Articles by Marian Ronan
Dr. Marian Ronan is a writer and scholar of religion specializing in contemporary Roman Catholicism, that is, Catholicism since Vatican II. She was on the faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, where she taught contemporary Christian theology and American religion. Currently, she is Research Professor of Catholic Studies at the Center for World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary.
Reviewed by Marian Ronan
Paul Collins, Judgment Day: The Struggle for Life on Earth
Deirdre Cornell, American Madonna: Crossing Borders with the Virgin Mary
By Marian E. Ronan
From The Christmas Cycle to the Beginning of Lent: The Last Sunday of the Christmas Cycle, Transfiguration of our Lord, The Easter Cycle – Lent, First Sunday in Lent, Second Sunday in Lent
Reviewed by Marian Ronan
Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants .By Alyshia Gálvez. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paper. 237 pp. $23.
By Dr. Marian Ronan
“The Woman at the Well” (John 4: 1-30, 39-42) is a well known and influential New Testament text, where, as a result of the ensuing conversation at the well, Jesus becomes the Messiah of the Samaritan people, and the woman becomes his messenger to those same people. But this is not the way many Christians understand John 4.
