This essay explores the possibilities posed by Asian women’s hidden transcripts for doing theology and pastoral ministry that takes into account the marginalized resistance strategies of women in their struggle toward liberation. It investigates Asian women’s creative strategies of resistance and how these strategies are valid and significant sources in doing theology in general and Asian feminist theology in particular. It specifically tackles silence, humor and laughter, and stories, songs, and dance as Asian women’s hidden transcripts that challenge us to re-think contemporary theological reflections as well as pastoral work among marginal(ized) peoples.
{"title":"Asian Women's Hidden Transcripts: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives","authors":"G. Cruz","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1101","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the possibilities posed by Asian women’s hidden transcripts for doing theology and pastoral ministry that takes into account the marginalized resistance strategies of women in their struggle toward liberation. It investigates Asian women’s creative strategies of resistance and how these strategies are valid and significant sources in doing theology in general and Asian feminist theology in particular. It specifically tackles silence, humor and laughter, and stories, songs, and dance as Asian women’s hidden transcripts that challenge us to re-think contemporary theological reflections as well as pastoral work among marginal(ized) peoples.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"19-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68089361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Demons as a motif in New Testament narrative may express an allusion to the undifferentiated experience of evil and suffering, rather than to distinct, supernatural intelligences. While a strand of New Testament scholarship argues convincingly in this regard, the magisterium teaches that demons exist as disembodied persons. When evaluating requests for major exorcisms, the Church insists that demonic possession is distinguishable from natural ailments so as to associate demons with distinctly supernatural phenomena. This paper argues that, even if demons do exist as free-willed, intelligent persons, their agency may be insidiously intertwined with social and natural forms of evil so as to be experienced in the undifferentiated manner suggested by the biblical authors. The collusion of personal sin and with social sin, recognized in many contextual theologies and in Catholic Social Teaching, offers a broader insight into collusion between the forms of evil. If evil can defy clear categorization in this manner, this may point to the need for a holistic pastoral response. The paper includes a brief case analysis in relation to the tragic death of Anneliese Michel in Klingenberg, Germany, in 1976. This case exemplified an extremely dualistic approach to the pastoral care of a person claiming to be the subject of demonic attack, and influenced the Catholic bishops of Germany to recommend reform in the manner in which such situations are addressed. The case analysis is followed by a survey of New Testament exegesis on exorcism narratives, and a harmatological argument for an interplay between the forms of evil.
{"title":"Diagnosing Demons and Healing Humans: The Pastoral Implications of a Holistic View of Evil and Collusion between Its Forms","authors":"A. McGill","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1081","url":null,"abstract":"Demons as a motif in New Testament narrative may express an allusion to the undifferentiated experience of evil and suffering, rather than to distinct, supernatural intelligences. While a strand of New Testament scholarship argues convincingly in this regard, the magisterium teaches that demons exist as disembodied persons. When evaluating requests for major exorcisms, the Church insists that demonic possession is distinguishable from natural ailments so as to associate demons with distinctly supernatural phenomena. This paper argues that, even if demons do exist as free-willed, intelligent persons, their agency may be insidiously intertwined with social and natural forms of evil so as to be experienced in the undifferentiated manner suggested by the biblical authors. The collusion of personal sin and with social sin, recognized in many contextual theologies and in Catholic Social Teaching, offers a broader insight into collusion between the forms of evil. If evil can defy clear categorization in this manner, this may point to the need for a holistic pastoral response. The paper includes a brief case analysis in relation to the tragic death of Anneliese Michel in Klingenberg, Germany, in 1976. This case exemplified an extremely dualistic approach to the pastoral care of a person claiming to be the subject of demonic attack, and influenced the Catholic bishops of Germany to recommend reform in the manner in which such situations are addressed. The case analysis is followed by a survey of New Testament exegesis on exorcism narratives, and a harmatological argument for an interplay between the forms of evil.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"70-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68089294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay explores the resonances between the Buddhist bodhisattva Kuan Yin and Our Lady of Guadalupe through the images and texts of the Lotus Sutra (25th chapter), the Shurangama Sutra (vol. V), and the Nican Mopohua, the Nahuatl account of Guadalupe. This is done through the framework of a dialogy that places dialogue as part of a religious quest, in solidarity rather than competition, revealing an alliance of compassion. It is a conversation with both Kuan Yin and Guadalupe along the way, in the spirit of the dialogical nature of God's Trinitarian self, deepening understanding in each knowing about the other. As an Asian American with Buddhist and Catholic religious heritages, it is reflective of an internal dialogue process indicative of an interreligiosity or interspirituality of compassion. Such a new synthesis can release the relational energy of compassion, rooting a call to mission in the partnership of both religious traditions. This has pastoral implications for religious identity, spiritual practices, and vocational call to respond to a suffering world.
