Anglican Theological Review back issues from July 2002:
Editor's notes
Jul 01, 2002; ... Most of this issue is comprised of a very significant set of essays on a very significant topic. Though nearly all the churches of the Anglican Communion have arrived at and acted upon the judgment that priestly orders may be conferred on women, by no means have all the theological issues been ...
In memoriam: Gibson Winter, October 6, 1916-April 3, 2002
Jul 01, 2002; ... Gibson Winter's death on Easter Wednesday brought to an end a life's journey filled with passion and care. The father of four, and the grandfather of seven, he passed from this life held in the arms and embraced by the love of his wife of sixty years. He leaves a vocational legacy, both as ...
Gender and the Image of Christ
Jul 01, 2002; ... Translator's Preface These papers were first published in German in a 1998 supplementary volume to the Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift, under the title Bild Christi and Geschlecht: "Gemeinsame Uberlegungen" and Referate der Orthodox-Altkatholischen Konsultation zur Stellung der ...
Common considerations: The Orthodox-old Catholic consultation on the role of women in the Church and the ordination of women as an Ecumenical issue: Preliminary remarks
Jul 01, 2002; ... The "common considerations" printed below were passed in Konstancin, Poland, on December 13, 1996. They are the result of discussions among the parties who took part in the consultations. The discussions were initiated through the presentation of related essays. Initially, discussion focused on ...
Women in the work of the Chruch: An exegetical contribution to the New Testament
Jul 01, 2002; ... ProQuest Information & Learning foreign text omitted ( ...) For a start I have to say that, because of a postal delay I received the theme for this paper only recently. Under these circumstances the only thing I could do was to present segments of earlier work that addressed this ...
The gender aspects of creation from a theological, Christological, and soteriological perspective: An exegetical contribution
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign text ommited.)My contribution focuses on a discussion of those biblical texts to which the ancient tradition of the church has constantly looked back in its statements about humanity in its differentiation as male and female. The main ...
Greek patristic foundations for a theological anthropology of women in their distinctiveness as human beings
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted) Arguments from theological anthropology play a not unimportant role in the debate about the ordination of women. Of what significance for the theology of ministry is the verse about human beings as man and woman having been ...
A patristic basis for a theological anthropology of women in their distinctive humanity
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted). As is well known, particular interest in the rights and social status of women has been shown in recent years by various international organizations. Past values, ideas, and behavioral stereotypes have been subjected to close ...
The typologies of Adam-Christ and Eve-Mary, and their relationship to one another
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign Text Omitted) The two typologies "Adam-Christ" and "Eve-Mary" have, within the context of systematic thought, been brought into the discussion of the place of men and women in the church. In the Old Catholic discussions, however, they offer ...
The Eve-Mary typology and women in the Orthodox Church: Reconsidering Rhodes
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Rhodes Symposium It is necessary to establish this Orthodox presentation, which concerns the participation of women in the life of the Orthodox Church, within the context of the most authoritative and official response on this topic thus far, namely the Inter-Orthodox Theological ...
The question of women in church tradition
Jul 01, 2002; ... ProQuest Information & Learning foreign text omitted. ( ...) "Women's issues" appear in many forms today, having to do with the place and role of women in society, in the church, in history, in culture; and in the relationship between men and women. The ordination of women, about ...
The emancipation of women as a challenge to the Church
Jul 01, 2002; ... It is an unquestionable fact that the astounding progress of the natural sciences at the end of the eighteenth century and the application of their findings to industry have changed human history in unparalleled ways. We can even speak of the beginning of a new epoch. The industrial ...
The emancipation of women as a challenge to the Church
Jul 01, 2002; ... In the current debate about the question of the emancipation of women, I would first like to say something about the concept of "emancipation." At least in German usage, it has lost a great deal of its original significance. Its meaning has undergone a change in how it is understood. In Roman ...
The ordination of women in the eyes of an Orthodox woman
Jul 01, 2002; ... Since the beginning of the twentieth century women have argued energetically and extensively, on the basis of the principle of equal rights of women and men before the law, that there be equal opportunities and an equal participation in society, for example in education. This struggle began in ...
The ordination of women: A contribution from Jungian depth psychology
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Relationship between Theology and Psychology Theology addresses itself, above all where revelation is under discussion, to "eternal truths," with their always valid essence, though in changing forms. Psychology addresses itself to the human soul in all its expressions and questions, ...
