Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.1177/00211400221085759b
W. Woods
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.1177/00211400221085759d
J. Sullivan
basic tenets of the faith. Christianity also impacted the marking of time with the services of the Divine Office and the celebration of Mass punctuating the day and the week. The sounding of bells for services created a distinctive soundscape, stirring people to devotion even when distant from the church, while the emergence of mechanical clocks by the end of the 13th century gradually standardized notions of time (pp. 225–31). The cycle of the year was sacralized by the commemoration of Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection. Likewise, the celebration of saints’ feast days added colour and respite to the drabness of the daily grind. Other rituals, like Rogation or Corpus Christi processions, saw religion take to the streets and helped foster a sense of parochial identity, sometimes in opposition to that of neighbouring communities. However, the impact of religion was felt most intensely in those rites that marked key moments in the human lifecycle. Orme identifies these as the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and unction and the rituals of churching women after childbirth and the burial rites. The parish church, he concludes, was for most people ‘the scene of all the major events of human life. The first “epiphany” after birth at baptism, first confession and first communion in adolescence, marriage, churching, and funeral punctuated by innumerable visits to services’ (p. 347). The final chapter examines the impact of the Reformation on this comprehensive belief system. By emphasizing the gradual and hesitant nature of religious change from the 1530s onwards, Orme counsels against viewing it in apocalyptic terms, a view some readers may find challenging. However, change was difficult and sometimes resented and resisted as events like the 1549 ‘Prayer Book’ rebellion demonstrated. Orme has produced a masterly account of a vanished world in which religion formed part of the warp and weft of daily life. It will be interesting to see how his insights and conclusions will be applied, perhaps even to the situation in medieval Ireland.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.1177/00211400221085759a
Liam M. Tracey
passing recognition that the gun culture identity that is being critiqued (I think rightly) applies to ‘some gun owners at least’ or a ‘subgroup of fellow gun owners’ (p. 126) and that most perhaps truly intend for the gun to be used only for protection. His major concern that even such gun owners have had their imaginations habituated in ways at odds with the gospel is valid, too. However, his writing at times strikes me as unfair, as when he attributes other motives to Christian gun owners: that they subscribe to a narrative ‘that enshrines a violent hero who overthrows the evildoers with a superior display of marksmanship’ (p. 120), that they seek ‘retaliation’ (p. 121) and ‘retributive payback’ (p. 122), and that they harbor ‘fantasized anger toward an other’ (p. 128). The Afterword by Crouch and Hays succinctly urges Christians to answer Jeremiah’s call to ‘seek the peace (shalom) of the city’ (Jer. 29:7), and that this entails not only regulating and reducing guns, but more positively, to pursue the provision of better education, housing, mental health care, and other needs towards the promotion of the common good. I agree. Unfortunately, their book missed an opportunity to forge a greater alliance with most Christians who are not pacifists but who nevertheless agree that guns pose a clear and present danger to gun owners and their loved ones, fellow citizens, and the common good. Many Christians, myself included, who think that armed force may sometimes be morally justified—even obligated on the part of public authorities—also support stricter regulations of firearms if not, ultimately, their absolute abolition.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-09DOI: 10.1177/00211400221085759c
Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh
The final section of the volume explores the legacy of Eriugena, an often neglected aspect of Eriugena scholarship. Agnieszka Kijewska reveals the presence of his work in the schools and monasteries of the 12th century, while David Albertson looks at the Eriugena tradition in the later medieval and early Renaissance periods, with a particular study of the themes of negation, theophany, and anthropology in the thought of Nicholas of Cusa. Dermot Moran sketches Eriugena’s reception in modernity, particularly with respect to German Idealism. Stephen Lahey’s short essay includes an important summary of the Amaurician heresy (since it is relevant to the condemnation of the Periphyseon in CE 1225), but it is unclear why he follows this with a brief exposition of Idealism in Eriugena’s thought. This essay also appears misplaced (coming last) in the chronological ordering of essays in this section. Finally, the words of Pope Benedict XVI regarding Eriugena is a welcome addition in the Appendix, in which the Irish master is recommended as a source of inspiration to contemporary theologians: his endeavour to ‘express the expressible of the inexpressible God,’ the pope wrote in 2009, cultivates a ‘constant readiness to conversion.’
