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Winter 2007	Editorial Scott Holland Articles Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder’s The Jewish–Christian Schism Revisited Daniel Boyarin A Footnote on Jesus J. Denny Weaver Further Footnotes on Judaism, Yoder, and Boyarin Randi Rashkover Further Footnotes on Zionism, Yoder, and Boyarin Alain Epp Weaver Further Footnotes on Rhetoric, Yoder, and Boyarin Gerald Biesecker-Mast Further Footnotes on Paul, Yoder, and Boyarin Laura L. Brenneman Reflections on Covenant and Mission: Forty Years after Nostra Aetate John T. Pawlikowski Religion: Source of Terror and Transformation Eileen R. Kinch Theopoetic/Theopolitic John D. Caputo/Catherine Keller Christian Theology and the Re–enchantment of the World Craig A. Baron Books God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith Are Changing the World Katharine Rhodes Henderson The God Delusion Richard Dawkins A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb Umar Faruq Abd-Allah Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration J. Harold Ellens The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event John D. Caputo
Fall 2006	Editorial: Religious Language -- Its Uses and Misuses Catherine Madsen ARTICLES God and Social Change Julius Lester The Subtle Violence of Nonviolent Language Chapman Flack Christian Rhetoric: Scraps for a Manifesto Mark D. Jordan Meeting Her Maker: Emily Dickinson's God Jay Ladin Speaking Truth and Seeking Justice Timothy Leonard Islam and the Cultural Imperative Umar Faruq Abd-Allah Revelation and Revolution Regina Schwartz Islam and America: Poetic Connections Eboo Patel Revising Night: Elie Wiesel and the Hazards of Holocaust Theology Peter Manseau Burning Words: A History Play Peter Wortsman To Go Among the Saracens: A Franciscan Composer's Journey into the House of Islam Scott Robinson Shofar: An Oratorio Catherine Madsen
Summer 2006	Editorial: Theology and the Intellectual Life Randi Rashkover ARTICLES Religion and the University David Burrell An Accidental Theologian: Thoughts on Islam in Public and Private Religious Universities Amir Hussain Theology in the Curriculum of a Secular Religious Studies Department Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. What Does It Mean to Receive Tradition?: Jewish Studies in Higher Education Martin Kavka Self and Text: Towards a Comparative Theology of the Self Gavin Flood Religion and Beauty in the Classroom Nicholas Adams Companion to the Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI on "God is Love" Fr. Tissa Balasuriya Naipaul's Travelogues and the "Clash of Civilizations" Complex Amin Malak Attending to the Pain of Dying: An Agenda for Science Robert Pollack BOOKS Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Daniel Dennett Revelation and Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig, and the Politics of Praise Randi Rashkover
Spring 2006	Articles of Faith The Price of Science Without Moral Constraints Robert E. Pollack A Jungian Perspective On Religious Violence and Personal Responsibility Charlene P. E. Burns Financial Globalization and Crony Capitalism John P. Tiemstra Can A War Against Terror Be Just? Daniel M. Bell, Jr. College and Social Class: The Broken Promise of America John Raines with Charles Brian McAdams Some Jewish Reflections On Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration Jonathan Cohen The Hammer and the Free Spirit: Toward a Practical Heresy Jeff Gundy Theopoetics: That the dead may become gardeners again Matt Guynn The Cloud as Symbol: Dialogue or Destruction Jacqueline Taylor Basker Paul's Confrontation with Class Kirk D. Lyons, Sr.
Winter 2006	Editorial: Theology, Democracy, and the Project of Liberalism Scott Holland ARTICLES 9/11 and God's Sport Bill Moyers American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, Decline, Renewal, Ambiguity Gary Dorrien Radical Democracy, Radical Ecclesiology Peter Dula and Alex Sider The Unintended Consequences of Dixieland Postliberalism by Robert P. Jones and Melissa C. Stewart Liberalism, Race, and Stanley Hauerwas James Logan Democratic Time: Lessons Learned from Yoder and Wolin Stanley Hauerwas Practicing Camus Holly White Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) John D. Caputo BOOKS Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis Jimmy Carter Friedrich Nietzsche Curtis Cate An End to Suffering: The Buddha In the World Pankaj Mishra POETRY Had Sex Lately? Rita Nakashima Brock The Revolution donzetta
Fall 2005	EDITORIAL Social Class and Religion Stephanie Y. Mitchem ARTICLES Class on Sunday Gloria Albrecht Class, Political Conservatism, and Jesus Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. Paul's Confrontation with Class: The Letter to Philemon as Hegemonic Discourse Kirk D. Lyons, Sr. The Impact of the American Dream on Evangelical Ethics Wyndy Corbin Building the New Freedom Church of the Poor Willie Baptist and Noelle Damico The Room Where I Work is a Class Room John Raines with Charles Brian McAdams Fundamentalism: A Theory Edward Farley All Nations Before God's Throne: Evangelicals in the Interfaith World Nicholas M. Price Just a Closer Walk with Thee Christopher Malone BOOKS The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris and The Letters of Robert Lowell Saskia Hamilton, ed.
