{"title":"Caleb Courtney and Martin Mittelstadt. Canadian Pentecostal Reader: The First Generation of Pentecostal Voices in Canada, 1907–1925","authors":"Geoffrey Butler","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49030191","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":"Barbara Wheeler, ed. Disruption and Hope: Religious Traditions and the Future of Theological Education","authors":"Jason Mills","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44992133","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":"Miller, Ike. Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine’s and Barth’s Readings of John","authors":"A. Snyder","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312802","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":"Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology","authors":"John Sampson","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42481528","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":"Daniel O. Aleshire. Beyond Profession: The Next Future of Theological Education","authors":"Jason Mills","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44272065","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 Newheiser. Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith","authors":"Carl S. Hughes","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46340906","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}
This article works toward a theology of evangelism for mainline Protestant churches in light of the ever-growing pluralism in Western society. Evangelism in the past, especially with its connection to colonialism and the missionary enterprise, has left a negative legacy amongst mainline Protestant churches to the point where there is paralysis when it comes to engaging in the ministry of evangelism. A way forward is proposed in which an understanding of missio Dei that not only is comfortable but also embraces as foundational the ever-growing pluralism of Western society is foundational. Through an application of David J. Bosch’s approach of bold humility applied to Bernard Lonergan’s concept of mutual self-mediation, the church is given an approach to evangelism that respects the other, grounded in the church’s encounter with Christ, which allows churches to recover this ministry.
在西方社会日益多元化的背景下,本文试图为主流新教教会构建福音神学。过去的传福音,特别是与殖民主义和传教事业的联系,在主流新教教会中留下了负面的遗产,以至于当涉及到传福音的事工时,教会陷入瘫痪。提出了一条前进的道路,在这条道路上,对上帝使命的理解不仅是舒适的,而且是将西方社会不断增长的多元化作为基础的。通过将David J. Bosch大胆谦卑的方法应用于Bernard Lonergan相互自我调解的概念,教会被赋予了一种尊重他人的传福音方法,以教会与基督的相遇为基础,这使得教会能够恢复这种事工。
{"title":"Toward a Theology of Evangelism for the Pluralistic West","authors":"Darcey Lazerte","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0192","url":null,"abstract":"This article works toward a theology of evangelism for mainline Protestant churches in light of the ever-growing pluralism in Western society. Evangelism in the past, especially with its connection to colonialism and the missionary enterprise, has left a negative legacy amongst mainline Protestant churches to the point where there is paralysis when it comes to engaging in the ministry of evangelism. A way forward is proposed in which an understanding of missio Dei that not only is comfortable but also embraces as foundational the ever-growing pluralism of Western society is foundational. Through an application of David J. Bosch’s approach of bold humility applied to Bernard Lonergan’s concept of mutual self-mediation, the church is given an approach to evangelism that respects the other, grounded in the church’s encounter with Christ, which allows churches to recover this ministry.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45047201","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}
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.
{"title":"God Is Inter-religious: Honouring the Legacy of Ovey Mohammed, SJ","authors":"J. Dadosky","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2022-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0006","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45422930","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}
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。
{"title":"Sacred Groves or Profitable Commodities? Interreligious Dialogue on Environmental Degradation with Martin Buber, Black Elk, Pope Francis, and Lynn White Jr.","authors":"Michael Stoeber","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0094","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990996","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}
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.
{"title":"The Uniform of the Old Testament Prophet","authors":"Gregory Goswell","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0085","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47138401","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}