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Church Controversy and the Arts of Ministry
Authors: Luecke Richard H.
Published: February 2011

“In the present Missouri controversy, some are led to ask whether the dispute is really ‘theological’ or only ‘political,’ a question in which both terms may become degraded…. Social psychologists have described destructive consequences which may ensue from suppression of differences and initiatives within groups, even when these are ‘managed’ in bureaucratic, compromising, or inter-personal ways…. In the work of ministry, however, the systematic task more often than not becomes one of relating affirmation to action, including action bearing on social institutions…. Controversy can help to highlight emergent issues, but, controversy or not, such issues need to be freshly located today. This requires a use of fundamental disciplines alongside specialized skills.”
The Story Context of Black Theology
Authors: Cone James H.
Published: February 2011

“The theme of liberation expressed in story-form is the essence of black religion. Both the content and form were essentially determined by black people's social existence … When Christianity was taught to them and they began to read the Bible, blacks simply appropriated those biblical stories that met their historical need. This is why some themes are stressed and others are overlooked … They did not debate religion on an abstract theological level but lived their religion concretely in history.”
The Experience of Coming to Belief
Authors: Teselle Sallie Mcfague
Published: February 2011

“To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story and to take to itself, both in form and content, the story. Theological reflection of the sort I have in mind would be narrative and concrete, telling stories. After all, even the creeds, those monuments of doctrinal formulation, do this.”
Homosexuals: Identity and Dignity
Authors: Henry Patrick
Published: February 2011

What follows is excerpted from a sermon I preached on July 6, 1975, in the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, of which I am a lay member. I hope that something of the homiletic style filters through the journal format, since I think there are articles aplenty on this subject, and what we need is to hear more from the pulpit about it. The texts for the sermon were John 13:34-35 and 15:1-12, and Galatians 3:23-28.
The Continuing Revolution
Authors: Mulder John M.
Published: February 2011

“It may be that one way to begin reconstructing our national life involves a new appreciation of the ideas and principles of the American Revolution. By understanding why Americans fought and died in the Revolution, by trying to grasp what the architects of the government tried to build, we can receive some resources to meet the difficult and agonizing problems that lie before us, as a church and as a nation.”
Church, State, Principalities, Powers
Authors: McCutchan Stephen
Published: February 2011

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in this evil day, and having done all, to stand.” –-Ephesians 6:11-13.

“Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –-Romans 8:38-39.
Life Beyond Death
Authors: Migliore Daniel L.
Published: February 2011

“Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has lectured widely on research findings which, she says, confirm the reality of life after death … She has strongly endorsed Raymond Moody's Life After Life … John Hick's new book, Death and Eternal Life, is a rich, comprehensive, and highly original essay in what the author calls a ‘global theology’ of death and human density … Hick charges that Moltmann uses biblical symbols of the end … in a rhetorical and uncritical fashion … A recent essay by S. W. Sykes pushes the criticism of Moltmann still farther.”
Women Clergy and the Cultural Order
Authors: Kepler Patricia Budd
Published: February 2011

“The acceptance of women into the ranks of clergy lets the world know that the church is interested in and capable of addressing issues of simple justice. It also puts the society on notice that changes are going on inside the church. It may even indicate that the church is changing its world view.”
The Human and the System
Authors: MÍGuez Bonino José
Published: February 2011

“Christians have in the last few years begun to rediscover the political dimension of the prophetic message and to search in the history of the church for the sporadic surfacing of that prophetic stream. But we have to confess that we are just at the beginning of such a search and that we are far from having either adequately pondered or theologically articulated these insights.”
An Answer to Life-Boat Ethics
Authors: Burgess David S.
Published: February 2011

“Instead of pointing to the short-comings and inconsistencies of Hardin's gospel of benign neglect of the hungry and despairing about the public's ignorance and moral deficiencies, we must view the hunger issue as, figuratively speaking, a window on the whole world enabling us to see the battlefield where the struggle for justice and human survival is now being fought.”
The Lamb: A Rustic Reverie
Authors: Schorsch Anita
Published: February 2011

“I wonder if sheep have a better sense of where they are going than the shepherds who lead them … Like one of Bunyan's pilgrims, some days I, too, climb the delectable mountain with them, remembering not to be too close and not to move too fast … Confronted by imminent danger, possibly death, their only recourse is to run, and, beyond that, to stop, huddle, and accept death, if it comes, without a sound …‘Little Lamb, who made thee? … Little Lamb, God bless thee!’”
Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Authors: Ramsey Paul
Published: February 2011