Summer 2005	Editorial Randi Rashkover Articles Healing Religion: Aesthetics and Analysis in the Work of Kristeva and Cl�ment by William W. Young III It Takes At Least Two to Reproduce by Rachel Muers Can the University and the Church Understand Each Other? by Mike Higton A Monk, A Rabbi, and the 'Meaning of This Hour': War and Nonviolence in Abraham Joshua Heschel and Thomas Merton by Shaul Magid Raising Cain: The Problem of Evil and the Question of Responsibility by Claire Elise Katz Now that John Paul II Is No Longer with Us by David R. Blumenthal Cultivating Theology: Overcoming America�s Skepticism about Religious Rationality by Randi Rashkover A Place for Religion in Science? by Robert Pollack On Transforming Our World: Critical Pedagogy for Interfaith Education by Tiffany Puett Books No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan andIn the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran by Christopher de Bellaigue What�s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank and Don�t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff
Spring 2005	EDITORIAL Eboo Patel ARTICLES Religious Strangers as Menaces by Martin E. Marty Seven Views on Interfaith Work Inclusiveness and Justice: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Interfaith Work by Eboo Patel First Response by Susan Thistlethwaite Second Response by Sam Fleishacker Third Response by James Halstead Fourth Response by Aminah Beverly McCloud Fifth Response by Charles Strain Sixth Response by Kalyani D. Menon From the Margins to the Centers of Power by Patrice Brodeur On Evangelicals and Interfaith Cooperation by Tony Campolo with Shane Claiborne Pagan Involvement in the Interfaith Movement by Grove Harris Overcoming Religiously Motivated Violence by Imam A. Rashied Omar The Contribution of H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama to Interfaith Education by Leo D. Lefebure The Power of Inter-religious Dialogue to Transform Conflict by William F. Vendley Multiculturalisms by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Learning the Language of Interfaith Dialogue by Dana Graef The Interfaith Journey of an American Girl by Christina Wright POETRY . Chi-Town (X)changes by Kevin Coval BOOKS Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta Integrating Ecofeminism by Rosemary Radford Reuther
Winter 2005	EDITORIAL Carey Monserrate ARTICLES "Genuine Pluralism" and Reformed Christology by Sarah J. Melcher A Matter of Time: The Jew, Christian, and Muslim in Conversation by Paul Golomb Towards a Levinasian Understanding of Christian Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of the Other by George Drazenovich Derrida's Gift to Eco/theo/logy: A Critical Tribute by Mark Manolopoulos Desiring Bodies by Gerard Loughlin Struggling for the Soul of One's Country: American Pathologies and the Response of Faith by Preston M. Browning, Jr. Mother of All the Living: Reinterpretations of Eve in Contemporary Literature by M. Doretta Cornell Another Christmas Statistic by Jens Soering POETRY Four poems by K.V. Wilt Three poems by Peter Ledermann BOOKS Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views by Dan O. Via and Robert A.J. Gagnon Books in Brief Philip Roth's Populist Nightmare Matthew Schweber BOOKEND A Date with the Divine: The Art of Theresa Byrnes by Carey Monserrate
Fall 2004	EDITORIAL A Durable Fire by Catherine Madsen ARTICLES Sex and Mysticism by Ignacio L. G�tz Sex and the Sacred by Daniel C. Maguire Jesus in Gender Trouble by Halvor Moxnes Dissecting the Lamb of God: The Other Devastation of Clergy Sexual Abuse by Mikele Rauch Female Sexuality Today: Challenging Cultural Repression by Robert T. Francoeur, Raymond J. Noonan, Beldina Opiyo-Omolo, and Jakob Pastoetter What's Love Got to Do? (& other stories of black women's sexuality) by Stephanie Y. Mitchem Heroic Heretical Heterosexuality by Jeffrey J. Kripal The Great Work Begins: Theater as Theurgy in "Angels in America" by Anthony Lioi After the Fall by Molly Rachamim POETRY Running Out the Clock by Alicia Ostriker From Song of Songs (8 sessions with Dr. Solomon) by Jay Ladin Notes on Contributors