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00211400221078904
Peter John McGregor
The stated aim of the Leuven Project is to help Catholic schools respond to the cultural and religious changes taking place in a pluralised and secularised society. In this new environment, the ideal Catholic school should be a ‘recontextualising’ school. This article examines the nature of the Project, and how it proposes to enhance Catholic school identity. It analyses the terminology that the Project uses and seeks to lay bare its epistemological and theological premises to critique them. In this critique, the key terms that are analysed and placed within their epistemological and theological contexts are ‘literal belief,’ ‘post-critical belief,’ ‘symbolic,’ ‘interpretation,’ ‘meta-narrative,’ ‘recontextualisation,’ ‘literal,’ ‘mediation,’ ‘presence,’ ‘faith,’ and ‘interruption.’
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00211400221078905
B. McLaughlin
In his 2018 book, Stumbling in Holiness, Brian Flanagan presents the knotty ecclesiological dialogue over the purity of the Church-body. There is a continuing inducement to evade acknowledgment of a sinful dimension in the body of the Church. Sometimes Christians forswear that gravely sinful people are actually members. The converse, cynical perspective turns up as well. This present article advances Girardian theological anthropology and the ecclesiology of the Halfway House as a pathway forward. The Church and church members have a situatedness in sinful culture, generating desires and cultivating conflict. The Cross exposes the destructiveness of such desires; Jesus calls for Christians to imitate his renunciation of worldly aspiration. James Alison’s vision of the Church as Halfway House fosters the notion of Christians as people undergoing forgiveness. Girardian ecclesial vision results in the spirituality of the reshaping of desires, inspired by Jesus’ bestowal of friendship and love in John 15.
布莱恩·弗拉纳根（Brian Flanagan）在2018年出版的《在圣洁中蹒跚而行》（Stumbling In Holness）一书中，就教会身体的纯洁性展开了棘手的教会对话。有一个持续的诱因来逃避承认教会身体中有罪的一面。有时，基督徒会否认那些罪大恶极的人其实是他们的成员。相反的、愤世嫉俗的观点也出现了。本文将吉拉德神学人类学和中途之家教会学作为一条前进的道路。教会和教会成员处于罪恶的文化中，产生欲望并培养冲突。十字架暴露了这种欲望的破坏性；耶稣呼吁基督徒模仿他放弃世俗的渴望。詹姆斯·艾莉森（James Alison）将教堂视为中途之家（Halfway House），这培养了基督徒接受宽恕的观念。吉拉德的教会愿景产生了欲望重塑的精神，灵感来自耶稣在约翰福音15章中赋予的友谊和爱。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00211400221078906
P. Moser
Some of the Biblical narratives seem inconsistent regarding human fear of God. For instance, according to Luke’s Gospel, Jesus commanded fear of God, but he also evidently commanded ‘Do not be afraid’ in relation to God. To block inconsistency, this article clarifies two kinds of motivational fear of God: conforming fear and nonconforming fear relative to God’s will. It explains why conforming, obedient fear of God, even when combined with felt abandonment by God, need not yield despair about God’s reality or goodness. The article avoids two influential extremes: treating fear of God as experiencing an ‘ineffable’ object that is ‘wholly other’ (Otto and others) and treating it as mere obedience to God (von Rad and others). It identifies a central but widely neglected role for affective distress experiences in fear of God, which indicate moral or cognitive shortcomings before God but can be empowering for obeying God and for reconciliation with God.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1177/00211400221078907
Christian Stoll
The article shows from texts and sources of Vatican II that it is a major strategy of theological reform at the Council to understand the Church eschatologically. Leaving behind positions of traditional neo-scholastic ecclesiology, this strategy remodels the social, missionary, and ecumenical character of the Church. Moreover, it affects the understanding of time and eternity as well as the relationship between the Church in the political order.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1038/s41392-022-00922-2
Hui Zhou, Zhongtao Liu, Yongxiang Wang, Xiaoyong Wen, Eric H Amador, Liqin Yuan, Xin Ran, Li Xiong, Yuping Ran, Wei Chen, Yu Wen
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most frequently occurring malignancy tumors with a high morbidity additionally, CRC patients may develop liver metastasis, which is the major cause of death. Despite significant advances in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, the survival rate of colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM) patients remains very low. CRLM, as a complex cascade reaction process involving multiple factors and procedures, has complex and diverse molecular mechanisms. In this review, we summarize the mechanisms/pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment of CRLM. We also focus on an overview of the recent advances in understanding the molecular basis of CRLM with a special emphasis on tumor microenvironment and promise of newer targeted therapies for CRLM, further improving the prognosis of CRLM patients.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00211400211065650
K. Hargaden