“We are a civilization without: lsquo;puberty rites,’ without ‘rites of passage,’ without rituals, ordeals, or vigils that the young must pass through to demonstrate that they can now be accepted as men and women among the elders. … So our youngsters have devised their own initiation ceremonies. For boys and girls, no longer being a virgin is one such rite of passage. For girls, getting pregnant is another ritual certification that they have attained, by rite, significance in their own right. This is all pitiful and very sad.”
Ethical Assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education
Authors: Holifield E. Brooks
Published: February 2011

“The founders of clinical pastoral education were moral reformers at heart; they wanted to reshape ethical sensibility and to reform professional leadership within and sometimes without the churches. That moral purpose has endured. But they did not always share the same moral vision. Their programs and practices reflected two conflicting kinds of ethical sensibility, and two differing judgments about what was ethically important in human nature.”
The Paradox of Freedom and Authority
Authors: Allen Diogenes
Published: February 2011

“The principles and dynamics of the master-slave relation … can be used to study the marriage relation, the relation between teacher and pupil, parent and child, employer and employees, pastor and parishioners, counselor and client, and also the relation between Jesus and his disciples, between Jesus and his Father, and between God and us.”
Black Theology: Retrospect and Prospect
Authors: Erskine Noel Leo
Published: February 2011

“Black people have read the Bible in a way which informed them that God's freedom challenged all forms of bondage in the world … If black power can be defined as the search for black humanity and freedom, then black power would be rooted in divine power. As divine power is related to black power, an encounter between the divine content and the contemporary context takes place.”
Teaching History Today
Authors: Marty Myron A.
Published: February 2011

“History has survived as an academic discipline in many places by settling for smaller pieces of larger and larger pies. If it is to have a future, it must find a way of claiming larger pieces of pies that are sure to get smaller and smaller.”
Scholars and Society
Authors: Schaefer William D.
Published: February 2011

“The basic problem is the failure of the humanistic disciplines to relate to the society that supports them, a failure to explain and to justify the humanities and to prove their value to society.”
The Church: Catholic and Ecumenical
Authors: Cooke Bernard J.
Published: February 2011

“It is probably safe to say that theology will utilize religious experience as a starting-point even more than it has done in the past two decades. This will mean that the development of ecclesiology will spring from careful reflection upon the communal experience of Christians, upon their shared awareness of what it means to be the church, upon the manifestations of the Spirit as prophetic and life-giving. This will not be an entirely new approach for ecclesiology; what will be new will be some of the experiences shared in tomorrow's church.”
Ministries of Identity and Vitality
Authors: Fackre Gabriel
Published: February 2011

“The means of grace tended by the ministers of identity are word and sacraments, the kerygmatic and liturgical responsibilities by which the Name is named and the Body is formed. The means of grace stewarded by the ministers of vitality are the gifts of diakonia and koinonia by which the word takes on flesh and the Body moves. The milieu in which the ministry of identity is primarily exercised is the ‘church gathered,’ and the principal environment of the ministry of vitality is the ‘church scattered.’”
Preparing Clergy for the New Laity
Authors: Kinast Robert
Published: February 2011

“The purpose of this article is to examine a little more closely how the clergy are expected to relate to the laity and then to describe some of the efforts at Catholic University to meet these expectations.”
When Religion and Death Meet
Authors: Hamilton William
Published: February 2011

“Death can be … a way to the sacred, perhaps even a way to religion itself. There is more than immortality in the meeting of religion and death.”
Augsburg and Catholicism: Healing the Reformation Breach
Authors: Neuhaus Richard John
Published: February 2011

“If Lutheran Christians, as the elder brothers and sisters of the sixteenth century Reformation tradition, now discover that, for the sake of the gospel, division from Rome is no longer necessary (and therefore, precisely for the sake of the gospel, no longer permissible), other Protestants would have to ask what fidelity to the Reformation tradition means for them. In this light, Lutheran-Roman Catholic advance does not represent an instance of Lutherans ‘going their own way’ but is an exercise of Lutheran leadership in helping to bring the Reformation to its fulfillment as a renewing movement in and for the whole church of Christ.”
Banning Black Theology in South Africa
Authors: Boesak Allan A.
Published: February 2011

“It must be made clear: black theology, as an expression of faith, cannot be banned. Of course, the South African government can ban books and articles. It can ban the people who wrote them. But it cannot take away the faith of an oppressed people who have discovered that God always has been, and is now, on the side of the poor and the needy. It cannot take away the truth that this God is passionately involved in history for the sake of his people. It cannot take away the message of liberation which the Bible brings, and it cannot dilute the call which is inherent in the biblical proclamation: the call to become participant with God in the struggle for the Kingdom and its justice in the world.”
Freedom and the Lutheran Reformation
Authors: Pannenberg Wolfhart
Published: February 2011

