{"title":"Annotated Book Titles: 2023–2024 and Journals","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935560","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Annotated Book Titles:<span>2023–2024 and Journals</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <em>Decolonial Pluriversalism</em>. Edited by Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 190. Paper. <em>The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman's Life and Work</em>. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2023. Pp. 256. <em>Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue</em>. Edited by David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius. Foreword by Justin Welby. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, Pickwick Publications, 2023. Pp. 356. Cloth and paper. Vanessa Lovelace, <em>A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within</em>. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 180. Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, <em>The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice</em>. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. 244. Cloth. <em>Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920–2020</em>. Edited by Jane Platt and Martin Wellings. New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2023. Pp. 273. Paper. Stanley Jayakumar Yesudass, <em>An Ecumenical Odyssey: Exploring the Redaction and the Reception of <span>The Church: Towards a Common Vision</span></em>. Plainfield, IN: Cokesbury, 2023. Pp. 474. Paper. <em>Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling</em>. Edited by Rebecca L. Young. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2024. Pp. 254. <p>All annotations are paraphrased from the publishers' descriptions.</p> <h2>________</h2> <p><em>Decolonial Pluriversalism</em>. Edited by Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 190. Paper.</p> <p><em>Decolonial Pluriversalism</em> offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms. In going beyond a postcolonial critique of eurocentrism, it provides some of the most original interventions in the field of decolonial theory. Drawing from the Francophone worlds and Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, it explores concepts of creolization, racialization, Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, feminisms, fashion, education, and architecture.</p> <h2>________</h2> <p><em>The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman's Life and Work</em>. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2023. Pp. 256.</p> <p>This book aims to summarize the life and work of Howard Thurman while also stimulating Thurman scholars in their ongoing explorations of his importance. One of the leading religious figures of twentieth-century America, Thurman was one of the first prominent African American pacifists, including participants across many differing Christian communities. He led the first delegation of African Americans to","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving into the Ecumenical Future: Foundations of a Paradigm for Christian Ethics by John W. Crossin (review)","authors":"Sandra Beardsall","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935553","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Moving into the Ecumenical Future: Foundations of a Paradigm for Christian Ethics</em> by John W. Crossin <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sandra Beardsall </li> </ul> John W. Crossin, <em>Moving into the Ecumenical Future: Foundations of a Paradigm for Christian Ethics</em>. Eugene, OR: Pickwick (Wipf & Stock), 2022. Pp. 177. $29.00, paper. <p>Engaging in ecumenical dialogue around ethics and moral discernment is not for the faint of heart. Even as churches make strides in their formal dialogues around faith and order, moral questions continue to cause disunity. These rifts also divide Christians within their own traditions, denominations, and parishes. Crossin, however, asserts the necessity of respectful ethical dialogues and bravely charts a path forward. In so doing, he models another elusive ecumenical goal: the reception of formal dialogue texts for use in Christian life and teaching.</p> <p>Crossin, who died in 2023, was an Oblate of Francis de Sales and a prominent ecumenist. He served in numerous capacities through nearly fifty years of ordained ministry, including as executive director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and as President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. In this book he weaves his pastoral, scholarly, ecumenical, and spiritual experience, including his embrace of virtue ethics, into a plan for engaging in dialogue on ethical matters. Ten short chapters take the reader through wide-ranging subjects to, finally, a paradigm for moral teaching. Each chapter builds on the previous one, inviting the reader to accumulate what one might call a \"habitus\" for ethical reflection.</p> <p>Crossin's paradigm features both gospel wisdom and fresh developments. These latter include the ecumenical practice of \"differentiated consensus,\" recent Faith and Order work that offers a \"tool\" for understanding how moral discernment occurs across traditions, and Pope Francis's practice of \"dialogical thinking,\" which highlights contradictions in doctrine and practice that can <strong>[End Page 437]</strong> lead to a \"synthetic moment\" of new moral clarity (p. 137). Crossin asserts that moral teaching cannot be \"universalized\" and should be developed in teams. It must be hopeful, even joyful, and future oriented. He calls his project \"exploratory\" (p. 139). An appendix, \"Preparing for Dialogue,\" is rich with prayerful meditations and preparatory questions.</p> <p>This book lends itself to study and discussion at any level, especially in ecumenical groups. However, it also serves as a kind of spiritual memoir, in which we meet a wise, probing, and generous Christian who sought to grow in the virtues of love and friendship and to practice them in all he did. Through John W. Crossin, readers might learn a gracious an","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142227314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Theology by Volker Küster (review)","authors":"Glenn B. Siniscalchi","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935555","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Theology</em> by Volker Küster <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Glenn B. Siniscalchi </li> </ul> Volker Küster, <em>The Many Faces of Jesus Christ: Intercultural Theology</em>, rev. ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2023. Pp. 263. $35.00, paper. <p>A salient theme in contemporary theology is that select doctrines of the Christian faith can be understood and expressed in different ways. Commonly recognized as the models approach, theologians who utilize this method have the unique advantage of highlighting the rich, in-depth nature of Christianity. In addition, the models approach can help inquirers to realize that the defensibility and coherence of particular doctrines cannot be reduced to a single representation of the church's teaching. While one theological understanding might be suitable in a particular context, it can easily become counterproductive to use that same model in other spiritual spaces. This book is an excellent example of the models approach to theology as it relates to understanding Jesus within the broader contexts of consumerist capitalism, the technocratization of society, religious pluralism, and the religious imperative to achieve and sustain liberation for those who live on the margins of society.</p> <p>Küster exposits the ways in which believers around the world have theologized about Jesus and how they seek to overcome the oppressive structures that impede their ability to find hope. His systematic approach is mostly based on synthesizing and outlining the work of theologians who work in the contemporary era. Although there is continuity between his original contribution and this revised edition, the global context of the post-9/11 world has impelled Küster to update his detailed work on contextual Christology: \"[t]he book has lost none of its theological relevance even after twenty years. Contexts have changed, but questions of social justice in its intersectionality of race, class, and gender, as well as the challenges of cultural religious pluralism, have become more acute and are now disrupting North Atlantic societies\" (p. xxxv).</p> <p>After discussing the historical figure of Jesus within his socioreligious context, the next several chapters concentrate on theological understandings that have been formulated within circumstances that call for renewed inter-religious and liberation outlooks on Christology. For example, he spends a considerable amount of time elaborating upon African Christologies and other understandings of Jesus that have Eastern religious perspectives in mind. The next few chapters are dedicated to updated Christologies that might resonate with the specifics of Black culture. In the same vein, he addresses classism, sexism, and discrimination against women in light of Jesus' teachings and mission. <stro","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging Dualism: Rethinking the World Council of Churches through Anzaldúa's Borderlands","authors":"Tess Welch","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>This essay applies Gloria Anzaldúa's theoretical lens of borders and borderlands to the World Council of Churches. Such a lens highlights how the W.C.C. simultaneously expands the borderlands and reinscribes dualisms. I explore the Council's voting procedure and flexible understanding of membership as instances of the W.C.C.'s softening borders. I also present the Council's struggle for representation, specifically with gender and rationalism as instances of the W.C.C.'s supporting dualisms. In response to existing borders within the Council, a mestiza consciousness imagines alternative possibilities. The 11th Assembly's elections offer key insights as a case study of border support and opposition that intersects with consensus, membership, representation, and rationalism. I suggest that Anzaldúa is useful for the W.C.C. and ecumenism overall in identifying and challenging dualisms.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catholic Charismatics and Ecumenical Translation after Vatican II","authors":"Mat Schramm","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935547","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>In this essay, I argue that post-conciliar Catholic ecumenical discourse responds to anxieties about unity and identity in ecumenical encounter by turning to translation metaphors. Such metaphors, I suggest, fail to give an account of dialogue-across-difference that preserves the identity of both participants, but they do accurately describe the trans-formative effect such dialogue has on one's own tradition. Thus, while translation metaphors may not work to describe the ecumenical vision of Vatican II, they may be useful in describing the ecumenical reality of the 1960s charismatic renewal. Moreover, I suggest that such an understanding of translation offers us a space to think creatively about that renewal's theological significance.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transing Ecumenical Borderlands","authors":"Kori Kazimierz Rozalia Pacyniak","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935552","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>In our contemporary United States context, identities such as Christian and LGBTQ+ have been portrayed as incompatible, ignoring the lived realities of queer and trans Christians who exist within the church and minister to it. Although several denominations have adopted policies affirming transgender people, most transgender Christians still find themselves on the margins, striving to flourish in the liminal space of the borderlands. Exploring the ways in which transgender Christians have created sacred space in the wilderness of church margins, this essay looks at shared resources and community spaces such as Enfleshed and Transmission Ministry Collective as sites of trans Christian affirmation and ecumenical dialogue and asks what a trans theological reimagination of church borderlands might look like.