Harvard Theological Review articles from July 2002

Harvard Theological Review archives from July 2002

The offense of divine revelation.(aversion toward appeal to revelation)
July 1, 2002... This paper and the two responses to it were presented as part of "Evangelical Perspectives on Biblical Authority," a conference held at Harvard Divinity School on 9 and 10 March 2001. The conference was sponsored by the School under the...

A Roman Catholic perspective on the offense of revelation--response to William Abraham.(response to article in this issue, p. 251)
July 1, 2002... Professor Abraham has given us a stimulating paper on the central and prophetic nature of revelation. I thank him for it. Several years ago at a meeting of a theological society Professor Gabriel Fackre gently chided David Tracy and myself by...

Discernment and practice: questions for a logic of revelation--response to William Abraham.(response to article in this issue, p. 251)
July 1, 2002... Let me thank Professor Abraham for such an interesting and engaging presentation on the status and character of the epistemology and logic of divine revelation. The humility he calls for, and the spirit animating his desire for critical,...

London's Barber-Elijah: Thomas Moor and universal salvation in the 1690s.
July 1, 2002... A prominent feature of post-Reformation English theology is a strong tradition of plebeian heresy. English people, men and women, without knowledge of learned languages or the theological canon, derived original religious ideas from their own...

Bilderverbot meets body in Theodor W. Adorno's inverse theology.("image ban")
July 1, 2002... A recurring issue in analyzing the work of the critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno (d. 1969) is how to understand his professed adherence to the biblical commandment that prohibits the manufacture of images of the divine--referred to as the...

Catholic-Protestant tensions in post-war America: Paul Blanshard, John Courtney Murray, and the "Religious Imagination".
July 1, 2002... * A "New Anti-Catholicism"? It is one of the ironies of American religious history that the most thoroughly anti-Catholic work to appear after the Civil War was published in the unlikely decade after the Second World War, when the last...

The Liturgical Impulse in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Mainline Protestantism.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... This dissertation examines efforts for liturgical reform within Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches from the 1920s through the 1960s. It focuses on the thought and practice of a variety of individuals and groups including Von...

"What is Religion?": Shaftesbury, the German Enlightenment, and Schleiermacher.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... This dissertation explores the links between Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and the Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) as they relate to the question that forms the core of Schleiermacher's 1799 Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, "What is...

Establishing a Pureland on Earth: the Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... This dissertation utilizes the Chinese Buddhist organization Foguangshan to analyze the cultural dynamics underlying the rapid international expansion of a particular religious community. The crux of my thesis is that the globalization...

The Relationship Between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training According to the Shikshasamuccaya.(Buddhism)(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... Where do we locate the effects of monastic training? Are these located primarily in the interior of a person's psyche or on the exterior of the body? This thesis argues that according to the Shikshasamuccaya, a Sanskrit Buddhist compendium of...

Rhetorical Strategies in Early Christian Debates over Prophecy.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... This dissertation investigates the rhetoric of rationality and madness in early Christian debates over prophecy and ecstasy. My historigraphical model is one of struggle, or negotiation of power, authority, and group boundaries within and...

Neighbors and Other Strangers: Poor Women, Critical Feminist Liberation Theology, and Welfare-Reform Rhetoric.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... During the several years leading up to the passage of H.R. 3734, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, national debates occurred over what constituted appropriate and effective welfare-reform policy....

To Lead Quiet and Peaceable Lives: Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter to Timothy.(dissertation summary)
July 1, 2002... This dissertation applies socio-rhetorical-historical criticism to the First Letter of Timothy in order to distinguish the rhetorical argument of the letter from the actual historical situation of the community. The analysis presents the...

Books received.
July 1, 2002... Ackerman, Susan. Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel. New York: Doubleday, 1998. 352 pp. $36.95 hb. Allison, Dale C., Jr. Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament: Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls....