Journal of Ecumenical Studies back issues from March 1997:
The hermeneutic center.
Mar 22, 1997; ... Having taught graduate courses in both Western and Eastern hermeneutics for a couple of years, it struck me that (contemporary) Western hermeneutics seems to focus (exclusively) on the "hermeneutic circle," while (traditional) Eastern hermeneutics (mainly) emphasizes the "center." ...
Halting a succession of evil.(genocide)
Mar 22, 1997; ... One of the most treasured beliefs of Christians is summed up in the concept of "apostolic succession." Memory is set in the context of the covenant of fathers and sons, of mothers and daughters. We are not bounded in a fellowship of faith merely contemporary; rather, the "communion of ...
Uzhorod, Balamand, and beyond: a "uniate" looks to the millennium.
Mar 22, 1997; ... In 1996, the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church marked the 350th anniversary of the Union of Uzhorod, by which it came into existence as a particular church in communion with the See of Rome.(1) The fruits of this union are to be found today in the European eparchies of Mukacevo ...
Reflections on the filioque.
Mar 22, 1997; ... I. Introduction This essay is an attempt at a constructive approach to the filioque, being especially mindful of the present interecclesial context and the state of theological discussion, particularly contemporary Roman Catholic trinitarian theology. It is not my intention to ...
The Holocaust: reflections of a Muslim.
Mar 22, 1997; ... I am honored to be included in this sad but important memorial recollection, this Yom HaShoa. While this is too overwhelming an occasion for me to say anything, much less give the main address, I am emboldened to speak when I look upon myself as a Muslim, for you and I are joined together ...
The Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.
Mar 22, 1997; ... Among the many interreligious groups now existing in the United States and abroad, the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (I.F.C.) is believed to be the first staffed organization to have brought together the Islamic as well as the Jewish, Protestant, and Roman Catholic ...
The Church and the Churches: Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... G. R. Evans, Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 329. $59.95. The "nature of the unity we seek" has long been a theme of Christian ecumenists. Evans, lecturer in history at Cambridge and Anglican ecumenist, has tackled this question anew ...
Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... David J. Bosch (d. 1992), Christian Mission and Modern Culture. Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International; Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 1995. Pp. x + 69. $7.00, paper. What is the discipline of missiology? The volume edited by Camps et al. puts it very sedately: ...
Missiology: An Ecumenical Introduction - Texts and Contexts of Global Christianity.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by A. Camps, L. A. Hoedemaker, M. R. Spindler, and F. J. Verstraelen. Tr. John Vriend. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995 (26 of 29 chapters are revised from A. Camps et al., eds., Oecumenische inleiding in de missiologie [Kampen: Kok, 1988], which was ...
Okumenische Theologie - Missonswissenschaft.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Dietrich Ritschl and Werner Ustorf, Urban-Taschenbucher 430,2. Grundkurs Theologie 10,2. Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1994. Pp. 142. DM 26,00, paper. What is the discipline of missiology? The volume edited by Camps et al. puts it very sedately: "From within ...
Contextualization: Origins, Meaning and Implications: A Study of What the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches Originally Understood by the Term "Contextualization," with Special Reference to the Period 1970-1972.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... William P. Russell, Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta della Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, 1995. Pp. 515. $20.00 (ppd. from: The Secretary General, Missionari d'Africa [Padri Bianchi], Via Aurelia 269, 00165 Roma, Italy), paper. Participants in the 1910 World Missionary Conference, ...
Emerging Voices in Global Christian Theology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... William A. Dyrness, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994. Pp. 255. Paper. These two volumes provide insights into the questions of mission and unity in the modern ecumenical contexts, from dramatically different sources. The Newbigin volume brings together essays ...
A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Missions.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Lesslie Newbigin, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1994. Pp. 208. $14.99, paper. These two volumes provide insights into the questions of mission and unity in the modern ecumenical contexts, from dramatically different sources ....
L'Eglise et les religions non chretiennes au seuil de xxi siecle: Etude historique et theoligique.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Henry J. J. M. Van Straelen, Paris: Beauchesne, 1994. Pp. 330. 155 FF, paper. This book is primarily representative of theological and missiological dialogue within the Roman Catholic Church. The author can be said to be a pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic. He writes of Cardinal ...
Faith and the Other: A Relational Theology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Paul R. Sponheim, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993. Pp. 247. Paper. This book is a kind of postmodern compendium of theology. Sponheim, professor of systematic theology at Luther Northwest Seminary (St. Paul, MN), weaves process, liberation, and feminist theologies together ...
