CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 2001

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 2001

Editorial: The Image on Impact.(religious images)
June 22, 2001... To study religious imagery is to discover a good many more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our theologies. Metaphor outruns reason; where theology attempts a coherent and defensible statement of our relations with the universe,...

Violence in Christian Theology.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... It is not difficult to see why discussion of the relationship of violence and Christianity is controversial. [1] When asked whether Christianity supports violence and is a violent religion, does one answer "Of course -- look at the crusades,...

The Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments.(Transcript)
June 22, 2001... Introduction In 1993, I published my post-shoan [1] theology entitled Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster John Knox). The book did not have the impact on Jewish and Christian theologians, on psychotherapists, or on...

Jephthah's Daughter.
June 22, 2001... The Book of Judges recounts the history of the Israelite people after settling in the promised land, as the tribes struggle against neighboring peoples such as the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Ammonites and the Moabites. The story of...

Blood & Stone: Violence in the Bible & the Eye of the Illustrator.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... In every beginning there is darkness. The darkness of chaos seems eternal, Yet form emerges: light dawns, and life is born. The Sixth Service of the New Union Prayerbook Art always meditates on death, and thus creates life. ...

Notes on God's Violence.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... for Mara Benjamin The half-formed cup cries out in agony, The lump of clay suffers a silent pain. I heard the cup, though, full of feeling, say, "O clay be true, O clay keep constant to Your need to take, again and once...

Devoured by God: Cannibalism, Mysticism, and Ethics in Simone Weil.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Vishnu, seeing you brush the clouds with flames of countless colors, your mouths agape, your huge eyes blazing my inner self quakes... Seeing the fangs Protruding from your mouths like the fires of...

The Precarious Ties That Bind Us: Sotah 2a.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Editor's Introduction For those not acquainted with talmudic study, it will be helpful to know that it is a twenty-five-hundred-year-old process of cooperative textual reasoning, which begins with the effort to understand the connection...