Summer 2004	EDITORIAL An Anniversary of Ideas Stephanie Y. Mitchem ARTICLES Toward a Cosmology of Continual Creation: From Ecofeminism to Feminine Ecology and Umbilical Ties Irene Diamond Rainbow Children Over Me: Parabolic Narratives for Sakia Gunn Gayle R. Baldwin Rufus Jones and Mysticism for the Masses Matthew S. Hedstrom Engraving Emotions: Memory and Identity in the Quest for Emotive Scholarship Alberto L�pez Pulido In Place of the Absent God: The Reader in Dan Pagis's "Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Car" Ranen Omer-Sherman Service Learning as a Transgressive Pedagogy: A Must for Today's Generation Angela Leonard �The Battle Has Been Joined": Gay and Polygynous Marriages Are Out of the Closet and in Search of Legitimacy Debra Mubashshir Majeed Driving While Faculty: The Religion of Innocent Domination in America Jon Pahl Imperial Designs: Theological Ethics and the Ideologies of International Politics Gary Dorrien Dresden: The Fire Last Time Justus George Lawler More about this issue
Spring 2004	EDITORIAL The Passion of Cinema Carey Monserrate ARTICLES �I Didn�t See Any Anti-Semitism�: Why Many Christians Don�t Have a Problem with The Passion of the Christ Mary C. Boys Mel Gibson�s Alter Ego: A Male Passion for Violence Bj�rn Krondorfer Hospitable Vision: Some Notes on the Ethics of Seeing Film Margaret R. Miles and S. Brent Plate If Only You Could See What I�ve Seen Through Your Eyes: Destabilized Spectatorship and Creation�s Chaos in Blade Runner Jenna Tiitsman Himala: The Temptress, the Virgin, and the Elusive Miracle Antonio D. Sison Tarantino�s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence Kent L. Brintnall Filmmaking As Spiritual Practice and Ministry Macky Alston Trembling Playground: Two Young Directors Discuss Film, Faith, and the Challenges of Documenting Religion Sandi Simcha DuBowski and Lucy Walker Hiroshima, Mon Amour: A New Film Coincides with the Rebirth of the Nuclear Age Carey Monserrate Black Rain: Reflections on Hiroshima and Nuclear War in Japanese Film Robert Feleppa Terrorism: A Problem for Ethics or Pastoral Theology? G. Clarke Chapman, Jr. BOOKS Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film by Joseph Cunneen Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels More about this issue ...
Winter 2004	Editorial The Scandal of Hope Randi Rashkover ARTICLES Unspeakable Utopia: Art and the Return to the Theological in Adorno and Horkheimer John Hughes The Coming Only Is Sacred: Self-Creation and Solidarity in Richard Rorty�s Secular Eschatology Scott Holland In the End, Shall Christians Become Jews and Jews, Christians?: On Franz Rosenzweig�s Apocalyptic Eschatology Gregory Kaplan Teaching Our Children Well: Pedagogy, Religion, and the Future of Philosophy Claire Elise Katz Watch Your Back: Ruminations on the Biblical Poetics of Hope Paul Keim On the Significance of the Messianic Idea in Rosenzweig Dana Hollander From Dogma to Aesthetica: Evangelical Eschatology Gets a Makeover Joanne M. Swenson The Post-Secular: A Jewish Perspective James S. Diamond More about this issue ...
Fall 2003	Editorial What James Knew Catherine Madsen Articles The Pragmatics of Spirit: A Centenary Celebration of James's Varieties Oz Lorentzen The "Twice-Born" Charles Taylor The Varieties as an Inspiration: Confessions of a Slow Learner Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi Implicit Theologies in Psychologies Douglas S. Hardy A Terrible Good: Charles Williams, William James, and Divided Consciousness Catherine Madsen "Failure, then, failure!": Shame and William James's "Sick Soul" Jill L. McNish How Healthy Is Healthy-Mindedness? James O. Pawelski Ritual and Religious Experience Jo Pearson Definitions and Hypotheses Christopher Stawski Jewish Renewal in Pre-Nazi Berlin Edward K. Kaplan More about this issue ...
