Theological Studies

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