In Good Company: The Church as Polis.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Stanley Hauerwas, Notre Dame, IN, and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995. Pp. 268. $29.95. Hauerwas is an engaging writer. He enlivens his theological reflections with stories; he draws often upon personal experiences (including his years at the University of Notre ...
Okumenisches Lernen.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Ralf Koerrenz, Eine Veroffentlichung des Comenius-Instituts, Munster. Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus, 1994. Pp. 228. DM 78,00, paper. These books, published independently, are from 1994 and deal with ecumenical learning. Schluter's anthology of seven essays is the product ...
Okumenisches und interkulturelles Lerne: Eine theologische und padagogische Herausfromderung.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Richard Schluter. Paderborn: Bonifatius; Frankfurt/M.: Otto Lembeck, 1994. Pp. 128. DM 24,80, paper. These books, published independently, are from 1994 and deal with ecumenical learning. Schluter's anthology of seven essays is the product of a theological symposium at ...
Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Anti Morimoto, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Pp. 178. $33.50. In the not too distant past (quite recently in Northern Ireland), the gap between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, especially in the Reformed tradition, appeared virtually ...
Catechism of the Catholic Church.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... An Image Book. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Pp. 825. $7.99, paper. Introducing the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Traditional Themes and Contemporary Issues. Edited by Berard L. Marthaler. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994. Pp. 182. $11.95, paper. First, ...
What Is Catholicism? An Anglican Responds to the Official Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... David L. Edwards, London: Mowbray, 1994 (U.S. distribution: Morehouse Publishing, 871 Ethan Allen Hwy., Ste. 204, Ridgefield, CT 06877). Pp. 179. $19.95, paper. Introducing the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Traditional Themes and Contemporary Issues. Edited by Berard L ....
Introducing the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Traditional Themes and Contemporary Issues.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Berard L. Marthaler. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994. Pp. 182. $11.95, paper. First, it should be noted that a catechism is not intended to be a fully-worked-out statement of dogmatic theology, nor is it intended to be a complete liturgical manual or any ...
Beyond Theological Tourism: Mentoring as a Grassroots Approach to Theological Education.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Susan B. Thistlethwaite and George F. Cairns. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994. Pp. 174. $19.95, paper. This collection of eleven essays by twelve authors describes the "globalization of theological education," as developed by the Chicago Immersion Project. ...
Caribbean Theology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Lewin L. Williams, Research in Religion and Family, Black Perspectives 2. Frankfurt/M., Bern, New York: Peter Lang, 1994. Pp. 231. $43.95. Caribbean Theology represents both an outline of emergent reflection among Christian theologians of the Caribbean and a guidebook for the ...
Remembering the Future: The Challenge of the Churches in Europe.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Robert C. Lodwick. New York: Friendship Press, 1995. Pp. 116. $8.95, paper. There is undoubtedly an urgent need for a comprehensive study of the role of the Christian churches in the events that transformed the face of Europe in 1989-91. Lodwick's volume makes no ...
Population, Consumption, and the Environment: Religious and Secular Responses.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Harold Coward. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. 319. $18.95, paper. World War II brought the One World of the twentieth century to America's consciousness. This had been a global war, fought directly or indirectly on all continents except ...
One Earth, Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Paul F. Knitter, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995. Pp. 218. $17.00, paper. World War II brought the One World of the twentieth century to America's consciousness. This had been a global war, fought directly or indirectly on all continents except Antarctica. The horrible tragedy ...
Many Gods, Many Lords: Christianity Encounters World Religions.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Daniel B. Clendenin, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1995. Pp. 189. $11.99, paper. Addressing the relationship of Christianity to the major world religions, Clendenin follows a conservative, evangelical standpoint, and Hick amplifies his well-known pluralist approach. Hick's ...
A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... John Hick, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. Pp. 160. $14.99, paper. Addressing the relationship of Christianity to the major world religions, Clendenin follows a conservative, evangelical standpoint, and Hick amplifies his well-known pluralist approach. Hick's ...
Pellegrini in dialogo: Un itinerario spirituale - Dalla vita in dialogo al dialogo interreligioso verso solidarieta-armonia.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Sebastiano D'Ambra, Casale Monferrato: Edizioni Piemme, 1994. Pp. 223. L. 25.000, paper. D'Ambra's book can be appreciated from two perspectives, each of which is ecumenically important. On the one hand it is an account of the experience of a Catholic missionary to the island of ...
