Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2152201
D. Jasper
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2158572
J. Urbaniak, Dianne Willman
ABSTRACT Against the background of the recent history of the controversy regarding the Roman Catholic Church’s (RCC) position on women’s priestly ordination, this study focuses on an alternative ecclesiological model embodied by the Roman Catholic Women Priests (RCWP), a movement born in 2002. The article explores this unique form of dissent that strives for difference without seeking to effectuate the actual rupture from the RCC. The movement’s subversive praxis is manifest chiefly in its organisational structure, in ordained women’s ‘pragmatic, pastoral, priesthood ministry’ and in their utterly inclusive approach to sacraments. This approach – the article argues – provides a resource to overcome the doctrinal impasse on the issue of women’s ordination that the RCC appears to have reached in 1983. This holds true even if the movement itself may be occupying merely a transitionary space within the larger landscape of the new forms of priesthood emerging across Christian churches.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2163558
Tingxuan Liu, Shulin Tan
ABSTRACT Celso Costantini was an important figure in the history of Chinese Catholicism in the early twentieth century and played a key role in the indigenisation of the Chinese Catholic church. As the Archbishop of the Chinese Catholic Church and the Apostolic Delegate to China, Celso Costantini had a number of insights into the Chinese nation and its traditional culture, the present and future of the Chinese Church, the relationship between church and state, among other things, that were the internal reason for his promotion of indigenisation. Understanding Celso Costantini’s view of China helps to explain why and how he pursued the Sinicization of Catholicism, to better understand the development of Catholicism in China, also to interpret the new challenges faced by Christianity in the early 20th century and its countermeasures.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2168868
F. Behr
ABSTRACT This essay, based upon the inaugural Bishop Geoffrey Rowell Memorial Lecture, delivered at Chichester Cathedral in November 2022 in association with the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, examines the Scriptural background in Isaiah and Genesis for the way in which early Christians spoke about the Church as Mother or even the Virgin Mother, and how that in turn influenced the ways in which they spoke about Mary. The Church was, for them, the Virgin Mother in whose womb human beings are born into life by sharing in Christ’s Pascha, already anticipated in the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist, and the local community in which this life is realised. Further consideration is then given to what came to be the oversight of a bishop over an increasing geographical area and whether this should be spoken of as ‘Church’.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2022.2152200
A. Jasper
ness to the gods and to piety overrides the authority of the ruler. Matthes’ comment upon this is that, ‘Legitimate power requires dissent, necessitates listening to others, and does more than impose its authority; it is responsive to the demands of the ruled’. (16) Where does the reconciliation between ‘divine mandate and political authority’ reside? Mourning must be given its place. Likewise, mourners, their place. She concludes, ‘A democratic and just the United States is one in which Americans remember and mourn’. (17) Preaching and preachers, following the crises she has documented and in the midst of confused mourning as to who, how, and when that mourning should take place, have failed in those sermons have surrendered their scriptural mandate to the state; into the hands of King Creon.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2168347
Bishop Munib A. Younan, Robert O. Smith
ABSTRACT In the context of American religious history up to the time of President Trump, this paper outlines various America Christian attitudes towards the State of Israel, and the roots of contemporary Christian Zionism and its influence on recent US policies towards the Holy Land.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2162682
P. Ladouceur
ABSTRACT This article examines anti-Semitism in Romanian Orthodoxy prior to World War II and during the Romanian Holocaust. Romanian religious ethnonationalism articulated by hierarchs, clergy, and theologians provided the ideological backdrop for government anti-Semitic measures, underpinned the ideology of a violent religious-fascist organisation, and fostered a social ethos and suspension of morality which facilitated participation of Orthodox clergy and faithful in the mistreatment of Jews. Subsequently, the Church sought to conceal its role in the persecution of the Jews, portraying itself as a powerless victim of fascism. The paper advances a fivefold typology of a majority church behaviour towards religious and ethnic minorities, and concludes that the attitude of the Romanian Orthodox Church towards Jews in the 1930s and during World War II was largely one of approval, connivance, and collusion with discrimination and violence, to the detriment of the universality of the Gospel and the Church, and Christian charity.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2022.2147767
Chris Marooney
towards it. It was then that God spoke to Him and revealed Himself (135). Through each feast, Hart invites us deeper into a mystery that, with the magi and the shepherds, provokes awe and wonder rather than thesis, analysis and conclusion. In this respect, Aidan Hart’s work might be considered to visual art what the theologian John Behr has been to biblical study, whose own scriptural analysis has been shaped by a reconsideration and importance of the liturgical – helping us to rediscover those connections and symbols that higher criticism has stripped away in a frenzy of historicism and yet without which the signs to the new Jerusalem are difficult to discern. If such ressourcement is being encountered in the realms of the history of art or biblical studies, this might yet be true for our church buildings. Whether it is the technology-filled warehouse of the contemporary megachurch, the pared back simplicity promoted by many Roman Catholic architects post-Vatican II, or (dare I say it), Anglican cathedrals like my own that have been filled with what might be termed ‘gallery art’ more likely to signify a dean’s ego than the Incarnation, Festal Icons is richly suggestive of other possibilities for liturgical and missional renewal for the churches of the West. Indeed, this would be its own form of recovery: what is particularly striking reading this book is just how diverse that offering of praise was prior to the Renaissance. Festal Icons does not leave the reader thinking we need to fill our churches with Russian icons. Rather, through manifold illustration, we encounter the extraordinary variety with which Christians of very different contexts have used the gifts of God in nature – wood, metal, stone and pigment – to return creation’s praise and thanksgiving. Indeed, in an age in which churches have become obsessed with technology whilst fretting about our alienation from a planet we casually despoil, the common denominator of the icon is a sense of humility, otherness and mystery that, like nectar to the bee, is naturally irresistible. As such, Festal Icons bears a much wider readership than those purely interested in the visual-art traditions of Orthodoxy. Hart and Gracewing are to be congratulated for giving us not just a liturgical ‘toolbox’ but a genuine treasury of faith that, very reasonably priced, ought to be inwardly digested by any Christian desirous to enter more deeply into the wonder of God’s self-revelation to us in Jesus Christ.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2022.2164646
D. Inman
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2161721
B. Nichols
ABSTRACT The funeral of the late Queen raises questions for liturgists and for the associated disciplines of ethnography and ritual studies. It followed a rite little used for Christian funerals, framed in language now deemed archaic and unintelligible. Yet promoters of modern language liturgy who might have been expected to be critical remained silent. For a wider public, the language choice at the funeral was consistent with an image of a figure who embodied tradition. This article considers the funeral liturgy in three movements – outdoor, transitional, and indoor. It concludes that this was a funeral in keeping with the liturgical formation of the deceased and her sense of her symbolic role in the Church of England. But it also asks how the contemporary language rites of the Church of England could be shown to be capable of supporting the kind of pageantry and ceremonial expected of royal occasions.
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