Written in the context of a decades-long struggle between progressive theologians and the magisteriuma struggle symptomatic of the current and wider crisis in the Roman Catholic Church - The Language of Dissent uses the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx as it has evolved and developed to analyze fundamental questions of authority and dissent in the church. Daniel Speed Thompson's approach to the issue of authority is unique in that he reflects not only on the character of the church but also on the very nature of salvation, revelation, and theological language.

Written in the context of a decades-long struggle between progressive theologians and the magisteriuma struggle symptomatic of the current and wider crisis in the Roman Catholic Church - The Language of Dissent uses the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx as it has evolved and developed to analyze fundamental questions of authority and dissent in the church. Daniel Speed Thompson's approach to the issue of authority is unique in that he reflects not only on the character of the church but also on the very nature of salvation, revelation, and theological language.