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

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

Postmodernism and the desire for God: an e-mail exchange. (correspondence on postmodernism between philosophers Edith Wyschogrod and John D. Caputo)
September 22, 1998... At the invitation of the editors, philosophers John D. Caputo and Edith Wyschogrod engaged in a lengthy e-mail correspondence that produced the following dialog, itself a phenomenon of the postmodern. John D. Caputo. In just the past year we...

The new evangelization in Latin American perspective.
September 22, 1998... The "romanizing" of post-Vatican II innovations in Latin America means a weakening of effective involvement of lay activists and the poor. In recent decades, conservative movements within different religious traditions, notably Islam and...

The new religious map of Latin America: causes and social effects.
September 22, 1998... The end of Catholic monopoly and religious diversification in Latin America are the necessary conditions for religious modernity. Dozens of different religious groups are emerging in every country in Latin America, an unprecedented development...

Toward a Buddhist social ethics: the case of Thailand.
September 22, 1998... Traditional Buddhist concepts of moral conduct need to be reinterpreted for the modern world and integrated into a social ethical theory. Buddhism is often criticized as a religion that, being mainly concerned with personal salvation, lacks a...

What is religion?
September 22, 1998... "Religion... means the voluntary subjection of oneself to God." The Catholic Encyclopaedia, 1913 "We have learned more about 'the religions,' but this has made us perhaps less...aware of what it is that we...mean by 'religion.'" Wilfred...

Spiritual life and the survival of Christianity.
September 22, 1998... Reflections at the End of the Millennium For believers, the solution to the problem of secularism lies within the individual, whose faith must supply the ultimate meaning society cannot. Western Culture as a whole has become secular in a way...

The virgin Joseph. (poem)
September 22, 1998... There is a long way to go, to when I pray to the Virgin Joseph. What a man. He is shown shaping wood. Perhaps he was a rabbi but in a rathole town needed a solid job. Oh the virgin, virgin, Virgin Joe, the soap opera perils of Israel spread...

Chosen. (poem)
September 22, 1998... Down in the deep, swimming with the dead, The whale has stayed too long, praying. It is cold, and black, and now she's blind with fear. Her lungs are bursting. She must have air. The climb is steep, perilous. If she does not rise and take the...

Bella. (after a sculpture by Susan Grabel)(poem)
September 22, 1998... They say no door closes but another opens. I say no one's fenced out who's not thereby fenced in. They call such threaded metal mesh, yet it's the opposite exactly: it blocks our blending, a shield of open weave. How pitiful always to see some...

Talking to Saint Augustine. (poem)
September 22, 1998... Pride's leaning over the yard-fence of my soul today, whispering the gossip of who's not bright and who's downright dim in the City of God. Case in point, a woman calls our church and asks them to play the Phantom of the Opera for her...

Therese of Lisieux: a villanelle. (poem)
September 22, 1998... Was I waking up to the godhead in me when my mother said I sang in her womb? The torrent pulls all in its path to the sea. Mothered by five in leaf-laced Normandy, I learned from their love to make everywhere home and greet everyone through the...

Postmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age.
September 22, 1998... Paul Lakeland, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. xiv+133pp. $14.00 (paper). What is postmodernity? In this timely, compact study, Paul Lakeland responds with a detailed and multidimensional philosophical-theological analysis. His book should...

Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry.
September 22, 1998... Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal, assemblers and editors, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 580pp. $35.00 (cloth). One can only be grateful for the generous labors of Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy...

Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia: 1790-1860.
September 22, 1998... Tommy L. Bogger, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. 264pp. $35.00 (cloth). Tommy L. Bogger relies heavily on federal censuses and local records to craft a meticulous demographic reconstruction of the free African American...

What Are they Saying About Environmental Ethics?
September 22, 1998... Pamela Smith, New York: Paulist Press, 1997. 122pp. $9.95 (cloth). In clear, simple language, this brief text introduces many approaches to environmental ethics. The reader benefits from Smith's familiarity with well respected representatives...

Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics.
September 22, 1998... Jim Grote and John McGeeney, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1997. 149pp. $11.95 (paper). Ever since the evangelist Matthew portrayed Jesus driving merchants from the Temple in Jerusalem, there has been an element of friction between...

