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Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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A Brief Systematic Theology of the Symbol by JoshuaMobley (London: T&T Clark, 2022) vi + 217 pp.	5
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Metaphysics as Prayer: Introducing Ferdinand Ulrich	2
Fasting for Inner Peace: Voice of the Syriac Christians	2
The Eucharistic Sacrifice by SergiusBulgakov translated with an introduction by MarkRoosien (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), xix + 116 pp.	2
The Coptic Church in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council: Theological or Tactical Anti‐Judaism?	2
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.	2
The Trinity and the Arts: Toward a Christian Poetics	2
Review of Paul Tyson, A Christian Theology of Science	2
Negation in Poetics and Theology	2
Diversity and Relationality: Descriptive and Constructive Currents in Jewish Theology	2
On Fragments and Certainty	1
By Way of Obstacles: A Pathway through a Work by EmmanuelFalque, trans. Sarah Horton (Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2022), xxxviii + 182 pp.	1
Christian Platonism: A History, edited by Alexander J. B.Hampton and John PeterKenney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), xiv + 497 pp.	1
Response: Reclaiming Intuition	1
Freedom and Necessity of the Creative Act: The Cosmological Aspect of Kandinsky's Principle of Inner Necessity	1
Transformation and Annihilation: Emmanuel Falque and Søren Kierkegaard on the Dialectic of Philosophy and Theology	1
Metaphysics and Poetics	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
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by JohnCottingham (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020) xii + 174 pp.	1
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The Question: Is it Possible to Synthesize Transcendence and Hermeneutics?	0
Divine Self‐Disclosure in Filial Values: The Problem of Guided Goodness	0
Thomas Aquinas on the Predestination of Christ	0
Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil	0
THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US	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
The Universal As (Non‐)Particular: Agamben, Metz, And The Theology Of Victimhood	0
Gadamer, Paul and Inspired Speech in Corinth	0
Discerning Providence: How the Reign of God in Liberation Theology Explicates Divine Struggle as a Feature of Providence	0
Weaving the Real: Science, Theology, and Metaphysics at the Critical Point	0
Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning by Michael L.Raposa (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020), xvi + 309 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
The Spirit of Modernity and its Fate	0
A Disruptive Peace?: Economic Practices, Intrafamilial Relations, and the “Things that Make for Peace” according to Luke	0
The Reception and Translation of the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity in Tang China	0
Negative Theology: Some Misunderstandings	0
“Beholding From”: Thoughts Occasioned by Thomas Pfau's Incomprehensible Certainty	0
The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic	0
On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics by D. StephenLong (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024), xiii + 303 pp.	0
Divine and Human Action	0
Conceiving Mary's Agency: Towards a Barthian Mariology	0
Foolishness to Gentiles: Essays on Empire, Nationalism, and Discipleship by Michael L.Budde (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022), xvi + 248 pp.	0
Dante and the Practice of Humility : A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy by Rachel K.Teubner(Cambridge: Cambridge Un	0
A Jewish Trinity: Contemporary Christian Theology Through Jewish Eyes by AllanBrill(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2025), xxiii +232 pp.	0
Saving the Analogy of Being: Christological Recapitulation and Trinitarian Horizon	0
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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
Eckhart’s Systematics: Christ the God‐Human Ground	0
The Judeo‐Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig by Daniel M.Herskowitz (London: The British Academy, 2025), + 273 pp.	0
Method in Mimetic Theory: René Girard and Christian Theology	0
Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem by RandiRashkover (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2020), xxviii +217 pp.	0
The Shape of Anglican Theology: Faith Seeking Wisdom by ScottMacDougall (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022), viii + 153 pp.	0
Non‐contrastive transcendence as gift and challenge to science and religion	0
Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect by WojciechKaftanski (New York: Routledge, 2022), xii + 252 pp.	0
Ahead by a Century	0
Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent	0
The Turn to the Church in the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries: A Promising Ecclesiology by SjoerdMulder (London: Routledge, 2022), + 267 pp.	0
Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories	0
This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xxi + 263 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
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
Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience: Spiritual Themes in Henry, Marion, and Lacoste by JosephRivera (London: Routledge, 2022), xi + 247 pp.	0
A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically	0
Burrell's Critical Thomism: Aquinas and Kant Revisited	0
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Clouds of the Cross in Luther and Kierkegaard: Revelation as Unknowing by Carl S. Hughes (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024), xx + 191 pp.	0
Artificial Theological Intelligence: Doctrinal Adequacy, Contextual Disambiguation, and Catholicity	0
Beyond Personhood: The Devil as Persona in Christian Theology	0

Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective	0
Prayer, Participation, and Perfection in Dante's Commedia	0
Metaphysics and Theology: A Summa “For” the Gentiles	0
The Resurrection of the Flesh: the ‘Peculiar Treasure’ of the Church	0
Incomprehensible Certainty : A Response	0
The Who, What, and How of Wisdom: An Exploration in Karl Barth and his ‘Descendants’	0
Of Birds and Breastfeeding: Augustine and Feminist Concerns about Kenosis	0
At‐Least‐Potentially‐Non‐Contrastive Transcendence in Tanner's God and Creation in Christian Theology	0
Dante the Theologian by DenysTurner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), ix + 310 pp.	0