“The impact of the Reformation on the course of modern culture is far more evident in the perspective opened by the issue of freedom than in entering into the technicalities of the doctrine of justification.”
The God Who is Involved
Authors: Carr Anne
Published: February 2011

“There is today a theological insistence, rooted in interpretations of the Bible and of contemporary experience, that the God of Christian faith, while remaining God, is intimate to the joy and the pain, the victory and the defeat, the struggle of human existence, and comes to be known precisely there.”
How we Respond to Natural Disaster
Authors: Allen Ronald
Published: February 2011

“… Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, loud noises, flashes of lightning, and.…”—Rev. 8:5.
Johannine Haiku
Authors: Henry Patrick
Published: February 2011

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.” —John 1:14
Prince Hamlet and the Protestant Confessional
Authors: Frye Roland Mushat
Published: February 2011

Shakespeare's dramatization of Hamlet's verbal assault upon his guilty mother, and his efforts to bring her to repentance, are a fine example of how the ‘priesthood of all believers’ was expected to operate at the end of the first Protestant century. Elizabethan audiences would have agreed with Hamlet's own assessment of his behavior, that he was being “cruel only to be kind.” This much-misunderstood scene is thus, in addition to its poetic and dramatic greatness, interesting for the insight it provides into the “pastoral” psychology recommended for the laity by leaders of the English Reformation.
Left Brain, Right Brain
Authors: Stone Howard W.
Published: February 2011

Parish pastor “The trouble with you seminary professors is that you don't know what's going on in the parish. Your ivory-tower theology has little to do with the problems I encounter in my work. Six months as an assistant here and you'd teach something different.”

Seminary professor in a practical field „The problem with so many of you in the classical fields is that you never make what you teach practical enough. What good is comparing Luther's and Barth's understanding of law and gospel? What we need is a theology that directly addresses the specific issues of ministry. We need a theology of death, of evangelism, of administration. You have to speak to the concrete realities of the parish.”

Seminary professor in a classical field: “What do I know about psychology, church growth, conflict management, or spiritual formation? I have enough trouble keeping up to date in my field, without also reading about psychotherapy or Christian education. You practical types are the ones to bridge the disciplines so that theology has an impact on practice. Otherwise students can just as well study what you teach at the university.”
Retrospective for Today
Authors: Dillistone F. W.
Published: February 2011

“It could, I think, be claimed that the drawing together of the main Christian communions through renewed attempts to interpret the books of the Bible in contemporary language and through efforts to express the major traditions of worship in modern symbolic forms has been the most encouraging feature within the Christian scene since 1944. … The two most pressing problems which have confronted theologians over the past quarter of a century have been those created, first, by the desire awakened in the hearts of all peoples to acquire scientific knowledge and to attain a standard of material living which it promises, and, secondly, by the emergence of a multiplicity of new nations each of which seeks to glory in its own cultural tradition and often to view it as rooted in a particular religious faith.”
Seminary and Congregation: Uneasy Alliance
Authors: Sweet Leonard I.
Published: February 2011

“Disturbed by what is perceived to be large portions of theological goulash served with only a garnish of spirituality, congregations shake their heads and wonder. If the study of God does not bring one closer to God, what good is it? Even when the communication continues between congregations and seminaries, congregations have the uneasy feeling that seminaries tell what we already know in language we can't understand.”
A Conversation
Authors: Gillespie Thomas W. , Kerr Hugh T.
Published: February 2011

We welcome to this issue which begins Volume XLI, Thomas W. Gillespie as Chairman of the Editorial Council of THEOLOGY TODAY. A Californian who has come East, Dr. Gillespie is the newly elected President of Princeton Theological Seminary and Professor of New Testament. He is a graduate of George Pepperdine College, Princeton Seminary, and the Claremont Graduate School, where he received the doctorate in New Testament studies. He has served as the minister of the Garden Grove and Burlingame Presbyterian Churches, and as Adjunct Professor at San Francisco and Fuller Seminaries and at New College Berkeley. In church affairs, Dr. Gillespie has been active in local and national committees on ecumenism and theological education.
Law in Luther and Calvin
Authors: Dowey Edward A.
Published: February 2011

“Despite agreement between them on many denotations and designations for law, and upon a doctrine of justification by faith alone to the exclusion of all merit, Luther and Calvin do differ profoundly on the role, function, or use of the law for the Christian.”
The Sermon and the Uses of Scripture
Authors: Craddock Fred B.
Published: February 2011

