Church Statements
March 2011 Statement on Quest for the Living God by Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011)
Statement by the USCCB Committee on Doctrine on Quest for the Living God by Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, March 24, 2011
The Committee on Doctrine of the USCCB has undertaken an examination and evaluation of the book Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God (Continuum, 2007) by Sister Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., a professor at Fordham University. The Committee has concluded that this book contains misrepresentations, ambiguities, and errors that bear upon the faith of the Catholic Church as found in Sacred Scripture, and as it is authentically taught by the Church’s universal magisterium. Because this book by a prominent Catholic theologian is written not for specialists in theology but for "a broad audience" (2), the Committee on Doctrine felt obliged, as part of its pastoral ministry, to note these misrepresentations, ambiguities, and errors.