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The Christians: By Bamber Gascoigne Christina Gascoigne New York, William Morrow and Co., 1977. 304 pp., $17.50
Authors: Zikmund Barbara Brown
Published: February 2011

The Christians Bamber Gascoigne Christina Gascoigne New York, William Morrow and Co., 1977. 304 pp., $17.50.
What is Left for Caesar? A Look at Mark 12:13–17 and Romans 13:1–7
Authors: Ogle Arthur Bud
Published: February 2011

“If Christ was not establishing a legitimate domain for the state to operate outside of God's realm, and if Paul is teaching the body of Christ how it can learn to love even enemies, what then is left for Caesar?… Insofar as our answer is biblical, it can be suggested that the New Testament's clearest portrayal of the state is as crucifier… The fact that Jesus and Paul do not address the state does not mean that they ignore it. Rather, they replace it and all other principalities and powers with participation in the new creation.”
The Sunbelt as Mission Territory
Authors: Carey John J.
Published: February 2011

Because of population shifts to Sunbelt States, the United Church of Christ's Board of Homeland Ministries is “looking at the hard facts of demography” and giving major emphasis to starting new churches in southern and southwestern states, says board official Howard E. Spragg. The program has been dubbed the “Southern Rim Strategy.”

—News item in The Christian Century, February 22, 1978, p. 183.
Communication, Or “Tell It Slant”
Authors: Tinsley John
Published: February 2011

““Telling it slant” is more than an appropriate form of the gospel; it is its essential content, a manner incumbent upon the Christian communicator by the very nature of the gospel. The gospel is not only what is said, but how it is said. … ‘Indirection’ is the essence of‘witnessing’ for Christ. Witnessing for Christ ought to be the most self-effacing thing one can do, but how often it has looked and sounded exhibitionist.”
Believing is Seeing: Vision as Metaphor
Authors: Hazelton Roger
Published: February 2011

“If vision as a metaphor‘works’ it must do so because the making of metaphors is itself a genuine mode of vision … In Scripture as in Christian worship, revelation is strongly linked to vision, not only as light coming from a distant source but with constant reference to the power of seeing itself … climaxed by the Fourth Gospel's claim that‘the true light which enlightens every man’ is coming into the world.”
Israel's Stake in the Land
Authors: Warshal Bruce S.
Published: February 2011

“Judaism developed a special relationship, not only to the entire land of Israel, but to the city of Jerusalem in particular … The rise of modern Zionism in the nineteenth century did not represent a rekindling of interest in the land, but rather was the culmination of eighteen hundred years of developing theology centered upon the land of Israel … This is not to imply that Israel should not compromise and, with adequate safeguards for national security, should not divest itself of Samaria and Judea (the West Bank in the lexicon of the last thirty years). I personally believe that this is the only route to a lasting and just peace.”
“Washington Knows …?”
Authors: Ramsey Paul
Published: February 2011

“We need to look to Washington for guidelines, regulatory initiatives, and leadership. Secretary Joseph A. Califano, Jr., and his bureaucracy have a far more massive task than they yet realize if they are going to care for the‘health and welfare’ of this nation. It is not reasonable to expect families, schools, voluntary associations, churches, or synagogues to do more than wait on them. This is obvious to everyone, since the 429 souls who reside in Rudd, Iowa, are quite incapable of deciding whether their public library needs ramps for the wheel chairs of handicapped persons who do not live there.”
God, Morality, and Politics
Authors: Blake Eugene Carson
Published: February 2011

Eugene Carson Blake has in recent years been actively associated with the Christian citizens' movement, Bread for the World. Before retiring as Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 1972, he served both church and society in many leading capacities, as a distinguished pastor, the chief executive officer of his denomination (the United Presbyterian Church), university and seminary trustee, and president of the National Council of Churches. In 1960, he preached a sermon in the Episcopal Cathedral of San Francisco, where the late James A. Pike was Bishop. This sermon, welcomed by the Bishop, led to the establishment of the Consultation on Church Union. In the forefront of the civil rights movement, Blake was jailed, vilified, and denounced as a communist. In 1978, he was made the subject of a biography, Eugene Carson Blake: Prophet With Portfolio, by R. Douglas Brackenridge (Seabury Press). This present essay is a revised version of an address delivered at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, as “The Willson Lecture.”
Communal Ecclesiology: The Power of the Anabaptist Vision
Authors: Brown Dale W.
Published: February 2011

“In a world in which weapons in the hands of any may trigger a holocaust, the option of prophetic, witnessing, suffering, supporting communities may become more necessary and viable. Consistent with its message that the church needs to be reborn in each generation, the Anabaptist vision will continue to become flesh in places where it may be least expected.”
Frederick Buechner and the Strange Work of Grace
Authors: Davies Horton
Published: February 2011

