International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church最新文献

{"title":"Sexuality in persons with intellectual disabilities: a challenge to Church morality","authors":"A. Liégeois","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2037237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2037237","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article we reflect on how appropriate the Church’s sexual morality is in the specific context of persons with intellectual disabilities. Traditional Church morality leaves few possibilities, while contemporary prevailing morality does. Pope Francis brings renewal by applying pastoral mercy and accepting people with intellectual disabilities, even if their sexual behaviour continues to be judged as sinful. This can come across as condescending. Therefore, we are looking for a way to revise Christian sexual ethics. We adopt an open and respectful attitude towards the sexual needs and experiences of persons with intellectual disabilities. To this end, we engage in an ethical dialogue with them and other persons involved. We build an ethical dynamic of safeguarding minimum boundaries and fostering their responsibility in dialogue. Therefore, we develop seven criteria of responsibility as a moral compass to assess sexual behaviour.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"35 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44388676","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}

{"title":"Faithful presence: a practice of belonging with people experiencing profound autism","authors":"C. Tam","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2035580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2035580","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper engages David Fitch’s idea of faithful presence with the lived experiences of autism to explore how the church can embody the concept of unity in diversity. To belong as God’s family with people considered the least among us begins with seeing them as persons, not projects. Next, the power differential in a giver-receiver relationship needs to be addressed. Then, following the lead of the Spirit into Christ’s presence, church members submit to one another mutually and equally, receiving each other as gifts of God. Finally, as the body of Christ, we tend to Christ in our shared life inside and outside the church. In the process, all in the body encounter Christ, who transforms our hearts towards loving one another, desiring to share each other’s burdens and joy, thus becoming one in Christ.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"21 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47862064","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}

{"title":"Considering a case for rights and charity","authors":"A. Masters","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2055330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2055330","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The ‘charity’ model of disability has been soundly rejected by individuals with disabilities for one that emphasises rights. Although good to be rejected, rights also have limits, as evidenced by the ongoing transgression against the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD). What new insights in Christian theology might positively impact this? It will be difficult, as long as the charity model continues to pervade Christian faith communities. While researching the rupture between practice and the faith proclaimed within the US Catholic Church regarding individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), I discovered a meta-narrative which I named the shadow narrative, because it eclipses the light of the Gospel, and leads to the devaluation and marginalisation of individuals with IDD, or any other group of people not valued by the normative culture. The co-opted version of charity is by far its most popular thread. By shining a light on the shadow narrative to reveal its undercurrents and returning to scriptural texts that underpin Christian charity, I will propose a case for Rights and Charity to renew attitudes about and opportunities for individuals with disabilities within faith communities, which could then become leaven for society.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"58 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48204150","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}

{"title":"Reconceptualising Disability for the Contemporary Church","authors":"K. Tamminga","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2042960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2042960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44076355","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}

{"title":"Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion","authors":"Justin Glyn SJ","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2021.2003038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2021.2003038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"22 1","pages":"89 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45899995","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}

{"title":"‘So debatable a subject, and viewed with so much suspicion’: Theology in the University: Australia","authors":"S. Burns","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2024967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2024967","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although marked by suspicion reaching back to sectarianism among early colonisers, theology endures in Australian institutions – albeit not always being welcome in universities. Creative responses to exclusion from university contexts have emerged over time – some more stable, others quite fragile. However, colonialism morphs across the sector, and longstanding injustices remain unresolved. This article charts institutional developments and then explores gender and colonial history as areas of ongoing tension.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"21 1","pages":"266 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46629850","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}

{"title":"Between church and state, confession and science on the position of theological faculties at German universities","authors":"Jochen Schmidt","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2022.2013448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2013448","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Christian Theology at the German university falls between two stools in many ways: Theology is an academic discipline and participates in the freedom of science; at the same time, theology is linked to the church by laws between the churches and the Federal States; furthermore, theology serves to train school teachers and/or ministers, though it also contributes to the life of the university in conjunction with other disciplines and fields of study. Looking at the field of church history in particular, this paper argues that the tensions that theology finds itself in are productive tensions and that the disputes that surround the complex situation of theology – faculties of theology in particular – at the German university can provoke theology to ponder on the balance between its commitment to the Christian faith on the one hand and to uncompromising academic rigour on the other hand.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"21 1","pages":"237 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48319135","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}

