Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231172692
Michael Domsgen
The article makes a proposal for the reorientation of religious education in an empowerment perspective. The discourses in which important perspectives are opened under this term can be found in community psychology, social work theory, disability education, and critical pedagogy. The author briefly introduces them and then asks what potential they hold for the theory and practice of religious education. In this way, a stimulating space of discourse opens up to rewrite religious education in the horizon of empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231172680
Jong-hoi Kim
This article analyzes the perspective in Julian Norwich's words, “All Shall Be Well” through the lens of the Korean Presbyterian Church, specifically its focus on sin and repentance as a practical interest. Examining the concept of sin that is emphasized in practice, I compare John Calvin’s theology of sin with Julian’s to reconsider a comprehensive understanding of sin for helping Korean Christians on their spiritual journey.
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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.
{"title":"To See Responsibility from Below: Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr, and Racism","authors":"Kristopher Norris","doi":"10.1177/00405736231172699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736231172699","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"80 1","pages":"144 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49525705","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 : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00405736231164955
James W. Farwell
{"title":"Book Review: Historical Foundations of Worship: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Perspectives by Melanie C. Ross and Mark A. Lamport eds.","authors":"James W. Farwell","doi":"10.1177/00405736231164955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736231164955","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"80 1","pages":"233 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45648571","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: 10.1177/00405736221145258
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).
{"title":"Book Review: Sustaining Hope: Friendships and Intellectual Impairments by David B. McEwan and Jim Good","authors":"Erin Raffety","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145258c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145258c","url":null,"abstract":"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).","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"80 1","pages":"109 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45848078","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: 10.1177/00405736231151648
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: 10.1177/00405736221150397
David C. Chao
This article takes Asian American Christianity to be an analytically productive religion for advancing a theory of Christian doctrine. This is in large part due to the trans-Pacific character of Asian Americans Christians who, by virtue of their racialization, make explicit the different social circumstances—from Anglo-European Christians—as well as shared ends in which Christian doctrinal commitments operate. Asian American Christians problematize the conventional wisdom assumed in the academic and public discourses concerning Christianity in the US. One of the primary set of categories in the discourses about Christianity in the US is the theological difference between evangelical and mainline Protestants. Moreover, these theological and doctrinal categories are taken to describe and define these two social groups of Christians. By centering empirical studies of Asian American Christian faith and practice, this article claims that doctrinal similarity and doctrinal difference, such as that between evangelical and mainline Protestants, do not simply explain social group similarity or difference as assumed by conventional wisdom. Instead, these Asian American case studies point to the need for a new theory of Christian doctrine that can explain the normative significance of doctrinal similarity and difference in terms of the uses of doctrine.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00405736221145258a
Rebecca Jeong
{"title":"Book Review: Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women by Grace Ji-Sun Kim","authors":"Rebecca Jeong","doi":"10.1177/00405736221145258a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00405736221145258a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43855,"journal":{"name":"THEOLOGY TODAY","volume":"80 1","pages":"106 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44490753","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}
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