CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2007

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... For over fifty-five years, we at CrossCurrents have moved beyond the sometimes narrow agendas of academic guilds to explore the most interesting intersections of religion and intellectual life. We have discovered when we trespass the...

Judaism as a free church: footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... At the very beginning of his posthumously published volume, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, John Howard Yoder wrote: A wide stream of literature, some erudite and original, some creatively popular, has opened up the...

A footnote on Jesus.(essay on the interpretation of Jesus Christ)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... I am a Christian who walks in the tradition that John Howard Yoder characterized, depending on the emphasis of the moment, as "free church" or "peace church" or "radical reformation" or "believers' church." (1) It is from within that stream of...

Further footnotes on Judaism, Yoder and Boyarin.(Daniel Boyarin, John Howard Yoder)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... In his essay, Daniel Boyarin identifies one point of significant agreement with Yoder and two questions. Positively, Boyarin sees reflections of his own work in Yoder's historical de-construction. Both Boyarin and Yoder agree that we can no...

Further footnotes on Zionism, Yoder, and Boyarin.(John Howard Yoder, Daniel Boyarin)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Us here, them there." That was the blunt election slogan of Ehud Barak, the former Labor Party leader, in his successful bid to be Israel's Prime Minister back in 1999, and it was the banner he raised during peace negotiations with the...

Further footnotes on rhetoric, Yoder, and Boyarin.(John Howard Yoder, Daniel Boyarin)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Desire and Rhetoric I want to begin by expressing gratitude to Professor Boyarin for the extraordinary gift of his essay. For me, at least, and I hope for others among us, this gift is extraordinary for several reasons. First, it offers a...

Further footnotes on Paul, Yoder, and Boyarin.(Saint Paul, John Howard Yoder, Daniel Boyarin)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... It is an honor to respond to Professor Boyarin's article, in which he addresses an important topic. Most people I talk with are willing to accept as self-evident that religious differences can foster deep divisions and, sometimes, breed...

Reflections on Covenant and Mission forty years after Nostra Aetate.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... The release of the study document Reflections on Covenant and Mission from an ongoing consultation between the National Council of Synagogues in the USA and the US Catholic Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs on 12...

Religion: source of terror and transformation; Reflections on seeing the face of God in my religious Other.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... It was May at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, and the semester was almost over. I sat on the enclosed sun porch at Woodland Hall with a group of Muslim women and discreetly pocketed the nuts they offered me because I did not know how to the...

Theopoetic/theopolitic.(influence of politics on religion)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Have we not learned by now to keep theology out of politics? Do not the sacred oils of religion fuel the fires raging in the Middle East? Must we not clear our heads of theology and so liberate politics from the distortions of the political...

Christian theology and the re-enchantment of the world.(Essay)
January 1, 2007... Christian theology faces many new opportunities and challenges in the postmodern and post-Christian cultures of the contemporary world, especially in the West. Pluralism, relativism, the social nature of knowledge, virtual reality,...

Troubling the waters.(BOOKS)(God's Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Katharine Rhodes Henderson God's Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World Continuum, 2006. 247 pp. $24.95 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Those impassioned and immortal words, penned in his...

Atheists' hotline.(BOOKS)(The God Delusion)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Richard Dawkins The God Delusion Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 406 pp. $27 First of all, how many books come bearing laurels from both Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and nihilistic Tricksters Penn and Teller? Then too, when's the...

The "Yankee Mohammedan": Alexander Russell Webb and the quest for an American Islam.(BOOKS)(A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Umar F. Abd-Allah A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb Oxford University Press, 2006. 388 pp. $35.00 With Islam in America a subject of growing interest among Americans of all religious persuasions, the...

Repenting of theology.(BOOKS)(Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... J. Harold Ellens Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration Praeger 2006, 216 pp. $44.95 Sex in the Bible is a refreshingly contemporary consideration of a cluster of themes that are usually treated quite separately. We are used to...

The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event.(BOOKS)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... John D. Caputo The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event Indiana University Press, 2006. 356 pp. $24.95 (Paperback) Bible and theology: so what's with the philosopher, you might well ask? Did we think we needed Jack Caputo to...