“It is important to stress the profound understanding Buechner demonstrates in all his writings for the skeptic and for the cogency of that viewpoint. Buechner is able to do this because he was there himself for many years.”
Shared Ministry
Authors: Smith Donald P.
Published: February 2011

“We have discovered that ‘internal ministries’ and ‘external ministries’ appear to be inextricably linked. Where a congregation or its members are actively involved in ministries outside the congregation, it seems that there are always significant ministries to one another taking place within the fellowship of the congregation. … Our findings suggest that one reason the church has had such difficulty in developing the concept and the practice of lay ministry ‘in the world’ may be that too frequently we have assumed that such ministries should or could be separated from vital lay ministries within the congregation.”
Christian Formation for Corporate Life
Authors: Williams Oliver F.
Published: February 2011

“Living Christian values in the business world turns out to be a saintly task that may require heroic courage. Maybe we have set our sights too low. … For the most part, churches must become much more effective in communicating their vision and framework in the face of powerfully attractive alternatives provided by corporate life. If the values of compassion and concern for the common good are to stand tall with the value of maximization of profit, it will be because of support groups that reinforce these values. That is a crucial challenge for the church today.”
The Trinity and Human Liberty
Authors: Migliore Daniel L.
Published: February 2011

“The doctrine of the Trinity is far from an exercise in speculative curiosity. … God's being is not static but dynamic and processive. The reality of God is a living movement of self-giving love which liberates human life and creates new community.”
Peace: The Fruit of Justice
Authors: Potter Philip
Published: February 2011

“Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the fruit of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, undisturbed security forever.”
Scripture: Recent Protestant and Catholic Views
Authors: Dulles Avery
Published: February 2011

“The documents of Vatican II and those of the Faith and Order Commission, while they do not totally overcome all the historic disputes between Catholics and Protestants, go a long way toward reconciliation. As a result, it is no longer safe to assume that either Protestants or Catholics adhere to the classical orthodoxies of their own churches, as expressed in past centuries.”
The Responsibility of Biblical Theology to Communities of Faith
Authors: Hanson Paul D.
Published: February 2011

“A posture of openness preserves in creative tension the normative role of the Bible emphasized by the conservative and the contribution of contemporary experience emphasized by the liberal and the pentecostal. It stresses what the ecumenical movement has long proclaimed: we need each other, and we need each other in the uniqueness and richness of each other's perspectives. But we can appreciate that need only if we are open to enrichment through a sharing of visions.”
Suffering at the Hands of Nature
Authors: Allen Diogenes
Published: February 2011

“We are material, and as a piece of matter we are vulnerable to injury, illness, and decay. … To accept to any degree our status as a piece of matter is, paradoxically, to transcend to that extent being merely a piece of matter. … We are not encompassed completely by the principles that govern the rest of matter. In this sense, we are spiritual beings.”
Culture, Religion, and Theology
Authors: Moseley James G.
Published: February 2011

“Systematically constructive thinking about the meaning of life has become suspect in the West … As we learn how vital a role religion plays in human life and culture, so, too, we despair of accepting the legitimacy of any vision of the truth of religion … Cultural awareness, then, must join conceptual adequacy and worshipfulness as a criterion for contemporary theology.”
Christian Faith as Forgiveness
Authors: Calian Carnegie Samuel
Published: February 2011

“To say that Christianity is Christ is to understand the Christian faith as forgiveness personified in Christ. Furthermore, this forgiveness centered in Christ has the power to humanize our existence.”
Pain Denial and Ministry to the Elderly
Authors: Payne Barbara
Published: February 2011

“The role of religion in responding to pain and to dying is … a neglected area of research. The myth that the elderly are more religious because they are facing death continues to be a popular assumption in the gerontological literature. … [However,] no one has suggested it is related to chronic pain.”
The Churches and the Future of Racism
Authors: Shriver Donald W.
Published: February 2011

“For the first time in the history of American race relations, there is now a fair chance that people of different histories, different theologies, and different social perspectives may actually be capable of communicating these differences to each other, in a new expression of the ‘one body with many members.’”
Religious Freedom and Native Americans
Authors: Dart John
Published: February 2011

“Religious freedom for American Indians means something much more than going to church on Sunday. ‘It's an expanded frame of reference for them; religion is a part of their total culture,’ … Therein lies the beauty and complexity of the continuing tradition of Native American religiosity in this country.”
A Christian Theology of Other Faiths
Authors: Allen Diogenes
Published: February 2011

“So often our theology of other faiths focuses on the doctrine of creation. … Or we emphasize that the Logos is present in all peoples. But Simone Weil's focus is on the Cross. … It is with the most distinctive aspect of our religion that she seeks to unveil a vital unity between our faith and the faith of other peoples.”
The Bible's Authority in the Congregation
Authors: Minear Paul S.
Published: February 2011

