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{"title":"Decolonizing Interreligious Education: Developing Theologies of Accountability by Shannon Frediani (review)","authors":"Angela Berliner","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935554","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>Decolonizing Interreligious Education: Developing Theologies of Accountability</em> by Shannon Frediani <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Angela Berliner </li> </ul> Shannon Frediani, <em>Decolonizing Interreligious Education: Developing Theologies of Accountability</em>. Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. 165. $95.00. <p><em>Decolonizing Interreligious Education</em> introduces readers to how colonization (of thought and deed) harms certain populations and how interreligious education can address and repair these wrongs. The author takes concepts that have little meaning outside academia and makes them accessible and usable to the layperson, the student, and the teacher. Frediani shares her formidable research in uplifting marginalized perspectives with a clarity that allows this book to be a useful tool both for experts in the field of decolonial studies and for those just starting to learn.</p> <p>Decolonizing interreligious education begins with finding narratives that have been pushed to the background in favor of the narratives of colonizers. Looking back at my education, European and European-American history and literature were the dominant voices, particularly before college. The experiences of marginalized populations were mostly limited to a paragraph or chapter in a textbook, or a single class session. Frediani asks her readers to engage in the interreligious imaginary to think outside the dominant histories. The author surveys diverse scholars and how educators can use their ideas in the work of decolonizing interreligious education. She explores what is missing due to this <strong>[End Page 438]</strong> coloniality of thought, exposes the politicizing of religion to dominate, and seeks out alternative scholarship to help educators imagine new ways to approach their work to help religious leaders better address the populations most affected by systemic injustice.</p> <p>The author then delves into different ways that pastoral and spiritual-care practitioners can incorporate decoloniality into their work. The first step is acknowledging the harm and grief caused by colonization and systemic injustice, which is then followed by a reconnection to religious narratives that have been erased or suppressed. In this way, leaders and teachers can subvert, upend, and reverse the dominant theologies that take place in interreligious education. She concludes the book by showing how her research can be used among populations who have experienced oppression to heal and resist the dominant and dominating narratives. By expanding the interreligious imagination to think outside the status quo, addressing the damage caused by colonization, and discovering knowledge that usually exists on the margins of education, interreligious educators ","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220769","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":"Choose the Narrow Path: The Way for Churches to Walk Together by Pierre W. Whalon (review)","authors":"Mike Smith","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935558","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>Choose the Narrow Path: The Way for Churches to Walk Together</em> by Pierre W. Whalon <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Mike Smith </li> </ul> Pierre W. Whalon, <em>Choose the Narrow Path: The Way for Churches to Walk Together</em>. Studies in Episcopal and Anglican Theology 14. New York: Peter Lang, 2023. Pp. 292. $99.95, cloth or eBook. <p>\"Choose the Narrow Path. Now.\" This terse and urgent call closes Section 1 of Whalon's <em>Choose the Narrow Path</em> and aptly sums up the thrust of the work. Speaking into an ecumenical stalemate, he argues that bilateral dialogues have cleared ground for the identification of a common statement of faith among communions—a \"Narrow Path\" of shared belief. Moreover, he argues that the presence of this common belief demands shared praxis toward visible unity, particularly in the offer of exceptional intercommunion in the practice of the eucharist. While the success of this proposal will ultimately be judged by its adoption (or lack thereof) in church practice, Whalon serves as a passionate advocate for a compelling thesis.</p> <p>The book is in two sections, with the first carrying most of the weight of Whalon's argument. Here, he offers a wealth of ecumenical resources that model his proposal, recount the extent and progress of bilateral dialogues, and display agreement among communions. Moreover, he acquaints the reader with current theories of ecumenism (gift, receptive, transformative) and ultimately presents his own thesis as another way forward. Key here is the contention that apostolicity stands as the last point of disagreement (though a huge one) and that churches should move toward visible unity via a minimalist approach that does not require assimilation. For Whalon, exceptional intercommunion based on shared belief is the goal.</p> <p>Section 2 then shifts attention from Whalon's argument to his personal theology. Here, having critiqued the church, he puts his \"cards on the table\" by developing a systematic theology following the language of the Nicene Creed. He thus shows himself to walk the Narrow Path and offers a personal example of its explication. Though not strictly necessary to his argument, this much longer section allows Whalon to present himself as a reliable advocate and trustworthy guide.