“In spite of all the distance and suspicion generated between those who critically investigate the text and those who preach it, the marriage between sermon and Scripture is in no danger of divorce. In fact, not within this century has the pulpit been so well served by biblical studies nor biblical studies so conscious of its relation to the preaching/teaching ministry of the church.”
Practical Theology and Political Theology
Authors: Browning Don
Published: February 2011

“It gets to the heart of what makes practical theology practical to be able to answer the question, ‘Where are we now?’… For a practical theology to be genuinely practical, it must have some description of the present situation, some critical theory about the ideal situation, and some understanding of the processes, spiritual forces, and technologies required to get from where we are to the future ideal, no matter how fragmentarily and incompletely that ideal can be realized.”
Worship Between the Holocausts
Authors: Downey Michael
Published: February 2011

“The two holocausts, one fact, the other possibility (or probability), bespeak the reality of powerless-ness, meaninglessness, and futurelessness. Here memory and anticipatory symbol converge. As symbols, the two holocausts are evocative of conversion to a God who is there in the midst of human powerlessness and meaninglessness… What form will liturgy take if memory and anticipatory symbol are taken seriously, so as to facilitate the conversion demanded by the crisis brought about by the two-fold holocaust?”
Luther Sic— Luther Non
Authors: Elshtain Jean Bethke
Published: February 2011

“Luther is far more paradoxical, and interesting, than the popular image holds and far less the unambiguous patriarch than narrowly construed feminist argumentation would have it.… Luther emerges as radical in his views, penning a political-theology that bears both liberating—with our notion of freedom in mind—and baneful implications.”
Barth and Textuality
Authors: Lindbeck George
Published: February 2011

“The growing awareness of the importance of texts in our day favors the intertextuality in which all texts interpret each other on the same level, rather than the intratextuality [Barth] in which one privileged text functions as the comprehensive interpretive framework. … A religion, especially a heavily textualized religion such as Christianity, can be expected to survive as long as its Scriptures are not ignored. It has no future except in its own intratextual world. One may hope that more and more Christian theologians, whether Protestant or Catholic, will soon get the message.”
Barth and Mozart
Authors: Gill Theodore A.
Published: February 2011

“Mightn't we get farther in understanding Barth in system and method if we began to think of him as fundamentally an artist—or at least more an artist than a scientist? As such, he would be a theologian-composer of Mozartean rank. And he would belong exactly to Mozart's classical school of style.”
Ecclesia of Freedom
Authors: Hodgson Peter C.
Published: February 2011

“The shape of the new paradigm is not yet clear … but we have intimations of what it will be like. The stress will fall more upon the public than the private, the social rather than the individual, liberation rather than liberty, equality rather than hierarchy, inquiry rather than authority, praxis rather then theory, the ecumenical rather than the provincial, the plural rather than the monolithic, the global rather than the national, the ecological rather than the anthropological.”
Job: Second Thoughts in the Land of UZ
Authors: Long Thomas G.
Published: February 2011

“The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. … This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God who would rule benignly over such a world, and then to bow down in worship before this projection of our own sense of moral order.”
Pluralism and Christian Commitment
Authors: Sanneh Lamin
Published: February 2011

“In the early centuries, the new Christian religion moved forward like an oriental caravanserai, with its complex baggage of exotic teachings, baffling mysteries, and an eclectic ethical code. In the jumble and tumble of social encounter, Christians spoke a bewildering variety of languages. … Christian missionaries assumed that since all cultures and languages are lawful in God's eyes, the rendering of God's word into those languages and cultures is valid and necessary. … Far from suppressing indigenous cultures, the effect of missionary translation has been to stimulate indigenous renewal.”
The Image of Home
Authors: Smit Laura
Published: February 2011

“How appropriate or effective is it to rely on the image of a Waiting Father to communicate the reality of God's grace? To many of my generation, such a metaphor calls up horrible images. … There are too many connotations of regression, of going back to a time when we had no responsibility and could make no decisions, even if we wanted to. Adults who long to return to the irresponsibility of childhood are adults with problems, and that's not what our presentation of Christian faith and life should cater to.”
Earthsong, Godsong: Women's Spirituality
Authors: Suchocki Marjorie Hewitt
Published: February 2011

“Just as the portrayal of the hills in the shape of a sleeping woman can be a metaphor of women's unconsciousness to our native mode of spirituality, the portrayal can also be seen as our own immersion in the very context of the wholeness. Ultimately, we are not observers of that wholeness, as if it took place only outside of us, but we are participants in that wholeness. Our giving voice to it—our singing its song—might well be called the completion and celebration of this kind of spirituality.”
Theological Table-Talk Impressions from Backstage
Authors: Holliday Polly
Published: February 2011

