Title: A Theology of Work: Work in the New Creation Author: Darrell Cosden Publisher: Paternoster theological monographs. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006 Reviewer: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. Student in Practical Theology Building from various theological articulations of work, and particularly from twentieth century voices, Darrell Cosden explores his hypothesis for a “normative theological understanding […]
Title: A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspctives on Migration Author: Daniel G. Groody and Gioacchino Campese, Eds. Publisher: Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008 Reviewer: Nell Becker Sweeden, Ph.D. Student in Practical Theology A Promised Land: A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration is a compilation of essays that brings […]
Title: Living the Hospitality of God Author: Lucien Richard, O.M.I. Publisher: New York, Mahway, N.J.: Paulist Press, 2000 Reviewer: Nell Becker Sweeden, Ph.D. Student in Practical Theology Lucien Richard, in Living the Hospitality of God, provides an in-depth analysis of Christian hospitality to the stranger and reaffirms this practice as the necessary action of ushering […]
Title: Holy Work: Toward a Benedictine Theology of Manual Labor Author: Dom Rembert Sorg Publisher: Santa Ana, CA: Source Books, 2003 Reviewer: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology Originally published in 1951, Dom Rembert Sorg’s theological engagement of the Benedictine understanding of manual labor remains a classic text today. The latest edition, published in […]
Title: Divine Economy: Theology and the Market Author: D. Stephen Long Publisher: London: Routledge, 2000. Reviewer: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology Steve Long provides a compelling argument of how economics ordered by theo-logic has been replaced by a fact-value distinction apparent in modern traditions beginning with Weber. Long develops his argument by comparing […]
Title: The Craftsman Author: Richard Sennett Publisher: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008 Reviewer: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology Primarily through a historical lens—though never neglecting philosophy, theology, economics, and politics—Richard Sennett explores the implications of craftsmanship, “an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own […]
Title: Church, World, and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology Author: Nicholas Healy Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewer: Nell Becker Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology In Church, World, and the Christian Life, Nicholas Healey offers a practical-prophetic ecclesiology that engages a theodramatic approach in actively addressing the concrete, everyday reality of the church […]
Title: Chasing the Wild Goose: The Story of the Iona Community Author: Ronald Ferguson Publisher: Glasgow, UK: Wild Goose Publications, 1998. Reviewer: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology Ronald Ferguson, leader of the Iona Community from 1982 to 1989, presents the Iona Community’s story through the image of the wild goose (the Celtic symbol […]
Title: The Catholic Worker after Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation Author: Dan McKanan Publisher: Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008 Reviewed by: Josh Sweeden, Ph.D. Student in Practical Theology This text serves as the culmination of Dan McKanan’s eight years of research on The Catholic Worker Movement and its communities. In […]
Title: Caminemos con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment Author: Roberto S. Goizueta Publisher: Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003 Reviewer: Nell Becker Sweeden, Ph.D. student in Practical Theology In Caminemos con Jesús, Roberto Goizueta offers the U.S. Hispanic popular Catholicism as a lens through which to engage theological aesthetics, anthropology, and rationality. Goizueta works […]