CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from December 2000

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from December 2000

Celestial Lives.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love. New York: Walker & Company, 1999. 420pp. $14.00 (paper). A popular belief is that Galileo was the lone protagonist of a rift between science and faith,...

Equal Complainers.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Thomas A. Idinopulos, Weathered by Miracles: A History of Palestine from Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben Gurion and the Mufti. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. 297 pp. $27.50 (cloth). The story of Palestine -- the Holy Land, the cradle of...

Proving God.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Peter Byrne, The Moral Interpretation of Religion. Reason and Religion Series. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998. 187pp. $26.00 (paper). Professor of philosophy at King's College in London, Byrne provides a...

So Does Aesthetic Sense.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Michael Lerner, Spirit Matters. Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads, 2000. 363pp. $22.95 (cloth). Somehow the notion has spread among current religious social critics that spiritual life was eclipsed with the Enlightenment. The dark...

It's About the Land.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Eric Michael Mazur, The Americanization of Religious Minorities: Confronting the Constitutional Order. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). 196pp. $38.00 (cloth). For anyone interested in the history of religious freedom in the...

Clear but Complicated.(Review)
December 22, 2000... John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 406pp. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This volume by Oxford and Notre Dame philosopher of law John Finnis is part of the newly established...

Shut Up, Father.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Terry Paul Collins, Papal Power: A Proposal for Change in Catholicism's Third Millennium. HarperCollins Fount Paperbacks, Blackburn, Vic., Australia, 1997. 239pp. $20.00 (paper); may be available from ARCC, PO Box 912, Delran, NJ 08075. ...

Old Song, Great Arrangement.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Garry Wills, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit. New York: Doubleday, 2000. 326pp. $25.00 (cloth). If the Vatican operated like a normal government or political party, a book like Papal Sin might have a lot of curial types quaking in their...

Coso Means Land of Fire: Little Petroglyph Canyon, Mohave Desert, California.(Poem)
December 22, 2000... Joshua tree, raising the stumps of its arms, the many-broken and the unbroken, long-haired prophet wordless for vision. The smoky-purple berries of the juniper, Madonna, della Robbia blue. And inside their cases...

Tuning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social Change.
December 22, 2000... How do we read the psalms in a strange land? Think Reggae. Cause, the wicked carried us away captivity, required from us a song, but How can we sing King Alpha's song inner strange land? (repeat) (The Melodians on Psalm 137) How...

Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?
December 22, 2000... What was Paul talking about, anyway? Not what you might think. I have a passionate interest in the apostle Paul. Many people think this passion is unusual because I am a Jew not a Christian. What's more, I like to think of myself as a...

"Fruit Salad Can Be Delicious": The Practice of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.
December 22, 2000... Interreligious dialogue needs to include practical issues that confront all human beings whatever their religious labels. In Living Buddha, Living Christ, the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hahn described an interreligious meeting in Sri...

Post-Holocaust Hermeneutics: Scripture, Sacrament, and the Jewish Body of Christ.
December 22, 2000... What is eaten in the Eucharist is the Jewish body of Christ. I was recently lecturing on the Gospel of Luke in my introductory Bible class, when a student raised her hand and asked, "When does the story stop being about Jews and start being...

Christianity in Jewish Terms: A Project to Redefine the Relationship.
December 22, 2000... The time has come for Jews to learn about Christianity in Jewish terms. In September of this year 2000, an interdenominational group of Jewish scholars and rabbis made public the fruits of several years of work and two millennia of...

Decentering Judaism and Christianity: Using Feminist Theory to Construct a Postmodern Jewish-Christian Theology.
December 22, 2000... The theological politics of difference is a key to theology after the Holocaust. In response to the Holocaust, American Jewish thinkers Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Irving Greenberg each redefined Jewish identity in relation...

A Survey of Jewish Reaction to the Vatican Statement on the Holocaust.
December 22, 2000... The French said it better. In March of 1998, the Vatican released a long-awaited statement on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust. In a preface to the document, entitled We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah, Pope John Paul II expressed...

Jewish-Christian Relations in the Postmodern Era.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The third millennium now already a year underway, it is a propitious time to take inventory of Jewish-Christian relations in this postmodern era. Challenged by the task of repairing their worlds after the devastation of the Shoah, Jews and...

Re-Envisioning Christianity: A New Era in Christian Theological Interpretation of Christian Texts.
December 22, 2000... Any post-Shoah theology must be constructed in dialogue and focused on dialogue, not on received traditions. My work in various dialogues has given me the opportunity to see that theologians tend to incorporate only those materials that...