Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231181735
Gordon S. Mikoski
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231172682
Pum Za Mang
Living in much of the borderland between modern Burma and India, the ethnic Chin discontinued the practice of their old religion and massively converted to Christianity after Christian missionaries evangelized and Christianized them in the twentieth century. There is a high cost to be paid by the Chin for practicing Christianity. Persecution, repression, and exile have defined their existence and history, and tens of thousands eventually left Burma and resettled in the United States after they had lived in India and Malaysia as refugees for years. Their stories, both challenges and opportunities, are, however, overlooked, and this article, thus, explores their lived experiences in the United States.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231172681
William R. Myers
From both the political right and left, the Charlottesville March re-awakened American interest in theocracy. American Christians became interested in something called Christian Nationalism. America's theocratic ideas had surfaced during American colonialism and later as the Protestant church operationalized a theocratic formational process called Christian nurture. That theological idea became an unhelpful, theocratic, theological anomaly. In similar fashion, the evangelical movement's support of an autocratic, presidential candidate had its roots within another unhelpful, theocratic theological construction. While unpacking such theocratic anomalies, the originalist legal theory of The Supreme Court is compared with Christian theological originalism. Constructive responses to the mainline church and the evangelical movement's theocratic anomalies are offered by theologians Dorothee Soelle and Jürgen Moltmann.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231172699
Kristopher Norris
This article analyzes and compares the theologies of Bonhoeffer and Reinhold Niebuhr regarding race and racial injustice. It examines the ways both theologians responded to the racial crisis in America, and Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany, in patterns consistent with their own divergent accounts of moral responsibility. The article argues that Bonhoeffer's theology of the responsible life offers deeper ethical resources than Niebuhr's for responding to the contemporary realities of White supremacy. Yet, while celebrating Bonhoeffer's contributions, it concludes by drawing on criticisms of Bonhoeffer from feminist and womanist thinkers to press this notion of acting responsibly in light of white supremacy beyond Bonhoeffer and offering one concrete example of an institution attempting to do that work.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231164955
James W. Farwell
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145258
Jay Martin
{"title":"Book Review: Unspeakable Cults: An Essay in Christology by Paul J. DeHart","authors":"Jay Martin","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"80 1","pages":"104 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45150186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145258c
Erin Raffety
ary practices are carried forward in the Pastoral Epistles, which seek to re-establish Pauline teaching and authority in the midst of ongoing threats to communal identity. The conclusion effectively summarizes the argument and suggests in the last two sentences that more work in this vein remains to be done on other NT communities. The argument of this book, in the perception of this reviewer, is clearly organized, amply researched, elegantly written, and in the end persuasive in its central claims. My one minor critique is that White might be more explicit about the ways in which his study builds upon, extends, or departs from the previous studies mentioned in the introduction by Forkman (1972) and Hein (1973).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736231151648
Jason Lepojärvi
C. S. Lewis's published writings comprise some forty-odd books in multiple genres, hundreds of essays, and thousands of letters. The theme that arguably rises above other themes is love, and within the family of different kinds of love, the love of friendship holds prominence. Although Lewis is often credited for accessible writing, there exists a number of popular misunderstandings about his ideas of friendship in particular. Several writers—theologians, philosophers, and literary scholars—have leveled serious charges against Lewis's understanding of friendship. This article will evaluate three of these charges in more detail, those of sexism, secrecy, and snobbery. The article shows that these are based on incomplete readings or complete misreadings of Lewis's life and writings. This is not to say that Lewis had no blind spots (he certainly did), but that they are not always where his critics see them.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145258b
J. Smith
feminist perspective with diverse theological perspectives. For instance, by introducing intersectionality as a tool to analyze Asian American females’ multiple intersecting systems of oppression, she transcends marginality as a place for resistance against invisibility and a creative place where marginalized voices can be celebrated. She views Jesus as the liberator who frees the marginalized and gives hope to all (157). She also asserts that Asian American women’s voices can be powerful because their voices incorporate the richness of Asian heritage, practices, and beliefs such as Ou-ri (the Korean language to highlight collectiveness over individual selves), jeong (a strong emotional connection to the deep-rooted sense of community), han (collective pain from unjust misery), and Chi (the dynamic power to bring faith and new life). Beyond proposing such abundant Asian American theological perspectives, the author encourages Asian American females to be God’s agency by building a new voice for themselves and cultivating the strength to liberate all invisible people. She invites them to participate in God’s kin-dom, which is the union of kindred persons who accept their interconnectedness and respond to oppression in terms of solidarity. Her theology of visibility not only theologizes women’s experience and honors no-named women’s stories but also invites people to put their theological confidence into action for God’s kin-dom, in which no ethnic groups are invisible and eliminated. Regarding this book’s intended audience, the book has a diverse readership. For Asian Americans, this book allows them to experience self-wakening moments because it them inspects the historical and social evidence for their vague social status, and it calls to action as God’s agency. For church leaders, it will be helpful to understand Asian Americans’ unspoken struggle and recover their distorted human dignity. For seminarians, regardless of race and ethnicity, it allows them to learn diverse Asian American theological conceptions that are integrated with Asian philosophy, culture, and experience. Concerning the strong points of the book, her personal stories combining her people’s stories—Asian American history—is influential in liberating Asian American women readers from the internalization of white supremacy. Her narratives assuredly make invisible Asian American women visible and vocal in public.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145258a
Rebecca Jeong
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