“How does the Bible actually exercise authority in any particular congregation? Suppose we think of congregations we know best, and allow me to begin with my own experience that spans a half-century, more or less, in the same place. But after I relate my own experience, I want to invite you, my readers, to take a simple test which you can apply to congregations you have known. The order is important because I believe your answers to the question about biblical authority in the congregation will be more significant for you than my answer can be.”
Comedy and Creation
Authors: Hyers Conrad
Published: February 2011

“Comedies seem, naturally, to take a humble, if not humbling view of human existence, and at the same time to celebrate creatureliness in a way that more heroic dramas do not.… The comic vision and the biblical vision, therefore, have considerably more in common than appears at first sight.… The comedian is also a ‘creationist.’
The Person and the Theologian
Authors: Dillistone F. W.
Published: February 2011

“I have now written four biographies … All have been theologians, though they have represented differing theological outlooks and ways of doing theology … I have also found that many people are prepared to consider theological issues when presented in biographical form who would hesitate to tackle a more systematic or philosophical treatise.”
A Christian's View of the Arms Race
Authors: Kennan George F.
Published: February 2011

“I am unable to see how the Christian community can conceive itself justified in supporting even the cultivation and deployment by our government of nuclear weapons, much less the use of them, or even the threat of such use.”
The Two Books of God
Authors: Frye Roland Mushat
Published: February 2011

“We have available to us not just one book of God, but two: the book of God's word in Scripture, which concerns the ultimate nature and destiny of humanity, and the book of God's works in nature, which deals with the conditions of the created order…. The entire flowering of modern culture, and derivatively of modern technology, grew out of this essentially religious conception of the two books of God.”
Faith and Imagination in Science and Religion
Authors: Barnes Michael
Published: February 2011

“Not only is it possible to say that science is at least implicitly religious. It is also possible to argue that the overall method of science is a method that religion ought to accept consciously as its own in order to arrive at a better self-understanding. ”
The Simple Gospel: A Plea to Theologians
Authors: Lowrie Walter
Published: February 2011

“The Gospel was originally put up in a package which made it look desirable to all. It was labeled the elixir of life, and the ingredients were indicated in terms comprehensible to all—not in technical terms which only a pharmacist could be expected to understand.”
Beyond the Convent Wall: Sisters in the Modern World
Authors: Deedy John
Published: February 2011

“‘New Nun’ … is a synonym for a number of things: independence, initiative, apostolic imaginativeness, aggressiveness, dedication. Ultimately it translates to the fact that the American nun is a totally different person from her counterpart of twenty years ago. … She is here to stay, and on her own terms.”
Gender and the Trinity
Authors: Oxford-Carpenter Rebecca
Published: February 2011

O God, Mother and Father to us all, who in love has made us, and through love has kept us, and who by love would make us perfect… (From a corporate prayer of confession, Riverside Church, New York City, 1983).

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, One God, Mother of us all. (From a benediction, Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Washington, D.C., 1983).

The Word is everything to the child, both father and mother, teacher and nurse. … The nutriment is the milk of the Father, and the Word alone supplies us children with the milk of love, and only those who suck at this breast are truly happy. For this reason, seeking is called sucking; to those infants who seek the Word, the Father's loving breasts supply milk. (Clement of Alexandria, ca. 180 A.D.)
Marianne Moore: A Presbyterian Poet?
Authors: Jenkins Daniel
Published: February 2011

“She expresses and celebrates some of the best qualities of the attitudes toward life which churches of the Reformed type should foster. If we cherished these qualities as we should, we might have been quicker to appreciate Marianne Moore.”
Anthropology and Comparative Religion
Authors: Douglas Mary , Perry Edmund
Published: February 2011

“Originally, comparative religion was freely used to buttress theologians in their nineteenth century debate against encroachments of science and Enlightenment on their authority. … One of our methodological questions is whether motif-research as [Anders] Nygren conceived it, that is, as a method for theological inquiry, could ever be used for comparative religion.”
Can Church Education be Theological Education?
Authors: Farley Edward
Published: February 2011

The “gulf between theological education as ordered learning and ‘education’ in the church is not a surface or trivial phenomenon, but part of the deep structures of the church's self-understanding. It involves, therefore, fundamental assumptions about faith, theology, learning, and education.”
Passion and Perspective: Two Dimensions of Education in the Bible
Authors: Brueggemann Walter
Published: February 2011

“Perhaps the primary issue in education, in relation to the Bible, is to break the grip on church education which tends to be privatistic, idealist, and spiritual. The crucial question before us is whether, for the difficult decades to come, we shall have men and women in public life who have a passion for justice and a perspective of mystery, awe, and amazement.”
Social Matrix and Canonical Shape
Authors: Gottwald Norman K.
Published: February 2011

“One way of exploring the contact points between social scientific criticism and canonical criticism is to examine what happens when the essence of the claims of each is carried into the territory of the other.”
The Identity and Purpose of the Church
Authors: Hanson Paul D.
Published: February 2011