Summer 2003	Articles Instead of War Timothy A. McElwee What is Theology? Douglas John Hall In Search of a Non-Dogmatic Theology Jeffrey W. Robbins DNA and Neshamah Robert Pollack Tongue in Check: Paralleling the Taliban with the Amish Crystal Downing On Nurturing a Modern Muslim Identity Eboo Patel Faithful and Pluralistic Dorothy Yoder Nyce Alchemists at Work Katharine Rhodes Henderson BOOKS Special Feature: Six Critics Review Walter Wink's "The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of Man" A Summary and Appreciation J. Harold Ellens A Historian�s Response Gabriele Boccaccini A Meaningful Alternative Delbert R. Burkett Myth of the Suppressing Church Jack Miles Walter Wink's Response The Second Shoe Wayne G. Rollins Review and Appreciation Alan F. Segal Walter Wink's Response More about this issue ...
Spring 2003	EDITORIAL Dangerous Deconstructions Stephanie Y. Mitchem ARTICLES What Went Wrong? Rita M. Gross The Problem of Anti-Judaism Sarah J. Melcher Feminism, the Body, and the Machine Wendell Berry Conspicuous in their Absence Lisa Bellan-Boyer No Longer Nailed to the Floor Stephanie Y. Mitchem HONORING ROSEMARY RADFORD RUETHER Contextualizing Rosemary Rosalind Hinton Ecofeminism: A Latin American Perspective Ivone Gebara At the End of an Era Marc H. Ellis 111 Teaching Feminist Theology to College Students Susan A. Ross Wise Woman Bearing Gifts Letty M. Russell POETRY Prayer Against the Darkness Leonard Nimoy The Fork in the Road Rachel Hadas There is a Song for You Malissia McConnell Church History and Anointing J. Barrie Shepherd Lithesome Legs and Long William Dauenhauer Country Baptism in Fishing Creek Evelyn Mattern More about this issue ...
Winter 2003	EDITORIAL On the Loneliness of Faith Randi Rashkover ARTICLES On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Theology of Land and Return Alain Epp Weaver Why is the City so Important for Christian Theology? Graham Ward The Problem of the Promise Oona Eisenstadt Spiritual Refugee Junko Chodos Post-Modernism and Its Secrets Clayton Crockett The Readable City and the Rhetoric of Excess C. C. Pecknold American Muslims and a Meaningful Human Rights Discourse Imam Zaid Shakir Violence, Reconciliation, and the Justice of God Scott Bader-Saye Divine Evaluation and the Quest for a Suitable Companionship Hemchand Gossai More about this issue ...
Fall 2002	Editorial Construction of the Soul Brin Stevens Constructing Ethics and the Ethics of Construction John Matteson Architecture as Eternal Delight Jean Gardner (Re)Examining the Citicorp Case Eugene Kremer Gardens of the Righteous Akel Ismail Kahera The Mishkan as Metaphor�Form and Anti-Form Bonnie Roche When the Other Appears on the Scene Umberto Eco Erasing �Economy� Marion Grau Providence and the Biology of Purpose Kevin Sharpe and Rebecca Bryant Crossing Boundaries Cynthia S. W. Crysdale Inner Space as Sacred Space George Wolfe More about this issue ...
Summer 2002	Editorial That You Forget Not What Your Eyes Have Seen Catherine Madsen Salvation from Innocence: On the Requirements of Liturgical Truth Andrew Shanks "Amen" and "Ashe": African American Protestant Worship and Its West African Ancestor Will Coleman Who's Blessing Whom?: Transcendence, Agency, and Gender in Jewish Prayer Lois C. Dubin Liturgies of Anger David R. Blumenthal Sometimes You Just Gotta Dance: Physical Expressiveness in Worship David L. Johns Law as Dance, Theater, or Music: Legal Procedure and Ritual Rafael Chodos The Common Word: Recovering Liturgical Speech Catherine Madsen Jacques Maritain on the Church's Misbehaving Clerics Bernard Doering The Last Word on Learning Buddhism William R. Stimson Uncomfortable, Uncertain, and Unarmed Barry Moser More about this issue ...
