Modern Theology

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Theology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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A Brief Systematic Theology of the Symbol by JoshuaMobley (London: T&T Clark, 2022) vi + 217 pp.3
Fasting for Inner Peace: Voice of the Syriac Christians2
Metaphysics as Prayer: Introducing Ferdinand Ulrich2
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Review of Paul Tyson, A Christian Theology of Science2
The Trinity and the Arts: Toward a Christian Poetics2
Negation in Poetics and Theology2
Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons by Drew Christiansen, S.J. and CaroleSargent, editors (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023), xiv + 387 pp.2
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Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by JonathanTran (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), xxvii + 368 pp.1
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by JohnCottingham (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020) xii + 174 pp.1
Transformation and Annihilation: Emmanuel Falque and Søren Kierkegaard on the Dialectic of Philosophy and Theology1
Christian Platonism: A History, edited by Alexander J. B.Hampton and John PeterKenney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), xiv + 497 pp.1
The Eucharistic Sacrifice by SergiusBulgakov translated with an introduction by MarkRoosien (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), xix + 116 pp.1
Origen’s Theological System in On First Principles1
Diversity and Relationality: Descriptive and Constructive Currents in Jewish Theology1
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Givenness, ‘Mystery,’ and the Question of Nature and Grace: Reading Marion with the Help of Josef Pieper1
Thinking with Origen Today: Hermeneutical Challenges and Future Directions1
Freedom and Necessity of the Creative Act: The Cosmological Aspect of Kandinsky's Principle of Inner Necessity1
Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard by WolfgangPalaver, edited by James R.Lewis and MargoKitts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020),1
Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Mark ThiessenNation (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022), xxii + 236 pp.1
On Fragments and Certainty1
Response: Reclaiming Intuition1
By Way of Obstacles: A Pathway through a Work by EmmanuelFalque, trans. Sarah Horton (Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2022), xxxviii + 182 pp.1
The Trinity as Exemplar of Cosmic, Ecclesial, and Political Harmony in Nicholas of Cusa's De Concordantia Catholica0
At‐Least‐Potentially‐Non‐Contrastive Transcendence in Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology0
Barth's Repetition*0
In Praise of Virtuous Women0
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation by KevinHart (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023), xi + 410 pp.0
Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth0
Eckhart’s Systematics: Christ the God‐Human Ground0
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The Life of Christian Doctrine by MikeHigton (London: T & T Clark, 2020), ix + 275 pp.0
Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image by StephanieRumpza (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xv + 295 pp.0
Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns by SuzanneHobson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), vi + 240 pp.0
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L'image vulnérable: Sur l'image de Dieu chez saint Augustin by KevinHart (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2021), + 215 pp.0
Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics0
A Deconstructionist Theology of the Shoah by Hélène Cixous in Light of Derrida and Levinas: Theodicy, Job and Exile in From Osnabrück to Jerusalem0
Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis by MichaelMotia (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), viii + 275 pp.0
The Turn to the Church in the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries: A Promising Ecclesiology by SjoerdMulder (London: Routledge, 2022), + 267 pp.0
The Legacy of Origen in Gregory of Nyssa’s Theology of Freedom0
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary by David F.Ford (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021), xii + 484 pp.0
The Third Sword: On the Political Role of Prophets by James BernardMurphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), vii + 198 pp.0
Tillich’s Theodicies0
Social Sin and the Sinless Savior: Delineating Supra‐Personal Sin in Continuity with Conciliar Christology0
Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories0
God as the Condition of Speech: An Interpretation of Eugen Rosenstock‐Huessy's and Franz Rosenzweig's New Thinking0
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible by James BernardMurphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), vii + 368 pp.0
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Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue with Philosophical Traditions: From Plato to Vattimo, edited by AlejandroSada, TraceyRowland, and Rudy AlbinodeAssunção (London: T & T Clark, 2024), xi + 410 pp0
Opening Israel’s Scriptures by Ellen F.Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), ix + 451 pp.0
On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics by D. StephenLong (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024), xiii + 303 pp.0
Theology and Economy ‘after’ Barth0
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Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic Perspective by StewartClem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiv + 213 pp.0
Incomprehensible Certainty : A Response0
Divine Fate Moral and the Best of All Possible Worlds: Origen’s Apokatastasis Panton in Cambridge Origenism and Enlightenment Rationalism0