“The church's purpose is not its own. The church is present in the world on behalf of the God by whose grace it has been called into existence. Thus, at the heart of the church's act of self-definition is a basic theological question: What is the nature of God's presence in the world?”
Appalachian Spring?
Authors: Smylie James H.
Published: February 2011

“We are all Appalachians. We depend on the rich resources of that region for our abundant life, while at the same time we tend to ignore the widespread poverty, the injustices and inequalities, which continue to mark the life of the people. This, then, is a report about some of the literature now available to help us understand the problems of Appalachia, the images and models which underlie our preconceptions, and the place of the Christian faith in the lives of the people.”
Bem: Questions and Considerations
Authors: Barth Markus
Published: February 2011

“The authors of BEM do not intend to degrade Christ to a mere founder of the holy sacraments, or the Holy Spirit to a mere instrument of sacramental miracle working. But they say so many and such powerful things in praise of the sacraments that one would almost think that the perfection, validity, and glory of the work of Christ needs ecclesiastical assistance in order to be effective… The document should in fact be ‘received’ just as it is. It deserves to be thoroughly discussed. But then, with expressions of thanks for services rendered, it should be packed away behind glass and carefully preserved in a safe place.”
Black Theology in American Religion
Authors: Cone James H.
Published: February 2011

“It was the ‘African’ side of black religion that helped African-Americans to see beyond the white distortions of the Gospel and to discover its true meaning as God's liberation of the oppressed from bondage. It was the ‘Christian’ element in black religion that helped African-Americans to re-orient their African past so that it would become useful in the struggle to survive with dignity in a society that they did not make.”
The Spirituality of the Evangelical Revival
Authors: Lane Belden C.
Published: February 2011

“As I look back now, the threshold experience of the revival has formed me more than I knew… These include a deep appreciation for anti-structure, for the incapacity of any fixed place or institution fully to contain the holy. They involve the expectation of being found by God in the disconcerting moments of transition and movement in my life, as well as of the discovery of the Holy Spirit on the margins of society… But I have learned also its limits… All my grandest heroes would never quite fulfill their promise. But I loved them nonetheless.”
The Church and the Struggle for South Africa
Authors: Gruchy John W. De
Published: February 2011

“The church struggle in South Africa is being redefined as a struggle within the churches related to the political struggle for the future of South Africa. Christian participation in and reflection on the political struggle has re-written the agenda for the church struggle.”
Language, Metaphor, and Pastoral Theology
Authors: Lane Belden C.
Published: February 2011

“Metaphor is a particular form of language-play in which the familiar, commonplace, and down-to-earth is used to speak in a striking, often shocking—though incomplete and indirect—way, about the unfamiliar. … The processes involved in pastoral care and spiritual direction may be very different from those of psychotherapeutic intervention, but the creative—even shocking—use of metaphor in effecting change is quite similar.”
Debated Issues in Liberation Theology
Authors: Barr William R.
Published: February 2011

“Differences that emerge in liberation theology have to do not only with applying liberation theology in different situations; there are also important differences among Latin American liberationists as to what liberation theology itself involves, how it should be done, and its relations to the church and theological tradition.”
Symposium: Inclusive Language Lectionary
Authors: Thistlethwaite Susan Brooks
Published: February 2011

Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. It was the Sphinx. Oedipus said, “I want to ask one question. Why didn't I recognize my mother?” “You gave the wrong answer,” said the Sphinx. “But that was what made everything possible,” said Oedipus. “No,” she said. “When I asked, What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered, Man. You didn't say anything about women.” “When you say Man,” said Oedipus, “you include women too. Everyone knows that.” She said, “That's what you think.”
Creation and the Structure of the Physical World
Authors: Polkinghorne John C.
Published: February 2011

“The intelligibility and tightly-knit structure of the world provide the basis of a revived natural theology. The feeling that there is more to the world than meets the scientific eye encourages the thought of an Intelligence behind its processes. It is the scientists themselves who have seen things that way while their theological colleagues have remained surprisingly unconcerned.”
The Unnamed Woman at Bethany
Authors: Thiemann Ronald F.
Published: February 2011

“6Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 7a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table. 8But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9For this might have been sold for much and given to the poor. 10But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. 11For you always have the poor with you; but me you will not always have. 12In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial. 13Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her” (Matt. 26:6–13. Material unique to Matthew is underlined.)
IS Philosophy of Religion Enough?
Authors: Allen Diogenes
Published: February 2011

“The adaptation and extension of the philosophy of religion required for teaching in theological seminaries would not only give it greater value to theological students. It could also lead to significant improvement of contemporary philosophy of religion itself, by showing the value of philosophical reflection on actual religions.”
IS Genetic Engineering Co-Creation?
Authors: Cole-Turner Ronald S.
Published: February 2011