Spring 2002	Editorial: Talk the Talk KENNETH ARNOLD Stanley Hauerwas: An Interview MICHAEL J. QUIRK Unmasking the Differences: Nonviolence and Social Control GLORIA ALBRECHT A Legacy of Inclusion: An Interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether ROSALIND HINTON An Interdependent Web: Interview with James Ishmael Ford KENNETH ARNOLD This Side of God: A Conversation with David Tracy SCOTT HOLLAND If Only This Could Be Said CZESLAW MILOSZ An Interview with Jane D. Schaberg STEPHANIE Y. MITCHEM The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament JANE SCHABERG In Search of God at Columbia CHARLES HENDERSON Stem Cells, Therapeutic Cloning, and the Soul ROBERT POLLACK A Quiet Passion to Redeem Christianity: An Interview with Dr. Mary C. Boys SHEILA C. GORDON More about this issue ...
Winter 2002	Editorial: A Strange, New World RANDI RASHKOVER When I Boarded the Midwest Express to Washington, D.C., on September 11 DANIEL C. MAGUIRE Theology and the Clash of Civilizations JACK MILES The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text KENNETH ARNOLD The Gospel of Peace and the Violence of God SCOTT HOLLAND Feminist Judaism: Past and Future RACHEL ADLER A Letter to Elizabeth MIRIAM PESKOWITZ A Service of Mourning CATHERINE MADSEN On the Rhetoric of a "War on Terrorism" KYLE FEDLER To Whom Shall We Give Access to Our Water Holes? FARID ESACK Translation as De-canonization: Matthew's Gospel According to Pasolini GEORGE AICHELE More about this issue ...
Fall 2001	Editorial: The Ecology of Compassion KENNETH ARNOLD Eugenic Danger or Genetic Promise: A Revolution for the Millennium DAVID A. AMES "Alma De'atei," The-World-That-Is-Coming: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Progress JEREMY BENSTEIN Intimations of the Great Unlearning: Interreligious Spirituality and the Demise of Consciousness Which Is Alzheimer's GISELA WEBB Vedanta: Death and the Art of Dying PRAVRAJIKA BRAHMAPRANA Understanding Suffering and Compassion JEANINE YOUNG-MASON The Responsible Body: A Eucharistic Community MATTHEW WHELAN The Sky So Blue: Wilderness and the Art of Introduction CAROL DYSINGER More about this issue ...
Summer 2001	Editorial: The Image on Impact CATHERINE MADSEN AND SCOTT HOLLAND Violence in Christian Theology J. DENNY WEAVER The Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments JULIE SHOSHANA PFAU and DAVID R. BlUMENTHAN Jephthah's Daughter ALICIA OSTRIKER Blood & Stone: Violence in the Bible & the Eye of the Illustrator BARRY MOSER Notes on God's Violence CATHERINE MADSEN Devoured by God: Cannibalism, Mysticism, and Ethics in Simone Weil ALEC IRWIN The Precarious Ties That Bind Us: Sotah 2a IRA F. STONE More About this issue ...
Spring 2001	Living for the City STEPHANIE MITCHEM Forgotten Fruit of the City: Chicago and the Moorish Science Temple of America DEBRA WASHINGTON MUBASHSHIR On the Town with George Simmel: A Socio-Religious Understanding of Urban Interaction VICTORIA ERICKSON Communities and Enclaves: Where Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims Share the Neighborhoods LOWELL LIVEZEY The Soul of Los Angeles: Photographs from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California JERRY BERNDT Doing Theology in the City PAUL FITZGERALD Theology and the City: Learning to Cry, Struggling to See JIM PERKINSON More about this issue ...
Winter 2000	Editorial: Jewish-Christian Relations in the Postmodern Era RANDI RASHKOVER Re-Envisioning Christianity: A New Era in Christian Theological Interpretation of Christian Texts JAMES F. MOORE Christianity in Jewish Terms: A Project to Redefine the Relationship PETER OCHS AND DAVID SANDMEL Post-Holocaust Hermeneutics: Scripture, Sacrament, and the Jewish Body of Christ SCOTT BADER-SAYE Decentering Judaism and Christianity: Using Feminist Theory to Construct a Postmodern Jewish-Christian Theology MARC A. KRELL A Survey of Jewish Reaction to the Vatican Statement on the Holocaust KEVIN MADIGAN Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism? PAMELA EISENBAUM Tuning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social Change NATHANIEL SAMUEL MURRELL "Fruit Salad Can Be Delicious": The Practice of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue PAUL O. INGRAM More about this issue ...