An Augustinian Christology: Completing Christ by JosephWalker‐Lenow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiii + 458 pp.0
The Extraordinary and the Ordinary: The Possibilities and Problems of Eberhard Jüngel's Hermeneutics0
Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross by Eugene R.Schlesinger (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), xxvii +250 pp.0
Beyond the Analogical Imagination: The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy, ed. BarnabasPalfrey and AndreasTelser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiii + 262 pp.0
Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology0
How My Mind Has Changed on God's Noncontrastive Transcendence0
The Universal As (Non‐)Particular: Agamben, Metz, And The Theology Of Victimhood0
Discerning Providence: How the Reign of God in Liberation Theology Explicates Divine Struggle as a Feature of Providence0
Rethinking Paul: Protestant Theology and Pauline Exegesis by Edwin Chr.van Driel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xv + 399 pp.0
Hermeneutics: The Only Way to Transcendence0
Normativity and the Critical Functions of Genealogy: The Case of Modern Science10
In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon's Metaphysics after Lenin0
A Disruptive Peace?: Economic Practices, Intrafamilial Relations, and the “Things that Make for Peace” according to Luke0
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by OliverO'Donovan (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), + 161 pp.0
The Arc of the Image: Conjugation, Repetition, Question0
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by CharlesTaylor (Harvard, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024), ix + 598 pp.0
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil0
David Kelsey’s Theology for a Faithful Agnosticism0
Jesus Was a Refugee: Unpacking the Theological Implications0
Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning by Michael L.Raposa (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020), xvi + 309 pp.0
Response to “T. F. Torrance’s Hermeneutic of Humility”0
Levinas on the Primacy of the Ethical: Philosophy as Prophecy by JeffreyBloechl (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022), x + 206 pp.0
Approaching God Aesthetically in Modern Jewish Thought0
“Let Not the Heart in Sorrow Sin”: Considering Kierkegaard’s Relation to Nihilistic Humanism as a Matter of Christian versus Pagan Truth0
A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically0
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The Spirit of Modernity and its Fate0
Christological Non‐Competition and the Return to Chalcedon: A Response to Rowan Williams and Ian McFarland0
Gadamer, Paul and Inspired Speech in Corinth0
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Hearing and Doing: The Speeches in Acts and the Essence of Christianity by Christopher R.J.Holmes (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022), xiii + 200 pp.0
Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and his Readers by Michael J.Hollerich (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021), xi + 316 pp.0
Confluences of the Islamic in Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics: Toward a Comparative THEO‐POETICS with Islam0
Occasions for Scarcity: From Ecology towards Theology by Way of Poetry0
Divine Self‐Disclosure in Filial Values: The Problem of Guided Goodness0
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by PeterBrown (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023), xv + 736 pp.0
The Eternal Sacrifice0
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic0
Hermeneutics and Dialogue: A Response0
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Bonomythy and the Goodward Life: Sacred‐Ethical Invitations to Pause, Prayer, and Politics in Plotinus and Levinas0
Burrell's Critical Thomism: Aquinas and Kant Revisited0
Response to My Interlocutors0
Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will by MiikkaRuokanen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), xiii + 222 pp.0
Augustinian Roots of Rawls's Second Principle of Justice: Grace and Fair Equality of Opportunity0
The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change by TomášHalík, trans. GeraldTurner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024), xv + 238 pp.0
Erich Przywara and Edith Stein: A Dissimilarity within Similarity0
Divine and Human Love in the Philosophy of Miklos Vetö (1936‐2020)0
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The World and God Are Not‐Two: A Hindu‐Christian Conversation by DanielSoars (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), ix + 234 pp.0
Julian of Norwich's Grateful God0
The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation by Brian D.Robinette (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), xvii +318 pp.0
The Shape of Anglican Theology: Faith Seeking Wisdom by ScottMacDougall (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022), viii + 153 pp.0
Tradition, Truth, and History in Theology: Four Recent Proposals0
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Pelagianism Redivivus: The Free Will Theodicy for Hell, Divine Transcendence, and the End of Classical Theism0
On Helping One's Neighbor: Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation by BharatRanganathan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), xxvi + 204 pp.0
Intuiting the Excess: Science, Interpretation, and the Transcendence of Life0
Speaking (about) Substance: The Metaphysics of Rowan Williams and some Russian Philosophers0
This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xxi + 263 pp.0
The Who, What, and How of Wisdom: An Exploration in Karl Barth and his ‘Descendants’0
The Reception and Translation of the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity in Tang China0