This is a book that sketches a politics of mercy, intended to open ‘a great chasm’ between the life of Christians and the brutality of the reigning ideology of our age, which the authors dub neoliberalism. Delving deep into the teachings of the last three popes, Eggemeier and Fritz make a compelling argument that the ‘inability to feel mercy’ (p. 55) for those in need—as explored in the parable from Luke 16 from which the book draws its title—is a damning state of affairs. Their proposed remedy—the works of mercy—is misunderstood if construed as simply an individual pursuit for those who feel particularly called in that direction. What they propose is the pursuit of those charitable goods ‘out of a visceral commitment to Christ’ so as to achieve ‘a recalibration of the works of mercy as structural’ (p. 159). The Introduction of the book tackles the thorniest question likely to arise among readers: What exactly is neoliberalism? Relying heavily on the work of the American political theorist, Wendy Brown, they helpfully avoid the common pitfalls around the concept. Commonly dismissed by sceptics as a meaningless term—even a slur—neoliberalism in fact names a diffuse force that has profound influence on our culture. It is hard to summarize because it is a many-tentacled beast. But all complex ideas resist simple summation. Everyone knows what democracy is, but few of us can compose a comprehensive sentence-long definition. They define neoliberalism as ‘a politicized mutation of capitalism, where the state’s primary function is to foster market processes, each person’s freedom in civil society is defined in terms of market logics of investment . . . and the needs of people and the earth are secondary to those of capital’ (p. 3). This is not short and it is not complete, but it more than addresses the objections of those who think they can dismiss the concept as being too vague to serve a useful purpose. It is worth pausing to reflect on what is included in this definition. What they are arguing is that neoliberalism has not emerged from some underground lab staffed by malicious economists. It is a political project to divert social democratic capitalisms through the deformation of the state. Where we once 1065650 ITQ0010.1177/00211400211065650Irish Theological QuarterlyBook Reviews book-review2021
{"title":"Book Review: Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism","authors":"K. Hargaden","doi":"10.1177/00211400211065650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00211400211065650","url":null,"abstract":"This is a book that sketches a politics of mercy, intended to open ‘a great chasm’ between the life of Christians and the brutality of the reigning ideology of our age, which the authors dub neoliberalism. Delving deep into the teachings of the last three popes, Eggemeier and Fritz make a compelling argument that the ‘inability to feel mercy’ (p. 55) for those in need—as explored in the parable from Luke 16 from which the book draws its title—is a damning state of affairs. Their proposed remedy—the works of mercy—is misunderstood if construed as simply an individual pursuit for those who feel particularly called in that direction. What they propose is the pursuit of those charitable goods ‘out of a visceral commitment to Christ’ so as to achieve ‘a recalibration of the works of mercy as structural’ (p. 159). The Introduction of the book tackles the thorniest question likely to arise among readers: What exactly is neoliberalism? Relying heavily on the work of the American political theorist, Wendy Brown, they helpfully avoid the common pitfalls around the concept. Commonly dismissed by sceptics as a meaningless term—even a slur—neoliberalism in fact names a diffuse force that has profound influence on our culture. It is hard to summarize because it is a many-tentacled beast. But all complex ideas resist simple summation. Everyone knows what democracy is, but few of us can compose a comprehensive sentence-long definition. They define neoliberalism as ‘a politicized mutation of capitalism, where the state’s primary function is to foster market processes, each person’s freedom in civil society is defined in terms of market logics of investment . . . and the needs of people and the earth are secondary to those of capital’ (p. 3). This is not short and it is not complete, but it more than addresses the objections of those who think they can dismiss the concept as being too vague to serve a useful purpose. It is worth pausing to reflect on what is included in this definition. What they are arguing is that neoliberalism has not emerged from some underground lab staffed by malicious economists. It is a political project to divert social democratic capitalisms through the deformation of the state. Where we once 1065650 ITQ0010.1177/00211400211065650Irish Theological QuarterlyBook Reviews book-review2021","PeriodicalId":55939,"journal":{"name":"Irish Theological Quarterly","volume":"87 1","pages":"66 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47375171","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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