Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221130159l
R. Lindo
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221130159c
James R. McConnell
Corinthians as “babes in Christ,” and himself as the “least of the apostles,” rhetorically deflating the hubris and attitudes of those in Corinth, who would elevate themselves above others and the least. Paul describes his own ministry in ways that identify with the least: “a slave to all, an orphan, a premature infant, impoverished, indebted, a laborer, hungry, naked, and thirsty” (p. 11). Paul’s work also witnesses the self-lowering of God in Christ who identifies with “the least.” This central feature of Paul’s Christology makes possible the church’s concern for the least because it is a church grounded in God’s very self-identification with the least. Thus, a proclamation of Pauline theology apart from concern for “the least,” is to engage in an abstraction alien to Paul’s own theology. Paul’s ministry of proclamation of Christ’s death and resurrection is the occasion to rightly attend to Paul’s exhortation for his communities to care for the least, marginal, and poor in their midst. Following the crucified and resurrected Christ is to be attentive to the needs of “the least” in our midst. It is to be possessed by a vision of God’s world, engaging in collections for care, remembering the poor and least, and bearing each other’s burdens. It is to be that redeemed community of believers, called the church, rooted in a set of narrative convictions about who God is in Jesus that makes possible such concern for the good of the least.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221130159d
S. Walton
command to love (Lev 19:18), suffering, obedience to God in the “world,” the relationship between faith and works, and false teaching in the church. Lockett goes to extremes to find some of these themes in multiple letters. To find a reference to the love command in Jude, Lockett must argue that one should consider the command to have mercy in Jude 22–23 as “an implicit command to love” (p. 216). Regarding the theme of trials and persecution in Jude, Lockett considers the church’s stand against false teaching “a trial the church must overcome” (p. 219). The book offers an adequate introduction to these letters. It is clearly intended for those with little knowledge of the New Testament. For example, Lockett explains the term “chiasm” in his discussion of 1 Peter 2:13–3:12. He points out that the event to which the author of 2 Peter refers in 2:17 is the transfiguration, which, he notes, is found in the Synoptic Gospels. Lockett tells his readers that midrashim is the plural of midrash. Lockett’s reading of these letters follows mostly traditional trajectories; he states that the author of James is the brother of Jesus, and John the son of Zebedee wrote 1 John and the Gospel of John. Lockett does, however, admit that there is good reason to believe that Peter was not the author of 2 Peter. Although several of the connections between the letters were forced, the book does serve as a reminder that these letters share perspectives on common themes and that a canonical reading can be fruitful. I can recommend this book for students unfamiliar with the New Testament in general and with these documents in particular, with the caveat that in a classroom setting one would have to be prepared to present more critical and nuanced arguments in some cases.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221130159i
Marsha K. King
The strength of the book is its careful attention to the structure of each biblical book and the repeated words and phrases that undoubtedly serve a role in conveying meaning. The method of Borgman and Clark is primarily to summarize virtually the entire narrative of each book, with explanatory notes drawing attention to important features and themes. They use headings, bullet points, and outlines of chiasms and other structures to illustrate critical aspects of the telling of the stories that they argue would be apparent to hearers when read aloud, as these early biblical narratives were undoubtedly intended. The result is a fairly comprehensive treatment of the Gospels and Acts that offers a unifying road map through them, especially for readers unfamiliar with perspectives scholars have advanced in recent years through rhetorical and literary approaches. The inescapable irony of the book, however, is that this passionate lesson in “hearing” the gospel message is presented entirely by means of written instructions. The book has no explicit directions for performing the text, or even encouragement to do so. In fact, it contains scarcely any reference to the burgeoning field of biblical performance criticism and its considerable resources that would shine light on Borgman’s and Clark’s approach. References to “hearing cues” make up a significant portion of the book, but Borgman and Clark do little to demonstrate how their treatment of these cues as auditory phenomena differs from consideration of them as key words in a basic literary or rhetorical analysis. The criteria for “hearing cues” are unclear; their auditory distinctiveness is taken for granted but never demonstrated. The book makes almost no reference to the actual sound of the Greek words in the original texts. The volume’s general nature might explain why the authors would avoid a highly technical approach to discussing phonological matters (one thinks, e.g., of Bernard Brandon Scott and Margaret Ellen Lee’s groundbreaking work in Sound Mapping the New Testament), and yet why they have not at least introduced their readers to relevant insights in this area is puzzling. This volume might best be utilized as a reference work for persons studying texts in the Gospels and Acts in preparation for sermon writing or Bible study. The organization of the book makes it easy to explore particular passages and their function within the larger biblical book of which they are a part. Some readers may experience a revelation in the treatment of each Gospel as a unique, self-contained telling of the story with a unified message. The weight of the extended summary and explanation in each chapter, however, would seem to commend itself more to use as a commentary. In many ways, it functions similarly to the numerous narrative treatments of the Gospels that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, or the Reading the New Testament commentary series, all the volumes of which are subtitled “A Literary and Theological
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221137054
Nick Hamilton
The Maze Runner book series and movie trilogy is set in the future, when ecological disaster and a global pandemic strike. Many children and young adults are immune to the disease and are therefore quarantined, studied, and used to develop a cure for the “flare.” This article examines some of the ethical frameworks experienced in the COVID-19 pandemic using the Maze Runner movies as illustrations. It also examines contemporary culture and proposes that a more robust gospel witness is needed to better deal with future global pandemics.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221143753
Melissa A. Jackson
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221132201
J. Eberl
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists and new vaccine boosters targeting the latest subvariants have been approved, public debate concerning vaccines and vaccination mandates has not subsided. Such debate has been particularly acute among Roman Catholics and other Christians, with arguments having been put forth from scriptural and natural law bases in favor of vaccination against COVID-19, and counterarguments based on respecting individual conscience and concerns about moral complicity with abortion. In this article, I argue that principles of both secular public health and Christian social ethics justify vaccination mandates for COVID-19. I further show why certain objections Christians may have are ill-founded and conclude that no moral reason exists for a Christian to refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19; rather, vaccination for COVID-19 is a moral obligation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221136249
Mari Rapela Heidt
Renal disease is an endemic problem within the United States, with about 10% of the population afflicted with kidney problems that range from minor to life-threatening. Black Americans are especially affected by kidney disease, with a high proportion of those affected needing a kidney transplant. While kidney transplants are very common, a shortage of donated kidneys exists, causing many people to turn to directed living donation, through which family members or friends volunteer to donate a healthy kidney to a specific person. This essay examines racial bias in the evaluation of living donors, especially the bias associated with body mass index. The requirement for a “normal weight” prevents many African American volunteers from donating, leading to a higher mortality rate than necessary for Black kidney transplant patients.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00346373221130159m
R. Olson
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