Journal of Ecumenical Studies back issues from January 1997:
Anglican-Lutheran convergence and the anticipation of full communion.
Jan 01, 1997; ... I. Introduction: The Call for Reception The process "From Dialogue to Decision," the theme of the 1995 annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, proceeds via reception. The connecting link between ecumenical dialogue and ecclesial decision is the task of ...
"Holiness unto the Lord": toward a holiness Christian dialogue with Judaism.
Jan 01, 1997; ... In a recently published letter to a friend who had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, the Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod asked if his friend were not still obligated to lead a life in accordance with the Torah.(1) Wyschogrod acknowledged that for a Jew to convert to ...
Theological anthropology: toward integrating theosis and justification by faith.
Jan 01, 1997; ... Introduction It is arguable today that the historical-critical task of the convergence method in ecumenical studies is largely accomplished and that we are in a stage of reception, the results of which are not yet fully clear.(1) In that case, the way forward lies in mutual ...
The interspiritual age: practical mysticism for the third millennium.
Jan 01, 1997; ... We are at the threshold of a new age, a Second Axial Age, a decisive period that will be characterized by a deep sense of community among the religions and, so, of interspiritual wisdom - and a profound commitment to environmental justice. The Second Axial Age will thus also be the ...
Transformations of "emptiness" on the idea of sunyata and the thought of Abe and the Kyoto school of philosophy.(Abe Masao)
Jan 01, 1997; ... I. Introduction The ideas of "nothingness" or "absolute nothingness," the fundamental basis for the religious philosophy of many members of the so-called Kyoto school of philosophy, derive their origin from the Buddhist notion of sunyata. This essay is an attempt to understand ...
In quest of the religious sources of toleration in the academy.
Jan 01, 1997; ... Where can we hope to begin the work of finding in religion sources for amity rather than enmity? To date, interfaith dialogue has proved difficult for believers to mount within the framework of church and synagogue groups. They lack the intellectual equipment, the learning, the analytical ...
Christianity: Essence, History, and Future.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Hans Kung, Tr. John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1995 (orig.: Christentum: Wesen und Geschichte [Munich: R. Piper, 1994]). Pp. 936. $44.50. Culminating a lifetime of fruitful scholarship on an amazing range of subjects, Kung in recent years has been pioneering an ambitious ...
Le Bapteme dans la tradition orthodoxe et ses implications oecumeniques.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Gheorghe Sava-Popa, Cahiers Oecumeniques 25. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1994. Pp. 311. S.Fr. 48,00, paper. Does the differing practice and understanding of baptism stand in the way of Catholic/Orthodox unity, or is there a real sacramental and ecclesial communion from ...
Preparing for the Year 2000.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Sergio Sebastiani. New Hope, KY (3050 Gap Knob Rd.; 40052): Urbi et Orbi Communications, 1996. Pp. 259. $14.95, paper. With preparations for the 1998 Assembly of the World Council of Churches and the 2000th anniversary of the incarnation, there will be much literature ...
Redemption and Dialogue: Reading Redemptoris Missio and Dialogue and Proclamation.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by William R. Burrows, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993. Pp. 244. $19.95, paper. Burrows continues the line of splendor of the editions of Vatican II documents in Redemption and Dialogue. He has chosen the same format - providing the full text of two recent missiological ...
A House United? Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A Winning Alliance for the 21st Century.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Keith A. Fournier with William D. Watkins, Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1994. Pp. 367. $20.00. This book is an effort by an evangelical Roman Catholic attorney (executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice) to show that Catholics and Evangelical Protestants ...
Inhabiting Unity: Theological Perspectives on the Proposed Lutheran-Episcopal Concordat.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Ephraim Radner and R. R. Reno. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. Pp. 247. $14.99, paper. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., are planning in 1997 a significant event in American ecumenical history - ...
One Faith: Biblical and Patristic Contributions toward Understanding Unity in Faith.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... William Henn, New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995. Pp. 334. $22.95, paper. In an effort to further clarity within ecumenical dialogue, Henn (Vatican Council for Christian Unity) surveys traditional sources to shed light on the complex term "unity in faith." He observes ...
A Common Sense Theology: The Bible, Faith, and American Society.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Mark Ellingsen, Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 9. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995. Pp. 251. $18.00, paper. In this book Ellingsen argues that the tradition of postliberal narrative biblical theology at Yale Divinity School is compatible with a proper public ...
Confusions in Christian Social Ethics: Problems for Geneva and Rome.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Ronald H. Preston, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995 (orig. - London: SCM Press, 1994). Pp. 202. $17.00, paper. Preston writes as a disappointed friend of the World Council of Churches. He has been an active supporter of the ecumenical movement since its ...
Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context: Theology, Culture, and Politics in Dialogue.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Shin Chiba, George R. Hunsberger, and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. Pp. 385. $30.00. Ian S. Markham, Plurality and Christian Ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp ....
Plurality and Christian Ethics.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Ian S. Markham, Plurality and Christian Ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 225. $49.95. The subject under scrutiny in Markham's book is Christianity's relation to modern culture: specifically, how to meet the secularist ...
European Unity in Ecumenical Thinking: 1937-1948.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Jurjen A. Zeilstra, Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 1995. Pp. 454. Dfl 65, -, paper. The ecumenical movement among non-Roman Catholic churches in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century was concerned both with overcoming inherited theological differences and with ...
The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Peter J. Paris, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995. Pp. 194. $13.00, paper. Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology. Edited by Cheryl J. Sanders. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995. Pp. 192. $13.00, paper. The point of convergence of ...
Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Cheryl J. Sanders. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995. Pp. 192. $13.00, paper. The point of convergence of these texts lies in their concern with the necessity of the preservation and promotion of values in the African American community. Each text also expresses ...
Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Fumitaka Matsuoka, Cleveland, OH: United Church Press, 1995. Pp. 168. $10.95, paper. Chinese American, Filipino American, Japanese American, and Korean American churches have served to help immigrants both to preserve their heritage and identity and to assimilate into American ...
Behind the Masks of God: An Essay toward Comparative Theology.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Robert Cummings Neville, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991. Pp. 200. $16.95. Neville's chief contribution in this highly abstract and philosophical work concerns the proposal of "logically vague" categories as the bases for carrying out comparative study. In ...
Religionswissenschaft als Welt-Theologie: Wilfred Cantwell Smiths interreligiose Hermeneutik.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Andreas Grunschloss, Forschungen zur systematischen und okumenischen Theologie 71. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994. Pp. 360. DM 98,00, paper. Interreligioser Dialog zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Edited by Reinhard Kirste, Paul Schwarzenau, and Udo Tworuschka ....
Interreligioser Dialog zwischen Tradition und Moderne.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Reinhard Kirste, Paul Schwarzenau, and Udo Tworuschka. Religionen im Gesprach 3. Balve (Germany): Zimmermann Verlag, 1994. Pp. 512. Paper. Grunschloss's book is doubtless the most comprehensive, balanced account and evaluation of the life and work of Wilfred Cantwell ...
La vverite chretienne a l'age du pluralisme religieux.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Joseph Stephen O'Leary, Cogitatio Fidei 181. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1994. Pp. 330. 170 F, paper. Everyone these days is talking about pluralism, mostly to affirm it and ask how it can best be formulated. Welker wants to move beyond the discourse ethic of ...
Kirsche im Pluralismus.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Michael Welker, Kaiser Taschenbucher 136. Gutersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1995. Pp. 128. DM 19,80, paper. Everyone these days is talking about pluralism, mostly to affirm it and ask how it can best be formulated. Welker wants to move beyond the ...
Health and Medicine in the Hindu Tradition: Continuity and Cohesion.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Prakash N. Desai, Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1989. Pp. 153. $19.95. Graydon F. Snyder, Health and Medicine in the Anabaptist Tradition: Care in Community. Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press ...
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Ake Hultkrantz, New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1992. Pp. 197. $19.95. Graydon F. Snyder, Health and Medicine in the Anabaptist Tradition: Care in Community. Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995. Pp. 160. $20.00. ...
Health and Medicine in the Anabaptist Tradition: Care in Community.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Graydon F. Snyder, Health and Medicine in the Anabaptist Tradition: Care in Community. Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995. Pp. 160. $20.00. In these books on three very different traditions, the links between religion ...
Either/Or: The Gospel or Neopaganism.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. Pp. 125. $9.99, paper. According to Gordon Kaufman, Doing Theology has been organized so as to suggest that "a rather sharp contrast is to be made between what is called ...
Doing Theology in Today's World: Essays in HOnor of Kenneth S. Kantzer.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by John D. Woodbridge and Thomas Edward McComiskey. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991. Pp. 511. $19.99, paper. According to Gordon Kaufman, Doing Theology has been organized so as to suggest that "a rather sharp contrast is to be made between what is ...
The Changing Face of Friendship.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 15. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. Pp. 219. $29.95. In the dynamics of interaction between Self and Other, the categories of friend and enemy customarily designate antithetical ...
An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Donald W. Shriver, Jr., New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 284. $27.50. In the dynamics of interaction between Self and Other, the categories of friend and enemy customarily designate antithetical forms of relationship. We are, it is thought, either friends ...