</p> <p>Regarding the book's strengths, Whalon pursues a clear and compelling thesis. His argument is forceful (he seeks to \"[call] the churches to account\") but also measured (his call for exceptional intercommunion is an intermediate step on the way to something more). Moreover, his explanation of the ecumenical movement is a gift to newcomers to the field. Likewise, though not as accessible <strong>[End Page 445]</strong> as Section 1, his systematic theology offers a model for speech and seeds for dialogue for others on the Narrow Way who might purs","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":"142220507","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":"If We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls by Bruno Latour (review)","authors":"Zev Garber","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935559","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>If We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls</em> by Bruno Latour <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Zev Garber </li> </ul> Bruno Latour, <em>If We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls</em>. Tr. Catherine Porter and Sam Ferguson. Cambridge, U.K., and Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2024. Pp, 90. $49.95, cloth; $14.95, paper. <p>French scholar and prolific writer Latour (1947–2022) is known for his work in science and technology. In four brief chapters that compose this book, he draws from anthropology, philosophy, and sociology to demand obligatorily Roman Catholics (specifically mentioned, but others are implied) to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. We live in \"a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet\" (book cover). If we do not learn and engage collectively, we will collectively die because we are losing the earth.</p> <p>A foremost objective of Latour's chapters is to awaken Christians/Roman Catholics immersed in Incarnation-Crucifixion theology to overcome their lack in \"earthly things\" and to be overtly concerned about a new and frightening world order that embraces ecological and cosmological issues hitherto neither <strong>[End Page 446]</strong> experienced nor comprehended. He emotionally argues that contemporary earth science is an effective challenge to the doctrinal Christian views on the origin and structure of the universe, and the church is obligated to respond. For Latour, Pope Francis's encyclical, <em>Laudato Si</em>' (May 24, 2015), \"based on the rearrangements made in the modern period to accommodate the concept of Nature as being subject to laws\" (pp. 24–25) is an important guide. \"The Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home\" (<em>Laudato Si</em>', no. 13). A key insight here is that Francis's teaching is not about ecology but about creation; it is through the language of Christian theological teaching, such as creation and eschatology, that we can learn to hear the cry of the earth (environmental crisis), which is the cry of the people. Not responding to earth's woes and distraught ways enables the extinction of the earth, equated to the loss of our being.</p> <p>Latour tackles issues of composition, interpretation, and political message for contemporary times. His methodology is to help the reader access ethical and philosophical teachings and meanings derived from earth science and reconnected to biblical and Catholic imagery and teaching. Sources are consulted and identified in endnotes. Chapter 1 is primarily an interview with Latour conducted by Antonio Spadaro, S.J., and Chapter 2 is Latour's affectionate understa","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220773","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":"Origins of New Testament Christology: An Introduction to the Traditions and Titles Applied to Jesus by Stanley E. Porter and Bryan R. Dyer (review)","authors":"Glenn B. Siniscalchi","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935556","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>Origins of New Testament Christology: An Introduction to the Traditions and Titles Applied to Jesus</em> by Stanley E. Porter and Bryan R. Dyer <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Glenn B. Siniscalchi </li> </ul> Stanley E. Porter and Bryan R. Dyer, <em>Origins of New Testament Christology: An Introduction to the Traditions and Titles Applied to Jesus</em>. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. Pp. 278. $32.00, paper. <p>A significant component of interreligious dialogue has to do with clarifying the meanings of the distinctive claims pronounced by the world's religions. Discussions surrounding the uniqueness of Christianity are frequently centered on explaining the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. This book is a welcome addition to the recent resurgence of biblical scholarship that illustrates how the Second Testament writings are unanimous in upholding Jesus' ontological uniqueness for human salvation. Drawing upon Jewish and Greco-Roman concepts for understanding the background traditions and practices that helped to fashion the earliest portrayals of Jesus, Porter and Dyer maintain that the widespread use of designated titles indicates that the highest Christology pervades the relevant Second Testament texts.