Fall 2000	Editorial: Structures of Sin KENNETH ARNOLD Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art JACK MILES The Green Face of God: Christianity in an Age of Ecocide MARK I. WALLACE The Thin Thread of Conversation: An Interview with Mary Daly CATHERINE MADSEN The Color of the Enemy in the New Millennium JIM PERKINSON First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin: Bonhoeffer's New York SCOTT HOLLAND Joking with Jesus in the Poetry of Kathleen Norris and Annie Dillard PEGGY ROSENTHAL More about this issue ...
Spring / Summer 2000	Special 50th Anniversary double issue includes: Living with Paradox KENNETH ARNOLD How Zen Found Me JANET ABELS The Culture of Religious Combining: Reflections for the New American Millennium CATHERINE L. ALBANESE The Academy and Hospitality JOHN B. BENNETT Whose Earth Is It Anyway? JAMES H. CONE Three Poems from a Sequence Suggested by Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Christ" BARBARA CAWTHORNE CRAFTON The Dialogue Has Barely Begun JOSEPH CUNNEEN The Radical Christian Worldview DON CUPITT The End of Philosophy JAMES GILES The Internet as a Metaphor for God? CHARLES HENDERSON Notes on Minor Christian Literatures SCOTT HOLLAND The Challenge of Fundamentalism for Interreligious Dialogue PETER A. HUFF Re-conceiving God and Humanity in Light of Today's Ecological Consciousness: A Brief Statement GORDON D. KAUFMAN Christianity, Shamanism, and Modernization in South Korea ANDREW EUNGI KIM Between the Mystic and the Mainstream KATHERINE KURS Akedah 5760 JAY LADIN A Terrible Beauty: Moser's Bible CATHERINE MADSEN Scarcity and Plenitude: Thoughts on Some Recent Jewish Books CATHERINE MADSEN The Future of Faith SARA MAITLAND Heosuabi: Figures in a Korean Landscape K. D. McCARTHY The Church in the Age of the Holy Spirit JOHN J. McNEILL Augustine Our Contemporary C. W. McPHERSON Sankofa: Black Theologies STEPHANIE MITCHEM The Dawn of Christianness RAIMON PANIKKAR Black Theology, Black Bodies, and Pedagogy ANTHONY B. PINN Whence Pluralism, Whither Denominationalism? SAM PORTARO Jewish Responses to Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Look Ahead to the Twenty-First Century RANDI RASHKOVER Sacred Spaces DONNA SCHAPER Crossing the Currents, or How I Became a Jewish Postmodernist Feminist SHELLEY SCHIFF Three Poems WINIFRED HEALY STONE Vietnamese Buddhism in the 1990s ROBERT TOPMILLER The Post-Modern Re-Naming of God as Incomprehensible and Hidden DAVID TRACY Contemporary Spirituality and the Thinning of the Sacred: A Hindu Perspective PRAVRAJIKA VRAJAPRANA Wheat in Eden, Computers in Our Day ARTHUR WASKOW Plus �a Change: Has American Religion Changed during the Past Century? PETER W. WILLIAMS Fa Lun Gong and Religious Freedom MARION WYSE More about the special anniversary issue ...
Winter 1999	Including: A Call for Jewish Theology RANDI RASHKOVER Monastic Liberation as Counter-Cultural Critique in the Life and Thought of Thomas Merton SHAUL MAGID Moses / Jesus / Women: Does the New Testament Offer a Feminist Message? ESTHER FUCHS Textual Reasoning, Modernity, and the Limits of History JACOB MESKIN What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish? VANESSA L. OCHS Experiencing Violence, Shaping Identity, Negotiating Life BARBARA STRASSBERG Editor's Choice: Judaism's Twentieth-Century Conversations RANDI RASHKOVER More information about this issue....
Fall 1999	Including: Intellectual Light CATHERINE MADSEN Three Differences between an Academic and an Intellectual: What Happens to the Liberal Arts When They Are Kicked off Campus? JACK MILES Neighbor-Christology: Reconstructing Christianity before Supersessionism THOMAS BREIDENTHAL Religious Diversity: Some Implications for Monotheism RITA M. GROSS "The Visitation of the Stranger": On Some Mystical Dimensions of the History of Religions JEFFREY J. KRIPAL Economic Sanctions, Just War Doctrine, and the "Fearful Spectacle of the Civilian Dead" JOY GORDON More information about this issue ...
