Cyril O'Regan
History & Biography
“CONTRIBUTORS: Michel Rene Barnes, Richard J. Barry, Peter J. Casarella, David M. Coffey, D. Lyle Dabney, The Reverend Andrew Grosso, Paul R. Hinlicky, D. Thomas Hughson, Ulrich L. Lehner, Matthew Levering, D. Stephen Long, Bruce D. Marshall, Mickey L. Mattox, Rodrigo J. Morales, Joseph G. Mueller, S.J., C. C. Pecknold, R. R. Reno, Philip J. Rossi, S.J, James K. A. Smith, Geoffrey Wainwright, John Webster, Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. "This book gives due honor to Ralph del Colle, whose untimely death neither obstructs the timeliness of his reflections on Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Trinity, nor veils the ecclesial spirit that animated his thought and person. . . . These wise contributions demonstrate the gifts he gave were rich, fertile, and enduring.”
Theology
“This volume continues Caitlin Smith Gilson’s extraordinary fruitful collaboration with the artist Carol Scott as it revisits one of Smith Gilson’s themes, that is, our ache for heaven, which is as much an ache for the fullness of life as the afterlife, a judgment of what truly is as it is a hope for what we have been given only in flashes. Smith Gilson and Scott sing the glories of the resurrected body in ecstasy and communion as the perfection of creation made possible through the resurrection of Christ who is eternal life. This is a book of great intellectual depth, Christian clarity, and spiritual penetration.”
Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology
Theology
“This is as distinguished a collection on the relation between apocalyptic and theology as can be imagined. If the whole is more than the sum of its parts, each essay makes a decisive contribution to figuring a relation that is profoundly constructive and generative. The collection represents a fitting tribute to the pioneering work of the biblical scholar Louis Martyn.”
Theology
“Both the historical and conceptual range are impressive, with Sammon able to move from Hebrew scripture and Plato to the contemporary period while showing remarkable comfort with a wide range of religious and philosophical reflection on beauty. For such a short book the coverage is comprehensive, with digests of Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Bonaventure being especially compelling. The book displays real mastery of his subject, but it’s the passion and lucidity of the writing are wonderful and will likely earn for it a large readership.”
Theology
“That Baur’s speculative masterpiece, Die christliche Gnosis (1835), has not been translated into English before now has always struck me as a scandal. Fortunately, it is a scandal no more, and, arguably, it was worth the wait to have the eminent theologian and master scholar of both Hegel and Baur be the translator. Hodgson’s translation of this difficult and sometimes meandering text is impeccable. But what is even more impressive is that in his translation we capture some of the excitement of Baur’s critical retrieval of ancient forms of thought laid aside in the emergence of the Catholic Church that has shaped—whether consciously or unconsciously—a form of modern Protestantism that moves decisively beyond sola scriptura.”
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
Philosophy
“At the time of its publication over twenty years ago Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness represented the appearance of a truly important and original philosophical voice. It exhibited critical mastery of the entire philosophical tradition and a rare ability both to sift through it and to penetrate to its original and originating core. It was a portend of much to come. And in hindsight, one can see in this still amazingly fresh work the seeds of Desmond's great trilogy in metaphysics, which has made him one of the essential philosophers of his generation.”
Franciscan Mariology—Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure
Theology
“The third volume is appropriately a step back from the more general treatments of Mary in the Franciscan tradition in the prior two volumes to the founding Mariology of Francis and Clare. The essays in this volume are as concentrated as they are luminous. They can be read with profit not only by those interested in the history of Franciscan thought, but theologians of all stripes interested in the necessary renewal of Mariology in the post-Vatican II Catholic Church.”
Philosophy
“This anthology of Hegel's writings on religion is timely given contemporary interest, important in that it brings together writings from every stage of Hegel's career, and necessary in that these writings offer lenses through which to look at much of contemporary theology and multiple signposts for its future envisagement.”
Theology
“In this wonderful book Antonio Lopez offers a profound metaphysical interpretation of the gift of existence that is at once rigorous, systematic, and systemically dialogical. Lopez engages all the contending views of the gift out there, and especially those of Derrida, Marion, Milbank, and Guissani, [and] he offers his own alternative, which is embedded in the tradition of Aquinas and his theological and philosophical precursors and heirs. . . . A true tour de force!”
Theology
“Donald Wallenfang has followed up his wonderful book on sacramental theology with an equally wonderful book on the theological anthropology of Edith Stein. . . . Without any disservice to the complexity and profundity of Stein's thought, Wallenfang has repurposed her to speak critically and hopefully to our postmodern situation. Wallenfang continues to show himself to be a deep Catholic thinker worthy of our attention.”
Theology
“This book retrieves the Marian tradition with brilliance and daring. Terry shows the theological and philosophical centrality of the Marian doctrines for understanding the human person. It may signal the beginning of a Renaissance in Mariology.”
Theology
“Matthew Rothaus Moser has written a wonderful book that does full justice to Balthasar’s claim that the saint is not simply the exemplar of Christian life but the true theologian, even the true metaphysician. The author presents in masterful fashion the saints as the anthropological hinge in a vast theological vision that has Trinitarian love as its horizon, the cruciform Christ at it’s center, and the Holy Spirit as the radical agent that enables our broken lives to be conformed to Christ. If the main achievements of the book are the comprehensiveness of treatment and its demonstration of the relation between Balthasar’s reflection on holiness with the rest of his theology, it should also be noted that Moser makes a brilliantly persuasive case that it is Ignatius who provides the governing perspective on the christoform saint who is receptive to God’s call and ready to be sent into the world.”
New Trinitarian Ontologies, Volume I
Theology
“This superb collection of essays edited by John Milbank, Ryan Haecker, JD Lyonhart is after the various deaths triumphantly announced, such as the death of God, the death of Metaphysics, the death of the sign, and moves forward on Piero Coda’s call for a new beginning of Trinitarian thought framed in term of the Word which in John’s Gospel is associated with the true ‘beginning.’ The collection is lent authority by the major names in the volume, John Milbank, of course, but also William Desmond, Emmanuel Falque, Graham Ward, Catherine Pickstock, Judith Wolfe, among others. Yet, the real authority of the volume lies more broadly and more deeply in the essays in which the less well-known authors, across the different loci of metaphysics, eschatology, ecology, and aesthetics, perform at the level of their better-known colleagues. It is rare to have a collection in which each essay proves indispensable.”
Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern
Philosophy
“In this book Simpson presents with bewitching simplicity and elegance two of theology's valuable philosophical interlocutors as it goes forward, the metaphysics of 'between' of William Desmond and the post-metaphysical thought of Jack Caputo. If Simpson resolutely chooses Desmond, he never fails to specify the virtues of Caputo.”
Arts & Literature
“Rhapsody and Redolence is an astonishing achievement. This collaboration between poet-philosopher Caitlin Smith Gilson and artist Carol Scott issues in a text of extraordinary ambition and deep experiential excavation of the largest themes imaginable.”
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