</p> <p>Each chapter concentrates on a select title of Jesus (the Lord, Prophet, Son of Man, Son of God, Suffering Servant, Passover Lamb, Messiah, Savior, Last Adam, Word, and High Priest). Porter and Dyer do an excellent job of showing how the traditions behind and alongside the christological titles were instrumental in the final presentations of Jesus in the biblical texts: \"the New Testament writers draw from familiar traditions and categories to help them articulate their understanding of Jesus. … [He] is presented as the Suffering Servant from Isaiah, the elusive Son of Man figure described in Daniel 7, the king-priest Melchizedek, the lamb slaughtered at Passover, and so forth\" (p. xviii). Each <strong>[End Page 441]</strong> title contributes to forming a kaleidoscopic vision of the earliest church's understandings of Jesus. The book is mostly concerned with discussing and formulating a Second Testament Christology, rather than with ecclesiastical or spiritual readings of biblical texts.</p> <p>Since the middle of the nineteenth century, major contributions to the study of christological origins have reflected one of two basic orientations. In one view, belief in the divinity of Jesus began with the groups and individuals who knew him during his lifetime. Jesus himself taught that he was divine. In another perspective, Jesus was a highly ethical and representative human being. Belief in the divine nature was fabricated as time went on among the earliest Christian communities, and the Second Testament writings epitomize the outcome of that evolutionary development. The authors conclude","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142227315","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":"Toward Unity without Any Border","authors":"Andrés Jaime Valencia Pérez","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p>The challenge and hope of ecumenism is to seek ways to see the reality of Christians who long for visible unity. Starting from the principle that this visible unity is already expressed in the unity of baptism, we aspire to the greatness of unity in the eucharist, the source of life. From every observable reality, the people of God earnestly seek an encounter with the sibling who suffers, despairs, and feels the desire for God. We believe in a God who wants and encourages the encounter, a God who has the initiative to see the face of humanity. We Christians live in many borderline situations—often at the limit of bloodshed, martyrdom, and suffering—for the simple desire to seek happiness and koinonia. The question would be: What do the rest of Christians do for those of my siblings who live in situations of death—borderline situations?</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":"142220763","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":"Ambiguous Borders: Curanderismo and World Christianity","authors":"Ryan T. Ramsey","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>precis:</p><p><i>Curanderxs</i> are healers who utilize a variety of means such as prayers, herbs, Christian icons, Spiritist rituals, images from religions, and such commonplace objects as eggs and dirt. Christian leaders often reject <i>curanderismo</i> as overly syncretistic or even as witchcraft. Nevertheless, <i>many curanderxs</i> are devout Catholics and even understand their gifting and practices through the lens of Christianity. This essay draws on the work of Kwame Bediako to demonstrate how these peripheral <i>Christian curanderxs</i> have translated diverse knowledge into Christian idiom and vice versa. Through examining examples of <i>curanderxs</i>, this essay shows how \"Christian\" much of the history, discourse, and living tradition of <i>curanderismo</i> is. It is an area of ambiguity that challenges Christianity's borders.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220768","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":"Mystery & Tradition: Catholicism for Today's Spiritual Seekers by Joseph Stoutzenberger (review)","authors":"Dennis Feltwell","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a935557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a935557","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Mystery &amp; Tradition: Catholicism for Today's Spiritual Seekers&lt;/em&gt; by Joseph Stoutzenberger &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Dennis Feltwell &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Joseph Stoutzenberger, &lt;em&gt;Mystery &amp; Tradition: Catholicism for Today's Spiritual Seekers&lt;/em&gt;. Mesa, AZ: iPub Global Connection, 2023. Pp. 359. $24.99, paper. &lt;p&gt;From high schoolers learning morality or sacraments to college students studying world religions, Stoutzenberger has striven throughout his venerable &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 442]&lt;/strong&gt; career to introduce concepts at a level appropriate to their religious backgrounds. In &lt;em&gt;Mystery &amp; Tradition&lt;/em&gt;, he now engages readers who identify as \"spiritual but not religious\" or \"seekers on a spiritual quest.\" He proposes that Catholicism offers a worldview that helps to answer what he calls the \"big picture questions\" of life in its mystery, tragedy, and wonder (pp. 2–3), giving those who ask such questions a helpful, accessible text to ponder those questions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;From the outset, Stoutzenberger argues that Catholicism is not monolithic. \"Universality does not wash away diversity, even from the very beginning of the Christian movement\" (p. 10). He describes faith as a universal human experience with four aspects: heart, head, hands, and soul. Thus, he begins with existential and intellectual phenomena such as radical amazement (Abraham Heschel) and progressive disenchantment (Charles Taylor) before introducing questions about theistic belief or religious doctrines. He invites readers into the mystery of the divine by describing faith in mystical terms with vocabulary from William James's classic, &lt;em&gt;The Varieties of Religious Experience&lt;/em&gt;. For instance, he relates the quality of this hidden mystery as \"ineffable\" (p. 12). Later, he refers to the \"noetic quality\"—another term that James employed—to put into words a seeker's \"knowing of the heart\" beyond scientific data (p. 17).