This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2023
On Theological Aporias, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2021
The New Donatism, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2020
Book Review: "Speaking Qur’an: An American Scripture" By Timur R.Yuskaev, Martin Nguyen
Faith-Rooted Thinking on Matters of Public Concern: A Muslim Response to William L. Sachs, Martin Nguyen
Naming Resistance and Religion in the Teaching of Race and White Supremacy: A Pedagogy of Counter-Signification for Black Lives Matter, Martin Nguyen
Dei Verbum: Scripture, Tradition, and Historical Criticism, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2019
Naming, Race, and White Supremacy in the Teaching of Religion and Islam: Incorporating Intersectional Interventions, Martin Nguyen
Money Matters: A Response to Devin Singh and Kathryn Tanner, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2018
Could the Kaaba Represent Tradition?, Martin Nguyen
Exegetes of Nishapur: A Preliminary Survey of Qur'anic Works by Ibn Ḥabīb, Ibn Fūrak, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī, Martin Nguyen
Apostles of Wilderness: American Indians and Thoreau's Theology of the Wild, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Submissions from 2017
Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices, Ronald M. Davidson
Book Review: Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam, by Shahab Ahmed, Martin Nguyen
Sonderegger's Systematics: The Divine Attributes as the Divine Being, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2016
Book Review: Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s Nouvelle Atlas de la Chine (1737). Edited by Roberto M. Ribeiro with John W. O’Malley, SJ, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Book Review: “Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God’s Name”, by Mona Siddiqu, Martin Nguyen
Book Review: The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism by Gerhard Böwering & Bilal Orfali, Martin Nguyen
Modern Scripturalism and Emergent Theological Trajectories: Moving Beyond the Qurʾan as Text, Martin Nguyen
Submissions from 2015
Book Review: Promise and Challenge, edited by Mary Rice Hasson, Nancy Dallavalle
Book Review: Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation and the Fate of Others, Martin Nguyen
Accepting Ambiguity: A Conscious Style of Course Design and Comparison for Teaching New Religious Movements, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
REVIEW OF "The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, by Catherine Wessinger (ed.), Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Submissions from 2014
Studies in Dhāraṇī Literature II: Pragmatics of Dhāraṇīs, Ronald M. Davidson
The Textual Legacy of Abū l-Qāsim al-Qušayrī: a Bibliographic Record1, Martin Nguyen and Francesco Chiabotti
Parallel Magisterium? Why Theology is Not a Threat, John E. Thiel
The Aesthetics of Tradition and the Styles of Theology, John E. Thiel
Whatever happened to the 'People of God'?: Thoughts on the reception of Vatican II, John E. Thiel
Book Review: The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War by Caleb Smith, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
REVIEW OF "Beyond the End: The Future of Millennial Studies", by Searle, Joshua and Kenneth G.C. Newport, eds., Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
The (Un) Plain Bible: New Religious Movements and Alternative Scriptures in Nineteenth-century America, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
The (Un) Plain Bible: New Religious Movements and Alternative Scriptures in Nineteenth-century America, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Submissions from 2013
Book Review: The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology. By Kevin Giles, Nancy Dallavalle
Book Review: "The Logic of the Trinity: Augustine to Ockham" By Paul Thom, Nancy Dallavalle
Prophet among Rebels: Henry David Thoreau and the Creation of a Transcendentalist Bible, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Submissions from 2012
Book review: Women, Conscience, and the Creative Process (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality 2009) by Anne E. Patrick, S.N.J.M, Nancy Dallavalle
Exegesis of the ḥuruf al-muqaṭṭaʿa: Polyvalency in Sunnī Traditions of Qur'anic Interpretation, Martin Nguyen
Cover Story: A Modus Vivendi? Sex, Marriage and the Church, William L. Portier, Nancy Dallavalle, Christopher C. Roberts, Tina Beattie, R. R. Reno, Patricia Hampl, Luke Timothy Johnson, Leslie Woodcock Tentler, and Paul Baumann
Creation, Contingency, and Sacramentality, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2011
Review of Qumran Cave 1.III: 1QHodayota: With Incorporation of 1QHodayotb and 4QHodayota-f By Hartmut Stegemann with Eileen Schuller, Angela Kim Harkins
The Performative Reading of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Emotions and the Exegetical Generation of Texts, Angela Kim Harkins
I Want to Be in That Number: Desire, Inclusivity and the Church, Paul F. Lakeland
The U.S. Church, the Secular World and the Temptation to "Integrism", Paul F. Lakeland
Methodological choices in Kelsey's eccentric existence, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2010
Book reviews: “Christmas Critics”, Nancy Dallavalle
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages, by John Van Engen, Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Submissions from 2009
Book review: "The Trinity: Retrieving the Western Tradition" by Neil Ormerod, Nancy Dallavalle
Book review: The Vocation of the Child. Edited by Patrick McKinley Brennan, Nancy Dallavalle
Book Review: Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis, by Meins G.S. Coetsier, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament, Angela K. Harkins
Lumen Gentium: The Unfinished Business, Paul F. Lakeland
