Professor Ovey Mohammed, S.J. (1933–2020) devoted his entire career to inter-religious education, dialogue, and comparative theology. In a context where Christianity must reckon with religious pluralism in a new way relative to previous decades, “Ovey” was a pioneer ever nudging the Catholic Church beyond the watershed of Vatican II in his own teaching and research. This article reviews his encounters with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism from a distinctively Ignatian perspective that comes from his own Jesuit formation. It concludes with some comments about how Christians might interpret a theology of a religious pluralism in light of this context.
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This article analyzes human orientations related to current environmental issues and proposes positive creative responses, in dialogue especially with Martin Buber, Nick Black Elk, Pope Francis, and Lynn White Jr. It illustrates the problems in relation to Indigenous peoples and coloniality contexts, highlighting both distorted and reverential approaches to trees through consideration of a concrete historical case—the radical depletion and degradation of the white pine forest ecosystem of Ontario and other areas of eastern North America, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The article (i) compares this Canadian/USA context with current conditions in the Amazon rainforest of South America; (ii) analyzes core traditional distorted human attitudes that contribute to such environmental destruction and sociocultural repression, in which trees are solely objectified, hypercommodified, and radically exploited; (iii) points to supportive and personally transforming attitudes toward trees—especially through Jewish-philosophical and Indigenous models—that highlight their intrinsic value and our potential relationship with them, in respectful, appreciative, nonintentional, and deeply spiritual ways; and (iv) relates the dialogue to contemporary socioeconomic concerns and interests.
本文分析了与当前环境问题相关的人类取向，并提出了积极的创造性回应，特别是与Martin Buber、Nick Black Elk、Pope Francis和Lynn White Jr.的对话，通过考虑一个具体的历史案例——17世纪至19世纪安大略省和北美东部其他地区白松森林生态系统的彻底枯竭和退化，强调了对树木的扭曲和虔诚态度。文章（i）将加拿大/美国的情况与南美洲亚马逊雨林的现状进行了比较；（ii）分析了造成这种环境破坏和社会文化压抑的核心传统扭曲的人类态度，在这种情况下，树木被完全物化、过度社区化和彻底剥削；（iii）指出了对树木的支持和个人转变态度，特别是通过犹太哲学和土著模式，以尊重、欣赏、不做作和深刻的精神方式突出了树木的内在价值以及我们与树木的潜在关系；以及（iv）将对话与当代社会经济关切和利益联系起来。
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This study of the dress of Elijah the prophet confirms that clothing when specified in Old Testament narrative adds to characterization and serves as a prop for the action. It cannot be proved that every prophet or even many prophets dressed after the fashion of Elijah, but that post-Elijah more than one wore “a hairy mantle” is demonstrated by what is viewed in Zech 13:4 as classic prophetic garb, and several texts in the New Testament also allude to the practice. This mode of dress is best explained by a link to the wilderness and appears to express support for the religious orthodoxy of the faith proclaimed by Moses.
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A sociohistorical and theological retracing of some of the most important moments and aspects of the Christian left in Canada, recounting some of its major contributions and actors, and exploring some of the challenges this movement will face in the future. Adopting a decolonial approach, this article is divided into two sections. The first section examines some of the issues related to social reform that have characterized the Christian left, with particular attention to some of its key actors, socio-ethical and theological justice themes, and shifts over time. The second section pays closer attention to some of the social and theological challenges this diverse movement confronts as it attempts to account for Canada’s history of colonization and Christianity’s complicity with the colonial project. This article invites Christian leftists to engage in a process of social and theological decolonization where racialized and minoritized peoples are not seen as objects of good will, but as protagonists in the struggle for social justice and decolonization.
{"title":"The Christian Left: From the Past toward a Possible Future","authors":"Néstor Medina","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0074","url":null,"abstract":"A sociohistorical and theological retracing of some of the most important moments and aspects of the Christian left in Canada, recounting some of its major contributions and actors, and exploring some of the challenges this movement will face in the future. Adopting a decolonial approach, this article is divided into two sections. The first section examines some of the issues related to social reform that have characterized the Christian left, with particular attention to some of its key actors, socio-ethical and theological justice themes, and shifts over time. The second section pays closer attention to some of the social and theological challenges this diverse movement confronts as it attempts to account for Canada’s history of colonization and Christianity’s complicity with the colonial project. This article invites Christian leftists to engage in a process of social and theological decolonization where racialized and minoritized peoples are not seen as objects of good will, but as protagonists in the struggle for social justice and decolonization.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46099016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recently, so-called mental health issues were exposed at the Tokyo Olympics. Yet the term “performance anxiety” was not in vogue in the media as it had been in the past. The emphasis was now on mental health in clinical terms. Although I acknowledge the work in this area being done in clinical psychology, I am not including this approach but rather provide a complementary one rooted in philosophy. An interpretation of experiences working with anxiety rather than with mental health issues is also possible by considering psychological perspectives that are derived from phenomenology and existentialism. This interdisciplinary conceptualization contributes to the concept of performance anxiety by providing a more detailed theoretical account of individual subjective experience involving a relational perspective on the nature of both positive and negative anxiety and its metaphorical implications for creative performances, be they musical, athletic, or any kind of performance. Performance planning is ultimately an indeterminate activity associated with negative and positive anxiety over time, because such preparation cannot predict the exact nature of a performer’s emergent, indeterminate self during any performance. Yet this “unfixed” emergent self is also connected to the preparatory self in that it is the self that also prepares the performance and is (hopefully) successfully blended into an emergent and thus indeterminate self. It can emerge as an earned attribute of positive anxiety and receptivity to risk-taking creativity and new understandings of anxiety based on experience and self.
{"title":"Understanding and Working with Performance Anxiety in Education","authors":"Yaroslav Senyshyn","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0072","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, so-called mental health issues were exposed at the Tokyo Olympics. Yet the term “performance anxiety” was not in vogue in the media as it had been in the past. The emphasis was now on mental health in clinical terms. Although I acknowledge the work in this area being done in clinical psychology, I am not including this approach but rather provide a complementary one rooted in philosophy. An interpretation of experiences working with anxiety rather than with mental health issues is also possible by considering psychological perspectives that are derived from phenomenology and existentialism. This interdisciplinary conceptualization contributes to the concept of performance anxiety by providing a more detailed theoretical account of individual subjective experience involving a relational perspective on the nature of both positive and negative anxiety and its metaphorical implications for creative performances, be they musical, athletic, or any kind of performance. Performance planning is ultimately an indeterminate activity associated with negative and positive anxiety over time, because such preparation cannot predict the exact nature of a performer’s emergent, indeterminate self during any performance. Yet this “unfixed” emergent self is also connected to the preparatory self in that it is the self that also prepares the performance and is (hopefully) successfully blended into an emergent and thus indeterminate self. It can emerge as an earned attribute of positive anxiety and receptivity to risk-taking creativity and new understandings of anxiety based on experience and self.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":"0 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41330398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David Fergusson. The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach","authors":"C. Hartin","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44483256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George Weigel. The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission","authors":"Tim Perry","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43436491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gareth Atkins. Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840","authors":"C. Hartin","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43489987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bethany McKinney Fox. Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church","authors":"Susan McElcheran","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47592181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Niki Kasumi Clements. Sites of the Ascetic Self: John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation","authors":"Daniel G. Opperwall","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43092005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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