CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 1998

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 1998

Women transformed: the ending of Mark in the beginning of wisdom. (Mark's gospels)
June 22, 1998... Mark images God's Kingdom as a state of new consciousness. Here, women are followers and reflectors of Wisdom/Jesus, prophets entrusted with preaching the word of ongoing resurrection. Christian believers in the past, reading Mark's Gospel as...

Covenant or contract? Marriage as theology. (women in Jewish marriages)
June 22, 1998... Theologizing inequalities within marriage is dangerous for Jewish women precisely because it is done in the name of love. The Jewish community has found no more central and significant form for the individual Jew to live in... than the...

That every child who wants might learn to dance. (theological elements of joy)
June 22, 1998... Does willing the good for all mask demanding that all conform to our particular concepts of the good? Before she married, Polly Miller Cooey, my mother, was an accomplished dancer. During the late forties, when I was about three years old, she...

The risks of repeating ourselves: reading feminist/womanist figures of Jesus.
June 22, 1998... What would it mean for white feminist theology to figure Jesus as a black woman? The most pleased of the lot was the other lion, who kept running about everywhere pretending to be very busy but really in order to say to everyone he met, "Did...

Reclaiming women's experience: a reading of selected Christian feminist theologies.
June 22, 1998... Like many people in middle-age, I am often surprised by the time that has elapsed since certain life-changing events occurred. Can it really be, I wonder, that thirty years have passed since the beginning of feminist theology? In 1968, the...

Spiritual geography. (perspectives of feminist theologians)
June 22, 1998... In presenting an issue on "new feminist theologies," I thought that the best way to find out what feminist theologians were doing was simply to ask them. The following respondents replied to variations on the questions, "How do you see your role...

Horizons in Feminist Theology: Identity, Tradition, and Norms.'
June 22, 1998... Rebecca S. Chopp and Sheila Greeve Davaney, eds. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. 264pp. $18.00 (paper). In recent years, feminist theology has become increasingly multi-faceted, drawing upon the diverse theories and methodologies of...

Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community.
June 22, 1998... Katie Geneva Cannon, Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum, 1995, 191pp. $19.95 (cloth). The first African-American woman to be ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (1973), and the first to earn...

Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World.
June 22, 1998... Catherine Keller. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 370pp. $30.00 (cloth). As we face the dawn of the third millennium, we are also faced with the proliferation of texts and movements - from radical environmentalists to biblical literalists - that...

Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation.
June 22, 1998... Mark I. Wallace. New York: Continuum, 1996. xii+237pp. $29.95 (cloth). This is a courageous and important book. Courageous because the author, eschewing any pretense of detached academic objectivity, engages in a theologically risky and...

The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology.
June 22, 1998... Mark D. Jordan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 190pp. $20.00 (cloth). What in the world could it mean to say that sodomy was "invented"? Did a task force of theologians work hard in an ecclesiastical Menlo Park in order to come up...

Choosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends.
June 22, 1998... Diana Fritz Cates. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 298pp. $32.00 (cloth). Are we to feel compassion for the starving African child whose face we see for fifteen seconds on the television screen? If the answer to that question...

The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism.
June 22, 1998... Michael W. Cuneo. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 214pp. $27.50 (cloth). Michael Cuneo's Smoke of Satan is an engaging survey of traditionalist American Catholics, all of whom are angry at the legacy of the Second Vatican Council. For...

Scripture and Discernment: Decision Making in the Church.
June 22, 1998... Luke Timothy Johnson. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. 168pp. $19.95 (paper). Johnson reworks and expands an earlier version of this book, making the case for the guidance that Scripture can provide priests, ministers, and all involved in...

Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies.
June 22, 1998... Margaret R. Miles. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. xvi+254pp. $25.00. In her preface, Margaret Miles notes that in the popular imagination movies, religion and values seem to have little or nothing to do with one another. She tries to correct this...

The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion.
June 22, 1998... China Galland. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 344pp. $24.95 (cloth). I came by chance across China Galland's earlier book, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna. I was waiting for this one. It carries forward the original and...

All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time.
June 22, 1998... Robert Ellsberg. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1997. 576pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Some cynics, hastily reading the title, might jump to the conclusion that All Saints is a "non-book," a scissor-and-paste assemblage of a...

Faith as Imagination: The Contribution of William F. Lynch, S.J.
June 22, 1998... The recent publication of Faith as Imagination: The Contribution of William F. Lynch, S.J, by Gerald J. Bednar (Sheed and Ward, 1996) is a significant event, perhaps of special interest to readers of Cross Currents, which published a number of...

Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life.
June 22, 1998... Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life by Paul Davies (1995), offers three alternative positions on the issue of life in our universe: (1) it is miraculous, which supports the notion that we are alone;...

Invisible Horses.
June 22, 1998... In her eleventh collection, Invisible Horses (Milkweed Editions, 1997, $12.95), Patricia Goedicke once again displays her talent for writing poems that reveal that rare combination of formal, intellectual, and imagistic vigor. Her subjects...

Rosemary Haughton: Witness to Hope.
June 22, 1998... It's about time someone wrote a book about Rosemary Haughton. Birth mother of ten, foster mother of four, lay theologian without academic affiliation or any but honorary degrees, author of fifty-eight books and more than two hundred articles,...

Original Peace: Restoring God's Creation.
June 22, 1998... Pointing out that the mission of Jesus has usually been formulated in anthropocentric terms, the authors of this original and thoughtful book insist that it is impossible today to do justice to Jesus' mission without taking the ecological context...

The Enduring Covenant: The Education of Christians and the End of Antisemitism.
June 22, 1998... Padraic O'Hare's The Enduring Covenant: The Education of Christians and the End of Antisemitism (Trinity Press International, 1997) is a genuine contribution to Jewish-Christian dialogue and should prove to be a major resource for all Christian...