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The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken & the Struggle to Define Catholicism by Joseph P. Laycock (review)

U.S. Catholic Church. In a certain sense this decision makes the book a helpful example of practical theology. He lands on a theological concept of communion, as developed in a spectrum of authors ranging from the Greek Orthodox theologian John Zizioulas to the African American Catholic theologian Jamie Phelps. He sees in communion a creative way of ecclesiologically comprehending and living unity while respecting difference. What is strikingly absent in this chapter, are the distinctive voices of Latino/a theologians for whom diversity has been and still is a locus theologicus. In part this might indicate reluctance to engage the complicated and varying positions of Hispanic theologians which include those critical of communion and unity as the necessary default positions for interpreting diversity. Curiously, the preoccupation with unity across intercultural difference emerges as a concern of many of the book's EuroAmerican informants (107-119), while Latinos/as in the study were more interested in maintaining intraLatino/a cohesiveness amidst minoritization, marginalization, and power differentials (119123). The paucity of Latino/a theological perspectives is a limitation in a book that otherwise does an admirable job of exploring an area in which Latino/a communities are changing the face of the church.