“There is something going on in theatre—the acting and watching of a play—that is like something else that we know. … When God spoke, the world came into being. It was beautiful—a beautiful stage. God decided to tell a wonderful story. When man and woman entered, time began, and the play started.”
Feminist Biblical Interpretation
Authors: Sakenfeld Katharine Doob
Published: February 2011

“Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, ‘Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company in Korah, but died for his own sin; and he had no sons. Why should the name of our father be taken away from his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brethren.’ Moses brought their case before the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, ‘The daughters of Zelophehad are right; you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.”’ (Numbers 27:1–8; cf. also chap. 36.)
Straddling Modernism and Postmodernism
Authors: Sweet Leonard I.
Published: February 2011

“Why has what Cobb positions as the two basic forms of postmodern theology, process and deconstruction, made so little impact on theological education, to say nothing of grasping the imagination and loyalty of either the church's faithful or its disaffected? Why has process theology not lived up to its potential within the church, which has devoured ‘group process’ (and been devoured by it) while turning down process thought? Indeed, why are both process and deconstruction so out of touch with the church?”
A Century of Catholic Social Teaching
Authors: Curran Charles E.
Published: February 2011

“Four areas of concern will need to be dealt with in the future approach of the hierarchical teaching office to the social teaching of the Church in the area of social-ethical methodologies: an explicitly Christian approach as contrasted with an inclusively human approach, an emphasis on an organic and ordered society as distinguished from a more conflictual model, a multiplicity of different methodological approaches, and the discrepancy between the ethical methodologies currently employed in Catholic social teachings and in teachings on sexual issues.”
Bringing Matthew Fox In From The Cold
Authors: Chesterton Gilbert K. , Boulton Wayne G.
Published: February 2011

“The theological tilt in Fox's brand of mysticism is toward creation. His aim is not only to be creation-centered in his spirituality, but also to warn the world about any version of Christianity in which creation appears as an afterthought…. While intriguing in itself, the most significant feature of this argument may be that a mystic is making it. Fox's work provides clear evidence that a lively sense of divine creation can block both the sex-negativism and the indifference to public life that has bedeviled the mystic tradition through the centuries.”
Divine Incongruity: Comedy and Tragedy in a Post-Holocaust World
Authors: Eckardt A. Roy
Published: February 2011

“How may God receive the ‘dangerous thoughts’ of those intercessors who serve the comic cause …? I propose that, ultimately speaking, forgiveness may win the day. The aggression against God—or the counter-aggression—in response to the divine aggression is, itself, eligible for forgiveness. Yet, I also submit that, in the final reckoning, forgiveness is never a purely human achievement; it is a gift from beyond. Thus, may forgiveness enter the dialectic of humor and faith, pointing to the beginnings of reconciliation among all parties. For, in the depths of authentic humor, everyone stands forgiven. That's what humor comes down to really: forgiveness.”
Was Graham Greene a Donatist?
Authors: Terrien Samuel
Published: February 2011

“Many critics hold that Graham Greene was for some years a Roman Catholic novelist, and that later he lost his faith. One may ask whether, on the contrary, he did not intensify his search for an existential Christianity.”
The Moral Function of Doctrine
Authors: Charry Ellen T.
Published: February 2011

“[The] divorce of theoretical from practical concerns in doctrinal exegesis has been maintained at a high price: Intellectual concerns have obscured the moral shaping function of Christian beliefs. Yet, a careful examination of many dogmatic treatises reveals concern for the moral effects of doctrine alongside coherence and intelligibility. Where the two are found together, ignoring the moral and pastoral questions in favor of those of coherence and intelligibility distorts the author's intention and robs the church of one of its central tasks: the formation of character.”
Spirituality and the Avoidant Personality
Authors: Propst L. Rebecca
Published: February 2011

“I have often discussed with patients the neediness of God, and that by virtue of being in God's image, they could still feel needy and be in God's image. … Initially, these ideas are just too new for many of the patients I deal with. The general thrust of their acquired theology has always taught them that ‘following Jesus means there will be no pain.’”
The Disabled God
Authors: Cooper Burton
Published: February 2011

“Our tendency is to think of divine power in the same terms as our power, except to extend God's power unlimitedly. That is, there are limits to our power; there are no limits to God's power. If we can do some things, God is able to do anything. Thus, human ‘ableness’ provides us with the image to think about God's power. In this context, the image of a disabled God is not simply a shocker but also a theological reminder that we are not to think of God's powers or abilities as simply an unlimited extension of our powers or abilities.”
The Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World
Authors: Kee Howard Clark
Published: February 2011

