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Censure or Critique?

The Bishops & Elizabeth Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson | Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

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 faith of the church as its starting point” and concluded that Johnson’s book “does not accor (...)


 

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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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Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland and a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

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