A Hermeneutic of Humility: T. F. Torrance in Dialogue with Paul Ricoeur	0
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They Will Know You by Your Love (for Robots): Technology, Relationality, and AI Fictions	0
Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine	0
What Next for Theological Interpretation of Scripture?	0
Augustinian Roots of Rawls's Second Principle of Justice: Grace and Fair Equality of Opportunity	0
Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce	0
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
Resistance and Submission: Encountering Fate in Bonhoeffer's Prison Letters	0
Hermeneutics: The Only Way to Transcendence	0
Sarah Coakley on Aquinas, Wittgenstein, and the 1980s Yale School	0
In Praise of Virtuous Women	0
Theology and Economy ‘after’ Barth	0
“Let Not the Heart in Sorrow Sin”: Considering Kierkegaard’s Relation to Nihilistic Humanism as a Matter of Christian versus Pagan Truth	0
Desire and Debt Satisfaction in Anselm of Canterbury and Hadewijch of Brabant	0
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by CharlesTaylor (Harvard, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024), ix + 598 pp.	0
Opening Israel’s Scriptures by Ellen F.Davis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), ix + 451 pp.	0
The End of Macro‐Narratives of Progress? History, Christian Theology, and the Anthropocene	0
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
Intuiting the Excess: Science, Interpretation, and the Transcendence of Life	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
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 pp	0
Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics	0
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Truth, Faith, and Reason: Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul IIbyKenneth M.Sayre (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022), viii + 192 pp.	0
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Pelagianism Redivivus: The Free Will Theodicy for Hell, Divine Transcendence, and the End of Classical Theism	0
Theological Genealogies of Modernity: An Introduction	0
What’s New in the New Trinitarian Ontology? A Commentary on Klaus Hemmerle’s Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology	0
Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies by C. KavinRowe (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), xii + 320 pp.	0
Tradition, Truth, and History in Theology: Four Recent Proposals	0
The Eternal Sacrifice	0
Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will by MiikkaRuokanen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), xiii + 222 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
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Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible by James BernardMurphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), vii + 368 pp.	0
Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church by TamaraGrdzelidze (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), vii + 276 pp.	0
Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History by Thomas AlbertHoward (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2025), vii + 281 pp.	0
Transformation and Transcending: Falque, Deleuze, and the Experience of Becoming‐Other	0
Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns by SuzanneHobson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), vi + 240 pp.	0
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To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism by YaacovYadgar (New York: New York University Press, 2024), vi + 218 pp.	0
Response to “T. F. Torrance’s Hermeneutic of Humility”	0
Divine and Human Love in the Philosophy of Miklos Vetö (1936‐2020)	0
“The Anamorphic Journey”: Jean‐Luc Marion on Revelation	0
Re‐Discovering Fire: John Scottus Eriugena, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and The Dynamic, Christic Nature of Creation	0
Przywara on Christ as the Fullness of Creation: The Analogia Entis in the Chalcedonian Formula, Recapitulation, and the Admirabile Commercium	0
A Thomish Epistemic Cartography of the Question “Can We Know God?”	0
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
Genderealogy: Erasure and Repair	0
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The Challenge of Historical Theology: Brian Daley on Patristic Exegesis and Christology	0
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
“The Reserve of Truth”	0
In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon ’s Metaphysics after Lenin	0
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by PeterBrown (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023), xv + 736 pp.	0
An Augustinian Christology: Completing Christ by JosephWalker‐Lenow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiii + 458 pp.	0
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The Problem of Hell: A Thomistic Critique of David Bentley Hart’s NeceSsitarian Universalism	0
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Occasions for Scarcity: From Ecology towards Theology by Way of Poetry	0
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Theosis Within, Alongside, and Outside the Bible	0
Erich Przywara and Edith Stein: A Dissimilarity within Similarity	0
The Fall and Rise of Deification in Orthodox Theology	0
Theology, Science and Life by CarmodyGrey (London: T&T Clark, 2023), ix + 258 pp.	0
A Deconstructionist Theology of the Shoah by Hélène Cixous in Light of Derrida and Levinas: Theodicy, Job and Exile in From Osnabrück to Jerusalem	0
The Future of Deification Studies	0

Peaceful (But Not Passive) Resistance to Empire: Maximus the Confessor and the Politeia of Jesus Christ	0
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”	0
How to Avoid the Avalanche when Looking East in Winter: Rowan Williams and Greek Theologians	0
Witnesses to the Living God: Three Paradigms for Approaching the Politics of Nouvelle Théologie*	0
Normativity and the Critical Functions of Genealogy: The Case of Modern Science¹	0
The Theophany of the Bloodied Christ: The Christology of Eriugena’s Carmina	0
God as the Condition of Speech: An Interpretation of Eugen Rosenstock‐Huessy's and Franz Rosenzweig's New Thinking	0
Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa	0
Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther’s Theology by Oswald Bayer. Translated by Jeffery G.Silcock(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2025), xxxix + 464 pp.	0
Deification as Participation	0
City of God and the Duty of Just Memory	0
Toward a Higher Synthesis: Reflections on Paul Tyson's A Christian Theology of Science	0