With Roots and Wings: Christianity in an Age of Ecology and Dialogue.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Jay B. McDaniel, Ecology and Justice Series. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995. Pp. 243. $16.95, paper. This book is as good as its name. Responding to the religious challenge of fundamentalism and the cultural challenge of consumerism (and the ecological violence it spawns), ...
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, vol. 2, Mentor, Message, and Miracles.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... John P. Meier, The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Pp. 1118. $35.00. It had been my intention to convene a kind of conclave in which a Christian, a Jew, and an agnostic would be locked up in the basement of the Harrisburg Public Library until they ...
The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 1, General and Old Testament Articles, the Books of Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Leander E. Keck et al. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1994. Pp. 1195. $65.00. For this magnificent achievement, Abingdon Press deserves praise from clergy, academics, and anyone interested in the Bible. Like its predecessor, The New Interpreter's Bible offers two ...
Der Jude Jesus und die Volker der Welt: Ein Gerspach mit Paul M. van Buren.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Wolfgang Schweitzer, Veroffentlichungen aus dem Institut Kirche und Judentum 19. Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1993. Pp. 228. DM 24,80. The book under review is actually a review itself. Schweitzer, professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule ...
Chistologie "nach Auschwitz": Kritische Bilanz fur die Religionsdidaktik aus dem christich-judischen Dialog.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Gabriele Niekamp, Reihe "Lernprozess Christen Juden" 8. Freiburg, Basel, Vienna: Herder, 1994. Pp. 370. Paper. The literature on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany is extensive. Until now, it has been difficult to obtain a reliable overall view of this literature in a ...
Judische Identitat in der modernen Welt: Leo Baeck und der deutsche Protestantismus.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Walter Homolka, Tr. Sieglinde Denzel and Susanne Naumann. Gutersloh: Chr. Kaiser/Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1994. Pp. 160. DM 64,00, paper. Homolka's Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism (E.T., Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995), a revision of ...
The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1941.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Christopher M. Clark, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. 340. $65.00. Religious conversion is usually left to theologians, but Clark has moved the subject to the historical arena in a fascinating analysis of the way Protestants from Germany and elsewhere sent missions to the ...
The Footprints of God: Divine Accommodation in Jewish and Christian Thought.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Stephen D. Benin, SUNY Series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp. 327. $24.95. A reworked version of the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of California, this volume focuses on a central ...
God and Humanity in Auschwitz: Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned Murder.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Donald J. Dietrich, New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers, 1995. Pp. 355. $34.95. Karl A. Plank, Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994. Pp. 169. $16.99, paper. Two very different ...
Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Karl A. Plank, Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994. Pp. 169. $16.99, paper. Two very different books offer us a reason for optimism for the current state of the interreligious dialogue concerning the ...
Contemporary Jewish Religious Responses to the Shoah.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Steven L. Jacobs. Studies in the Shoah 5. Lanham, MD; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993. Pp. 247. $52.50. In the nearly identical introductions to these volumes of collected essays, Jacobs notes that, while contemporary scholars in multiple ...
Contemporary Christian Religious Responses to the Shoah.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Edited by Steven L. Jacobs. Studies in the Shoah 6. Lanham, MD; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993. Pp. 289. $57.50. In the nearly identical introductions to these volumes of collected essays, Jacobs notes that, while contemporary scholars in multiple ...
Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Joan E. Taylor, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 384. $69.00. This is a rare book that combines technical scholarship with stylistic grace. Taylor (Religious Studies Fellow at Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand) sets out to demolish the influential thesis of Franciscan ...
American Consuls in the Holy Land: 1832-1914.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Ruth Kark, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, Hebrew University; Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1994. Pp. 388. $49.95. The period from 1832 to 1914, beginning with the reforms in Palestine carried out under the regime of Ibrahim Pasha and concluding with the outbreak of ...
Three Messengers for One God.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Roger Arnaldez, Tr. Gerald W. Schlabach with Mary Louise Gude and David B. Burrell. Notre Dame, IN, and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994 (orig. - Trois Messagers Pour Un Seul Dieu [Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1983]). Pp. 219. $29.95. The author of this book needs ...
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Gilles Kepel, Tr. Alan Braley. Oxford: Polity Press; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 (orig.: La Revanche de Dieu [Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1991]). Pp. 215. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper. Kepel's work will attract readers' attention from all levels ...
Revolutionnaires et Contre-Revolutionnaires parmi les disciples de Jesus et les compagnons de Muhammad.(Review)
Jan 01, 1997; ... Sarwat Anis Al-Assiouty, Recherches comparees sur le Christianisme Primitif et l'Islam Premier 4. Paris: Letouzey & Ane, 1994. Pp. 310. F 120, paper. The topic of this book is not uninteresting. It seeks to compare the respective socioeconomic milieux that gave rise to ...