{"title":"The Nonviolently Violent God: Humanity’s Peace, Divine Violence, and Advent Hope","authors":"Kristoff Reese Grosfeld","doi":"10.1177/00033286231215067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231215067","url":null,"abstract":"Peace-talk is incoherent because we do not have one definition of the word “peace.” Everyone has different understandings of this term, and thus we cannot help but selfishly impose our understandings of peace onto someone else’s understandings of peace. With the help of Augustine of Hippo, we underscore this issue through an analysis of disordered desire; in addition, with the help of French theorist René Girard and his theory of mimesis (which very much has an Augustinian flavor in terms of its low theological anthropology), we emphasize how humanity cannot help but disorder even the noblest of endeavors such as just peacemaking. Therefore, this essay argues that humanity’s peace presents a mimetical trap that needs to be broken from above via a divine disruption that is simultaneously violent and nonviolent.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"253 1","pages":"424 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139296017","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":"Incompleteness, Imperial Legacies, and Anglican Fudge: How Concerns about Gender and Sexuality Affect How Anglicans Do Theology","authors":"Susannah Cornwall","doi":"10.1177/00033286231209714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231209714","url":null,"abstract":"Gender and sexuality are potent flashpoints showing up deep fissures in Anglican ecclesiology and identity. There has been growing attention to the power imbalances within Anglican hierarchies. Whether in African leaders’ public disavowals of what they consider Western Christian backsliding, or in social media discussions about the Anglican churches’ positions on their clergy’s and ordinands’ sex lives, old orders of authority are no longer operating unchallenged. Here, Anglican self-understanding of itself as a tradition characterized by comprehensiveness and broadness is assessed through the lens of decolonial theology, interrogating norms of power. In a context of continued dismantling of imperial structures of power and decreased toleration of the maintenance of old hierarchies associated with empire, the concept of unity as a good in itself is likely, where this is perceived to stem from a desire to uphold imperial control, to be challenged.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136068274","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":"<i>Come Dance with Me: A Medicine Wheel Practice of Anishinaabe Catholic Interculturation of Faith</i> by Eva Solomon","authors":"Joshua Zentner-Barrett","doi":"10.1177/00033286231209512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231209512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160639","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":"MacIntyre’s Manager and Congregational Development","authors":"Joseph S. Pagano","doi":"10.1177/00033286231209423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231209423","url":null,"abstract":"My home diocese, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, has embraced the College for Congregational Development (CCD). In light of the fact that the CCD draws heavily upon organizational development theory and practice, I raise the question of how clergy respond to Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of “the manager” in After Virtue. Given the unfamiliarity of MacIntyre’s book to many of my colleagues, I offer in this essay an exposition of MacIntyre’s critique of managerial expertise so that my colleagues can respond.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160661","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":"<i>Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics</i> by Steve Hickey","authors":"Nicholas Harrelson","doi":"10.1177/00033286231205862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231205862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262172","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":"<i>Peace and Faith: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</i> by Cary Nelson and Michael C. Gizzi","authors":"Ryan Kenneth Turnbull","doi":"10.1177/00033286231208682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231208682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"156 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262151","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}