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Performative Theodicy: Edith Stein and the Recovery of Lamentation0
From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Devotional Images in Late Antiquity by Robin M.Jensen(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), xix + 252 pp.0
Incarnation and Israel: A Supralapsarian Account of Israel’s Chosenness0
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Reviving Jewish Theology: From A Soft Maimonidean to a Practical Biblical Metaphysics0
Deification Through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by KhaledAnatolios (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020), xxii + 464 pp.0
Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa0
Preventing Just War: A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection, edited by RogerBergman (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020), xiv + 199 pp.0
Standing Under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer's Theology by MichaelMawson (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), xiii +216 pp.0
The Resurrection of the Flesh: the ‘Peculiar Treasure’ of the Church0
Peaceful (But Not Passive) Resistance to Empire: Maximus the Confessor and the Politeia of Jesus Christ0
Metaphors of Sin and Disability in Augustine's Anti‐Pelagian Writings0
Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)0
Truth, Faith, and Reason: Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul IIbyKenneth M.Sayre (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022), viii + 192 pp.0
What Next for Theological Interpretation of Scripture?0
The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)0
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Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics0
Prayer, Participation, and Perfection in Dante's Commedia0
The Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, edited by J. J.Carney and LaurieJohnston (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2018), xxv + 330 pp.0
Comparative Theology: A Wellness Checkup0
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“The Anamorphic Journey”: Jean‐Luc Marion on Revelation0
“The Reserve of Truth”0
Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology0
Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity before Nicaea by Pui HimIp (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), xx + 276 pp.0
Now and Forever: A Theological Aesthetics of Time by John E.Thiel (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), + 214 pp.0
Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body‐ and God‐Talk by Eugene F.Rogers, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xii + 254 pp.0
Witnesses to the Living God: Three Paradigms for Approaching the Politics of Nouvelle Théologie*0
Atonement and Comparative Theology: The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions, edited by CatherineCornille (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), vi + 316 pp.0
Beauty is God Being Made: Johannes Eriugena and the Theophanic Beauty of God0
Love’s Forgiveness: Kierkegaard, Resentment, Humility, and Hope by JohnLippitt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), xvi + 236 pp.0
Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce0
Desire and Debt Satisfaction in Anselm of Canterbury and Hadewijch of Brabant0
The Problem of Hell: A Thomistic Critique of David Bentley Hart’s NeceSsitarian Universalism0
Poetics as Praise: ‘Theology and Literature’, Shakespeare and Doxology0
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Of Birds and Breastfeeding: Augustine and Feminist Concerns about Kenosis0
The End of Macro‐Narratives of Progress? History, Christian Theology, and the Anthropocene0
New Trinitarian Ontologies? Trinitarian Theology, Theological Anthropology and Contemporary Critical Consciousness in Dialogue0
Introduction to New Work in Jewish Theology0
Theology, Science and Life by CarmodyGrey (London: T&T Clark, 2023), ix + 258 pp.0
Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence by JordanHillebert (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), xii + 288 pp.0
Creation as Incarnation? Critical Objections to a Recent Thesis on Maximus the Confessor0
Sarah Coakley on Aquinas, Wittgenstein, and the 1980s Yale School0
Foolishness to Gentiles: Essays on Empire, Nationalism, and Discipleship by Michael L.Budde (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022), xvi + 248 pp.0
Origen’s Johannine Trinitarian Theology of Love0
Transformation and Transcending: Falque, Deleuze, and the Experience of Becoming‐Other0
Thomas Aquinas on the Predestination of Christ0
Przywara on Christ as the Fullness of Creation: The Analogia Entis in the Chalcedonian Formula, Recapitulation, and the Admirabile Commercium0
Silent Praise: Ephrem the Syrian’s Sentence Acrostic as Artistic Apophasis0
The Status of Vulnerability in a Theology of the Christian Life: Gregory of Nyssa on the “Wound of Love” in Conversation with Sarah Coakley0
Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect by WojciechKaftanski (New York: Routledge, 2022), xii + 252 pp.0
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Origen’s Two Models of the Trinity0
Beyond Immanence: The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth by Alan J.Torrance and Andrew B.Torrance (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023), xiv + 393 pp.0
Saving the Analogy of Being: Christological Recapitulation and Trinitarian Horizon0
Re‐Thinking The Re‐Thinking of Origen: The Spirit of Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s Theodramatic Hermeneutics☆0
Thinking Theologically about the Divine Ideas: Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas by Benjamin R.DeSpain (Leiden: Brill, 2022), xii + 244 pp.0
Genderealogy: Erasure and Repair0
Ahead by a Century0
