Here are some excellent new theology books * that will be released in June 2021 :
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
*** Love Theology Books?
Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter
featuring all the latest news, deals, and reviews!
Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life
Antonio Eduardo Alonso
(Fordham UP)
Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into question this dominant mode of theological reflection on contemporary consumerism. Reducing the work of theology to resistance and centering Christian hope in a Eucharist that might better support it, he argues, undermines our ability to talk about the activity of God within a consumer culture. By reframing the question in terms of God’s activity in and in spite of consumer culture, this book offers a lived theological account of consumer culture that recognizes not only its deceptions but also traces of truth in its broken promises and fallen hopes.
ADVERTISEMENT:
Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse
Laurie Cassidy and M. Shawn Copeland, Eds.
Liturgical Press
For some decades, the work of Carmelite theologian Constance FitzGerald, OCD, has been a well-known secret, not only among students and practitioners of Carmelite spirituality, but also among spiritual directors, spiritual writers, retreatants, vowed religious women and men, and Christian theologians.
This collection sets out to introduce the work of Sister Constance to a wider and more diverse audience–women and men who seek to strengthen themselves on the spiritual journey, who yearn to deepen personal or scholarly theological and religious reflection, and who want to make sense of the times in which we live. To this end, this volume curates seven of Sister Constance’s articles with probing and responsive essays written by ten theologians.
Contributors include:
- Susie Paulik Babka
- Colette Ackerman, OCD
- Roberto S. Goizueta
- Margaret R. Pfeil
- Alex Milkulich
- Andrew Prevot
- Laurie Cassidy
- Maria Teresa Morgan
- Bryan N. Massingale
- M. Catherine Hilkert, OP
NEXT PAGE >>>>>
PAGE 1 of 5
 Reading for the Common Good From ERB Editor Christopher Smith "This book will inspire, motivate and challenge anyone who cares a whit about the written word, the world of ideas, the shape of our communities and the life of the church." -Karen Swallow Prior Enter your email below to sign up for our weekly newsletter & download your FREE copy of this ebook! |
![Christiane Tietz - Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict [Excerpt]](https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Karl-Barth-130x130.jpeg "Christiane Tietz - Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict [Excerpt]")
![Joel Looper - Bonhoeffer's America [Feature Review]](https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/BonhoeffersAmerica-130x130.jpeg "Joel Looper - Bonhoeffer's America [Feature Review]")