Christianity and the Encounter of Asian Religions: Method of Correlation, Fusion of Horizons, and Paradigm Shifts in the Korean Grafting Process.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Kyoung Jae Kim, Mission 10. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 1994. Pp. 213. f35,-, paper. Kim uses insights from Gadamer, Kuhn, and Tillich to investigate four principal Korean theological models: a "sowing model" (Park Hyung-Nong) used chiefly by the conservatives, a "yeast model" ...
Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der Cusanus-Gessellschaft 22.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Klaus Kremer and Klaus Reinhardt. Trier: Paulinus Verlag, 1995. Pp. xxvi + 274. DM 78,00. The significant contribution of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64) to the dialogue between the religions of the world is securely established. His thought on the unity of truth in ...
Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Mohammed Arkoun, Tr. and ed. Robert D. Lee. Boulder, CO; San Francisco, CA; and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994 (orig.: Ouvertures sur l'Islam, 1st ed. [Paris: Jacques Grancher, 1989; 2nd ed., 1992]). Pp. 139. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. All in all, this successful and laudable ...
Faith and Life Negotiate: A Christian Story-Study.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Kenneth Cragg, Norwich, Norfolk: Canterbury Press, 1994 (U.S. distributor: Morehouse Publishing, 871 Ethan Allen Hwy., Ste. 204, Ridgefield, CT 06877). Pp. 331. $25.95, paper. These books share a concern with the challenges posed to Christianity by Islam, and they presume that ...
Islam: A Challenge for Christianity.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Hans Kung and Jurgen Moltmann. Concilium 1994/3. London: SCM Press, Ltd.; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994. Pp. 160. $60.00 for 6-issue subscription, paper (back issues, $15). These books share a concern with the challenges posed to Christianity by Islam, and they ...
Abraham: Sign of Hope for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Karl-Josef Kuschel, Tr. John Bowden. New York: Continuum, 1995 (orig.: Streit um Abraham, Was Juden, Christen und Muslime trennt - und was sic eint [Munich: Piper Verlag, 1994]). Pp. 286. $24.95. Kuschel's aim in studying Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is threefold: to analyze ...
As a Father Loves His Children: The Image of the Supreme Being as Loving Father in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Gordon E. Pruett, A Catholic Scholars Press Book. Bethesda, MD: International Scholars Publications, 1994. Pp. 112. $54.95, cloth; $34.95, paper. Kuschel's aim in studying Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is threefold: to analyze the tendency of each religion to claim Abraham as ...
Chretiens, musulmans et jifs dans l'Espagne medievale: De la convergence a l'expulsion.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Ron Barkai'. Toledot-Judaismes. Les Editions du Cerf, 1994. Pp. 333. 250 F, paper. To exhaust his vast topic - a survey of relations between Jews and Visigoths in "first millennium" Spain and Jews and Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain - Roth composes a ...
Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Norman Roth. Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Texts and Studies 10. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1994. Pp. 367. $67.75. To exhaust his vast topic - a survey of relations between Jews and Visigoths in "first millennium" Spain and Jews and Muslims and Christians in Medieval ...
I Am a Palestinian Christian.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Mitri Raheb, Ruth C. L. Gritsch. Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995. Pp. 164. Paper. The twelve essays in this book introduce Western Christians to the life, faith, ministry, and concerns of a Palestinian Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem ....
What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Betty Rogers Rubenstein and Michael Berenbaum. Studies in the Shoah 11. Lanham, MD; New York; London: University Press of America, 1995. Pp. 495. $64.50. The thirty-seven articles included in this readable, informative tribute to Richard L. Rubenstein are varied in ...
The Open Tomb: A New Approach, Mark's Passover Haggadah (72 C.E.).(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Karel Hanhart. A Michael Glazier Book. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1995. Pp. 865. $59.95. Biblical scholars have known for a long time that the Second Testament authors, especially the evangelists, have drawn widely upon the First Testament (models, metaphors, ...
Israel's Scripture Traditions and the Synoptic Gospels: Story Shaping Story.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Willard M. Swartley. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994. Pp. 367. $17.95, paper. Biblical scholars have known for a long time that the Second Testament authors, especially the evangelists, have drawn widely upon the First Testament (models, metaphors, motifs, terminology, ...