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Re‐Discovering Fire: John Scottus Eriugena, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and The Dynamic, Christic Nature of Creation0
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Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem by RandiRashkover (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2020), xxviii +217 pp.0
A Thomish Epistemic Cartography of the Question “Can We Know God?”0
Crossing Philosophical Boundaries in Comparative Theology: John Keenan, Joseph O'Leary and Raimon Panikkar0
Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self: Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era by NikolaosLoudovikos (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), xv + 386 pp.0
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Imagining God0
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Non‐contrastive transcendence as gift and challenge to science and religion0
What’s New in the New Trinitarian Ontology? A Commentary on Klaus Hemmerle’s Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology0
Resistance and Submission: Encountering Fate in Bonhoeffer's Prison Letters0
The Experience of God: A Phenomenology of Revelation by RobynHorner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), ix + 226 pp.0
Heidegger and His Jewish Reception by Daniel M.Herskowitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xxiv + 338 pp.0
God’s Adversary and Ours: A Brief Theology of the Devil by Philip G.Ziegler (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2025), x + 154 pp.0
How to Interpret what is Given: Revelation and Hermeneutics in Jean‐Luc Marion0
On Tragedy and Transcendence: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Donald MacKinnon and Rowan Williams by Khegan M.Delport (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021), xxii + 303 pp.0
Dante the Theologian by DenysTurner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), ix + 310 pp.0
Sin and the Social World0
Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives0
Method in Mimetic Theory: René Girard and Christian Theology0
The Question: Is it Possible to Synthesize Transcendence and Hermeneutics?0
The Nature and Destiny of Niebuhr’s Augustine0
Recovering Christian Character: The Psychological Wisdom of Søren Kierkegaard by Robert C.Roberts (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022), xx + 380 pp.0
Purgatory and the “Time” of the Eschatological Healing of Victims0
The Subordination of the Holy Spirit: A Johannine Category0
Toward a Higher Synthesis: Reflections on Paul Tyson's A Christian Theology of Science0
God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean‐Yves Lacoste , edited by JoeriSchrijvers and MartinKoci (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023), xxiv + 310 pp.0
To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism by YaacovYadgar (New York: New York University Press, 2024), vi + 218 pp.0
A Jewish View of Contemporary Ideas of The Trinity0
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Theological Anthropology in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito: Sin, Grace, and Conversion by SteffenLösel, Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, edited by JeremyBegbie and 0
Anne Conway’s Exemplary Engagement with Origenist Thought0
Theological Genealogies of Modernity: An Introduction0
Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent0
‘In Contemplation only’: Revisiting the Debate between the Chalcedonians and Anti‐Chalcedonians on the Reality of the Natures of Christ0
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French Jesuits, Origen, and Vatican II0
Origen’s Theology of Fire and the Early Monks of Egypt0
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History by Thomas AlbertHoward (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2025), vii + 281 pp.0
When the Patriarch of Moscow Blesses a War: The Russian World and the Sacralization of Violence0
Conceiving Mary's Agency: Towards a Barthian Mariology0
Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition0
Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience: Spiritual Themes in Henry, Marion, and Lacoste by JosephRivera (London: Routledge, 2022), xi + 247 pp.0
Holiness, in Particular: A Proposal for Understanding Qedushah0
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Faith Facing Reality: Stirring Up Discussion with Bonhoeffer by John W.deGruchy (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022), x + 177 pp.0
The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, edited by Gregory P.Floyd and StephanieRumpza (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), ix + 335 pp.0
Response to Reviews of A Christian Theology of Science0
Metaphysics and Theology: A Summa “For” the Gentiles0
“Come and See”: Uncovering Julian of Norwich’s Teaching of Wonder in Revelations of Divine Love0
Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies by C. KavinRowe (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), xii + 320 pp.0
The European Reception of John D. Caputo's Thought: Radicalizing Theology, edited by MartinKoci and JoeriSchrijvers (Lantham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), ix + 306 pp.0
“Beholding From”: Thoughts Occasioned by Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty0
John Henry Newman on Truth & its Counterfeits: A Guide for our Times byReinhardHütter (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2020), xvi + 267 pp.0
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Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God by RossMcCullough (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022), xii + 244 pp.0
Either (Nietzsche) / Or (Aristotle)? Macintyre's modernity and the enduring relevance of Kierkegaard0
Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church by TamaraGrdzelidze (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), vii + 276 pp.0
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