Recently added articles from Journal of Ecumenical Studies:
Understanding, affirmation, sharing: Nostra aetate and an Anglican approach to inter-faith relations.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Ipgrave, Michael ... Introduction Nostra aetate, Vatican II's "Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions," (1) has of course been definitive over the last forty years for Roman Catholic Christians in their relations with people of different faiths. During the same period, ...
Vatican II, The Passion of the Christ, and the future of Catholic-Jewish dialogue *.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Berger, Alan L. ... Vatican II (1962-65) was one of the most important religious events of the twentieth century. Given impetus by the horrors of the Shoah, the courage of Pope John XXIII (about whom Hans Kung observed, "in 5 years he renewed the Catholic Church more than his predecessors had in 500 years"), ...
Roth, Rushdie, and rage: religious reactions to Portnoy and The Verses *.(Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie)(Portnoy's Complaint, The Satanic Verses)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Zucker, David J. ... Reviewers have universally applauded Philip Roth's recent book, The Plot against America (2004). Roth is now regarded as one of American Jewry's--indeed America's--freest contemporary writers. Salman Rushdie's recent novel, Shalimar the Clown (2005), also has been well received. Both ...
Improvising together: Christian solidarity and hospitality as jazz performance.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Reynolds, Thomas E. ... The metaphor of a jazz combo can be a productive way to understand how innovation and preservation are held together in the church, (1) for jazz performance illustrates a kind of double-truth nestled deep in the way we dwell together communally. It involves the integrative sway of ...
Paradigms of ecumenism as a spiritual practice: Father Thomas Keating and Swami Atmarupananda discuss the theory and practice of dialogue.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2008; Miles-Yepez, Netanel ... Ecumenism as a Spiritual Practice I first met Father Thomas Keating and Swami Atmarupananda in the summer of 2002 in Aspen, Colorado. At the time I was working on a short book on meditation in different religious traditions (2) and thus attending an interreligious conference on ...
Under one Christ: implications of a Roman Catholic recognition of the Confessio Augustana in C.E. 2017.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Schreck, Paul A. ... Official ratification of the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" on October 30-31, 1999, was a grand and auspicious occasion. The two-day celebration of the agreement, which was intended to bring to a peaceful conclusion the sixteenth-century disputes about justification ...
"Of some symbolic importance but not much else": the Irish inter-church meeting and ecumenical dialogue in Northern Ireland, 1980-1999".(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Power, Maria ... Introduction It has been argued that the conflict in Northern Ireland has a religious dimension. (1) This interpretation transformed a political conflict, based upon disputed territory and minority rights, into a religious war based upon doctrinal differences stretching back to ...
Catholic women's ordination: the ecumenical implications of women deacons in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church of Greece, and the Union of Utrecht Old Catholic Churches *.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Zagano, Phyllis ... Introduction The vexed question of the ordination of women in the Catholic Church (1) has widespread and deep implications for ecumenical dialogue between and among churches that ordain women, either to the diaconate or to priesthood or to both. Three churches in dialogue with ...
Gerard S. Sloyan, Jesus on Trial: A Study of the Gospels, 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006 (orig.: Jesus on Trial: The Development of the Passion Narratives and Their Historical and Ecumenical Implications.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Garber, Zev ... Gerard S. Sloyan, Jesus on Trial: A Study of the Gospels, 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006 (orig.: Jesus on Trial: The Development of the Passion Narratives and Their Historical and Ecumenical Implications [Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1973]). Pp. 159. $18.00, paper. ...
Matthew Hoffman, From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Pawlikowski, John T. ... Matthew Hoffman, From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 292. $ 60.00. The subject of this volume is the appropriation of the person and ...
Naomi Seidman, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Hayes, Patrick J. ... Naomi Seidman, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Afterlives of the Bible Series. Pp. 333. $55.00, cloth; $22.00, paper. Is the translator an encumbrance or a benefactor in the ...
Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Smiga, George M. ... Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament. Edited by Stanley E. Porter. McMaster New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. Pp. 316. $29.00, paper. This volume presents the papers from the H. H. Bingham Colloquium ...
The Church and the Library: Studies in Honor of Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Kim, Grace Ji-Sun ... The Church and the Library: Studies in Honor of Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou. Edited by Dean Papademetriou and Andrew J. Sopko. Boston, MA: Somerset Hall Press, 2005. Pp. 437. $24.95, paper This is a wonderful collection of essays that honors George Papademetriou's life and ...
Ancient Faith and American-Born Churches: Dialogues between Christian Traditions.(The Ecumenical Christian Dialogues and the Catechism of the Catholic Church)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Petras, David ... Ancient Faith and American-Born Churches: Dialogues between Christian Traditions. Edited by Ted A. Campbell, Ann K. Riggs, and Gilbert W. Stafford, with assistance from Charles Hikaru Simpson. National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., Faith and Order Commission Theological ...
Hector Avalos, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Podet, Allen ... Hector Avalos, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005. Pp. 444. $26.00. Since September 11, 2001, more people have become aware of the odd relationship between religious commitment and violence. This study goes beyond extensive ...
Paul O. Ingram, Wrestling with God.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Gillman, John ... Paul O. Ingram, Wrestling with God. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2006. Pp. 116. Ten years after writing Wrestling with the Ox: A Theology of Religious Experience (Continuum, 1997), a Buddhist-inspired title for discussing theological options for Christians in dialogue with ...
C. T. R. Hewer, Understanding Islam: An Introduction.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; Weitz, Burkhard ... C. T. R. Hewer, Understanding Islam: An Introduction. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press; and London: SCM Press, 2006. Pp. 256. Non-Muslim scholars have several options in approaching Islam. Most will describe this religion from their own perspective and, if they are wise, will ...
Ecumenical resources.
Jan 01, 2008 ... AUSTRIA Zeitschrift fur Katholische Theologie (Innsbruck) Klaus yon Stosch, "Der muslimische Offenbarungscanspruch als Herausfordemng komparativer Theologie: Christliche-theologische Untersuchungen zur innerislamischen Debatte um Ungeschaffenheit und Praexistenz des ...