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Historical imagination can open a powerful door to the world of Mary of Nazareth depicted in the Gospels and relate her to the quest for justice today. Galilee as a geographic region and social location is a marker of Mary's time and place that serves as shorthand for the scandal of God's preference for the lowly of the earth. To illuminate the significance of God's preference, this article traces four areas of Galilee research that impinge on Marian interpretation and underscores resulting theological ramifications., 'THE DOOR WHEREBY one enters on a question decides the chances of a happy or a less happy solution,' observed Yves Congar, because the concepts one uses in starting out [...]

In every age theology interacts directly or indirectly with the view of the world prevalent in its culture, including knowledge of the world gained through observation or experimental means. Although [...]

This book has the nature of a ruminating conversation between select contemporary Christologies and a mind that, having thought long and hard about certain matters, does not hesitate to offer [...]

THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. By Raymond Moloney. Problems in Theology. New York: Continuum, 2000. Pp. ix + 148. $24.95. In this slim volume Moloney presents an insightful history of the [...]

CHRIST IN EVOLUTION. By Ilia Delio, O.S.F. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2008. Pp. xi + 228. $18. Judging Western, academic Christology to be overintellectualized, sterile in content, and impotent to change [...]

Mary and the Female Face of God, after surveying scholars in interdisciplinary fields who have drawn connections between Mary and female representation of the divine, gleans from the Marian tradition female metaphors suitable for use in thinking about God. These include God as mother, powerful to save, merciful, immanent, and energizing to the whole natural world.

This companion volume to Jesus through the Centuries (1985) explores the progression of Marian devotion through a series of vignettes treated in roughly chronological order. To chart Mary's hold on [...]

By George H. Tavard. Collegeville: Glazier/Liturgical, 1996. Pp. viii + 275. $19.95. Anyone who attempts to study or teach the theological tradition about Mary is soon overwhelmed by the sheer [...]

Correlates a theological tradition regarding the assumption on the incomprehensible mystery of God. Understanding of the female conceptualizations of God; Renewal of the idea of God relative to women; Identification of the wisdom elements in Christology to make a healthy blend of male and female imagery.

Discusses German Lutheran Wolfhart Pannenberg's views on the meaning and function of analogy in Christian thought. Reason for rejecting the use of analogy in speech about God; History of analogy in earliest thought; Factors contributing to the complexity of the analogy concept.