Annual Awards to CTS Members

Submission for Book and Article Awards for 2008

Members of the College Theology Society may submit their work or that of their graduate students for consideration for a CTS award this year. Submission deadline is February 1, 2008.

Only books and articles published in 2007 are eligible for this convention year's award.

Only members may submit books and articles.

Graduate papers may be from semesters up to a year and a half preceding the convention. The paper must be written while the writer is still a graduate student. The student should identify the faculty member for whose course the paper was written. For the graduate student essay submission form, click here.

Please send three hard copies of all submissions by February 1, 2008 to:

Judith A. Merkle SNDdeN
Department of Religious Studies
Niagara University, New York 14109

Past Awards

Year Awarded

2007

• Book: Kristen E. Heyer. (Loyola Marymount University, CA) Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U. S. Catholicism. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
• Article: James T. Bretzke, S.J. (University of San Francisco) "A Burden of Means: Interpreting Recent Catholic Magisterial Teaching on End-of-Life Issues." Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 26 (2, 2006): 183-200.
  

• Book: Frederick McLeod, S.J. (St. Louis University). The Role of Christ’s Humanity in Salvation: Insights from Theodore of Mopsuestia. Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 2005.
• Article: Colleen Mallon (St. John’s University, NY). “Globalization at Large: Approaching the Ecclesial Question of Tradition in the Twenty-First Century.” In New Horizons in Theology, edited by Terrence W. Tilley. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.
• Student Essay: Karen Enriquez (Boston College). “From Hiya to Dangal: A Critique of John Paul II’s Theological Anthropology in Light of the Experience of Filipino Women.”
  

2005

• Book: William M. Shea (College of the Holy Cross). The Lion and the Lamb:Evangelicals and Catholics in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Article: William L. Portier (University of Dayton). "Here Come the Evangelical Catholics."  Communio (Spring 2004), 35-66.
• Student Essay: Sharon K. Perkins (University of Dayton). “The Correlational Christology of Peter C. Phan”

2004

• Book: Elizabeth A. Johnson (Fordham University). Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints. New York: Continuum, 2003.
• Article: Dennis Hamm, S. J. (Creighton University). “The Tamid Service in Luke-Acts: The Cultic Background Behind Luke’s Theology of Worship (Luke 1:5-25; 18:9-14; 24:50-53; Acts 3:1; 10:3, 30)," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 65 (April 2003), 214-231.
• Student Essay: Franklin T. A. Harkins, (University of Notre Dame). “Nuancing Augustine’s Hermeneutical Jew: Allegory and Actual Jews in the Bishop’s Sermons.”

2003

• Book: Christopher Steck, S.J. (Georgetown University). The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar. A Herder and Herder Book. New York: Crossroad, 2001.
• Article: Theodore W. Nunez (Middlebury College). "The Sustainable Development of Catholic Social Teaching in World Risk Society," The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 12:2, 179-229.
• Student Essay: Harold E. Ernst (University of Notre Dame). "The Theological Notes and the Interpretation of Doctrine," Theological Studies 63:4 (2002), 813-825.

2002

• Book: Phyllis Zagano. Holy Saturday: An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Roman Catholic Church. New York: Crossroad, 2000.
• Article: Mary Ann Hinsdale, I.H.M. (Boston College). "'Infinite Openness to the Infinite': Karl Rahner's Contribution to Modern Catholic Thought on the Child,"  IN The Child in Christian Thought, ed. Marcia Bunge (Eerdmans, 2001), pp. 406-445, 487-488.
• Student Essay: Gloria Schaab (Fordham University). "The Power of Presence: Toward a Shekhinah Christology."

2001

• Book: Michael H. Barnes (University of Dayton). Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religous Thought and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Article: Vincent J. Miller (Georgetown University) "Taking Consumer Culture Seriously," Horizons 27/2 (2000), 276-295.
• Student Essay: Michael E. Lee (Univeristy of Notre Dame). "Liberations Theology's Transcendental Moment: Xavier Zubiri and Ignacio Ellacuria's Non-contrastive Discourse."

2000

• Book: Frederick McLeod, S.J. (Saint Louis University). The Image of God in the Antiochene Tradition. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999.
• Article: Anthony Godzieba (Villanova University). "Prolegomena to a Catholic Theology of God between Heidegger and Postmodernity," Heythrop Journal 40 (1999), 319-339.
• Student Essay: Alison Osterhout (Duquesne University).  "Creating Meaning from Human Suffering."