CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2003

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2003

On the loneliness of faith. (Editorial).
January 1, 2003... IN HIS ESSAY "The Lonely Man of Faith," the revered Ray Joseph Soloveitchik eloquently and passionately wrote, It is not the plan of this essay to discuss the millennium old problem of faith and reason...I want instead to focus attention on...

On exile: Yoder, said, and a theology of land and return.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere. As if traveling Is the way of the clouds. We have buried our loved ones in the Darkness of the clouds, between the roots of the trees. And we said to our wives: go on giving birth...

Why is the city so important for Christian theology?
January 1, 2003... YOU WILL NOTICE I BEGIN WITH A QUESTION: Why is the city so important for Christian theology? The question has been stated in different terms throughout the history of Christian reflection. In John's Gospel we have the confrontation between...

The problem of the promise: Derrida on Levinas on the cities of refuge.
January 1, 2003... LEVINAS'S ZIONIST WRITINGS are generally neglected. This might seem odd in light of the fact that one of the criticisms most often made of Levinas is that he has no interest in politics. You would think that scholars looking to defend him would...

Spiritual refugee.(totalitarian aspects of Jpanese culture)
January 1, 2003... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN BEGINS THE STORY "The Little Mermaid" with a description of the place where the little mermaid princess came from. It was far, far from land, where no anchor could reach the bottom and where you would have to pile many...

Post-modernism and its secrets: religion without religion.
January 1, 2003... [I]t can be said...that a certain Kant and a certain Hegel, Kierkegaard of course,... Heidegger also, belong to this tradition that consists of proposing a nondogmatic doublet of dogma, a philosophical and metaphysical doublet, in any case a...

The readable city and the rhetoric of excess: a reading of the Song of Songs.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... ORIGEN GUIDED CHRISTIAN DISCIPLES to first read Proverbs, then Ecclesiastes, and then the Song of Songs. For Origen and other ancient thinkers, these texts corresponded to ethics, which purifies, physics, which sends us beyond the sensory, and...

American Muslims and a meaningful human rights discourse in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
January 1, 2003... THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, have called into question many fundamental Islamic principles, values, and beliefs. The ensuing discourse in many critical areas reveals the weakness of Muslims in making meaningful and substantive...

Violence, reconciliation, and the justice of God.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... I MUST BEGIN WITH A CONFESSION: I'm tired of hearing about justice. Of course, this is really not something one should say when one's livelihood includes teaching Moral Theology. I teach at a Catholic university-Jesuit, to be specific. And for...

Divine evaluation and the quest for a suitable companionship.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner." Genesis 2:18, NRSV HISTORICALLY, THE CREATION ACCOUNTS in Genesis 1-3 have generated considerable attention in both...

John the Baptist Remembers Jesus. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2003

Seeing Through Water. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2003... SEEING THROUGH WATER ROBERT VIVIAN The pebble at the bottom of the stream is the eye of the world looking through cold water and it never stops staring: It sees that there is nothing left to give, That the light trapped...

Shard. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2003... SHARD DENNIS SALEH Outside of town on the outskirts of a frown meaning's leaning propped in place by light that hangs upside-down Old worn transparency Clouded fragility How much less is there to say How much less is...

Pelvic Issues. (Books).(4 books on sex)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Judith Levine Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.299 pp. $25.95. Mark D. Jordan The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism. ...

Family Matters. (Books).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsop, John J. Collins, Carol Meyers Families in Ancient Israel Westminster / John Knox, 1997. $24.95 (cloth). THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION of essays on the topic of the family in ancient Israel from Iron I...

When Theology's God Rushes In. (Books).(Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of Theological Voice)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Laurence Paul Hemming Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of Theological Voice. University of Notre Dame Press 2002, $45.00 (cloth). IN THIS PONDEROUS, thorough book, Laurence Paul Hemming faces an acute problem: to determine the...

The very Model of a Modern Muslim Eulogist. (Books).(The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Seyyed Hossein Nasr The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.338 pp. $22.95 (cloth). THE CURRENT DESPERATE ATTEMPT to teach Americans about Islam, to correct their misconceptions,...