andrew B. Newberg: The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives0
Book Review: Byrne, SJ. Brendan: Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment0
Book Review: Frey, Jörg: Qumran and Christian Origins0
Book Review: Eggemeier, T. Matthew: Against Empire: Ekklesial Resistance and the Politics of Radical Democracy0
Book Review: Biopolitics after Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue, by Jeffrey P. Bishop, M. Therese Lysaught, and Andrew A. Michel0
Book Review: Wright, N. T.: History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology0
Book Review: Turner, Denys: Dante the Theologian0
Book Review: Clooney, X. Francis: Western Jesuit Scholars in India: Tracing Their Paths, Reassessing Their Goals0
Interpreting the Signs of the Times: Fostering Social Goods and Historical Transitions0
Book Review: Bullivant, Stephen: Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II0
Book Review: Papazian, Michael: The Doctor of Mercy: The Sacred Treasures of St. Gregory of Narek0
Book Review: Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Emmanuel Katongole0
“Like Yeast in Dough”: The Church–World Relationship in the Evolving Thought of Marie-Dominique Chenu0
Shorter Notices: Reforming the Church: A Synodal Way of Proceeding0
Book Review: Porter, Jean: The Perfection of Desire: Habit, Reason, and Virtue in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae0
Newheiser, David (ED.): The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics0
Book Review: Cornille, Catherine: Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology0
Book Review: Orsy, SJ Ladislas: Discernment: Theology and Practice, Communal and Personal0
Book Review: Hemmer, Ryan: The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: A Lonergan Idea0
Book Review: Heaney, Maeve Louise: Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt0
Book Review: Sievers, Joseph and Amy-Jill Levine (EDS): The Pharisees0
Book Review: Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament, by Love Lazarus Sechrest0
Winright, Tobias: Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing0
Book Review: Rowan Williams: Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition0
Shorter Notice: Bychkov, Oleg and Schumacher, Lydia: A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis0
The Promise of the Pandemic and the (Becoming) Totus Christus0
Book Review: Cox, Harvey: A New Heaven: Death, Human Destiny, and the Kingdom of God0
Costoya, Manuel Mejido(eds): Land of Stark Contrasts: Faith-based Responses to Homelessness in the United States0
Editor’s Introduction0
Pastor Aeternus, Robert Bellarmine, and the Possibility of a Heretical Pope0
Shorter Notices: Layman, C. Stephen: God: Eight Enduring Questions0
Book Review: Shortall, Sarah: Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics0
Book Review: Nguyen, SJ. Peter : Against the Titans: Theology and the Martyrdom of Alfred Delp0
Pope Francis and Interreligious Encounter0
Book Review: Bujo, Bénézet: Quelle Église pour un christianisme authentiquement africain? Universalité dans la diversité0
Book Review: Platter, M. Jonathan: Divine Simplicity and the Triune Identity: A Critical Dialogue with the Theological Metaphysics of Robert W. Jenson0
Book Review: Ryan, J. Gerard: Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living: Recognition of the Vulnerable Other0
Book Review: Cuddeback-Gedeon, Lorraine: The Work of Inclusion: An Ethnography of Grace, Sin, and Intellectual Disabilities0
Book Review: Volf, Miroslav and McAnnally-Linz, Ryan: The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything0
Shorter Notices: Southgate, Christopher: Theology in a Suffering World: Glory and Longing0
Shorter Notice: Feldmeier, Peter: Living Christ: A Spiritual Reading of the Gospels0
Book Review: Herdt, A. Jennifer: Assuming Responsibility: Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Call to Live Well0
Shorter Notices: Mobley, Joshua: A Brief Systematic Theology of Symbol0
Book Review: Moloney, J. Francis: The Apocalypse of John: A Commentary0
Book Review: Whelan, Matthew Philipp: Blood in the Fields: Óscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Land Reform0
The Nonviolent Christ at the Apocalyptic Center of Origen’s Homilies on Joshua0
Book Review: Lannoy, Annelies: Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions: A Study of the Development of Comparative Religion in the Early 20th Century0
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: The Example of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.0
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