Marian Ronan

Book review: When I read the news of the hundreds upon hundreds of unmarked graves discovered at formerly Catholic Indigenous boarding schools in Canada, I was reminded of my recent reading about "settler colonialism."

Book review: The broken food system and the environmental crisis require us to reembrace the Eucharist as a vital meal fellowship. This includes recognizing ourselves as a community, called together to act against the world's political and social evils. 

Review: Denis Edwards draws on the insights of five contemporary theologians — Niels Gregersen, Elizabeth Johnson, Celia Deane Drummond, Christopher Southgate and Richard Bauckham — to propose a contemporary theory of deep incarnation in which the cross is the "sacrament of God's redemptive suffering with creatures."

Book review: The authors — Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim and Andrew Angyal — show that along with his massive contributions to our comprehension of this cosmic intercommunion, Berry impacted the wider society in other significant ways.

Darren Dochuk manages to narrate virtually the entire history of the United States, from the Civil War to the election of President Donald Trump, through the lens of two overlapping trajectories — oil and American religion.

Book review: Political Theology of the Earth explains that apocalypse — whether of politics, environment or religion — doesn't mean the end times. Instead, it is kairos, "the time in which something can be done."

Review: For theologian Brian Flanagan, the paradox of the relationship between holiness and sin in the church reflects the utter mystery of the relationship between God and all of Creation.

Book Review: Given that centuries have passed since the schoolmen fashioned the interpretation of the sacraments, it is time for the church, the author argues, to reimagine and redesign the sacraments so that they once again express the genuine spiritual experiences of the Christian community.

Book Review: How do we follow Jesus when our very relationship to him is haunted by the history of white Christian racism? In the body of the Crucified One, we encounter the other bodies throughout history who were tortured, oppressed and murdered by the powerful of the world. 

Book Review: In her splendid new book, Creation and the Cross, theologian St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson takes on the notion that salvation is an exclusively human matter, having nothing to do with the rest of creation. 

Book Review: Only the Roman Catholic Church, because of its size, its centralized structure and its centuries of experience, is able to bring together an alliance of world civilizations. The church is a complex of opposites that uniquely positions it to lead such an alliance.

Book Review: Peter C. Phan's interreligious theology makes a significant contribution to the church in the 21st century, moving the church from Eurocentrism to the multi-cultural, globalized reality of today.