“[T]he vitality of the church is regained when it recovers the revolutionary insights of its founders, Jesus and Paul. In the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century and in the renewal movements that have taken place in both Roman Catholic and Protestant circles in the present century, it has been the fresh appropriation of the insights of Jesus and Paul about the inclusiveness of people across ethnic, racial, ritual, social, economic, and sexual boundaries that has restored the relevance and vitality of Christian faith and has lent to Christianity as a social and intellectual movement a positive, humane force in the wider society.”
Stories to Live by
Authors: Wuthnow Robert
Published: February 2011

“If we are concerned about transmitting ethical ideals to the future, for ourselves and for our children, we would be wise, then, to embed these ideals in stories. … [P]eople remember the caring they have experienced and recall these experiences by telling stories. But stories do more than keep memories alive. Sometimes these stories become so implanted in our minds that they act back upon us, directly and powerfully. We find ourselves acting them out. The characters in our stories show us how to behave.”
From Psyche to System
Authors: Graham Larry Kent
Published: February 2011

“Pastoral-theological reflection upon ministry … has led me to the conclusion that the caretaking field needs a different theoretical foundation than is found in the existential-anthropological model. … Drawing upon process and liberation theologies and family systems psychotherapy, I have delineated a more comprehensive way of interpreting the person-world relationship, fashioning a picture of care that addresses not only individuals but also ministers to the structures that form human individuality.”
Trinitarian Thoughts on Descending into the Grand Canyon
Authors: Jones W. Paul
Published: February 2011

“The Grand Canyon is … a cauldron of death, symbol of creation's bloody chalice. Its restless sides teem with life, propelled by an insatiable drive to endure, indeed, to prevail. Wind, river, clutching root-fingers of trees, lean varmints in crouched determination—all are sister-brothers in the surging restlessness. … [H]ere one can sense strangely that consciousness is not alien, but a breakthrough—within and for the whole. Ironically, while such emergence brings the alienating burden of knowing what nothing else in creation seems yet to know, it opens the religious threshold: greeting self-consciousness as the emergence of the whole.”
The Word of God May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Authors: Ringe Sharon H.
Published: February 2011

“Given the fact of woman's absence, the Bible is a flimsy ‘authority’ for us in the sense of that which empowers the naming and articulation of our lives as women. To read the Bible as ‘authorizing’ in that sense requires us always to be doing a kind of simultaneous translation into the languages of our own lives. We can do that, of course. We have had to learn to be at least bi-lingual in order to survive in cultures whose languages reflect men's reality. … [Y]ou risk becoming so fluent in the language that gets you the rewards that you lose fluency in your own tongue and break the connections with the community that sustains your life.”
Jesus, Apocalyptic, and World Transformation
Authors: Batstone David B.
Published: February 2011

“It is often overlooked how ideologically explosive the notion of the kingdom of God was within Jesus' own social milieu. In first-century Palestine, it did not have the same metaphorical and strictly religious connotation that makes the term so safe within our own theological world. In fact, it evoked the memory and visionary impulse of Yahweh who acts to deliver Yahweh's ‘chosen ones’ from occupation and oppression at the hands of alien nations. Intrinsic to that symbolic universe is the conviction that the chosen suffer and the unjust prosper in the present day only because history stands at the brink of a great reversal.”
Ecobible: The Bible and Ecojustice
Authors: Wink Walter
Published: February 2011

“So why not just throw out the Bible, and Christianity along with it? Because it is not the commandments, but the tenor, the thrust, the spirit of Jesus that drives us toward God's future. … The Bible is not a repository of politically correct opinions, but an ongoing struggle to overcome domination right in our own tradition, in our own Scripture, in our own homes. Just so, it is only in our time of ecodisaster that we are driven to think about ecojustice.”
The Reign of God
Authors: Welker Michael
Published: February 2011

“The reign of God is a twofold experience of free self-withdrawal: the self-withdrawal of others in our favor and our self-withdrawal in favor of others. Only when we see God's reign in this way can we understand why becoming like children is paradigmatic for entry into the reign of God.”
A Peculiarly Christian Account of Sin
Authors: Willimon William H.
Published: February 2011

“The Church's notion of sin, like that of Israel before it, is peculiar. It is derived, not from speculation about the universal or general state of humanity, but rather from a peculiar, quite specific account of what God is up to in the world. What God is up to is named as covenant, Torah, or, for Christians, Jesus. If we attempt to begin in Genesis, with Adam and Eve and their alleged ‘fall,’ we will be mistaken, as Niebuhr was, in thinking of sin as some innate, indelible glitch in human nature.”April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, …Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, …What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter. …T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, I, 1922
Sin: The Taint of Time
Authors: Fenn Richard K.
Published: February 2011

