CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health back issues from September 2002:
Construction of the soul. .(Ethics and Architecture symposium)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2002; ... In today's complex landscape, space has become something of perpetual reorganization; and virtual space something of an ironic safe haven. Cities that were first formed on the contours of the land, are now gridded sprawls of skyscrapers, strip malls, and asphalt dotting our surfaces with ...
Constructing ethics and the ethics of construction: John Ruskin and the humanity of the builder.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In the grandeur of this cathedral, the act of seeing transforms from a necessity to a luxury. There is no aspect of the structure that fails to surprise and astonish the eye. I am attracted to the word "surprise" because it seems to me that much of the beauty of St. John the Divine lies in ...
Architecture as eternal delight: reflections on the attack of the World Trade Center.
Sep 22, 2002; ... The airplanes that attacked the Twin Towers on September 11 unleashed forces of nature whose awesome magnitude is rarely experienced in modern cities. I am speaking about the natural energy of fire and gravity. The impact of the airplanes hitting the buildings ignited the firepower of ...
(Re)examining the Citicorp case: ethical paragon or chimera.
Sep 22, 2002; ... The architect for the fifty-nine-story Citicorp Center tower completed during 1977 in midtown Manhattan was the much-celebrated Hugh Stubbins. The renowned structural engineer William LeMessurier was responsible for the conception and design of the building's ingenious structural framing ...
Gardens of the righteous: sacred space in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Man is different from other creatures in that only he can aspire to know God and in this lies his only fulfillment; but he can either choose or deny this glorious possibility. St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) I have long been convinced of the necessity to examine the ...
The Mishkan as metaphor-form and anti-form: on the transformation of urban space.
Sep 22, 2002; ... If we have been created to endure the same suffering, to be doomed to the same prearranged death, why give us lips, why eyes and voices, why souls and languages all different? (1) Edmond Jabes At the center of steel and stone in our modern cities stands the same ...
When the other appears on the scene.(ethics)
Sep 22, 2002; ... This article is derived from an exchange of four letters with Cardinal Martini. The following letter is Eco's reply to a question the cardinal had asked him: "What is the basis of the certainty and necessity for moral action of those who, in order to establish the absolute nature of an ...
Erasing "economy": Derrida and the construction of divine economies.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In a pre-emptive verbal strike rejecting calls by foreign leaders for the U.S. to join the international effort to back the Kyoto agreement that aims at curbing global warming through the reduction of [CO.sup.2] emissions, George W. Bush stated: "We will not do anything that harms our ...
Providence and the biology of purpose.
Sep 22, 2002; ... meaning, according to psychologist Victor Frankl, colors human nature. The search for meaning represents an innate human urge. Failure to find meaning leads to existential frustration, boredom, and, in some cases, mental ill health (see Shek, 1992, pp.185-86). What, then, infuses our lives ...
Crossing boundaries: virtue or vice for the twenty-first century?
Sep 22, 2002; ... The cloning of "Dolly" the sheep in 1997 is now old news. The ability to reproduce individuals through somatic cell nuclear transfer has been accomplished in at least five species, the latest being that of the cat. In November 2001, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. in ...
Inner space as sacred space: the temple as metaphor for the mystical experience.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Amidst graceful pines and dried cow turds there is a shrine atop a steep sloping hill. I go there to make offerings on its sacrificial alter. To begin I offer the sacrifice of time, then the dimensions of space--of height, breadth and width. Next comes the offering of speech, followed by ...
Ise.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2002; ... <Pre> ISE. (Poetry) MICHEL ENGLEBERT for S. Yamashita There is a secret to it: a distinction made between the meditation point and the point of the meditation. Twice every generation the craftsmen who dismantle Ise Shrine assemble and refresh themselves with yellow cypress ...
The priest. .(Poem)
Sep 22, 2002; ... <Pre> THE PRIEST. SUSAN WHITMORE He writes his sermon by candlelight, Smoking hand-rolled cigarettes And stripped to his shorts by the fire, Loving despite promise the self he strokes. The priest knows he holds his people Between his lips, a flagrant, unremitting desire ...
4 White dresses. .(Poem)
Sep 22, 2002; ... <Pre> 4 WHITE DRESSES. (Poetry) MARY ZABOGLIO DONOVAN If we are lucky, there will be 4- my first was baptism, a time of water and being named. My mother put me in cotton eyelet and seed pearls. Soon, my pink tongue sticking out, at First Communion, I was wrapped in ...
The mystery of suffering revisioned. (Books).(Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us Beacon Press, 2001. $26.00 (cloth). When does the image of a suffering and dying Savior cease being redemptive and become ...
Artistic vision. (Books).(Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue Baker Books, 2001. S21.99 (cloth). Art and theological aesthetics are uneasy partners. For theologians who consider aesthetics, questions of beauty and the relationship of beauty to God are of primary interest. For ...
From eugenics to eugenics. (Books).(Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate Chicago, 2002. $21.99 (cloth). It's hard to find a book that is really worth reading, let alone exciting, on any aspect of biotechnology. So much of what is on offer is ...
Seeing Mary. (Books).(God-Sent: A History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2002; ... Roy Abraham Varqhese God-Sent: A History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary Crossroad, 2000. $39.95 (cloth). My seven-year-old daughter and I were recently watching a documentary on attempts to authenticate the Marian apparitions of Nancy Fowler ...