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José Míguez Bonino and the Third-World Challenge to the Ecumenical Movement","authors":"Raimundo C. Barreto","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>This essay examines the role of José Míguez Bonino as a Latin American Protestant observer at both Vatican II and the CELAM Conference in Medellin (1968), as well as his active participation in World Council of Churches and Faith and Order meetings. It explores his impact on the solidification of Latin American ecumenism, particularly through his critical engagement of the \"ecumenical establishment\" and his emphasis on the \"social question\" in addressing overlaps and tensions between Christian unity and social justice. It ultimately argues that Bonino contributed to the rise of an ecumenical liberation Christianity and a third-world ecumenical perspective that continues to be significant for ecumenical practice and theology today.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mestizaje for Blaxican Theology","authors":"Matthew Vega","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935551","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>In this essay, I explore the emergence of <i>mestizaje</i> (mixedness) as a Latin American racial ideology that emerged in the early twentieth century. I begin by exploring the work of Mexican theorist José Vasconcelos and especially his work <i>La Raza Cósmica</i>, which emerged at the end of the Mexican Revolution that foresaw the emergence of a \"cosmic race\" that would render obsolete African and Indigenous races. From there, I explore Vasconcelos's influence on Mexican-American theologies and especially the doctrine of Christology in the work of Virgilio Elizondo. Finally, I explore the problems and possibilities of <i>mestizaje</i> for people whose Blackness plays an integral part of their mixedness—namely, \"Blaxicans.\"</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating Confessions: Korean Vernacular Voicing of the Penitent Self","authors":"Shalon Park","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935550","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>This essay examines how early-nineteenth-century Korean Catholic women practiced confession within the Sinographic linguistic context. When Korean Catholics did not have access to confession through priests, they performed confession through both vernacular writing and brush talk, a method of communication that enabled spoken confession to be \"heard\" in written Sinographs. This essay draws special attention to the Korean Catholic women whose celibacy was disallowed by the ecclesial authority of the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Introducing the stories of Korean Catholic women from a Latin letter written by one of Korea's earliest priests, Thomas Ch'oe Yangŏp, the essay demonstrates how Korean Catholic women navigated the multimodality of confessional practice.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Ecumenism and Translation? Ecumenism as Translation? Ecumenism in Translation?","authors":"Aaron T. Hollander","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935544","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Introduction:<span>Ecumenism and Translation? Ecumenism as Translation? Ecumenism in Translation?</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Aaron T. Hollander </li> </ul> Keywords <p>ecumenism, borderlands, multilingual, US-Mexico border</p> <p>The North American Academy of Ecumenists (NAAE) has functioned, for almost seventy years, as a network committed to research into the conditions of conflict and peacemaking in the Christian churches, while fortifying the vital (and increasingly sparse) work of cultivating ecumenical perspective, content expertise, and methodological acumen among students and seminarians. Each year, a theme is selected to focus the attention of the network's established and emerging scholars, typically aligned either with the Annual Meeting's geographical location or with the temporal lens of a meaningful anniversary or pressing contemporary question. This coming September 27–29, 2024, the NAAE will convene at the Toronto School of Theology, returning to Toronto after twenty-five years, for a conference on \"Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation.\" We will reckon especially with the history of displacement, violence, abuse, and genocide toward Indigenous Peoples in which the churches are implicated, as outlined by the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission,<sup>1</sup> as well as with other resonant questions around the healing of memories, the encounter of incompatible truths, and the risktaking necessary for sustainable reconciliation.<sup>2</sup></p> <p>Last year, the NAAE's Annual Meeting was held November 16–17, 2023, in collaboration with the Center for Catholic Studies at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, with the theme of \"Ecumenism in the Borderlands: <strong>[End Page 295]</strong> Translating Worlds.\" It offered an encouraging cross-section of the vibrant and innovative work on ecumenical borders and translation—as both historico-geographical realities and as metaphorical keys—that is underway at universities and seminaries across the United States and beyond. This issue of the <em>Journal of Ecumenical Studies</em> collects a set of eight articles generated from presentations at the 2023 NAAE meeting. It is my honor, as current President of the NAAE, to introduce the articles following some reflections on the theme that oriented the contributions to this issue.</p> <p>Our objective in choosing the 2023 theme was twofold. First, as we were meeting in Texas, we wanted to highlight the distinctive conditions of the United States-Mexico borderlands as a geographical and cultural context. Such a context invites scholars invested in global questions of interconfessional and intraconfessional division to attune to more on-the-ground negotiations of Christian difference, in light of (for instance) the multicultural and multilingual entanglement of interchurch relations with the overlapping legacie","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}