Journal of Ecumenical Studies back issues from January 2000:
ECCLESIAL IDENTITY AND ECUMENICAL DECISIONS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.).
Jan 01, 2000; ... PRECIS Ecumenism is never an abstraction; ecumenical work always prods particular churches to make specific decisions about distinct proposals. The decisions of a particular church are not generic responses to theoretical possibilities. Distinctive elements of ecumenical ...
"ANONYMOUS ECUMENISTS"? PENTECOSTALS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CHRISTIAN IDENTITY.
Jan 01, 2000; ... PRECIS Pentecostalism began as a revival movement with a vision to restore the church life and spirituality of existing churches. Because of resistance from the established churches, the new revival movement came to build Its own establishment; the only form of unity ...
ELIEZER BERKOVITS'S POST-HOLOCAUST THEOLOGY: A DIALECTIC BETWEEN POLEMICS AND RECEPTION.(Christianity and Judaism)
Jan 01, 2000; ... PRECIS In response to the Holocaust, Eliezer Berkovits attempted to reconstruct a Jewish identity reflecting divine power through political powerlessness, by recasting Christianity in a this worldly "power history" versus a powerless Israel occupying a metaphysical "faith ...
A COSMOPOLITAN FAITH IN KARL JASPERS: DECOUPLING COMMITMENT AND NARROWNESS.
Jan 01, 2000; ... PRECIS The author examines Karl Jaspers's decoupling of commitment and narrowness in three parts. First, Jaspers's criticism of the church and some Christian dogmas as eurocentric reveals his postmodern and cosmopolitan stance, In opposition to the neoorthodox theological ...
EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE UNION CHURCH [*].(Lutheran and Reformed Churches in America)(Transcript)
Jan 01, 2000; ... The two-volume work by Charles Glatfelter, Pastors and People: German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in the Pennsylvania Field 1717-1793, [1] is a wonderful and rich resource for Pennsylvania church life of the eighteenth century, when many of the union churches had their origin. At a time ...
RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY OPEN TO DIALOGUE: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. ALEKSEI BODROV.(Eastern Orthodox Church (Russia))(Interview)
Jan 01, 2000; ... The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the appearance on its ruins of a new democratic Russia brought about a series of unprecedented changes to the country. Recent transformations in Russia have radically challenged not only the previous Soviet order but also the whole tradition of ...
Spiritus ubi vult spirat: Pneumatology in Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue (1972-1989).(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Spiritus ubi vult spirat: Pneumatology in Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue (1972-1989). Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 1998. Pp. 509. The Pentecostal-Roman Catholic dialogue is one of the most sustained and productive of any ecumenical relationship ...
After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodem Age. Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998. Pp.314. $28.00, paper. This is a study of koinonia in its trinitarian ...
The Starting Point of Calvin's Theology.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... George Tavard, The Starting Point of Calvin's Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000. Pp. 192. Ecumenical consensus clearly places Jean Calvin as the premier systematic theologian of the Reformation era. However, the author of this volume reflects, ...
Justification and Rome.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Robert Preus, Justification and Rome. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 141. Among the most dramatic ecumenical breakthroughs of the 1990's has been the LutheranRoman Catholic Joint Declaration on Justification by Faith. As with any step forward, criticism and ...
Faith and Order in Moshi.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Faith and Order in Moshi. Edited by Alan Falconer. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1998. Pp. 339. The churches' responses to Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry (B.E.M) preoccupied their Faith and Order agenda through the 1980's until the ecclesiology of koinonia came to center stage ...
Visible Ecclesial Communion: Authority and Primacy in the Conciliar Church.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... David Pietropaoli, Visible Ecclesial Communion: Authority and Primacy in the Conciliar Church. Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University, 1997. Pp. 428. With discussions on the sacraments, apostolic faith, and the nature and purpose of the Church moving forward among the churches, ...
Petrine Ministry and the Unity of the Church.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Petrine Ministry and the Unity of the Church. Edited by James F. Puglisi. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999. Pp. 211. $19.95. Pope John Paul II, in his 1995 encyclical Ut unum sint, called for a "patient and fraternal dialogue" about the Petrine ministry in the ...