“This is the central problem of a theological understanding of genetic engineering and of technology in general. If we are to see our work as cooperative or co-creative with divine creativity, then we must have some sense of what God intends.”
Words and the Word
Authors: Edgerton W. Dow
Published: February 2011

“If prayer marks the limit of words in search of the Word, then it also marks the beginning of speech's real life. … Through the rightness of a sentence, the worlds of echo and memory and experience enter into relationship. Through the rightness of a poem, all that the poem has set ringing comes into relationship, into meaning, maybe for the first time.”
Eve and Pandora Contrasted
Authors: Phipps William E.
Published: February 2011

“Contrary to prevailing opinion, there is reason to hold that the myths of Eve and Pandora are quite dissimilar in original meaning. Our lack of awareness of this difference has been due to interpreters throughout Western civilization who have mingled these two stories together.”
The Role of Dogma in Judaism
Authors: Novak David
Published: February 2011

“Judaism regulates action more strictly than it does the formulation and expression of thought. Action is the immediate subject of communal norms, whereas thought, although formulated in a common language, is still more in the domain of individual insight. This does not mean that one can affirm or deny anything one chooses and still remain part of the traditional Jewish community.”
The Bunyan Tercentenary
Authors: Dillistone F. W.
Published: February 2011

“In Bunyan's dream, no place was found for sacred places, holy shrines, or settled structures. The constant urge was to move forward. Settled places such as Doubting Castle or the Enchanted Ground were full of danger. There might be temporary halting-places for interpretation and for instruction in the Word but only in order that the journey might be undertaken more purposefully. The goal was the Heavenly City.”
In Praise and Thanksgiving
Authors: Miller Patrick D.
Published: February 2011

“In a world that assumes the status is quo, that things have to be the way they are and that we must not assume too much about improving them, the doxologies of God's people are fundamental indicators that wonders have not ceased, that possibilities not yet dreamt of will happen, and that hope is an authentic stance.”
Mestizaje and Marginality: A Hispanic American Theology
Authors: Rossing John P.
Published: February 2011

“Christianity is best understood when it is viewed at its intersections. … Because the Christian gospel of salvation is universal, it must necessarily cross national and cultural boundaries and unite different people under a common identity. Thus, Christian proclamation constantly initiates a new mixing—a new mestizaje.”
The Exegesis of Tears
Authors: Edgerton Dow
Published: February 2011

“There is a scale that weighs and gives true value. Can any interpretation be worth any value we choose to give it? No. … Interpretation must be weighed against tears, and they will show its true value.”
On Saying too Little and Saying too Much
Authors: Holifield E. Brooks
Published: February 2011

“To conceive of God as simply infinite mystery, as the Void beyond our conceiving, was to lapse into silence. It was to say too little. To conceive of God as simply presence, as mercy, as friend, as ally, was to risk a … reduction of the mystery to the level of easy familiarity. It was to say more than should be said.”
A Theological Look at Waiting for Godot
Authors: Terrien Samuel
Published: February 2011

The Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot in November 1988, and a Beckett Symposium of more than a hundred scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, March 1989, suggest a timely reexamination of Beckett's controversial drama. Is Waiting for Godot to be dismissed as the product of an obsolete and wholly negative existentialism, or are there suggestions within the play that the two vagabonds yearn for a faith that presupposes a profound, if unconventional, understanding of the Bible and of Christian theology?
Merton as Zen Clown
Authors: Lane Belden C.
Published: February 2011

“Modern investigators of miraculous history have solemnly admitted that a characteristic of the great saints is their power of ‘levitation.’ They might go further; a characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” —G. K. Chesterton1
The Grief of C. S. Lewis
Authors: Loades Ann
Published: February 2011

“Men must endure their going hence.”—Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, Sc. 2.
Report from Steinbeck Country
Authors: Jones Robert
Published: February 2011

“Steinbeck, like liberation theologians, recognizes that corporate sin must yield to some form of grace that transcends individuals. The great owners and bankers are caught in the sinful system just as tightly as the migrants. What the novel [The Grapes of Wrath] suggests, and what the liberationists assert, is that change in the system will be in the direction of justice only if it comes from the bottom up rather than from the top down.”
Traveling Home with Jenny
Authors: Komp Diane M.
Published: February 2011

“Long before the hospice movement came to America, I helped parents support their terminally ill children to die at home. The week the veterinarian told me that Jenny was dying, I received a special gift from Jane Woodson, whose son Greg died at home from leukemia the year that Jenny was born. Jane put her personal experience and advice for other parents into the form of a booklet. This beautiful work of love has been published by the American Cancer Society under the title, ‘I Want to Go Home—Fulfilling My Child's Wish to Die at Home.”
Jesus and Women in Matthew
Authors: Kopas Jane
Published: February 2011

Jane Kopas is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Scranton. She received her doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and she has taught at the College of Wooster. Her articles on “Jesus and Women: John's Gospel” and “Jesus and Women: Luke's Gospel” appeared in Theology Today, July 1984 and July 1986.
A Journey of Return
Authors: Wakefield Dan
Published: February 2011

