Reviews for Franciscan Theology of the Environment: An Introductory Reader

The average rating for Franciscan Theology of the Environment: An Introductory Reader based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-02 00:00:00 Mark Ogle With 3 exceptions, this book makes for a superb introduction to error, heresy and vindication of just about everything Garrigou-Lagrange wrote. Highly recommended for anyone who seeks to familiarise himself with how seemingly small mistakes lead into the living catastrophy of the Catholic Church today.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-08-02 00:00:00 David Smart In almost all ways a model for this kind of book. Kerr writes clearly, concisely, and with a nice ironic turn. It's well structured: it start with "before Vatican II," then a bunch of individual theologians, and ends with "after Vatican II." The story of the individuals* is largely one of a progressive move from neo-scholasticism, via a recovery of various church fathers, to a wider range of theological positions. The 'nuptial mysticism' comes out of one of those strands, and finds its most famous, and perhaps silliest, representative in John Paul II. Kerr himself acknowledges the limitations of this structure, to wit, he doesn't deal with many of the big changes in theology. There are no women, there's no liberation theology (though Rahner leads towards it), and so on. He does suggest pieces that can tell us about those movements, but I read one of them and... well, I would rather read Kerr's clear, concise, ironic prose any day. *: Chenu, Congar, Schillebeeckx, Lubac, Rahner, Lonergan, Balthasar, Kung, JPII, Benedict.