Presidency at the Eucharist in the context of the theology of icons: Questions about the ecclesial representation of Christ by the Priesthood
Jul 01, 2002; ... ProQuest Information and Learning: Greek characters omitted. Among the churches that have safeguarded the faith and order of the old, undivided church, and to a certain extent also within the ecumenical movement,1 there is a consensus that the bishop or priest when presiding at the ...
Presidency at the Eucharist in the context of the theology of icons: Questions about the ecclesial representation of Christ by the Priesthood
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted.) Putting the Question Two arguments play an important role in the rejection of the ordination of women: one is the weight of tradition and the other the typological interpretation of the sacrament of ordination to the ...
The question of the ordination of women in the community of churches
Jul 01, 2002; ... The question before us at first seems quite clear and straightforward: Does the ordination of women have consequences for the community of churches, and if so, what implications? But a closer look at the question brings its complexity to light. So, to begin with, I turn to the necessary defining ...
August Six
Jul 01, 2002; ... Up there horizon's edge might also be The great water's shore, with the green river Draining this mountain and turning the plain Before generously making the sea. Then on morning's wings the three of us Climb with him so far that another shore ...
Painting, Artist Unknown, Circa 1700
Jul 01, 2002; ... The skies are tinted mauve and livid green, and lightning tears the pediment of cloud. Below, dark figures animate the scene: three women grieving in a casual crowd. The middle ground appalls a feeling heart, but feeds the appetite for blood and pain: ...
What I Answered
Jul 01, 2002; ... It was, of course, the cancer that killed her. She and I were alone in the hospital room. You were at the nurses' station, I think, or in the bathroom, or picking up lunch. The sun was bright through the window. We were holding hands and I had just ...
Swords into ploughshares: Arms into art
Jul 01, 2002; ... Art Review Most art reviews would not begin with a statistic like this: seven million guns. According to the charity Christian Aid, seven million guns were left when Mozambique's civil war ended in 1992. It was a vicious war. A report from Christian Aid tells one man's story. When ...
A sketch of David Brown
Jul 01, 2002; ... Review Article If someone were to ask me "Who are the people likely to be leading the theological thinking of the Church of England in the next twenty years or so?' I would certainly include among them David Brown. He was born in 1948, and he currently holds the famous Van Mildert Chair ...
Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader
Jul 01, 2002; ... Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader. Edited by A. K. M. Adam. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2001. xi + 277, $32.99 (paper). This reader, edited by A. K. M. Adam, associate professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, is shockingly unpretentious for ...
Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament
Jul 01, 2002; ... Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament. By Ellen F. Davis. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2001. x + 208 pp. $13.95 (paper). In this volume, based on sermons and lectures given over a period of fourteen years, Davis, now associate professor of Bible and ...
The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World. By Richard A. Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. xi + 290 pp. $18.00 (paper). In this book Richard Horsley and Neil Silberman offer an extraordinarily ...
The Common Worship Lectionary: A Scripture Commentary, Year A
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Common Worship Lectionary: A Scripture Commentary, Year A. Edited by Leslie Houlden and John Rogerson. London: SPCK, 2001. 291 pp., L20 (paper). This Scripture commentary has sought to be: (a) a "particular kind of help to those who must address congregations"; (b) "decently ...
Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory
Jul 01, 2002; ... Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory. By Peter Fergusson and Stuart Harrison, with contributions from Glyn Coppack. Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xii + 282 pp. 189 black and white + 35 color ...
Modernity and the Dilemma of North America Anglican Identities, 1880-1950
Jul 01, 2002; ... Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950. By William H. Katerberg. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. xii + 306 pp. $49.95 (cloth). In this study of the development and ...
St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography
Jul 01, 2002; ... St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography. By John A. McGuckin. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2001. xxviii + 433 pp. $35.99 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). John McGuckin has done us a great service in bringing out a new critical biography of Gregory Nazianzen, which ...
A History of the Church in Africa
Jul 01, 2002; ... A History of the Church in Africa. By Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix + 1,232 pp. $ 140.00 (cloth). The late Bishop Bengt Sundkler (1909-1995) chalked up a number of firsts in his long career as a missionary and field researcher and ...
The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period. Edited by G. R. Evans. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. xx + 383 pp. $76.95 (cloth); $39.95 (paper). This collection of twenty-two essays covering major medieval theologians, movements, and issues appropriately begins ...
