CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2005

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised...

"Genuine pluralism" and Reformed christology.
January 1, 2005... In a CrossCurrents article from 1999, Rita M. Gross argues that "coming to terms" with genuine religious pluralism is one of the most important tasks facing monotheistic religions today. (1) According to Gross, the monotheistic religions have...

A matter of time: the Jew, Christian, and Muslim in conversation.
January 1, 2005... About two-thirds through the famous correspondence between Eugen Rosenstock and Franz Rosenzweig--an exchange that represents a model in Christian-Jewish dialogue--the Jewish Rosenzweig figuratively threw up his hands in frustration. He wrote...

Towards a Levinasian understanding of Christian ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the phenomenology of the Other.
January 1, 2005... The good life has classically been understood as the state of being (dasein) (1) in which one lives joyfully in the fullness of one's humanity. We do not always experience ourselves as living, in an existential way, the good life. Still we have...

Derrida's gift to eco/theo/logy: a critical tribute.
January 1, 2005... Derrida is dead. While the philosopher considered death a gift (The Gift of Death, 1995), he found it hard to accept existentially. (1) I, for one, certainly relate to Derrida's refusal of death: try as I might, I find it difficult (perhaps...

Desiring bodies.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... The scene opens with a close-up of Leonard's face, Guy Pearce's face: stubbled, sharply boned, handsome, with bleached hair and two scratches on his left cheek. He is lying on his back, in bed, looking up at the ceiling; bathed in a soft, pale...

Struggling for the soul of one's country: American pathologies and the response of faith.
January 1, 2005... At a time when France was perpetrating acts of great violence against the inhabitants of its colonies in North Africa and Indochina, Albert Camus wrote, "I wish that I lived in a country where it was possible to love justice and still love my...

Mother of all the living: reinterpretations of Eve in contemporary literature.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... When the contemporary search for women's voices in spiritual traditions began in the last quarter of the 20th century, many women found a dearth of representation in religious literature, both in the founding scriptures and in theological...

Another Christmas statistic.
January 1, 2005... Two thousand years ago, a young homeless woman gave birth to a little baby boy who would grow up to be our Savior. Even the earliest of his followers grasped the significance of the fact that he was born, not in a palace as the scion of a high...

Eurydice is.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... Eurydice is your left hand, the ebb tide's cursive in the sand; the trembling that you won't disguise, the unveiled longing in your eyes. She is the ringing in your ears, the transpiration of your tears; the hall when violins stop,...

The wind of Eurydice.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... In the mountains that border the Black Sea we don't believe beauty and power are the possessions of gods we can't see who rule from their heavenly tower weaving our destiny like a disease. In earth, plants, beasts, water, sun, and...

We were too young.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... We were too young for each other. Orpheus was entertaining friends. I followed the beekeeper for his sweetness. The gathering didn't see me leave. Orpheus held them spellbound with hymns and wine. He still worshipped Dionysus, deity...

The names of things.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... It is true Orpheus knows the names of things, but it does not happen the way you believe. He does not sow the names like rye. Nor does heaven disclose to him the label of each species. Nor does he blindly give...

The parting.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... there is no place where leaves can fall where the Earth will not love to embrace as no color deep could hope to enthrall my heart more than the gift of your grace for the seasons not a time for change but a change for time to draw a...

Hawaii.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... Ascended not, I can't believe from the belly of the Earth, this rusted place but carefully descended through the clouds heaven steps each day retrace What song have I strained to hear singing out from the trusting land this...

Whispers.(POETRY)(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2005... Whose silent air this Christmas Eve that all the world's a quiet plain where prayers pray to all believe the impulse peace was born to reign What silence rare this Christmas night so all the Earth can hope to hear the Angels...

Gay rights for Christians?(BOOKS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views Fortress Press, 2003. 117pp. $13 (paper) To totally neutral observers--should any exist--current skirmishes over the status of gays within the church make for...

Jesus in America: A History.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Richard Wightman Fox Jesus in America: A History HarperSanFrancisco, 2004, 488pp. $27.95 Fox's expansive survey explores the broad range of distinctly American views of Jesus from the time of Columbus to the late twentieth...

Bonhoeffer as Martyr: Social Responsibility and Modern Christian Commitment.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Craig J. Slane Bonhoeffer as Martyr: Social Responsibility and Modern Christian Commitment Brazos Press, 2004, 256pp. In this accessible and enlightening study, Craig Slane interrogates the popular idea of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a...

Anxious About Empire: Theological Essays on the New Global Realities.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Wes Avram, ed. Anxious About Empire: Theological Essays on the New Global Realities Brazos Press, 2004, 218pp. Anxious About Empire is the perfect title for this thought-provoking series of largely progressive theological essays...

Gender, Ethnicity & Religion: Views from the Other Side.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Rosemary Radford Ruether, ed. Gender, Ethnicity & Religion: Views from the Other Side Fortress Press, 2002, 262pp. This inter-disciplinary compilation from pioneering feminist and historian Rosemary Radford Ruether gives voice to...

The First & The Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Clams of Other Religious Traditions.(BOOKS IN BRIEF)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... George R. Sumner The First & The Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Clams of Other Religious Traditions Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004, 219pp. Sumner's sophisticated, rigorous, and theologically challenging work comprises a strenuous...

Philip Roth's populist Nightmare.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... One did not have to look for who would work in the concentration camps and the liquidation centers--the garrison would be filled with applicants from the pages of a hundred American novels. --Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night Where...

A date with the Divine: the art of Theresa Byrnes.(Interview)
January 1, 2005... On a recent fall Sunday, I took the subway down to Manhattan's East Village and paid a visit to the 400-square foot studio and living space of painter and performance artist Theresa Byrnes, whose work adorns this issue of CrossCurrents. The...