{"title":"Theology and the university","authors":"D. Jasper","doi":"10.1080/1474225x.2021.2021660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2021.2021660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"21 1","pages":"195 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47116269","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}

{"title":"‘Navigation for an ocean of interminable scepticism’ revisited: John Henry Newman and the place of theology in the university","authors":"Stephen Morgan","doi":"10.1080/1474225X.2021.1997030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2021.1997030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The place of theology is under threat in the modern university. It is denied a place, except insofar as it is useful in the training of religious professionals or as a phenomenon in its own right, on the grounds that relate to an unscientific scientism that both makes metaphysical assumptions it itself does not recognise as scientific or denies its own epistemological commitments. This article argues that the notion of education in ‘liberal knowledge’ or ‘universal knowledge’, the idea at the heart of John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University provides a sufficiently robust counter to these assaults on the place of theology proper in the modern university and that refusing such a place to it undermines the claim of universities to use the name at all. It is precisely the uselessness of theology that guarantees its place in the university committed to universal knowledge and universal enquiry.","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"21 1","pages":"222 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49628655","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}

{"title":"Theology, history, and the modern German university","authors":"D. Inman","doi":"10.1080/1474225x.2022.2026613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2026613","url":null,"abstract":"Successive genealogists of theology have long explored the significance of the University of Berlin’s foundation in 1809/10 and, in particular, the instrumental voice of Friedrich Schleiermacher in reconfiguring theology as a modern university discipline. In recent years, a handful of important monographs have further elucidated the meaning of Wissenschaft (unsatisfactorily translated as ‘science’ in English and defining, broadly speaking, a common ethos/standard of intellectual endeavour across academic disciplines) as well as the ‘historical turn’ in German and Englishspeaking theology – notably by Johannes Zachhuber, Zachary Purvis and Joshua Bennett. Vander Schel and DeJonge offer this insightful and complementary volume – the first in Mohr Siebeck’s new Christentum in der modernen Welt series – that features a series of essays giving both cogent overviews of the philosophical and methodological dynamics of this crucial context for modern theology’s development and relationship to the research university. Much of the material within offers lucid surveys: Jacqueline Mariña’s essay on ‘Kant, Schleiermacher, and the Study of Theology’ and Christophe Chalamet’s contribution on Karl Barth would be very helpful reading for any graduate student trying to understand the task of theology since the Enlightenment, for example. Other contributions offer more focussed accounts of individual theologians and church historians that elucidate the whole and offer teasing pathways for future conversations, on occasion with rich personal and contextual detail. See, for example, Zachary Purvis’s illuminating reassessment of the charmingly donnish August Neander, whose extraordinary output and influence came to define religious historicism within Germany and beyond (see also Joshua Bennett’s recent article on Neander in the Historical Journal in this respect). Articles on Baur (Peter Hodgson), Ritschl and Eduard Zeller (Zachhuber), as well as the Roman Catholics J.S. Drey and J. Kuhn (Grant Kaplan) and, at the other end of the century, Harnack (Jonathan Teubner) and Troeltsch (Christian Polke), offer fresh and up-to-date readings in the greats of nineteenth-century German theologian, from Tübingen as much as Berlin. These are complemented by several articles on German historicism abroad with an overview of Newman’s influential redefinition of the university by Matthew Muller and Kenneth Parker, the German impact on British theology (via the Cambridge theologians Connop Thirlwall and Julius Hare, in particular) by Mark Chapman, and the role of Henry Boynton Smith in the United States as a ‘transatlantic bridge-builder’ by Annette G. Aubert. These perhaps sit less convincingly within the volume; the influence of German historical theology in its changing forms on English-speaking theology arguably extends beyond the remit of the title and seems somewhat confined to the mid-nineteenth century, thus losing something of the international dynamism of Protestant historic","PeriodicalId":42198,"journal":{"name":"International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church","volume":"21 1","pages":"307 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49480785","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}