Bernard of Clairvaux
Jul 01, 2002; ... Bernard of Clairvaux. By Gillian R. Evans. Great Medieval Thinkers Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii + 220 pp. $19.95 (paper). The expanse of time between the Patristic era and the Reformation remains for many in the Anglican communion terra incognita, in part ...
Christian Hope and Christian Life: Raids on the Inarticulate
Jul 01, 2002; ... Christian Hope and Christian Life: Raids on the Inarticulate. By Rowan A. Greer. New York: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 2001. 282 pp. $24.95 (paper). First the disclaimer: Rowan Greer, professor of Anglican Studies (emeritus) at Yale University, was my faculty sponsor and mentor when ...
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and Conflict Transformation
Jul 01, 2002; ... Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and Conflict Transformation. Edited by Raymond G. Helmick and Rodney L. Petersen. Foreword by Desmond M. Tutu. Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press, 2001. vii + 440 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). The essays ...
Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings / Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization
Jul 01, 2002; ... Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings. Edited by Robert Ellsberg. Modern Spiritual Masters Series. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2001. x + 163 pp. $15.00 (paper). Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization. By Robert H. King. New York: Continuum, ...
Living Faith Day by Day: How the Sacred Rules of Monastic Traditions Can Help You Live Spiritually in the Modern World
Jul 01, 2002; ... Living Faith Day by Day: How the Sacred Rules of Monastic Traditions Can Help You Live Spiritually in the Modern World. By Debra K. Farrington. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000. x + 278 pp. $13.95 (paper). Who would have thought that Christian solitaries ...
Zen Gifts to Christians
Jul 01, 2002; ... Zen Gifts to Christians. By Robert E. Kennedy. New York and London: Continuum, 2000. xii + 131 pp. 10 black and white drawings. $19.95 (cloth). Robert Kennedy is one of only a handful of men who are, at one and the same time, Roman Catholic priests and Zen roshis. A roshi is an ...
Solitude: A Neglected Path to God
Jul 01, 2002; ... Solitude: A Neglected Path to God. By Christopher C. Moore. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2001. 166 pp. $12.95 (paper). Drawing from the roots of Anglicanism-Scripture, tradition, and reason-and from his own experience, Christopher Moore invites the reader to the inner world of ...
Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively
Jul 01, 2002; ... Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively. By Kathleen Fischer. New York and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1999. vi + 201 pp. $14.95 (paper). Anyone who has ever struggled with anger will find Kathleen Fischer's Transforming Fire a thought-provoking and useful resource. Fischer ...
Handbook of Religion and Health
Jul 01, 2002; ... Handbook of Religion and Health. By Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough and David B. Larson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 712 pp. $65.00 (cloth). The sheer size of this book and its price may intimidate many parish clergy, and this would be a shame. Now more than ever ...
Good Eating
Jul 01, 2002; ... Good Eating. By Stephen H. Webb. The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2001. 272 pp. $21.99 (paper). In Good Eating, Stephen Webb offers a Christian framework for making sense of vegetarianism, Webb acknowledges that most apologies for vegetarianism ...
Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith / Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and their Journeys of Faith
Jul 01, 2002; ... Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith. By Sharon Duloz Parks. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. xiv + 261 pp. $23.95 (cloth). Growing Up Religious: Christians and Jews and their Journeys of Faith. By Robert Wuthnow. Boston: ...
Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
Jul 01, 2002; ... Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life. By Frank Burch Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx + 312 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Anyone familiar with discussions of "taste" and its disputability will find this book uncommonly interesting. Readers ...
Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology
Jul 01, 2002; ... Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology. By Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xix + 179 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Between 1712 and 1731 Nicholas Hawksmoor, the great student of Sir Christopher Wren, ...
Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
Jul 01, 2002; ... Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. By Steve Stockman. Lake Mary, Fla.: Relevant Books, 2001. ii + 197 pp. $13.99 (paper). Most readers of the Anglican Theological Review are probably more conversant with postmodern philosophy or post-liberal theology than they are with post-punk ...
Gleanings: Reading at the intersection of culture and faith: The Synapse and the sacred
Jul 01, 2002; ... Books Discussed How the Brain Works. By Mark William Dubin, Ph.D. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 2002. vii + 125 pp. $26.95 (paper). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. By Antonio Damasio, M.D. San Diego and New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1999 ....
Missiology
Jul 01, 2002; ... Missiology, or mission studies, is a difficult field of study to capture through a single lens or focus. Generally not considered a "classical" discipline of the academy, missiology is a relatively new and multidisciplinary area of study. Students of mission and mission activists draw upon ...