Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2068253
M. O'kane
throughout, as he did for many others, both Jews and German Christians: there are countless letters of recommendation and reference; schemes of support are patiently constructed only to be upended by events. But Bell was also a learner. Although in regular contact with the German churches, he himself knew little German, and did not know the country well. Though, as the editors note (p.xv), Leibholz did much to confirm ideas that were already Bell’s, his influence was in giving Bell’s positions a new weight and substance, and in helping lift them out of the more confined milieu of English middle-class and ecclesiastical life. As such, the letters provide a rich and invaluable contextualisation of Bell’s very well-known political interventions, in Parliament and in print. Bell’s learning shows a kind of humility that was not always found on the episcopal bench. There is also a further connection to a rather more well-known German Christian of the same generation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, to whose twin sister Sabine, Leibholz was married. It was through Bonhoeffer, whom Bell knew very well, that Leibholz and Bell were put together. One of the editors, Andrew Chandler, has written on the later legacy of Bonhoeffer’s thought, and his martyrdom at Nazi hands in the last days of the war. If not quite the subject of a cult, Bonhoeffer has taken on a venerable status in later years, and it is an affecting experience to overhear Bell and Leibholz exchange news of Bonhoeffer’s imprisonment, with an increasing desperation, still clinging in April 1945 to seemingly hopeful but erroneous scraps of information, by which time (as the reader knows) Bonhoeffer was already dead. As the urgency waned in the early 1950s, Bonhoeffer provided a thread of shared memory between the Leibholzes and Bell, who after his death was described as ‘the most faithful and best friend we have had in the English-speaking world.’ (453) Though neither Bell nor Leibholz bore the ultimate cost of discipleship as Bonhoeffer did, the whole volume intertwines the personal and the political in an unforgettable way. It should be required reading for scholars of the religious and political history of Europe, but deserves a much wider readership than that.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2061136
Edward Creedy
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2022.2051837
D. Jasper
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Pub Date : 2022-03-22DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2022.2046788
T. Root
ABSTRACT In 1933, ecumenical endeavour in the Church of England saw the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, preceded four years earlier by Anglican theologians meeting informally with their counterparts from the Nordic Lutheran Churches. Following the Second World War these theological meetings resumed whilst official ecumenical meetings between the churches were sporadic and distinctions between the two confused. This article examines the Church of England’s approach to the proposed 1952 theological conference in Finland. Correspondence between those who saw real value in these informal meetings and those who did not shines, a light on their ideological and bureaucratic differences. From that divisiveness, threats to end these conferences came from Archbishop Fisher and H. M. Waddams, General Secretary of the Council on Foreign relations, whilst Bishops Bell Hunter strove to protect them. This article argues their continuance was an important step on the road to the Porvoo Common Statement.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2049502
H. Schaeffer, K. Tamminga
ABSTRACT Based on qualitative research, this article reflects on how academic theology might contribute to practising inclusion as taking part in God’s salvific actions. After an overview of the disability-discourse in theology, and presenting some empirical findings, we conclude that theological discourse is a reflective practice in response to God’s salvific actions. Theologies of disability must, therefore, be practice-driven and invest in theological reflection. Furthermore, we scrutinise this practice-driven approach by analysing the discourse of ‘practice’ within qualitative research. Here, as well as in the theological discourse, the inclusive practice of reflection is brought to the fore. We conclude by pointing at the concrete sites of such inclusive reflection: local church communities that live out their calling to be transformative. Theologies of disability should be intimately connected to and informed by concrete church practices, while continuously keeping a critical conversation going to challenge those practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2027214
Topher Endress
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2027213
Talitha Cooreman-Guittin
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2034407
Justin Glyn SJ
ABSTRACT Nancy Eiesland’s, The Disabled God seminally argued that Incarnation and disability are not mutually exclusive. Disability was integral to Christ’s humanity. Others developed the claim that imago Dei lies in relational capacity (shared by all). This paper takes this further, proposing that disability theology enables re-examination of the broader doctrine of Incarnation. This sees ‘The Disabled God’ present at the outset of Christ’s earthly life as a function of taking on humanity, not merely in the wounds of Crucifixion. Aspects of Christian tradition which have been neglected include the understanding that Christ’s assumed humanity is essentially limited and interdependent on others and God – and the implications for disability. I suggest it is precisely the flawed conception of incarnation that sees humans as self-contained that has led to disability being associated with theodicy, with exclusionary consequences. The conclusion examines benefits to faith and Church of rediscovering a healthy Incarnational theology.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2038017
B. Brock
ABSTRACT Contemporary public discourse often defends the fight for justice and equality in western societies by offering a string of oppressive -isms to be eradicated. Presenting ableism as an example, this paper suggests that justice is best served when focusing on specific accounts of justice and can become superficial and misleading when many types of different injustice are placed in parallel. The paper asks about the similarities and differences between the fight for justice for learning impaired people and for people of colour. To fight ableism in any given society will entail different acts and sociocultural analyses than the fight against racism if it is to be pursued at more than a cosmetic level. This analysis is rooted in a distinction between justice as the actual doing of justice and procedural visions of justice common in liberal democracies which aim to progressively raise the overall level of justice in a society.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2046760
Talitha Cooreman-Guittin, A. L. Van Ommen
Disability theology is a recent field in theological enquiry that changes – at times quite radically – the way (Christian) theologians perceive God and the way believers experience faith. But can it also bring about societal change? Can it be like leaven in the construction of God’s Kingdom (Lk 13, 21)? Theology definitely has a role to play in constructing paradigms, identifying processes of accommodation, justifying conflicts, promoting change, detecting languages, and driving understanding – what role might ‘disability theology’ have in this? In this issue of the IJSCC we leave the floor to theologians from a wide variety of backgrounds, engaged in disability theology, who offer their reflections on this subject. As not all readers may be acquainted with this theological discipline we very briefly present the field (1) and the reasons that lead us to the theme of ‘change’ (2) before introducing the articles that compose this issue (3).
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