CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from December 1999

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from December 1999

A Call for Jewish Theology.(Brief Article)
December 22, 1999... Is there such a thing as Jewish theology? Frequently the claim is made that, unlike Christianity, Judaism is a tradition of deeds and maintains no strict theological tradition. Judaism's fundamental beliefs are inextricable from their halakhic...

Monastic Liberation as Counter-Cultural Critique in the Life and Thought of Thomas Merton.
December 22, 1999... Merton's monasticism was a critique of religion as merely another leisure activity. The fact that an observant Jew like myself could find inspiration and spiritual nourishment from a Trappist monk is simultaneously typical and surprising....

Moses / Jesus / Women: Does the New Testament Offer a Feminist Message?(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... Reading Jesus as a feminist perpetuates anti-Judaic traditions in Christian theology. In this paper I seek to delineate the general outlines of the role of women in the scriptural narratives of Moses and Jesus. Moses and Jesus will be...

Textual Reasoning, Modernity, and the Limits of History.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... Textual reasoning offers a not-merely-literary way of reading the Bible, other than history, that would tell us "the truth." Textual reasoning names both a nascent scholarly movement and the set of practices this movement tries to describe...

What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?
December 22, 1999... Stuff in a Jewish home is more than just stuff: it's Jewish stuff. An elderly Jewish informant in Barbara Myerhoff's book, Number Our Days, tells a story which he attributes to Martin Buber to prove to his community that a ceremony whose...

Experiencing Violence, Shaping Identity, Negotiating Life.
December 22, 1999... Identity re-membered in community can be more than the sum of the past's fragmented and violent experiences. Dora was born in Poland in a small town near Wroclaw, in 1947. [1] Her father was from Warsaw and her mother was from a small...

The Space of This Dialogue.(Poem)
December 22, 1999... Excerpts from a Work-in-Progress 12/31/98 I am not lyric any more I will not play the harp for your pleasure I will not make a joyful noise to you, neither will I lament for I know you drink lamentation,...

Recollection, Zakhor, Anamnesis: On Ira Stone's Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The greatest problem which currently faces modern or postmodern Jewish thought in America is its lack of relevance to the Jewish community at large. There are good historical reasons for Jews today to be suspicious of anything that falls under...

Editor's Choice: Judaism's Twentieth-Century Conversations.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Paul Mendes-Flohr, German Jews: A Dual Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. l49pp. $18.50 (cloth). Scott Bader-Saye, Church and Israel after Christendom: The Politics of Election. Boulder, Cob.: Westview Press, 1999. l9lpp....

"Time Is on My Side".(Review)
December 22, 1999... Mary Daly, Quintessence...Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 288pp. $24.00 (hardcover). Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women and Redemption: A Theological History. Minneapolis:...

How Do I Get To Heaven? Practice.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Robert Wuthnow, After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. 277pp. $29.95 (cloth). In After Heaven, Wuthnow builds upon the well-established assertion that...

On Renouncing Antisemitism.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Frank E. Eakin, Jr., What Price Prejudice? Christian Antisemitism in America. New York and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press/Stimulus Books, 1998. 210pp. $9.95 (paper). Despite the subtitle, most of this book is not about prejudice against Jews...

Religious Pluralism and Me.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Paul B. Steinmetz, S.J., Pipe, Bible, and Peyote among the Oglala Lakota: A Study in Religious Identity. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998. 237pp., 22 photos, 1 map, 2 diagrams. $19.95 (paper). This work might more aptly be...

Whose Jesus Is It?(Review)
December 22, 1999... Luke Timothy Johnson, Living Jesus. San Francisco: Harper, 1998. 210pp. $22.00 (cloth). Anyone who has read Luke Timothy Johnson's works of late knows that he strongly criticizes both the Jesus Seminar and the use of the historical method...

Pentecostal Theology.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Edith L. Blumhofer, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker, eds., Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 273pp. $12.50 (paper). This solid and useful volume emerged from a...

Catholics in the Mainstream.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Mark S. Massa, Catholics and American Culture, Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1999. 278pp. $24.95 (cloth). A theological morality tale! That's what Mark Massa calls his...

Spellbinding.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 451pp. $30.00 (cloth). There is something titillating about mesmerism, as the jacket illustration of Alison Winter's...

A Case of Conscience.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Garth L. Hallett, Priorities and Christian Ethics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 202pp. $54.95 (cloth). I am glad to have read this fine book, and over and above what I have learned from it, I know how I will...

Loving Enemies, Loving Friends.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship. Trans. George Collins. London: Verso, 1997. 308pp. $20.00 (paper). Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship is a work that applies his use of differance to the concept of friendship. At base,...

Ethics and the Welfare Debate.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Thomas Massaro, Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform. Collegeville, Minn: Glazier/Liturgical Press, 1998. 276pp. $24.95 (paper). On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed into law The Personal Responsibility and...

A Truly National Revival.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Kathryn Teresa Long, The Revival of 1857-58: Interpreting an American Religious Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 256pp. $45.00 (cloth). Historians often succumb to the temptation to trace origins too far back and...

A Priest beyond Good and Evil.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Jean Sulivan, Eternity, My Beloved. Translated from the French by Sr. Francis Ellen Riordan. Introduction by Joseph Cunneen. St. Paul, Minn.: River Boat Books, 1999. 146pp. $15.00 (paper) Eternity, My Beloved is a novel about novel-writing....

Faith + Learning = Wisdom.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Craig Dykstra, Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices. Louisville, Ky.: Geneva Press, 1999. 169pp. $18.00 (paper). Prior to assuming his present position as Vice President for Religion of the Lilly Endowment, Craig...

Pictures from an Exhibition (Virtual).(British National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue on CD-ROM)
December 22, 1999... The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue on CD-ROM, second edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. $95.00. In discussing The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue on CD-ROM, I can promise the almost total...