“Modern societies have … synchronized activities to the point that time exerts an exquisite pressure on all who are regulated by their interdependence with others rather than by the flow of tides and seasons or by biorhythms and the stars. Instead of leading to a world of pure contingency, purgatory has become a world in which contingency is mediated and controlled by institutions and corporations whose calendars, schedules, and time imperatives constrain the fate or daimon of everyone who is seeking to be approved, credentialed, tested, promoted, probated, tenured, appointed, ordained, adjudicated, or elected, to name only a few of the processes of purgation that modern societies have developed.”
Being Good and Being Reasonable
Authors: Waters Brent , Stuart Rob
Published: February 2011

“A university composed of narrative-formed communities would simultaneously acknowledge the diversity involved in moral debate and inquiry, while, at the same time, respecting the sources upon which competing claims are based. Public moral discourse would be something more than a forum in which individuals offer their injunctions to ‘be reasonable’ or ‘be good,’ for there would emerge a more extended argument over contexts within which these slogans emerge. A public context would be restored in which partial intellectual, religious, and moral claims would have some larger reference point.”
Jesus in Historical Context
Authors: Sanders E.P.
Published: February 2011

“These are exciting days to study Jesus in context. Archaeology is flourishing, and people are coming up with all kinds of interesting proposals. Many of the most recent proposals maintain, in effect, that Jesus was not very Jewish. He lived, they claim, in an urban, cosmopolitan world, and he was at least as influenced by Greek and Roman culture as by Jewish. … When all is said and done, though, it is clear Jesus lived in a Jewish context.”
Asking about Who We are
Authors: Edgerton W. Dow
Published: February 2011

“Whatever we are, we are at all because God has spoken. As human beings, simply as human beings, we carry the image of God. When the time comes to tell other stories of how things are and got to be that way, when the time comes to tell stories of call, covenant, slavery, liberation, law, land exile, redemption, and salvation for all the families of the earth, it is from this story it all begins, it is this God who speaks with whom we have to deal, it is as creatures (at least once) endowed with God's own image that we may and must live. This is the source, this is the freedom, and this is the limit.”
Improving the microclimate in urban areas: a case study in the centre of Athens
Authors: Gaitani N. , Spanou A. , Saliari M. , Synnefa A. , Vassilakopoulou K. , Papadopoulou K. , Pavlou K. , Santamouris M. , Papaioannou M. , Lagoudaki A.
Published: February 2011

The urban heat island effect and its consequences is one of the most important problems cities worldwide have to face in an effort to become more sustainable. This paper presents a study of a major open area in a densely built and populated area in the centre of Athens that was part of a Municipality of Athens program to improve thermal comfort conditions in open spaces. The bioclimatic rehabilitation design process was based on a specific strategy involving detailed monitoring of the thermal characteristics and climatic conditions in the area, extensive analysis of the results in order to define the problem, design and use of efficient passive cooling techniques (cool materials, green spaces, solar control and earth to air heat exchangers), and the use of advanced simulation tools to evaluate and optimise the planed microclimatic improvements. The results indicate that the proposed measures contribute to a decrease in local temperatures of up to 2°C for summer conditions.

Practical application:

• The knowledge on perceptions of microclimate in outdoor space can serve as a basis for urban spatial design.

• To evaluate the application of cool materials in public urban squares.

• Strategies to improve local microclimate with monitoring and modelling the design features.
Urban form, thermal comfort and building CO2 emissions - a numerical analysis in Cairo
Authors: Fahmy Mohamad , Sharples Stephen
Published: February 2011

This paper describes a modelling analysis of the role different urban forms might play in reducing building CO2 emissions. The study was based on a residential building in a Cairo neighbourhood under summer conditions and developed a base case urban layout covering an area of 1 km2. Three alternative urban strategies were then created around the same residential building. The software package EnviMet was used to assess external microclimate and thermal comfort conditions in each urban layout. Localised weather files were then created as inputs to the dynamic thermal modelling package DesignBuilder, which predicted the CO2 emissions associated with mechanical cooling to achieve comfort in the building. It was possible to observe some differences in CO2 emissions as a result of the different urban forms.
The role of entrepreneurship clubs and societies in entrepreneurial learning
Authors: Pittaway Luke , Rodriguez-Falcon Elena , Aiyegbayo Olaojo , King Amanda
Published: February 2011

