In 1960, Valerie Saiving published a groundbreaking essay, “The Human Situation: a Feminine View,” in which she pointed to the failures of classical sin-talk to account for the ways that women sin. As an early work of feminist theology, the article pointed to the androcentrism of theology: classical notions of sin were rooted in the failures and temptations of men. It also set the stage for feminist treatment of sin going forward. For Saiving, it was theologically inaccurate to identify women's experience of sinfulness with pride and will-to-power. Instead, she argues, the “feminine forms of sin … are better suggested by such items as triviality, distractibility, and diffuseness … in short, underdevelopment or negation of the self.”
1960年,瓦莱丽·萨文(Valerie Saiving)发表了一篇开创性的文章《人类处境:女性视角》(The Human Situation: a Feminine View),她在文中指出,经典的罪论无法解释女性犯罪的方式。作为女性主义神学的早期作品,这篇文章指出了神学的男性中心主义:经典的罪恶观念根植于男人的失败和诱惑。它也为女权主义对待罪恶的方式奠定了基础。对于saving来说,将女性的罪恶经历与骄傲和权力意志联系起来在神学上是不准确的。相反,她认为,“女性的罪恶形式……更适合用诸如琐碎、分心和分散……简而言之,不发达或对自我的否定。”
{"title":"III. Rethinking Feminist Theologies of Sin in Light of White Women's Racist Violence","authors":"Megan K. McCabe","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"In 1960, Valerie Saiving published a groundbreaking essay, “The Human Situation: a Feminine View,” in which she pointed to the failures of classical sin-talk to account for the ways that women sin. As an early work of feminist theology, the article pointed to the androcentrism of theology: classical notions of sin were rooted in the failures and temptations of men. It also set the stage for feminist treatment of sin going forward. For Saiving, it was theologically inaccurate to identify women's experience of sinfulness with pride and will-to-power. Instead, she argues, the “feminine forms of sin … are better suggested by such items as triviality, distractibility, and diffuseness … in short, underdevelopment or negation of the self.”","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"42 1","pages":"200 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76735707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority. By Angela N. Parker. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021. xvi + 117. $16.99 (paper).","authors":"K. Choi","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"79 1","pages":"213 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87122523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A significant literature presents the Catholic social thought tradition (CST) as a resource for combating racism and white supremacy, and an equally important body of work critiques the documentary tradition for the ways it fails to adequately address these pernicious social sins. This essay will combine elements of both approaches to address a topic relatively modest in scope: showing how attention to the historical and contemporary operation of white womanhood, exposed by sociologist Jessie Daniels in her book Nice White Ladies, informs, critiques, and presents opportunities for Catholic social thought on gender and family, both in the ecclesial documents and in their appropriations by white US Catholic scholars. I will address three themes: images of women; the nexus of families and the welfare state; and whiteness as property.
{"title":"II. Family Welfare and Pernicious Property: White Womanhood and Catholic Social Thought in the United States","authors":"Kate Ward","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.7","url":null,"abstract":"A significant literature presents the Catholic social thought tradition (CST) as a resource for combating racism and white supremacy, and an equally important body of work critiques the documentary tradition for the ways it fails to adequately address these pernicious social sins. This essay will combine elements of both approaches to address a topic relatively modest in scope: showing how attention to the historical and contemporary operation of white womanhood, exposed by sociologist Jessie Daniels in her book Nice White Ladies, informs, critiques, and presents opportunities for Catholic social thought on gender and family, both in the ecclesial documents and in their appropriations by white US Catholic scholars. I will address three themes: images of women; the nexus of families and the welfare state; and whiteness as property.","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"122 1","pages":"190 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91111076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Myers ’ s contribution to the Essentials of Biblical Studies series is an acces-sible, sophisticated introduction to the New Testament narratives and their history of interpretation. The book covers not only the canonical Gospels and Acts but also apocryphal texts, as well as sociopolitical, literary, and mate-rial history. Myers shows that the work of modern New Testament readers is part of a continuous interpretive conversation that began as soon as the ear-liest stories about Jesus and his followers started circulating, a conversation that has been and is shaped by each interpreter ’ s context.
{"title":"An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. By Alicia D. Myers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvii + 210. $24.95.","authors":"Allison L. Gray","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.24","url":null,"abstract":"Myers ’ s contribution to the Essentials of Biblical Studies series is an acces-sible, sophisticated introduction to the New Testament narratives and their history of interpretation. The book covers not only the canonical Gospels and Acts but also apocryphal texts, as well as sociopolitical, literary, and mate-rial history. Myers shows that the work of modern New Testament readers is part of a continuous interpretive conversation that began as soon as the ear-liest stories about Jesus and his followers started circulating, a conversation that has been and is shaped by each interpreter ’ s context.","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"102 1","pages":"227 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80972187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. By Anthea Butler. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 176 pages. $25.00","authors":"Byron D. Wratee","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.36","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"47 1","pages":"249 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90276043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fifty years ago, Raymond Brown had already established his position as one of the world's leading Catholic New Testament scholars. His magisterial two-volume commentary on John's gospel remains an invaluable reference for scholars. At a time when American Catholics were still “minor leaguers” in contrast to British, German, and French exegetes, biblical theologians, Fr. Brown along with Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ, and Roland E. Murphy, OCarm. had produced the Jerome Biblical Commentary (1968) to provide a solid foothold for students in the best of historical-critical research into the books of the Bible, their history, religion, and theological concepts. Like his coeditors, Brown remained convinced that careful historical-critical study was our surest way of understanding what the Bible's authors sought to communicate. Where that analysis unseated naïve or literalist dogmatic “proof-texting,” it requires a correction in theological argument but will not require rejection of the foundational dogmas of the church.
{"title":"I. “But Who Do YOU Say I Am?” (Mk 8:29a): Raymond Brown and New Testament Christology","authors":"Pheme Perkins","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"Fifty years ago, Raymond Brown had already established his position as one of the world's leading Catholic New Testament scholars. His magisterial two-volume commentary on John's gospel remains an invaluable reference for scholars. At a time when American Catholics were still “minor leaguers” in contrast to British, German, and French exegetes, biblical theologians, Fr. Brown along with Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ, and Roland E. Murphy, OCarm. had produced the Jerome Biblical Commentary (1968) to provide a solid foothold for students in the best of historical-critical research into the books of the Bible, their history, religion, and theological concepts. Like his coeditors, Brown remained convinced that careful historical-critical study was our surest way of understanding what the Bible's authors sought to communicate. Where that analysis unseated naïve or literalist dogmatic “proof-texting,” it requires a correction in theological argument but will not require rejection of the foundational dogmas of the church.","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"89 1","pages":"151 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82250816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All Creation Is Connected: Voices in Response to Pope Francis's Encyclical on Ecology. Edited by Daniel R. DiLeo. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2018. 238 pages. $25.95 (paper).","authors":"Carol J. Dempsey","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"214 1","pages":"217 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76980507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confronting a Church in Controversy. By Bradford E. Hinze. New York: Paulist Press, 2022. xvii + 190 pages. $27.95 (paper).","authors":"E. Vacek","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"50 1","pages":"243 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86650490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prophetic, Public Church: Witness to Hope Amid the Global Crises of the Twenty-First Century. By Mary Doak. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2020. xxi + 234 pages. $29.95 (paper).","authors":"B. Flanagan","doi":"10.1017/hor.2023.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hor.2023.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13231,"journal":{"name":"Horizons","volume":"2016 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86317451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}