{"title":"Nth Power Lottery and Mimesis of the Future in Yom Kippur's Ceremonial Law, Hasidic Thought, and Early-Modern Folklore","authors":"Iddo Dickmann","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14425","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Nth power lottery, a lottery within a lottery, as envisioned by Deleuze, the frame, the pragmatic circumstances that surround the game (<i>e.g.,</i> its rules), are also given to chance. I argue that both the ceremonial, Temple-based, Yom Kippur lottery in the Bible and Talmud, and the subsequent idea of Yom Kippur as a heavenly lot-casting day, as expressed in the Midrash, liturgy, Hasidic thought, and even folklore tales recounting games of chance during Yom Kippur, follow the Nth power paradigm. Reading these texts in light of this paradigm, and analysing this paradigm in light of the phenomenology of <i>mise en abyme</i>—a mimetic double at the heart of the imitatee—reveals a unique process-theology, where the act of repentance is <i>mise en abyme</i> of a radically absent imitatee—the ‘Before God’—and eventually an incarnation of it.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"275-298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245123","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":"Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch. By Blake Leyerle. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. Pp. xii, 152. $99.95.","authors":"Alexander Bailey","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"325-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245136","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":"Words Made Flesh. The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education. By R. Jared Staudt. Washington DC: Catholic Education Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 328. PB $29.95.","authors":"John Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"327-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244835","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 Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue. By Michael D. Driessen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 250. $83.00.","authors":"Peter Admirand","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"317-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244950","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 Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God. By Thomas Joseph White. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 715. $34.95.","authors":"Jan Bentz","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"315-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244283","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":"Hindu Avatāra and Christian Kenosis: A New Approach in Comparative Theology1","authors":"Christian J. Ivandić","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14423","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Within comparative theology, the Hindu doctrine of <i>avatāra</i> has traditionally been compared to the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, both of which are expressions of divine embodiment in creaturely form. This article, however, contrasts the doctrine of <i>avatāra</i> with a reading of the incarnation that frames the latter within the broader context of kenoticism developed primarily in modern Christian theology. I argue that this approach (a) alleviates some of the difficulties encountered by the traditional comparison of <i>avatāra</i> with the incarnation and (b) highlights some noteworthy but easily missed dimensions present in the doctrines of both faith traditions. This is established through a comparison of two stories of young Kṛṣṇa and their display of divine play, <i>līlā</i>, with Hans Urs von Balthasar's kenotic reading of both the intratrinitarian relations and the metaphysical structure of finite beings. In this way, the article, on the one hand, alleviates the discrepancies about the number of divine descents and the link between these and the world's creation and metaphysical constitution, and, on the other hand, highlights how the Hindu notion of <i>līlā</i> and Christian kenotic readings intend to express the dialectic of divine sovereignty and accessibility in a philosophically and theologically responsible way.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"223-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defeating the Evil-God Challenge: In Defence of God's Goodness. By Jack Symes. Bloomsbury, 2024. Pp. 224. £85.00 (HB)/£28.99 (PB).","authors":"Mark S. M. Scott","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"323-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244704","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":"Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross. By Eugene R. Schlesinger. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. 280. $70.00.","authors":"Jordan Hillebert","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"319-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244842","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":"Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and Christian Origins. By Tucker S. Ferda. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2024. Pp. xxvi +538. £54.99.","authors":"David Neville","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"321-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245039","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}