This article focuses on the role of student entrepreneurship clubs and societies. It explores their impact on student learning in order to understand the extent to which such activities simulate entrepreneurial learning. The article reports three studies conducted between 2006— 2007, which explored three different forms of clubs: entrepreneurship clubs; SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) teams; and investment clubs. Data from 10 unstructured interviews, a series of telephone interviews and an e-mail postcard are reported. The results show that students’ motivations for engaging in clubs vary and that they differ between different types of clubs. In terms of entrepreneurial learning students’ engagement in clubs and societies provides enhanced opportunities for ‘learning by doing’ through action and experience. The data show that increased action leads to reflective practice and that social learning is important. The article highlights the capacity of entrepreneurship education to simulate entrepreneurial learning, illustrating the value of entrepreneurship clubs and societies and explaining why students engage in them.
Sexuality and psychoanalytic aggrandisement: Freud’s 1908 theory of cultural history
Authors: Cotti Patricia
Published: February 2011

In 1908, in his article ‘“Civilized” sexual morality and modern nervous illness’, Freud presented neuroses as the consequence of a restrictive state of cultural development and its ‘civilized morality’. He found the inspiration for this idea by expanding upon previous formulations in this area by his predecessors (notably Christian von Ehrenfels) that focused on a cultural process earlier introduced by Kant, while also integrating in his analysis the principles of Haeckel’s evolutionism (history of development, recapitulation) which eventually re-defined the psychoanalytic theory of neuroses. These new theoretical elements became the basis of psychoanalytic theory and thereby influenced subsequent thinking in the cultural process itself and in human sciences. This transformation of underlying theory provided a unique historical and analytical framework for psychoanalysis which allowed Freud to claim for it a pre-eminent position among the human sciences.
Infanticide in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania: documents from four centuries (1570—1842)
Authors: Häßler Günther , Häßler Frank
Published: February 2011

In this study we present an unprecedented comprehensive overview of cases of infanticide in the region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, from the end of the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century. Using the Faculty of Law’s verdict files stored in the University of Rostock’s archives, we analysed and evaluated 362 cases. Changes in the prosecution of this crime, in the way the trials were conducted and in the passing of sentences illustrate the judicial conceptions of the academics, as well as being of great social interest. For the almost exclusively female defendants, behavioural patterns occurred repeatedly: shame, confusion and hopelessness triggered concealment of the pregnancy and ultimately the deliberate or negligent killing of the newborn child.
Living With Community Violence: A Conversation With Primary School Children in Kingston’s Inner City
Authors: Bailey Corin
Published: February 2011

The constant exposure of children to community violence is an issue of great concern worldwide. Kingston, Jamaica, is one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere, and children are exposed to acts of extreme brutality with considerable regularity. Using a qualitative methodology, this article seeks to examine the manner in which young Jamaican children, in one of Kingston’s most violent communities seek to make sense of what is taking place around them. A number of themes are identified within this struggle as the children are deeply affected by the violence that is a part of their daily existence. There is a need for urgent crisis intervention as the persistence of community violence in Kingston shows little sign of abating.
Review Series: Aspects of Interstitial lung disease: Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: How does it differ from IPF? How should the clinical approach differ?
Authors: de Lauretis Angelo , Veeraraghavan Srihari , Renzoni Elisabetta
Published: February 2011

The lung is frequently involved in connective tissue diseases (CTDs), although the frequency of lung manifestations varies according to the type of CTD. Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are frequently seen in CTDs, particularly systemic sclerosis (SSc), polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), accounting for a significant proportion of deaths. A large percentage of patients with CTD-associated ILD has limited and stable disease, not requiring treatment. However, a significant minority has severe and/or progressive disease, necessitating prompt initiation of treatment. CTD-ILD histological patterns include non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP), usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), organizing pneumonia (OP), diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP). NSIP is the most common pattern in all CTDs, except for RA, characterized by a higher frequency of UIP. ILD can present acutely or chronically, with acute presentations being more common in systemic lupus erythematosus and PM/DM. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressively worsening ILD characterized by inflammation and fibrosis. The characteristic histological pattern of IPF is UIP. Interestingly, a UIP pattern is associated with a significantly better survival in CTD-related disease compared to the idiopathic variety. Prognosis in IPF is dismal, with a median survival since diagnosis of 2-3 years. No treatment regimen has been shown to improve survival in IPF. By contrast, although there have been only two randomized placebo-controlled trials investigating the effect of immunosuppressive treatment in SSc-associated ILD, clinical experience suggests that immunosuppressive drugs in CTD-related ILDs are capable of benefiting a significant proportion of patients, particularly those with certain histological patterns of disease. This review will essentially focus on CTD-associated ILD and will compare aspects of clinical presentation and management to those of IPF.