“As I thought and read about these things and wanted to know more about prayer and meditation and how all this related to the rest of my life, I talked with my minister. … With the minister's help, I sought out a person. … [and] I was thrilled when the spiritual director turned out to be a nun. I hoped she might give me some clandestine Catholic formula. … So I went to see her and got out my notebook to take down instructions, eager to do anything she advised, even if it involved beads and incense (artifacts terrifying to the imagination of a boy once dunked as a Baptist). She told me to go look at a tree.”
The Modernist Element In Protestantism
Authors: Farley Edward
Published: February 2011

“It should not be necessary to say that the earthquake, the displacement, and the decline of mainline Protestantism is an occasion of great temptation. … After the earthquake, we begin to envy religious movements that glitter with power and slick success and wonder whether to imitate them. After the earthquake, we look for aspects of our heritage we might blame for our failures: our ecumenism, our commitment to scholarship, our social witness. In the face of these things, I want to try to make a case for another response, a kind of calling we have in the situation of displacement and decline, a calling to recover and more vigorously pursue a certain part of our heritage.”
The Ambiguous Legacy of Modernism
Authors: Moorhead James H.
Published: February 2011

“Critical modernism has not yielded unified convictions but rather a host of alternative theologies and hermeneutical strategies. To make this observation is not to suggest that the clergy should hide all confusions from the laity. Candor is required, but honesty is not likely to be edifying unless pastors and educators stand ready to offer something more than a catalogue of competing views or questions. Here again one faces the need for constructive theological affirmations without which critical modernism will serve to dethrone idols but not to build faith.”
Using and Being Used: Scripture and Systematic Theology
Authors: Gunton Colin
Published: February 2011

“Two logically related developments have called into question both the authority of the Bible and the propriety of theology's calling itself a truth-telling discipline. While the Bible is regarded by many as simply the self-expression of a primitive people, theology likewise came to be regarded as the self-expression of those who happen to be religious. Side by side, there have come into question the status of the text and the epistemological respectability of theology.”
Marianne Moore: Poet of Secular Holiness
Authors: Terrien Samuel
Published: February 2011

“My favorite poem? The Book of Job, for the verity of its agony and the fidelity that contrives glory for ashes.”—Foreword, A Marianne Moore Reader, pp. xviif.
Youth Between Culture and Church
Authors: Myers William R.
Published: February 2011

“When we talk about issues related to adolescence, we often do so in a historical vacuum. … Most youth ministry books read like cultural handbooks for middle-class survival instead of books concerned with youth ministry.”
Justice as a Condition of Authentic Liturgy
Authors: Wolterstorff Nicholas
Published: February 2011

“I myself … say that prayers and thanksgiving made by worthy persons are the only sacrifices that are perfect and well-pleasing to God” (Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, 117.2).

“Because of all your wonderful dispensation towards us, with open mouths and uncovered faces we give you thanks and glorify you without ceasing in your Church, which has been redeemed by the precious blood of your Christ, offering up praise, honor, thanksgiving and adoration to your living and life-giving name, now and at all times forever and ever” (The Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari).
God and Germany
Authors: Stell Stephen L.
Published: February 2011

“Abandoning the interpretation of God's presence in history cannot be a live option for the Christian. For only when we recognize God's work in the world, can we faithfully follow and foster divine purposes therein. Nonetheless, such attempts still appear futile when interpretations are so divergent.”
Walking M. Scott Peck's Less-Traveled Road
Authors: Wink Walter , Scotty  , Peck M. Scott
Published: February 2011

“In [The Road Not Traveled], Peck clearly sees himself among a tiny and elect group of saints who, by participating in God's omniscience, also ‘share His agony,’ and who walk ahead, utterly alone…. This is a curiously elitist view of mystical development, and it is sharply at odds with his understanding of community in [The Different Drum]. He has apparently learned, in the intervening years, that spiritual development means not isolation, but the capacity for community.”
Divine Folly: Being Religious and the Exercise of Humor
Authors: Donnelly Doris
Published: February 2011

“Jesus, for one, was witty, unpredictable, fully alive, and a person who delighted in, celebrated with, and was open to surprise. … [I]t is safe to say that divorcing humor from religion is potentially destructive of true religion. Even when the separation is done with the best of motives, or in ignorance, the results are disastrous because we rob ourselves of the lightness and freedom necessary to notice and then to adore God.”
John Updike and the Funny Theologian
Authors: McTavish John
Published: February 2011

“Updike doesn't preach. He tells realistic stories with symbolic and theological overtones that, in effect, invite us to enter the discussion ourselves. Here we are invited to consider the goodness of our relationship with God. God's partnership with us in the covenant of grace disclosed in Christ does not, as has been said, solve our many problems. Yet, within our blood-soaked world, it does give us a place to stand. Only goodness lives. But it does live. God is God and may be trusted to fill our lives with radiance and the world with joy.”
Ecological Sin
Authors: Becker William H.
Published: February 2011