Summer 1999	Including: Editorial: The Path of Emptiness KENNETH ARNOLD Monica, Bill, and Ethics THAD WILLIAMSON Can Buddhism Save? Finding Resonance in Incommensurability CHRISTOPHER A. BROWN Walking Around the Buddha CAROLYN CRAFT On the Wings of a Blue Heron PAUL O. INGRAM In the Pluralism of Religious and Cultural Worlds: Notes Toward a Theological and Political Program JOHANN BAPTIST METZ In the Dark Speech of Praise and Birth: The Prints of Judith Anderson CATHERINE MADSEN More information about this issue ...
Spring 1999	Including: Listening with the Ear of the Heart FRANK T. GRISWOLD Martin Buber and Jewish-Arab Peace DAN LEON Does Faith Have a Future? PAUL LAKELAND So Many Good Voices in My Head SCOTT HOLLAND Thomas Merton's Contemplative Struggle: Bridging the Abyss to Find Freedom GEORGE A. KILCOURSE, JR. Does the Papacy Have a Future? JEAN FRAN�OIS NOTHOMB Converting to Religion after Its Demise: Thoughts on Marcel Gauchet and His American Reception STEVEN ENGLUND Queering Church, Churching Queers ROBIN HAWLEY GORSLINE The Bible as a Site for Struggle: Rethinking Elisabeth Sch�ssler Fiorenza MARIE SABIN More information about this issue ...
Winter 1998	Including: Peace Culture: The Problem of Managing Human Difference ELISE BOULDING Love Songs to the Dead: The Liturgical Voice as Mentor and Reminder CATHERINE MADSEN Green Lap, Brown Embrace, Blue Body: The Ecospirituality of Alice Walker PAMELA A. SMITH Womanist Theology, Epistemology, and a New Anthropological Paradigm LINDA E. THOMAS The Meaning of Zionism for the Diaspora ARTHUR HERTZBERG On Inspiration IGNACIO G�TZ Reflections on the Vatican's Reflection on the Shoah A. JAMES RUDIN In Memory of Denise Levertov, 1923-1997 From In Praise of Krishna DENISE LEVERTOV and EDWARD C. DIMOCK, JR. More information about this issue ...
Fall 1998	Including: Editorial: Change and Continuity JOSEPH CUNNEEN Postmodernism and the Desire for God: An E-Mail Exchange EDITH WYSCHOGROD and JOHN D. CAPUTO The New Evangelization in Latin American Perspective ANNA L. PETERSON and MANUEL A. VASQUEZ The New Religious Map of Latin America: Causes and Social Effects JEAN-PIERRE BASTIAN Toward a Buddhist Social Ethics: The Case of Thailand TAVIVAT PUNTARIGVIVAT What Is Religion? THOMAS A. IDINOPULOS Spiritual Life and the Survival of Christianity LOUIS DUPR� More information about this issue ...
Summer 1998	Incuding: New Feminist Theologies: The Third Wave KAREN TRIMBLE ALLIAUME Women Transformed: The Ending of Mark Is the Beginning of Wisdom MARIE SABIN Covenant or Contract? Marriage as Theology LAURA LEVITT That Every Child Who Wants Might Learn to Dance PAULA M. COOEY The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus KAREN TRIMBLE ALLIAUME Reclaiming Women's Experience: A Reading of Selected Christian Feminist Theologies MARIAN RONAN Spiritual Geographies SUSAN M. SIMONAITIS, LIORA GUBKIN, JENNIFER BERLINDA THOMPSON, ELLEN T. ARMOUR, PHYLLIS H. KAMINSKI, MARY MCCLINTOCK FULKERSON, LIZ NUTTING, RACHEL ADLER More information about this issue ...
Spring 1998	Including: The Matter of Matter WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM Divine Action: An Interview with John Polkinghorne LYNDON F. HARRIS Consciousness and Reality: Our Entry into Creation JAMES N. STUDER Theology and Science without Dualism ELIZABETH NEWMAN The Ambiguity of Matter HUSTON SMITH Rooted Hearts/Playful Minds: Catholic Intellectual Life at Its Best MARY JO WEAVER Repentance and Forgiveness DAVID R. BLUMENTHAL Hindu Spirituality ARVIND SHARMA Lena Ekblom: The Folly of the Beatitudes JERRY RYAN More information about this issue ...
Winter 1997	Including: (Com)passion for Peace JOSEPH CUNNEEN Religions, Hard and Soft JOHAN GALTUNG Awakening and Grace: Religious Identity in the Thought of Masao Abe and Karl Rahner LEO D. LEFEBURE Women and Work in a Sustainable Society MARIA MIES The African Experience of God through the Eyes of an Akan Woman MERCY AMBA ODUYOYE The Jewish Transformation of Modern Thought: L�vinas and Philosophy after the Holocaust JACOB MESKIN Toward a Theological Understanding of Postmodernism DANIEL J. ADAMS Dreams in the Dark: Fiction Chronicle ROBERT HOSMER More information about this issue ...
