{"title":"Mayse, Ariel Evan. Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 408 pp. $69.95 (cloth).","authors":"Tzvi Schoenberg","doi":"10.1086/719818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43132573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While theology has been in conversation with literary theories for some time, there has been little attention to literary form in theological texts. This leaves us at a disadvantage in understanding how theological texts function in relation to the world in which they are read. This article proceeds through the text Analogia Entis by Erich Przywara from the perspective of three literary approaches to form: aesthetic formalism, new historicism, and new formalism. It suggests that emerging approaches to form gathered together under the heading “new formalism” best explain how a theological text can have disruptive effects beyond the context in which it was first written. Whereas aesthetic formalism abstracts theological texts from their historical contexts so as to render them above critique and new historicism suggests theological texts reproduce the social conditions out of which they arise, a new formalist reading of Przywara shows how we might conceptualize theological texts as opening new possibilities in the contexts in which they are read.
{"title":"Reading for Form in Doctrine: Literary Approaches to Przywara’s Analogia Entis","authors":"Lexi Eikelboom","doi":"10.1086/719824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719824","url":null,"abstract":"While theology has been in conversation with literary theories for some time, there has been little attention to literary form in theological texts. This leaves us at a disadvantage in understanding how theological texts function in relation to the world in which they are read. This article proceeds through the text Analogia Entis by Erich Przywara from the perspective of three literary approaches to form: aesthetic formalism, new historicism, and new formalism. It suggests that emerging approaches to form gathered together under the heading “new formalism” best explain how a theological text can have disruptive effects beyond the context in which it was first written. Whereas aesthetic formalism abstracts theological texts from their historical contexts so as to render them above critique and new historicism suggests theological texts reproduce the social conditions out of which they arise, a new formalist reading of Przywara shows how we might conceptualize theological texts as opening new possibilities in the contexts in which they are read.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":"102 1","pages":"307 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42486016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is meant to respond to certain ways of construing the theoretical insights of George Lindbeck. In his famous The Nature of Doctrine, Lindbeck sketched what he dubbed the “cultural-linguistic” approach to religions. In this framework, religious doctrines are seen neither as descriptive propositions about the world nor as expressions of nondiscursive, internal reactions to one’s experience of the Divine but rather as interpretive schemas through which believers learn how to understand and interact with their world. This theory (which we call theological particularism) poses problems for proponents of interreligious dialogue and comparative theology, for it seems to allow no common criteria by which different religions can be compared. Several recent thinkers have construed particularism as unamenable to projects of interreligious dialogue or comparison. In response, I argue that such interpretations rely on imputing to particularists a disputable understanding of what comprises a “religious tradition.” In short, one must presume that the structure of a religion’s theological grammar itself represents the essence of that religion in order to construe incommensurability as such a problem. This presumption, however, ignores the important fact that religions are historically constituted and ever changing. To remedy this issue, I propose that particularists retrieve an important aspect of the thought of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who argued that religious traditions are the product of ongoing hermeneutical negotiations. I illustrate the utility of incorporating Smith’s proposal by considering the conflicting approaches of two contemporary scholars of the Qur’an.
{"title":"Is Incommensurability Insurmountable? A Modest Response to Some Interpretations of George Lindbeck","authors":"Jake Kildoo","doi":"10.1086/719733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719733","url":null,"abstract":"This article is meant to respond to certain ways of construing the theoretical insights of George Lindbeck. In his famous The Nature of Doctrine, Lindbeck sketched what he dubbed the “cultural-linguistic” approach to religions. In this framework, religious doctrines are seen neither as descriptive propositions about the world nor as expressions of nondiscursive, internal reactions to one’s experience of the Divine but rather as interpretive schemas through which believers learn how to understand and interact with their world. This theory (which we call theological particularism) poses problems for proponents of interreligious dialogue and comparative theology, for it seems to allow no common criteria by which different religions can be compared. Several recent thinkers have construed particularism as unamenable to projects of interreligious dialogue or comparison. In response, I argue that such interpretations rely on imputing to particularists a disputable understanding of what comprises a “religious tradition.” In short, one must presume that the structure of a religion’s theological grammar itself represents the essence of that religion in order to construe incommensurability as such a problem. This presumption, however, ignores the important fact that religions are historically constituted and ever changing. To remedy this issue, I propose that particularists retrieve an important aspect of the thought of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who argued that religious traditions are the product of ongoing hermeneutical negotiations. I illustrate the utility of incorporating Smith’s proposal by considering the conflicting approaches of two contemporary scholars of the Qur’an.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":"102 1","pages":"332 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47844100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black, Jonathan. The Theosis of the Body of Christ: From the Early British Apostolics to a Pentecostal Trinitarian Ecclesiology. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 266 pp. $64.00 (paper).","authors":"Ivan Hartsfield","doi":"10.1086/719815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48654934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bokenkamp, Stephen R. A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The “Zhen’gao,” or Declarations of the Perfected. Volume 1. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xi+201 pp. $85.00 (cloth).","authors":"J. Benn","doi":"10.1086/719822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719822","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48240717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In order to understand the relationship between philosophy and religion, one of the major questions that must be explored is the relation between natural law and prophetic law. One of the main problems with modern research on this topic in the field of Jewish studies is that debate is relegated to the interpretation of only a few thinkers whose ideas are presumed to represent Judaism. The aim of this article is to begin remedying this issue by analyzing the relation between the Law of Moses and natural law as presented by four Jewish Averroists: Rabbis Isaac Albalag, Isaac Pulgar, Josef Ibn Kaspi, and Levi ben Abraham.
为了理解哲学与宗教之间的关系，必须探讨的主要问题之一是自然规律与预言规律之间的关系。犹太研究领域对这一主题的现代研究的主要问题之一是，辩论只限于少数思想家的解释，他们的思想被认为代表了犹太教。本文的目的是通过分析四位犹太Averroist（拉比Isaac Albalag、Isaac Pulgar、Josef Ibn Kaspi和Levi ben Abraham）提出的摩西律法与自然法之间的关系，开始纠正这一问题。
{"title":"Natural Law and the Law of Moses in Jewish Averroistic Philosophy","authors":"S. Sadik","doi":"10.1086/719817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719817","url":null,"abstract":"In order to understand the relationship between philosophy and religion, one of the major questions that must be explored is the relation between natural law and prophetic law. One of the main problems with modern research on this topic in the field of Jewish studies is that debate is relegated to the interpretation of only a few thinkers whose ideas are presumed to represent Judaism. The aim of this article is to begin remedying this issue by analyzing the relation between the Law of Moses and natural law as presented by four Jewish Averroists: Rabbis Isaac Albalag, Isaac Pulgar, Josef Ibn Kaspi, and Levi ben Abraham.","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":"102 1","pages":"354 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42968386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Di Segni, Diana, ed., and Moses Maimonides. Dux Neutrorum vel Dubiorum, Part I. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, Bibliotheca 17.1. Leeuven: Peeters, 2019. 534 pp. $118.00 (cloth).","authors":"Lucy K. Pick","doi":"10.1086/719825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46634976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herdt, Jennifer A. Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 312 pp. $40.00 (cloth).","authors":"Theodore M. Vial","doi":"10.1086/719898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49164177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter. Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 206 pp. $32.95 (paper); $95.00 (cloth).","authors":"Emilia Bachrach","doi":"10.1086/719823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49311750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebillard, Éric. The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 192 pp. $59.95 (cloth).","authors":"Kelly Holob","doi":"10.1086/719819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45199,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF RELIGION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41463368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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