Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465
Nick Fagnant
{"title":"“For He has Saved Daniel from the Power of the Lions”","authors":"Nick Fagnant","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465","url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes that the Hebrew Scriptures’ “Book of Daniel” offers powerful spiritual resources for Queer and trans* folk in the contemporary world. First, this essay describes the four strands of Queer theology offered by Rev. Dr. Patrick Cheng. Second, this essay employs these strands as a liberatory hermeneutic to analyze Daniel’s transgressive text, ambiguous characters, folk stories, apocalyptic visions, and unifying theme. In doing so, this essay interrogates Daniel’s multivalent spirituality that resists empire while trusting in God. Finally, this essay suggests that Daniel reveals an embodied spirituality of resistance-and-faith for present-day Queer and trans* folk to unmask and resist necropolitical hegemony in ways that deepen hope and trust in God’s justice and coming reign.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"51 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139779686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475
Logan C. Patriquin
{"title":"The Greatest Physician","authors":"Logan C. Patriquin","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475","url":null,"abstract":"The story of the man born blind in John 9 is incontrovertibly presented as a miracle story. Nevertheless, this essay argues that the above healing narrative can additionally be read as a doctor-patient encounter. Medical imagery abounds throughout John 9. Bringing said medical imagery to the fore clarifies otherwise curious elements of the story and uniquely illumines the character of Jesus. Physicians and healers occupied overlapping spheres of philosophy and praxis in the ancient world, but these disciplines and traditions present as clearly distinct by late antiquity. In the story of the man born blind, Jesus appears to take on the role of doctor proper in a way that should shape the text’s interpretation.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475
Logan C. Patriquin
{"title":"The Greatest Physician","authors":"Logan C. Patriquin","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17475","url":null,"abstract":"The story of the man born blind in John 9 is incontrovertibly presented as a miracle story. Nevertheless, this essay argues that the above healing narrative can additionally be read as a doctor-patient encounter. Medical imagery abounds throughout John 9. Bringing said medical imagery to the fore clarifies otherwise curious elements of the story and uniquely illumines the character of Jesus. Physicians and healers occupied overlapping spheres of philosophy and praxis in the ancient world, but these disciplines and traditions present as clearly distinct by late antiquity. In the story of the man born blind, Jesus appears to take on the role of doctor proper in a way that should shape the text’s interpretation.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469
Brendan Gottschall
{"title":"Faith in Mark","authors":"Brendan Gottschall","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469","url":null,"abstract":"Many scholars agree that discipleship is a central message in the Gospel of Mark. Despite this recognition, the theme of faith remains an under-appreciated aspect of discipleship. In Mark’s Gospel, the disciples and those closest to Jesus are chastised for their lack of faith while the faith of others is often praised and rewarded with healings. A close reading of all the instances of the πιστ-stem words reveals that Mark uses faith in two senses, both of which shed light on the meaning of discipleship: first, faith as trust in Jesus’ power is a prerequisite for access to healing and miracle-working; second, believing means recognizing Jesus’ authority as the Messiah. Moreover, the author of the Longer Ending picked up on Mark’s two-fold use of faith and cast believing as recognizing Jesus’ resurrection which manifests both his miraculous power and authority as Messiah.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"77 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139840296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469
Brendan Gottschall
{"title":"Faith in Mark","authors":"Brendan Gottschall","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17469","url":null,"abstract":"Many scholars agree that discipleship is a central message in the Gospel of Mark. Despite this recognition, the theme of faith remains an under-appreciated aspect of discipleship. In Mark’s Gospel, the disciples and those closest to Jesus are chastised for their lack of faith while the faith of others is often praised and rewarded with healings. A close reading of all the instances of the πιστ-stem words reveals that Mark uses faith in two senses, both of which shed light on the meaning of discipleship: first, faith as trust in Jesus’ power is a prerequisite for access to healing and miracle-working; second, believing means recognizing Jesus’ authority as the Messiah. Moreover, the author of the Longer Ending picked up on Mark’s two-fold use of faith and cast believing as recognizing Jesus’ resurrection which manifests both his miraculous power and authority as Messiah.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"42 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465
Nick Fagnant
{"title":"“For He has Saved Daniel from the Power of the Lions”","authors":"Nick Fagnant","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i2.17465","url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes that the Hebrew Scriptures’ “Book of Daniel” offers powerful spiritual resources for Queer and trans* folk in the contemporary world. First, this essay describes the four strands of Queer theology offered by Rev. Dr. Patrick Cheng. Second, this essay employs these strands as a liberatory hermeneutic to analyze Daniel’s transgressive text, ambiguous characters, folk stories, apocalyptic visions, and unifying theme. In doing so, this essay interrogates Daniel’s multivalent spirituality that resists empire while trusting in God. Finally, this essay suggests that Daniel reveals an embodied spirituality of resistance-and-faith for present-day Queer and trans* folk to unmask and resist necropolitical hegemony in ways that deepen hope and trust in God’s justice and coming reign.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"50 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i1.16175
Michael Warner