Die christlichen Adversus-Judaeos-Texte und ihr literarisches und historisches Umfeld (13.20. Jh.).(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Heinz Schreckenberg, Die christlichen. Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe XXIII, Theology 497. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna: Peter Lang, 1994. Pp. 774. $108.95. This encyclopedic survey of the Christian literature about Jews from the thirteenth century ...
Education for Shalom: Religion Textbooks and the Enhancement of the Catholic and Jewish Relationship.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Philip A. Cunningham. A Liturgical Press Book. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995. Pp. 169. $11.95, paper. About a quarter-century ago, Rosemary Ruether asked whether a Christianity is possible that does not depend on the negative identity it projects onto Judaism for its ...
A Dictionary of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Expanded Edition.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Leon Klenicki and Geoffrey Wigoder. Studies in Judaism and Christianity: A Stimulus Book. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995 (orig., 1984). Pp. 240. $9.95, paper. This new edition of the dialogue dictionary is highly welcome and merits appreciation at a time ...
Choose Love: A Jewish Buddhist Human Rights Activist in Central America.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Joe Gorin. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1993. Pp. 198. $12.00, paper. While the two books being reviewed here are, in fact, a study in contrasts, the underlying theme that unites them is - for lack of a better term - interreligious dialogue. More specifically they are an ...
Zen Buddhism and Hasidism: A Comparative Study.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Jacob Yuroh Teshima. Lanham, MD; New York; London: University Press of America, 1995. Pp. 189. $42.00, cloth; $29.50, paper. While the two books being reviewed here are, in fact, a study in contrasts, the underlying theme that unites them is - for lack of a better term - ...
Two Masters: The Buddha and Jesus.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... J. Duncan M. Derrett. Northamptonshire: Pilkington Press, 1995. Pp. 143, illus. [pounds]17.50, paper. According to its publisher, the author of the book under review "trained successively in classics and as an historian, an Indologist and a biblical scholar, and has taught in ...
A Broader Vision: Perspectives on the Buddha and the Christ.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Richard Henry Drummond. Virginia Beach, VA: A.R.E. Press, 1995. Pp. 341. $16.95. Drummond, teacher in both Japan and the U.S. and author of several books in the field of comparative religions, offers in this volume parallel insights into the life and work of Gautama the Buddha ...
Cultural Disarmament: The Way to Peace.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Raimon Panikkar. Tr. Robert R. Barr. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. Pp. 142. $18.99, paper. The significance of this small volume (103 pages of text, twenty-two of notes, eleven of bibliography) far exceeds its size. This is vintage Panikkar. The concern that ...
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... New York: Continuum, 1995. Pp. 191. $18.95. This book is a collection of essays written over nine years (1984-93) by one of the leading womanist ethicists, covering memories of Cannon's life and family in Kannapolis, North Carolina; reflections on what slavery meant to African ...
Ecofeminism and Theology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Mary Grey and Elizabeth Green. Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 2. Kampen: Kok Pharos Publishing House; Mainz: Matthias-Grunewald-Verlag, 1994. Pp. 145. DM 42,00, paper. This yearbook on ecofeminism and theology follows the format used ...
In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether. San Francisco, CA: HarperSan-Francisco, 1995. Pp. 542. $28.00. Keller and Ruether, both members of the Garrett-Evangelical Seminary faculty, have produced a lively scholarly treatment of an important strain of ...
Facing Our Differences: The Churches and Their Gay and Lesbian Members.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Alan A. Brash. Risk Book Series 68. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1995. Pp. 75. $7.95, paper. The inclusion of gay men and lesbians in religious life has inspired passionate debate over the past few years. An important dimension of that debate is reconciling scriptural references to ...
Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Richard Cleaver. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. Pp. 161. Paper. The inclusion of gay men and lesbians in religious life has inspired passionate debate over the past few years. An important dimension of that debate is reconciling scriptural references to ...
Scripture and Homosexuality: Biblical Authority and the Church.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Marion L. Soards. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995. Pp. 84. $9.99, paper. The inclusion of gay men and lesbians in religious life has inspired passionate debate over the past few years. An important dimension of that debate is reconciling scriptural references ...
Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America.(Review)
Mar 22, 1997; ... Mark Silk. Public Expressions of Religion in America. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pp. 181. $19.95. Silk, a staff writer with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has a straightforward thesis: Religion may not be covered the way religionists would like, ...