Fall 1997	Including: Aesthetic Truths WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM A Sense of the Transcendent V�CLAV HAVEL Interpreting V�clav Havel WALTER H. CAPPS Theology Is a Kind of Writing: The Emergence of Theopoetics SCOTT HOLLAND The Return of Religion in Contemporary Theory and Literature JOHN A. McCLURE And the Earth Is Filled with the Breath of Life ARTHUR WASKOW Communitarianism, Christian Realism, and the Crisis of Progressive Christianity GARY DORRIEN Hope for the New Millennium: An Exchange UMBERTO ECO & CARLO MARIA MARTINI More information about this issue ...
Summer 1997	Including: A Modest Commitment JOSEPH CUNNEEN Nine Ways Not to Talk about God RAIMON PANIKKAR The Decentered Post-Constantinian Church: Deep Calls to Deep ROGER A. BADHAM & OLA SIGURDSON Identity and Community: A Response PHILIP CULBERTSON Faith and Fiction-Making: The Catholic Context ANN COPELAND Beyond Occasional Whiteness JIM PERKINSON Haiti at the Crossroads GILES DANROC From the Poetics of Excess to the Prose of Justice ANSELM KYONGSUK MIN To See the World Profoundly: The Films of Robert Bresson SHMUEL BEN-GAD Interdependence: A Meditation on "Human Economics" JOHN D. RYAN More information about this issue ...
Spring 1997	Including: Closed Books Reopened WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM The Sefirot: Kabbalistic Archetypes of Mind and Creation SANFORD L DROB Sister Helen, Brother Michel: The Discipline of Love ANN DALKE Christ in the Desert of Twentieth-Century Poetry PEGGY ROSENTHAL Religion, Politics, and the State: Cross-Cultural Observations N. J. DEMERATH III & KAREM S. STRAIGHT More information about this issue ....
Winter 1996	Including: Praying in a Post-Einsteinian Universe David Toolan The Shapes of Spirit in Life and Intellectual Experience A mini-forum: four CrossCurrents advisory board members share personal reflections on the spiritual quest. Good Religion, Spirituality and African Americans Harold Dean Trulear Spirituality for Passionate and Rapidly Changing Times Carolyn M. Craft Spirituality in a World of "Fields within Fields within Fields..." Eugene Fontinell Exodus: My Spiritual Map Carol Ochs Asian Social Engagement and the Future of Buddhism Donald W. Mitchell More information about this issue ...
Fall 1996	Including: Good Samaritan: Parable of Renewal JOSEPH CUNNEEN The Good Samaritan As Bad Economist DONALD E. FREY Martin Luther King and the Future of America VINCENT HARDING AND CLAIRE GAUDIANI To Live in a World with No Center -- and Many SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR Jewish Religious Pluralism DANIEL COHN-SHERBOK "A Body Knows": Writing Resurrection MELANIE A. MAY More information about this issue ...
Summer 1996	Including: Wisdom/Sophia, Russian Identity, and Western Feminist Theology BRENDA MEEHAN How Many Languages Does God Speak? Sacred Stories of the Ordinary KOSUKE KOYAMA Sacred Stories of the Ordinary LAWRENCE KUSHNER The Future of ARIL in the Information Age CHARLES P. HENDERSON, JR. Requiem for an Android? Lillegard Traps Us in a False Dilemma But Consciousness Isn't Everything JAMES F. SENNETT Development: Historical Task or Opening to Transcendence? DENIS GOULET Searching for Easter in Peru: Class, Culture, and Evangelization CURT CADORETTE More information about this issue ...
Spring 1996	Including: The Hidden God: The Divine Other of Liberation DAVID TRACY Crossing Borders on the Peace Train to Beijing TERESA WILSON The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women DOROTHY ANN KELLY The Politics of Religious Correctness: Islam and the West JOHN C. RAINES Paul Celan: Black Milk of Daybreak DAVID BRUSIN Playing God: Divine Activity, Human Activity, and Christian Ethics JOSEPH M. INCANDELA Nature, Spirit, and Imagination in the Poetry of Mary Oliver DOUGLAS BURTON-CHRISTIE

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