“Sinful spiritual assumptions have an addictive quality, which tends to make them immune to questioning and to challenge. … This mentality informs and permeates all our thoughts and deeds, even those that appear contrary to it. We may recycle newspapers and glass, and we may take proper satisfaction in doing so, but we remain caught in a web of spiritual assumptions about success and consumption, progress and waste, that effectively undermine and trivialize our efforts to escape.”
Journey Toward Wholeness
Authors: Buechner Frederick
Published: February 2011

“All his life long, wherever Jesus looked he saw the world not in terms simply of its brokenness—a patchwork of light and dark calling forth in us now our light, now our dark—but in terms of the ultimate mystery of God's presence buried in it like a treasure buried in a field. … To be whole, I believe, is to see the world like that. To see the world like that, as Jesus saw it, is to be whole. And sometimes I believe that even people like you and me see it like that. Sometimes even in the midst of our confused and broken relationships with ourselves, with each other, with God, we catch glimpses of that holiness and wholeness that is not ours by a long shot and yet is part of who we are.”
Invitation to a Simple Feast
Authors: Komp Diane M.
Published: February 2011

May our lives be a feast: the spirit of Jesus in our midst, the work of Jesus in our hands, the spirit of Jesus in our work.
The Promise of Life in the Gospel of John
Authors: Minear Paul S.
Published: February 2011

“We are now in a position to resolve the apparent contradiction in the two promises given by Jesus to Martha. As the life, Jesus promised believers that they would never die; as the resurrection, he indicated the kind of dying that would lead to resurrection. The death from which believers were promised immunity was the death in sin. … Those who live 'in Christ' will never suffer that death. The death that followers of Christ would die was another thing entirely.”
Tar Baby and Womanist Theology
Authors: Baker-Fletcher Karen
Published: February 2011

“Tar has funky qualities. It is thick, black, sticky, shiny, and powerful in its ability to hold things together. It is a symbol of black women's cohesive power. There is something very earthy about tar. It has body. Tar comes from the earth and is ancient. It has an elemental quality. … One might employ Morrison's ‘tar baby’ metaphor to represent black women as the tar women of the church, who hold churches together.”
A Hyperbolic Imagination: Theology and the Rhetoric of Excess
Authors: Webb Stephen H.
Published: February 2011

“Can we name, between the economy of the gift and the violent magic of sacrifice, another image to do justice to those moments when we discover ourselves through giving to the other? I propose the word ‘squander’. … To squander is to waste, to give against the demands of a metaphysical economics, to act recklessly, disregarding the calm, cool voice of reason. … We squander when we do not care what the systems that be will do with our gifts, when we defy all of the efforts to make our giving reasonable and prudent. But we also squander from an inner strength, a spiritual richness that suggests that we give because we have already been given too much.”

From the Christian point of view, everything, indeed everything, ought to serve for upbuilding. The kind of scholarliness and scienticity that ultimately does not build up is precisely thereby unchristian.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

If we pursue the comparison, the objects of knowledge are not only made manifest by the presence of goodness. Goodness makes them real. Still goodness is not in itself being. It transcends being, exceeding all else in dignity and power.

Glaucon had to laugh. My god, hyperbole can go no further than that!

Plato, The Republic
God Be Merciful to Me, a Miscalculator
Authors: Long Thomas G.
Published: February 2011

If I could I'd confess Good and loud, nice and slow Get this load off my chest Yes, but how, Lord—I don't know. What I say I don't feel What I feel I don't show What I show isn 't real What is real, Lord, I don't know No, no, no—I don't know. …(“Trope: I Don't Know,” Mass, Leonard Bernstein)
Civil Sin: Evil and Purgation in the Media
Authors: Schultze Quentin J.
Published: February 2011

“Today, we can say unequivocally that there are two major types of theology: (1) academic theology, which concerns itself with critically relating the meanings of sacred texts and traditions to a religious community, and (2) popular theology, which uncritically establishes, maintains, and changes the mythological assumptions of a people, especially through the mass media. Both theologies have cosmological implications and are shaped by anthropological assumptions. … It is increasingly clear in the modem world that popular theology has far more direct and immediate influence than academic theology on culture and society.”
The Craft of Forgiveness
Authors: Jones L. Gregory
Published: February 2011

“I have retold the story of Ian in Saint Maybe both because of its explorations of the problems of forgiveness and for its glimpses of the possibilities of a more adequate account. The novel depicts quite powerfully the dangers of fragmentary conceptions of forgiveness—and, more specifically, it exposes the ways in which diverse Christian traditions have tended to distort the overall significance of forgiveness.”
Is the Postmodernist Always a Postfoundationalist?
Authors: van Huyssteen J. Wentzel
Published: February 2011

