Censure or Critique?

The Bishops & Elizabeth Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson May 23, 2011 - 11:06am

In late March, the Committee on Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a critique [PDF] of theologian Elizabeth A. Johnson’s 2007 book Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God. The committee wrote that Quest “does not take the...

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Topics: 
Bishops
Academic Freedom
Bishops
Theology
U.S. Catholicism

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Luke Timothy Johnson, a frequent contributor, is the Robert R. Woodruff Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

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