God--Mystery--Diversity: Christian Theology in a Pluralistic World.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gordon D. Kaufman, God--Mystery--Diversity: Christian Theology in a Pluralistic World. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1996. Pp. 233. $17.00, paper. This volume is a collection of previously published essays and linking chapters by Kaufman, professor emeritus at Harvard ...
Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by Oliver Leaman. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp. 288. $45.00. Friendship is without doubt widespread, probably universal, and certainly one of the most important aspects of human experience. But, in a world ...
The Shaping of Christianity: Its Literature in the Formative Period (100-800).(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gerard Vallee, The Shaping of Christianity: Its Literature in the Formative Period (100-800). New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999. Pp. 272. $21.95. After many years of teaching in both undergraduate and graduate religious studies courses at McMaster University, ...
Falling toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Falling toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland. Edited by J. Kent Calder and Susan Neville. Photography edited by Kim Charles Ferrill. Indianapolis, IN: The Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; and Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: ...
God of Abraham.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... L. E. Goodman, God of Abraham. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.364. $49.95. This is a scholarly, meticulously written, rigorously argued, and richly documented treatise in philosophical theology. Starting with a spare and powerful episode that names God as ...
Gesine Palmer, Ein Freispruch fur Paulus: John Tolands Theorie des Judenchristentums, mit einer Neuausgabe von Tolands "Nazarenus" von Claus-Michael Palmer.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gesine Palmer, Ein Freispruch fur Paulus: John Tolands Theorie des Judenchristentums, mit einer Neuausgabe von Tolands "Nazarenus" von Claus-Michael Palmer. Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Theologie und Zeitgeschichte 5. Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1996. Pp.215 + 184. DM 37,80. ...
Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 203. S55.00, cloth; $17.95, paper. This study by two well-established scholars explores a fresh approach to Christian origins. They propose that the ...
Academic approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Academic approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies. Edited by Zev Garber. Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2000. Pp. 332. $34.50, paper. The book under review is a valuable resource for the Jewish-studies educator. Teachers will undoubtedly find at ...
Christlicher Glaube in der Begegnung mit dem Islam: Zwiete Religionstheologische Akademie St. Gabriel -- Referate, Anfragen, Diskussionen.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Christlicher Glaube in der Begegnung mit dem Islam: Zwiete Religionstheologische Akademie St. Gabriel -- Referate, Anfragen, Diskussionen. Edited by Andreas Bsteh. Studien zur Religionstheologie 2. Modling, Austria: Verlag St. Gabriel, 1996. Pp. 616. oS 289.00, paper. This ...
Kate Zebiri, Muslims and Christians Face to Face.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Kate Zebiri, Muslims and Christians Face to Face. Oxford and Rockport, MA: Oneworld Publications, 1997. Pp. 258. [pound]14.99, paper. This is one of the best books on Muslim-Christian relations I have seen. It is written for a wide audience but has neither sacrificed scholarly ...
Qur'an, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression; The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism; Piety and Power: Muslims and Christians in West Africa.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Farid Esack, Qur'an, Liberation, and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression. Oxford and Rockport, MA: Oneworld Publications, 1997. Pp. 288. $22.95, paper. Lamin Sanneh, The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism, ...
The Tao of Jesus: An Experiment in Inter-Traditional Understanding.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Joseph A. Loya, Wan-Li Ho, and Chang-Shin Jih, The Tao of Jesus: An Experiment in Inter-Traditional Understanding. New York and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1998. Pp. 185. $14.95, paper. Readers of this book will find that it is neither a critical/analytical study of Taoism and ...
Encounters with Hinduism: A Contribution to Inter-Religions Dialogue.(Review)
Jan 01, 2000; ... Horst Georg Pohlmann, Encounters with Hinduism: A Contribution to Inter-Religions Dialogue. Tr. John Bowden. London: SCM Press Ltd., 1996 (orig.: Begegnungen mit dem Hinduismus [Frankfurt: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 1995]). Pp. 121. $18.00, paper. Pohlmann, a Lutheran systematic ...