“In critical realism, the epistemic purpose of metaphorical language is not to transcend the world of human experience but indeed to set limits to the range and scope of our theological and scientific language. Such limits establish a domain for human knowledge. A weak form of critical realism—also one that would take the realist assumptions of the Christian faith seriously—claims that one's subjective encounter of the world is of the same order as one's recreation of the world in language.”
What Is A Human Being? Reflections On Psalm 8
Authors: Mays James L.
Published: February 2011

“Implicit in every proposal about humankind is a diagnosis of the human predicament and a doctrine for its salvation. It is difficult to enter a serious discussion with anyone without hearing the overtones of these proposals. The sciences concerned with humankind have by and large preempted the place in general consciousness that was held in previous centuries by metaphysics, a portentous shift for theology and preaching whose effects are all about us.”
“Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh”
Authors: Bird Phyllis A.
Published: February 2011

“The examples of Genesis 1 and Psalm 8 alert us to two dangers in appeal to biblical statements as authority for contemporary faith. Both appear to offer general pronouncements about the nature of humankind with universal applicability. In fact, both are concerned with a very limited question—the place of humans within the created order. Both also assume male models as representative of the species.”
Entrepreneurial marketing in small businesses: A conceptual exploration
Authors: Jones Rosalind , Rowley Jennifer
Published: February 2011

This article proposes further development of the concept of entrepreneurial marketing towards the concept of entrepreneurial marketing orientation. Drawing on the earlier research and scales in the entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, innovation orientation and customer orientation literatures, the article proposes a conceptual model for entrepreneurial marketing that identifies the components of such a model, together with specific indications of the overlap between scales in the different areas. This model implicitly suggests that marketing in SMEs is intertwined with other activities and behaviours in the small business enterprise, and argues that in order to understand marketing in SMEs it is essential to understand its context, specifically in relation to customer engagement, innovation and entrepreneurial approaches to marketing.
The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA. Part 1: Total war and its aftermath
Authors: Scull Andrew
Published: February 2011

This paper examines the impact of World War II and its aftermath on the mental health sector, and traces the resulting transformations in US psychiatry and psychology. Focusing on the years between 1940 and 1970, it analyses the growing federal role in funding training and research in the mental health sector, the dominance of psychoanalysis within psychiatry in these years, and the parallel changes that occurred in both academic and clinical psychology.
Convergences that are no more
Authors: Berrios GE
Published: February 2011

The study of psychiatric disorders that are no more is as important to the historian of psychiatry as that of those considered as ‘current’, ‘true’ and ‘scientific’. Indeed, within each historical period this latter status is conferred upon ongoing mental and physical disorders. As an example, a historical vignette is offered of ‘Bulimia’, a popular disorder during the 18th century but since disappeared. It is suggested that mental symptoms, syndromes and disorders are constructed by the convergence in the work of a writer of a name, a concept and behaviours which at the time are considered as socially undesirable. Complex social and economic factors determine the success of a convergence. The word Bulimia is still in use in the 21st century but is a member of an entirely different convergence.
Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Nonplace
Authors: Tawil-Souri Helga
Published: February 2011

This article analyzes checkpoints in the Palestinian Territories and how they function as both a unique anthropological space and a nondescript nonplace. First, the author describes the birth of modern-day checkpoints, their formations, variations, and functions. Then, based on ethnographic research at the Qalandia checkpoint, halfway between Ramallah and Jerusalem, the author shows how the checkpoint is an economic and social hub and argues that it is an “anthropological space.” Qalandia and checkpoints generally can also be theorized as “nonplaces,” akin to airports, that are interstitial zones that sever Palestinian space-time. Finally, the author suggests that checkpoints play a central and symbolic role in Palestinian society that bespeaks the core predicament of Palestinian existence within a paradoxical and disordered relationship to geography over which Israel continuously attempts to exert control.
Democratic Vistas: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Parks as Spatial Mediation of Urban Diversity
Authors: Kosnoski Jason
Published: February 2011

This article examines how Frederick Law Olmsted’s parks, especially Prospect Park in Brooklyn, can be thought of as spatial technologies that mediate between individuals and their urban environment to foster an open, creative, and democratic relationship with the differences of their fellow city dwellers. The park accomplishes this spatially by encouraging citizens to journey through distinct geographies that enable associational styles Olmsted calls the “neighborly” and the “gregarious.” Through alternating between environments conducive to intimate, reassuring neighborly groupings and exciting, superficial, gregarious interaction, the park user encounters others within distinct spatial and temporal qualities that allow them to appreciate otherness without being overwhelmed by it. The spatial techniques derived from Olmsted’s work challenge accounts in political theory and urban planning that contend free movement through cities encourages tolerance and fluid identities and instead contends that structured, mediating spatial structures might be necessary to facilitate the cultivation of such characteristics.