{"title":"Dime Con Quién Anda Guadalupe","authors":"Michael Warner","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i1.16175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i1.16175","url":null,"abstract":"Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres – Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are. This is one of the most common sayings in the Spanish language, and one that appears at least as far back as Cervantes’ Don Quijote de la Mancha, published in 1615. In this paper I will explore briefly how this saying applies to Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking with whom the Virgin walks in order to discern who the Virgin is. I consciously do not start with theology, with the magisterium, or with the clergy. Instead, I look at the story, and at the storytellers – those stories that describe mysteries “cured in centuries of blood and candle smoke,” those people for whom “five hundred years of sorrow have not destroyed their deepest faith.” In their experience and praxis we find Guadalupe.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116714906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i1.16169
Michael Proietta, Caitlyn Shipp
{"title":"\"God, Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner\"","authors":"Michael Proietta, Caitlyn Shipp","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i1.16169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i1.16169","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the question of soteriological doubt within the movement of faith, as aesthetically represented by Johannes Vermeer’s painting The Allegory of Faith and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Lutheran cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (BWV 199). In placing these two artistic works in dialogue with each other, we will articulate the triangulating movement between the soul, faith, and the crucified Christ within the wider circulating movement of salvific action. Therefore, this paper is divided into three sections: 1.) the acknowledgement of sin, subsequent remorse, and utter soteriological doubt, expressed by Vermeer’s representation of original sin and spiritual despair and by Bach’s expression of the emotional weight of sin and guilt; 2.) the triangulation in the middle of Vermeer’s painting and the circulation in the middle of Bach’s cantata; 3.) the destruction of sin and the consoling hope in personal salvation, expressed by Vermeer’s depiction of Christ’s triumph over sin and by Bach’s depiction of the soul’s elation and ultimate reconciliation with God. Finally, we will conclude by mapping these three sections in the movement of faith onto the three spiritual stages of purification, illumination, and union as described in the Christian mystical tradition.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122357381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.6017/lv.v13i1.16171
Federico Cinocca
{"title":"Questioning God in the Wake of Sexual Abuse","authors":"Federico Cinocca","doi":"10.6017/lv.v13i1.16171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v13i1.16171","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the engagement of Christian communities in the healing process of the victims after cases of sexual abuse. Over the last fifty years, restorative justice has emerged to respond to the harm inflicted on individuals by abusive behaviors. However, restorative justice alone, focusing on restoring the relationship between the victim and the aggressor, leaves many social and institutional mechanisms unchallenged. Drawing on Johann B. Metz’s political theology, I claim that three aspects must be taken into account by Christian communities to show solidarity with the victims and facilitate their spiritual healing: the necessity of structural change through serious consideration of social sin in the Church; the importance of parrhesia (open and honest speech) through peaceful public protests where survivors and their allies manifest their discontent and ask for accountability; listening to the marginalized as a priority that re-educates the Church to pay attention to those who suffer.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129125236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lumen et VitaPub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.6017/lv.v12i2.15493
Max Woolley
{"title":"Through Him All Things Were Made","authors":"Max Woolley","doi":"10.6017/lv.v12i2.15493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6017/lv.v12i2.15493","url":null,"abstract":"The medieval theological worldview was a synthesis of grace and nature that allowed theology and science to act together in a sacred and salvific pursuit of knowledge. This synthesis is beautifully expressed in the Divine Ideas tradition. In this tradition, the tapestry upon which ancient and medieval theology was written, created things existed by reflecting God’s eternal ideas of them. This gave all natural knowledge a Trinitarian dimension because the generation of ideas in the Divine Mind and of created things in the world was isomorphic with the generation of the Son, the uncreated Logos. In my paper, I will argue that just as all things exist as a primordial sacrifice of the Creator offered and known outside Godself through the Son-Logos, so we participate in that primordial gift (in beatitude) when we, recognizing the divine profundity of nature, come to a knowing of God-in-things—to use Meister Eckhart’s phrase. In this tradition, humans, made in God’s image, are ordained to participate in God’s knowing of all things, and to offer creation back up into Divine life by knowing and worshiping God through theology, science, and liturgy. The Divine Ideas model, then, would restore to the sciences a contemplative, salvific power in recognizing the mystical depth of creatures. I will examine theologians like Maximus the Confessor, the Victorines, and modern theologian Mark McIntosh as they see both scientific and theological knowing as a deifying participation in Divine life. I will look at the poetry of St. John the Divine and Thomas Traherne as it lifts the human imagination, illumined by nature and consecrated through liturgy into the life of the world to come. I will close by saying that this tradition becomes especially important in a world confronting the climate crisis. By recognizing the Divine dimensions of creatures, we see how the waste and pollution of the integrity and beauty of the wilderness blemishes the sacrifice of knowing and love that humanity is called to offer to God through theology, the sciences, and the eucharist.","PeriodicalId":109688,"journal":{"name":"Lumen et Vita","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115698979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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