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stoutzenberger also addresses earnest questions that seekers might have about the Bible's relationship with science. He outlines the tensions between historical-critical and fundamentalist methods of biblical study. At the same time, he offers an account of classical approaches to reading the Bible to grasp its spiritual meaning beyond the literal sense. He carefully sketches the content of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures to include various ways they are classified to encourage fruitful reading. In subsequent chapters, he also shares key details about the four Gospels, describing their development from eyewitness accounts to oral traditions to the canonical texts. Throughout these sections, he emphasizes scripture as an invitation to faith and wisdom rather than a book about history or science.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For an introductory work, &lt;em&gt;Mystery &amp; Tradition&lt;/em&gt; is fairly comprehensive, covering th","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142220772","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":"Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism ed. by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo (review)","authors":"Angela Berliner","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a931518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a931518","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Angela Berliner &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;em&gt;Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism&lt;/em&gt;. Edited by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Pp. 188. $35.00, paper. &lt;p&gt;The essayists in this book examine why marginalized groups with similar goals sometimes do not achieve solidarity and how their related struggles might be better served through understanding the things that appear to separate them. The book mostly achieves its stated purpose, but some of the authors' anti-Zionist bias in a discussion on failed solidarities between marginalized Israelis and Palestinians diminishes legitimate critique. &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 277]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the first chapter, \"Broken Solidarities,\" Perin Gürel explores a moment of failed solidarity with the case study of Turkish politician Merve Kavakçı, who refused to remove her headscarf in Parliament and was subsequently banned from taking her oath of office. She received transnational support, serving as a symbol of religious freedom and rights for Muslim women. In what could have been a moment of solidarity among Muslim women across state boundaries, Kavakçı rejected support from some Iranian women politicians because they represented what she viewed as a repressive regime.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Juliane Hammer's essay on the 2016 Women's March examines a moment of failed solidarity in which two chair members, Muslim women activists Linda Sarsour and Zahra Billoo, were ousted from their positions following an Antisemitism scandal. Hammer reflects on how this event incited a conversation on solidarity, social justice movements, and accountability. Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi's chapter, \"Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity,\" argues that white supremacy and racism in Israel disallow solidarity between marginalized Jews and Palestinians. Through criticism of anti-Arab and Islamophobic Israelis and political parties, Jewish power, and Zionism, the authors seek to express how Black and Brown Jews fail to find solidarity with Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In \"To Confound White Christians,\" Brenna Moore seeks to reinvigorate the academic discussion on enchantment, disenchantment, and secularism through a case study on Claude McKay, a poet of the Harlem Renaissance whose involvement with a group of international Catholic creatives reflects the most successful moment of solidarity in the book. McKay and his cohorts sought to resist white supremacy, nationalism, and colonialism in part through the mystical aspects of Catholicism. McKay's story suggests an alternative and successful (albeit short-lived) approach to solidarity across national boundaries. The final chapter, \"Seeing So","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141585999","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":"With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes ed. by Lucinda Mosher, Elinor J. Pierce, and Or N. Rose (review)","authors":"Daniel F. Polish","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a931521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a931521","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Lucinda Mosher, Elinor J. Pierce, and Or N. Rose &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Daniel F. Polish &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;em&gt;With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes&lt;/em&gt;. Edited by Lucinda Mosher, Elinor J. Pierce, and Or N. Rose. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2023. Pp. 240. $35.00, paper. &lt;p&gt;A radio advertisement that plays with annoying regularity talks about how the advertised product can help us overcome our distress at being awakened in the middle of the night by recollections of our social blunders. Clearly, the ad is predicated on the reality that all of us are finite, fallible, and prone to mistakes. It is a truth that extends to every aspect of our lives. This book addresses the mistakes that people have made and can make—and can learn from—in our engagement in interreligious settings and interfaith dialogue. Each reader can recount their own litany of tales about the gaffes, inadvertent slights, and embarrassing remarks that they have witnessed, participated in, or committed. I still cringe at the recollection of the lovely buffet that was offered at a Muslin-Jewish colloquy—during Ramadan. Given the humanity of all of us who participate in one form of interreligious work, such \"missteps\" are inevitable. The book is made up of a series of short articles in which the authors discuss their own experiences of what we would call mistakes and the lessons they learned from them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The subtext of the book is that such mistakes are almost inevitable. After all, as Anthony Cruz Pantojas reminds us, \"Interreligious work requires us to be present with and to probe the uncomfortable, the unfamiliar, and messy terrain of difference.\" As Christopher Leighton puts it, \"In the jumble of the dance, we get close to one another. I do not know how to avoid mangled toes.\" For people new to working in interreligious settings, the apprehension of saying, or doing, the wrong thing may be intimidating, even petrifying. Yet, as Hans Gustafson teaches, that should not inhibit us from the work: \"In spaces of intentional collaborative interfaith encounter striving to form relationships across differences &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 283]&lt;/strong&gt; in service of common aims and goods, effective and authentic leaders emerge by taking risks, being vulnerable with their (non)religious values, visions, and practices, and by trusting others to accept them for who they are today.\"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mistakes are seen as a positive opportunity for participants to learn and to grow. We are encouraged not to be over-polite. Instead, we are challenged to make mistakes rather than shrink from them, since our mistakes offer us the opportunity to engage in real dialogue. Heather Miller Rubens looks at one particular experience and advises, \"We did not give ou","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141586001","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":"Faith, Reason, and Theosis ed. by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos (review)","authors":"Joseph Loya O.S.A.","doi":"10.1353/ecu.2024.a931522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecu.2024.a931522","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Faith, Reason, and Theosis&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Joseph Loya O.S.A. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;em&gt;Faith, Reason, and Theosis&lt;/em&gt;, Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought. Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. Pp. 292. $40.00, paper. &lt;p&gt;In the Preface of Book Five of his &lt;em&gt;Adversus Haereses&lt;/em&gt;, St. Ireneaus of Lyons directed readers to follow the Divine Logos Who became what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself; has the transcendent rationale &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 284]&lt;/strong&gt; for the Incarnation ordered to such a specified profound effect ever been more substantially and succinctly rendered? The contributors to this volume quickened their intellects to claim, investigate, and extend the dimensions of theosis construed minimalistically as participation in the divine life. In their Introduction, the editors note that, in former times, Catholics and Protestants had pretty much conceded the Orthodox claim to theosis as being wholly of Orthodox provenance and \"ownership.\" They also rightly state that Orthodox cudgeling non-Orthodox with that claim should be no more. Readers' attention is focused on how historical theologians of all three Christian traditions have recently been complexifying, stretching, and shifting heretofore common narratives and thoughts about theosis amid an \"ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God.\" This collection of essays testifies to the fruit of this achievement to date.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;David Bentley Hart, in summoning the convictions of Nicholas of Cusa and Gregory of Nyssa, affirms that creation, incarnation, salvation, and deification are of God's one gracious act in calling the creature to realize its divine vocation: \"Creation … is, in fact, theogony.\" Jean Porter, in agreeing with Andrew Louth that those who attempt to espy Orthodox theosis in Aquinas are liable to Westernize the very concept—and the same can be said about his doctrine of grace—avers that ecumenical dialogue can and should be initiated from respectful acknowledgement of difference.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Philip Kariatlis delineates the Christification theme in the thought of Panayiotis Nellas unto a vision of Life in Christ in and for the world. Carolyn Chau's reflection on theosis-as-kenosis highlights the Balthasarian shift from essences to the divine freedom that summons human freedom into a grace-informed communion exceeding all human imagining. Kirsi Stjerna's Luther, through the theologizing of the late Finnish scholar Tuomo Mannermaa (1937–2015), affirms justifying faith as that which endows finite and sinful humans with the ability to see, as if through God's own eyes, the design and telos of existence—Christ being the lens, reason, epi","PeriodicalId":43047,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141588316","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}