Recently added articles from Journal of Ecumenical Studies:
Note to readers.(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tony Maan's essay. "The Eucharistic Presence of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Protestant Popular Piety: Toward a Catholic-Protestant Rapprochement?" appeared in the Fall, 2008, issue of J.E.S ....
Evangelical-Jewish relations: politics, policy, and theology.
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Several years ago, the late Murray Friedman, founder and director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University in Philadelphia, identified the beginning of a shift in the relationship between evangelicals and Jews. He ...
Evangelical proselytizing at the U.S. Air Force Academy: the civilian-military controversy, 2004-2006.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... November, 2004, marked the beginning of a two-year, very public controversy over religious advocacy in the U.S. Air Force. Initially, it focused on the religious climate at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as a result of extensive newspaper coverage of the promotion of ...
Pluralism, postmodernity, and religious liberty: the abiding necessity of free speech and religious convictions in the public square.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Jews and evangelicals have made important strides in understanding each other in recent years. (1) Issues such as America's Christian heritage, (2) the legitimacy of the State of Israel, (3) and the need for evangelical pro-Israeli support in the midst of Israel's struggle for survival (4) ...
To fix the world: Jewish convictions affecting social issues.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Jewish responses to social issues, like those of any other group, are, in part, a function of the group's interests. As a small minority of the American population, Jews have historically supported laws, policies, and programs that guarantee the rights of individuals and minorities against ...
The faith-based initiative: both cause of contention and the solution to an impasse?(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In early November, 2007, The Forward, a national Jewish weekly newspaper, published a surprising story. The Coalition Against Religious Discrimination, a seventy-member alliance of groups opposed to the Bush administration's faith-based initiative for allegedly fostering religious ...
What are the emerging consensus issues in the intersection of religion and public policy/politics between Evangelicals and Jews?(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction Lists of emerging consensus issues at the intersection of religion and public policy/politics between evangelicals and Jews have already been proposed, and the large number of issues is both daunting and dubious. The following form the bulk of the lists: Darfur, ...
Evangelicals and Jews in common cause.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This essay will consider possibilities of common ground between evangelicals and Jews in the United States. This is a topic filled with stereotypes and caricature, one in which most progenitors of common ground envision an instrumental relationship based on an almost willful ignorance of ...
The American public and sympathy for Israel: present and future.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The American public has long held positive views of the State of Israel, and many analysts believe that such views have contributed to American foreign policy toward Israel and in the Middle East. (1) However, recent developments in the United States have raised some questions about the ...
The odd couple: Jews and premillennial dispensational fundamentalism (P.S. "and its cousins").(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... A text that sets the stage and tone for this essay and for my contribution to the symposium on Evangelical-Jewish relations as they bear on "politics, policy, and theology" comes from Abraham Lincoln's famed "House Divided Speech." The sentence is attractive to those of us who are ...
Some reflections on "the odd couple": a reply to Martin Marty.(EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES)(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... As is almost always the case reading Martin Marry, I come away with the sense of having been instructed. That is certainly true of the current essay. I would, however, like to offer an alternative view of the alliance, if such there be, between some Jews and some pre-millennial ...
Ecumenical resources.
Jan 01, 2009 ... ARGENTINA Studium Filosofia (Buenos Aires) Claude Geffre, "El desafio del pluralismo religioso y del indiferentismo para el servicio teologico de las Instituciones Catolicos." Vol. 3, No. 5 (2000), 3-32. AUSTRIA Theologisch-Praktische ...
Plan B in the pluralist-dialogue approach to religious diversity in America.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I. Pluralist Dialogue "Pluralism" and "dialogue" are much used yet variously defined terms in contemporary discourse about America's increasingly diverse cultural landscape. In this essay, the phrase "pluralist dialogue" denotes active and appreciative interpersonal engagement ...
The eucharistic presence of Christ in seventeenth-century Dutch protestant popular piety: toward a Catholic-Protestant rapprochement?(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction The eucharistic doctrine of transubstantiation facilitated a mystical experience for the believer through participation in the body and blood of Jesus throughout the Middle Ages. Late medieval hagiographic accounts relate the close association between drinking, ...
Was Justin Martyr a proto-inclusivist?(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Proponents of inclusivism (1) suggest that the early church had a much more open-minded view of non-Christian religions than has been the dominant view. Indeed, exclusivism (2) is a development that does not reflect either the scriptures or early-church thought, according to inclusivist ...
Teshuvah, ecumenism, and the reign of heaven: the role of repentance in the ecumenical movement.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... 1. Introduction There is a saying in Judaism that if all of Israel repents the Messiah will surely come. At first glance this rabbinical aphorism would seem to have little or nothing to do with the ecumenical project. I shall argue, however, that the common ground between Jewish ...
Judaism, Christianity, and the Hebrew Bible.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In Sinai and Zion (1985), Jon Levenson made the case that rabbinic Judaism has more in common with its forebears in the Hebrew Bible than scholars have customarily granted. Although the rabbis are often derided as gross innovators, bending their religious expression too readily to ...
That all may be one: a tale of three churches.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... I. The Past: A Lesson in Tragedy The split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches has been a scandal. Historically, angry words have been hurled at each other over the years, and, even today, accusations are still made by individuals of one group against ...
Muhammad, "the prophet like Moses"?(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction One of the Islamic positions in respect to Jews and Christians is that they follow books revealed by the one God. Chief among those who received books were the prophets Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad (570-632 C.E.). However, Muslims have held, and not without ...
Toward a Christian theology of dialogic communication at the grassroots level in a multireligious context.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Theologies in India Over the years, theological thinking in the South Asian context has undergone many changes. At the beginning of the Indian philosophical schools, it was mainly Brahminical texts and thoughts that influenced the theological framework. (1) Later, contextual ...