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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
Poetics as Praise: ‘Theology and Literature’, Shakespeare and Doxology	0
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
Beauty is God Being Made: Johannes Eriugena and the Theophanic Beauty of God	0
Levinas on the Primacy of the Ethical: Philosophy as Prophecy by JeffreyBloechl (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022), x + 206 pp.	0
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
Imagining God	0
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Augustine and Nicene Theology: Essays on Augustine and the Latin Argument for Nicaea by Michel RenéBarnes (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023), xxvi + 317 pp.	0
Metaphors of Sin and Disability in Augustine's Anti‐Pelagian Writings	0
Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology	0
The Diremption of Meaning	0
Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)	0
Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism	0
Response to Reviews of A Christian Theology of Science	0
Peace‐making Through the Blood of Christ: Insights from Nicholas Cabasilas and the Orthodox Tradition	0
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
Julian of Norwich's Grateful God	0
Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside	0
Introduction to New Work in Jewish Theology	0
Speaking (about) Substance: The Metaphysics of Rowan Williams and some Russian Philosophers	0
Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology	0
“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate	0
‘In Contemplation only’: Revisiting the Debate between the Chalcedonians and Anti‐Chalcedonians on the Reality of the Natures of Christ	0
Holiness, in Particular: A Proposal for Understanding Qedushah	0
Creation as Incarnation? Critical Objections to a Recent Thesis on Maximus the Confessor	0
The Trinity as Exemplar of Cosmic, Ecclesial, and Political Harmony in Nicholas of Cusa's De Concordantia Catholica	0
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Silent Praise: Ephrem the Syrian’s Sentence Acrostic as Artistic Apophasis	0
On Not Shirking Deification	0
Jesus Was a Refugee: Unpacking the Theological Implications	0
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The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by OliverO'Donovan (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), + 161 pp.	0
The World and God Are Not‐Two: A Hindu‐Christian Conversation by DanielSoars (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), ix + 234 pp.	0
The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation by Brian D.Robinette (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), xvii +318 pp.	0
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Preventing Just War: A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection, edited by RogerBergman (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020), xiv + 199 pp.	0
Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth	0
Bonomythy and the Goodward Life: Sacred‐Ethical Invitations to Pause, Prayer, and Politics in Plotinus and Levinas	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
Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective	0
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The Third Sword: On the Political Role of Prophets by James BernardMurphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), vii + 198 pp.	0
New Trinitarian Ontologies? Trinitarian Theology, Theological Anthropology and Contemporary Critical Consciousness in Dialogue	0
Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics	0
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Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body‐ and God‐Talk by Eugene F.Rogers, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xii + 254 pp.	0
Heidegger and His Jewish Reception by Daniel M.Herskowitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xxiv + 338 pp.	0
Either (Nietzsche) / Or (Aristotle)? Macintyre's modernity and the enduring relevance of Kierkegaard	0
The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)	0
The End of Nothing: Bulgakov and Eriugena from Creation to Resurrection	0
Responsible Relations for AI Ethics	0
The Extraordinary and the Ordinary: The Possibilities and Problems of Eberhard Jüngel’s Hermeneutics	0
A Jewish View of Contemporary Ideas of The Trinity	0
Algorithmic Trust and Agential Possession	0
Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic Perspective by StewartClem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xiv + 213 pp.	0
How My Mind Has Changed on God's Noncontrastive Transcendence	0
The Experience of God: A Phenomenology of Revelation by RobynHorner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), ix + 226 pp.	0
Personality and Religious Experience: Herman Bavinck and the Psychology of Religion	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
Gratia Transfigurat Naturam : Scheeben and the Nature‐Grace Controversy	0
The Nature and Destiny of Niebuhr’s Augustine	0
On Helping One's Neighbor: Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation by BharatRanganathan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), xxvi + 204 pp.	0
Barth's Repetition*	0
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Deification and Christology in Eriugena’s Periphyseon V and Its Latin Patristic Sources: A Reconsideration	0
Deification in the Patristic and Byzantine Tradition	0
The Arc of the Image: Conjugation, Repetition, Question	0
Standing Under the Cross: Essays on Bonhoeffer’s Theology by MichaelMawson (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), xiii +216 pp.	0
Performative Theodicy: Edith Stein and the Recovery of Lamentation	0
Sin and the Social World	0
Response to My Interlocutors	0
Incarnation and Israel: A Supralapsarian Account of Israel’s Chosenness	0
Hermeneutics and Dialogue: A Response	0
Comparative Theology: A Wellness Checkup	0
God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean‐Yves Lacoste , edited by JoeriSchrijvers and MartinKoci (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023), xxiv + 310 pp.	0
Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis by MichaelMotia (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), viii + 275 pp.	0
Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image by StephanieRumpza (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xv + 295 pp.	0
The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary by David F.Ford (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021), xii + 484 pp.	0
Confluences of the Islamic in Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics: Toward a Comparative THEO‐POETICS with Islam	0