{"title":"Kuan Yin and Guadalupe: Compassion and Conflict","authors":"M. Doi","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1111","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the resonances between the Buddhist bodhisattva Kuan Yin and Our Lady of Guadalupe through the images and texts of the Lotus Sutra (25th chapter), the Shurangama Sutra (vol. V), and the Nican Mopohua, the Nahuatl account of Guadalupe. This is done through the framework of a dialogy that places dialogue as part of a religious quest, in solidarity rather than competition, revealing an alliance of compassion. It is a conversation with both Kuan Yin and Guadalupe along the way, in the spirit of the dialogical nature of God's Trinitarian self, deepening understanding in each knowing about the other. As an Asian American with Buddhist and Catholic religious heritages, it is reflective of an internal dialogue process indicative of an interreligiosity or interspirituality of compassion. Such a new synthesis can release the relational energy of compassion, rooting a call to mission in the partnership of both religious traditions. This has pastoral implications for religious identity, spiritual practices, and vocational call to respond to a suffering world.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68090631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity. This has been highlighted by Pope Francis—the first pontiff from the Global South—due to his sensitivity to the experiences of the women, men, and the ecological context that are “sinned-against.” With this in mind, an important question arises: in an intercultural, globalizing world, how does the global sensus fidei assist in envisioning the wounds of sin and God’s saving work of healing, liberation, and redemption? My essay addresses this question by engaging with the Korean anthropology of han (ruptured heart/frustrated hope/black hole in the soul) . I will argue that han is an anthropology with a constellation of signifiers “thick” enough to account for one aspect of the global sensus fidei : the shared experiences of unwarranted human suffering and ecological degradation that seek God’s salvation, albeit fragmentary, in this world. To do so, I discuss intercultural hermeneutics and the semiotics of culture, a constellation of some meanings associated with the Korean anthropology of han, and the terms sensus fidei and consensus fidelium as clarified by the recent document from the International Theological Commission. I suggest that han anthropology should be considered a global “flow” within the sensus fidei that can lead to a consensus fidelium : assessing and interpreting doctrine, faith, and practice based upon the experiences of the sinned-against.
{"title":"The Han of the Sinned-Against: A Global Sensus Fidei in the Pope Francis Era","authors":"K. Considine","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1107","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity. This has been highlighted by Pope Francis—the first pontiff from the Global South—due to his sensitivity to the experiences of the women, men, and the ecological context that are “sinned-against.” With this in mind, an important question arises: in an intercultural, globalizing world, how does the global sensus fidei assist in envisioning the wounds of sin and God’s saving work of healing, liberation, and redemption? My essay addresses this question by engaging with the Korean anthropology of han (ruptured heart/frustrated hope/black hole in the soul) . I will argue that han is an anthropology with a constellation of signifiers “thick” enough to account for one aspect of the global sensus fidei : the shared experiences of unwarranted human suffering and ecological degradation that seek God’s salvation, albeit fragmentary, in this world. To do so, I discuss intercultural hermeneutics and the semiotics of culture, a constellation of some meanings associated with the Korean anthropology of han, and the terms sensus fidei and consensus fidelium as clarified by the recent document from the International Theological Commission. I suggest that han anthropology should be considered a global “flow” within the sensus fidei that can lead to a consensus fidelium : assessing and interpreting doctrine, faith, and practice based upon the experiences of the sinned-against.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"38-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68089747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article revisits the criteria set out by the Roman Catholic Church for music appropriate for inclusion in the liturgy. Given the enormous societal changes that have marked the decades since Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963) set forth specific and dogmatic principles for such, this article suggests that the new vision of evangelization—especially as articulated in Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium ”—provides important guidelines for interpreting the yet central and binding principles from Sacrosanctum Concilium.
{"title":"Sacred Fine Art Music vs. Liturgical Pop: Pastoral Reality or Conservatory Construct?","authors":"E. Foley, O. Cap","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1058","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits the criteria set out by the Roman Catholic Church for music appropriate for inclusion in the liturgy. Given the enormous societal changes that have marked the decades since Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963) set forth specific and dogmatic principles for such, this article suggests that the new vision of evangelization—especially as articulated in Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium ”—provides important guidelines for interpreting the yet central and binding principles from Sacrosanctum Concilium.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"64-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68088576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism","authors":"Jason A. Heron","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I2.1048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"111-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68088519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Word and Worship: Artists' Archives: Saving the Heritage of Vatican II","authors":"M. L. McMahon","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"79-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68088420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faith in the Public Square","authors":"Jason A. Heron","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"86-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68088344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society","authors":"C. Vogt","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"88-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68088475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses the ordinariness of death shrines/memorials in African American and Latinoa Communities in the City of Milwaukee from May 2013 through October 2013. I focuses on the Second Amendment debates, noting that the history of automatic legal gun access and ownership was prohibited by African Americans and Native Americans until 1960s. Only White citizens had the constitutional right to own guns. Homicides from gun violence is responded to by many African Americans and Latinoas with the erection of death shrines/memorials. The artifacts or symbols contained within these shrines can be examined through the lens of Black spirituality and the Black spirituals including lament for the purpose of political imagination, healing and liberation essential aspects in redressing the ethical issue of gun violent homicides. The ecclesial community has a role to play pastorally and theolically in reflecting on these shrines as tools for social healing and political transformation.
{"title":"Erecting Death Shrines/Memorials: Unified Sympathetic Fatih Responses Gunning for Empathy and Compassion in the Second Amendment Debates","authors":"Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes","doi":"10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17688/NTR.V27I1.1034","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the ordinariness of death shrines/memorials in African American and Latinoa Communities in the City of Milwaukee from May 2013 through October 2013. I focuses on the Second Amendment debates, noting that the history of automatic legal gun access and ownership was prohibited by African Americans and Native Americans until 1960s. Only White citizens had the constitutional right to own guns. Homicides from gun violence is responded to by many African Americans and Latinoas with the erection of death shrines/memorials. The artifacts or symbols contained within these shrines can be examined through the lens of Black spirituality and the Black spirituals including lament for the purpose of political imagination, healing and liberation essential aspects in redressing the ethical issue of gun violent homicides. The ecclesial community has a role to play pastorally and theolically in reflecting on these shrines as tools for social healing and political transformation.","PeriodicalId":82116,"journal":{"name":"New theology review","volume":"27 1","pages":"17-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68086877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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