Book Review: “Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu‘tazilite Ethics,” by Sophia Vasalou, Martin Nguyen
Submissions from 2008
The Community Hymns Classification: A Proposal for Further Differentiation, Angela Kim Harkins
Ecclesiology and Postmodernity: Questions for the Church in Our Time, by Gerard Mannion, Paul F. Lakeland
Hermeneutics as translation: An assessment of Islamic translation trends in America, Martin Nguyen
The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, edited by Jerry L. Walls, John E. Thiel
Time, Judgment, and Competitive Spirituality: A Reading of the Development of the Doctrine of Purgatory, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2007
Prophecy and Discernment, by R.W.L. Moberly, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Bradford W. Hinze, Practices of dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church: Aims and obstacles, lessons and laments, Paul F. Lakeland
Habermas and Theology, by Nicholas Adams, Paul F. Lakeland
New Religious Movements in the Catholic Church, Paul F. Lakeland
Submissions from 2006
"Romano, Renee C., Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Post-war America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003)", Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, et al., Angela K. Harkins
Theological Attitudes Toward the Scriptural Text: Lessons from the Qumran and Syriac Exegetical Traditions, Angela K. Harkins
Review of The Biblical Canons. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, vol. 163 by J.-M. Auwers and H.J. de Jonge, eds., Angela Kim Harkins
Accountability, Credibility and Authority, Paul F. Lakeland
Faithfulness to Tradition: A Roman Catholic Perspective, John E. Thiel
For What May We Hope? Thoughts on the Eschatological Imagination, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2005
John Paul II: Assessing His Legacy: [Impact on American church], Nancy Dallavalle
Holiness, by John Webster, Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and the Church in Africa, by Aquiline Tarimo, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Book Review: God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning, edited by Brent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Observations on the Editorial Shaping of the So-called Community Hymns in 1QHa and 4Q427 (4QHa), Angela Kim Harkins
Review of Walther Zimmerli. The Fiery Throne. The Prophets and Old Testament Theology. Edited by K. C. Hanson., Angela Kim Harkins
The Analogy of Tradition: Method and Theological Judgment, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2004
Book review: "Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints" by Elizabeth A. Johnson, Nancy Dallavalle
Authority in the Roman Catholic Church: Theory and Practice, edited by Bernard Hoose, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church, edited by Francis Oakley and Bruce Russett, Paul F. Lakeland
Submissions from 2003
Book review: Advents of the Spirit: An Introduction to the Current Study of Pneumatology. Edited by Bradford E. Hinze and D. Lyle Dabney, Nancy Dallavalle
Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity, Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Book Review: A Companion to Genethics, edited by Justine Burley and John Harris, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Authorizing Interpretation in Poetic Compositions in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Later Jewish and Christian Traditions, Angela Kim Harkins
Author's Response (Review Symposium on the Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church by Paul Lakeland), Paul F. Lakeland
Submissions from 2002
American Catholics Through the Twentieth-Century: Spirituality, Lay Experience, and Public Life, Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God, by Marva J. Dawn, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
"Stephen G. Post, More Lasting Unions: Christianity, Family and Society (Religion, Marriage, & Family; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000)", Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Second Gospel, by Sharyn Echols Dowd, Hugh M. Humphrey
American Catholics Through the Twentieth Century: Spirituality, Lay Experience, and Public Life, by Claire E. Wolfteich, Paul F. Lakeland
Roman Catholic Theology of Tradition: IV, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2001
Journey in Faith and Fidelity: Women Shaping Religious Life for a Renewed Church, edited by Nadine Foley, Elizabeth A. Dreyer
Ethics as Transformative Love: The Moral World of Etty Hillesum, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Cain and Abel in the Light of Envy: A Study in the History of the Interpretation of Envy in Genesis 4:1-16, Angela Kim Harkins
Preparing for Marriage: What Pastoral Marital Counselors Should Know About Religious Belief, Psychological Health, and Marital Outcome, Kiernan Sullivan and Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change, by David Brown, John E. Thiel
Submissions from 2000
"Herbert Anderson, Don Browning, Ian S. Evison, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, eds., The Family Handbook (The Family, Religion and Culture; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1998)", Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
The Disciplined Heart: Love, Destiny and Imagination, by Caroline J. Simon, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile, by John Shelby Spong, Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J.
Book Review: Challenging the Modern World: Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching, by Samuel Gregg, Francis T. Hannafey S.J.
Signs of Exegetical Techniques in Ephrem’s Homily on Our Lord, Angela Kim Harkins
Critical Theology and the Challenge of Jürgen Habermas: Toward a Critical Theory of Religious Insight, by Marc P. Lalonde, Paul F. Lakeland