Jane Austen: A Life.
September 22, 1998... Claire Tomalin, New York: Knopf, 1997. 341pp. $27.50 (cloth). In writing her new biography of Jane Austen, Claire Tomalin faced a formidable task. We have very little of Austen's writing apart from the novels. If she kept a diary, we have no...

"You Have Stept Out of Your Place": A History of Women and Religion in America.
September 22, 1998... Susan Hill Lindley, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996. 500pp. $35.00 (cloth). This book aims to create "a single-volume survey text" on women and religion in the U.S. It is, as the dust jacket proclaims, the first narrative history of...

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit.
September 22, 1998... Leo Damrosch, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 320pp. $39.95 (cloth). In late October 1656, a group of men and women approached the gates of Bristol, singing hosannas before a man on a horse. He was imitating Christ's entrance...

Redeeming Men: Religion and Masculinities.
September 22, 1998... Stephen B. Boyd, W. Merle Longwood, and Mark W. Muesse, eds., Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. 293pp. $29.00 (paper). Redeeming Men investigates "masculinities" and male experiences as specific and varying...

Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law.
September 22, 1998... Anthony J. Lisska, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 320pp. $60.00. (cloth). The ethics of Thomas Aquinas have been put to many and not always compatible uses in the second half of the twentieth century. It is at times not obvious how the...

Ethics in an Aging Society.
September 22, 1998... Harry R. Moody, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 1996. 188pp. $16.95 (paper). As the elderly population grows and medical advances increase longevity, questions about methods and limits of prolonging life, treatment of...

Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America.
September 22, 1998... Elliott Abrams, New York: The Free Press, 1997. 237pp. $25.00 (cloth). Since the National Jewish Population Study of 1990 revealed high rates of intermarriage and assimilation, the issue of the survival of Jewry in the United States, has been,...

Leviticus, a Commentary.
September 22, 1998... Erhard S. Gerstenberger, The Old Testament Library. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. xiv+450pp. $42.00 (cloth). Recent commentaries on Leviticus (Levine [1989], Milgrom [1991], Hartley [1992], Budd [1996], Gorman [1997])...

His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time.
September 22, 1998... Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, New York: Penguin Books, 1996. 582pp. $14.95 (paper). Three recent and well-written books on popes deserve special attention. His Holiness, by Carl Bernstein of Watergate reporting fame, and Marco Politi, who...

Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II.
September 22, 1998... Jonathan Kwitny, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. xii+754pp. $30. Three recent and well-written books on popes deserve special attention. His Holiness, by Carl Bernstein of Watergate reporting fame, and Marco Politi, who has spent...

Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes.
September 22, 1998... Eamon Duffy, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. ix+325pp. $35. Three recent and well-written books on popes deserve special attention. His Holiness, by Carl Bernstein of Watergate reporting fame, and Marco Politi, who has spent...

The Jewish State: A Century Later.
September 22, 1998... Alan Dowty, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 371pp. $35.00 (cloth). When I decided to read Alan Dowty's The Jewish State en route to Jerusalem, I took along Hanan Ashrawi's This Side of Peace as well. Hers is a memoir; his an...

This Side of Peace.
September 22, 1998... Hanan Ashrawi, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. 318pp. $13.00 (paper). When I decided to read Alan Dowty's The Jewish State en route to Jerusalem, I took along Hanan Ashrawi's This Side of Peace as well. Hers is a memoir; his an analysis....

No requiem for androids: a reply to Sennett and Wildman. (response to articles by James Sennett and Wesley Wildman, Cross Currents, vol. 46, no. 2 summer 1996)
September 22, 1998... To the Editors: In the Spring 1994 issue of this journal I argued that a complex android comparable to the fictional "Data" of Star Trek fame could not come within the ambit of many human moral and religious concerns. I was pleased that my...

Christology and Patriarchy. (response to article by Karen Trimble Alliaume, Cross Currents, summer 1998)
September 22, 1998... To the Editors: In her article "The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus" (Summer 1998), Karen Trimble Alliaume noted that "feminists used two strategies, abandonment and unmasking, in resisting the efforts...