Jeffrey Gros

Toward Full Communion: Faith and Order and Catholic Ecumenism

[The author provides a summary history and theological survey of the contribution of the Faith and Order movement to the goal of full communion, with special emphasis on the participation of Catholic theologians. He addresses methodological issues and ecclesiological developments. Studies on the sacraments, the apostolic faith, Scripture and Tradition, and a variety of contextual issues have contributed to new irreversible relationships among the churches. Research by theologians of Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Evangelical, Pentecostal, and historic Protestant churches have created a unique body of ecumenical literature.]

Book Review: A History of the Ecumenical Movement:

cism had taken up other social issues, Higgins remained publicly steadfast in his support for labor unions, making him the best known labor priest in the last half of the 20th century. “We are not likely,” he repeatedly wrote especially during the Reagan era, “to have a free and democratic society without a free and democratic labor movement. Trying to have economic democracy without unions is like trying to have political democracy without political parties” (189). O. gives us a good introduction to Higgins and his importance in American Catholicism, situates him within his historical context, sympathetically interprets his multiple roles within the American Catholic Church, and provides future researchers with useful and needed bibliographies and a helpful index. I recommend the book not only for researchers but for a general readership. O.’s presentation of Higgins and Catholic social thought, written with clarity and without jargon, should have a wide appeal.

History of the United Church of Christ

Book reviewed: The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, Barbara Brown Zikmund (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995–2005. Vols I–VII Ancient and Medieval Legacies, Vol. I, Richard Ulrich (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995 (0-8298-1064-1), 583 pp.,

A Theology of the Church for the Third Millennium: A Franciscan Approach. By Kenan Osborne OFM. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xvi + 442 pages.

60.00 Reformation Roots, Vol. II, John Payne (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1997 (0-8298-1143-5), xii + 683 pp.,

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60.00 Colonial and National Beginnings, Vol. III, Charles Hambrick-Stowe (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1998 (0-8298-1113-3), x + 518 pp.,

Letting God Be God: The Reformed Tradition . By David Cornick. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2008, 171 pages.

60.00 Consolidation and Expansion, Vol. IV, Elizabeth Nordbeck, Lowell Zuck (eds), Pilgrim Press 1999 (0-8298-1110-9), xvi + 668 pp.,

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60.00 Outreach and Diversity, Vol. V, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Lawrence Jones, Robert Schneider (eds), Pilgrim Press 2000 (0-8298-1111-7), xiv + 536 pp.,

Book Review: Teología en América Latína, Desde los orígines a la Guerra de Sucesión (1493–1715), Escolástica barroca, ilustración y preparación de la independencia (1665–1810), De las guerras de independencia hasta finales del siglo xix (1810–1899), El siglo de las teologías Latinoamericanistas (1899–2001)

60.00 Growing Toward Unity, Vol. VI, Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke (ed.), Pilgrim Press 2001 (0-8298-1112-5), xvi + 744 pp.,

The Universal and the Particular Christian Unity in a Post-Modern World

70.00 United and Uniting, Vol. VII, Frederick Trost, Barbara Brown Zikmund (eds), Pilgrim Press 2005 (0-8298-1113-3), xx + 828 pp.,

Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages – Kevin Hughes

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