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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
RELIGION BOOKHOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham Griffiths has done an immense amount of reading on the place of books and readers in the history of religion. His chapters on test cases are...
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...Moreover, Griffiths does not pay sufficient attention to the question of how the very perception of a page radically changes over time, a change wonderfully explicated in Ivan Illich's compelling but insufficiently noticed In the Vineyard of the Text (1993...
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...Strong social justice and liturgical base...
...That emphasis on relationality allows Mclntosh to assay positive constructions of everything from a new way of thinking about trinitarian theology to new angles from which one might think about ethics...
...Pax, a Franciscan, knows that place well...
...My guess would be that many of those copies were sold to pilgrims in the Holy Land...
...interpretations of Jesus...
...Were I editing this volume I would have insisted on a few more user-friendly elements...
...He accomplishes this by asking some fundamental questions: What is the relationship of Jesus to God the Father...
...The photographic emphasis is on the many Latin rite churches, which stand over the putative places associated with the biblical story of Jesus...
...I wrote "on the market" because a fair slice of such writing fits so neatly into our consumerist culture...
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...He treats the whole of the New Testament in light of these central issues...
...A new integration of theology is highly desirable, according to Mclntosh, who offers strategies for enhancing theological discourse through a recovery of the tradition of mystical theology...
...The glossed Bible had, at its core, the sacred book(s) about which countless pages of commentary are anthologized...
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...At a minimum there should have been a brief bibliography of more detailed guide books (like the authoritative The Holy Land [Oxford University Press, 1998] by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, O.P...
...Catholic experience and be prepared to offer a doctoral seminar each term in residence along with other duties to be determined...
...None of the chapters (if that is what they should be called) is longer than two pages, but with the boxes that provide ancillary information, a great deal of learning is packed into these pages...
...Mystical theology has to do with the reality of God, not primarily with a mystic's "experience...
...Since the book is clearly written, thorough, and well organized, it would make a nice companion volume for a mature biblical study group or for classroom use...
...Commonweal 28 September 24,1999 Jesus Christ: The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith by J.R...
...To show how this book works, I will choose, from many possibilities, Porter's brief discussion on the synagogue in the time of Jesus (under "Setting...
...He does not cover the pilgrimage sites in the same manner as Pax, though he does explain the land, culture, religious customs, and geography in accessible detail...
...The medieval glossed Bible is a case in point...
...There is an enormous amount of popular writing on spirituality on the market today...
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...Porter provides a photo of the synagogue remains of Bar'am in the Galilee which is built over the archaeological remains of the synagogue which Jesus may have entered...
...As the book concludes, he argues that despite the quite different trajectories of the individual works in the canon, there is a unity in the diversity of the Christologies discussed...
...a few maps to orient the reader, and, finally, an index...
...What significance, weight, and intention did the writers give to the many titles of Jesus...
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...in fact, he is, rightly, suspicious of most of it...
...A glossary of terms, a list of abbreviations, a basic bibliography, and an index are provided...
...Studies on biblical Christology appear with great frequency...
...How did the biblical writers understand the paschal mystery of Christ's passion, death, and Resurrection...
...Mclntosh's book does not fit into that niche...
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...the life of Jesus...
...Two Job Openings at the University of Dayton DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES—UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON Announces two openings in the Department of Religious Studies: (1) A tenure-track position with a focus in pastoral ministry to start in Fall, 2000...
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...He presumes some acquaintance with the tradition, argues with theological acuity, and is solidly orthodox in his Christian affirmations...
...Tilley, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1530...
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...In a boxed feature in the same chapter there is a brief outline of the cycle of Jewish festivals, which is illustrated by a fifteenth-century Italian panel painting of Jesus at the Last Supper...
...Some authors, and I would number Frank Matera as one of them, have the knack of absorbing the work of sophisticated scholarship and transmitting that learning in a readable and spiritually nourishing manner...
...As Hans Urs von Balthasar noted, the positive and the mystical must be read dialectically...
...It struck me that were this fine book to appear in a somewhat less expensive edition it would make a nice companion volume for a study group or even a beginning college course on the New Testament...
...There is much wonderful information in this book and it is very ably written...
...Salary is competitive...
...Pax's book, according to the dust jacket, sold a million copies in its first edition, which saw light nearly thirty years ago...
...The divorce of spirituality and theology has been in the process of healing at the hands of theologians like Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mclntosh writes...
...The best service this book provides is to highlight the vast need for critical reflection on the act of reading...
...If mystical theology has to do with the experience of the mystery of God, then spirituality (I use the shorthand term) cannot be bracketed off from theology...
...Lawrence S. Cunningham teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame...
...The "coffee table" format makes it an attractive gift or souvenir for someone who either has been or plans to go on pilgrimage...
...The merit of Matera's work rests precisely in his approach, which is to read the text as a narrative and in the canonical shape it has in the Bible while paying attention to the way(s) in which the biblical writer describes, professes, and reflects upon the figure of Christ...
...More technically, "mystical theology" was the unutterable reality that always stood beyond whatever one might say about God...
...A large number of the illustrations are interior views of Latin churches in various locations...
...Applicants must be prepared to participate in the graduate programs in theology and pastoral ministry, especially by mentoring students involved in practicum experiences and by engaging them in theological reflection on that experience...
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...Porter's book is done in the same large format, with 160 color illustrations, 20 black-and-white illustrations, and 20 maps...
...Pax's book is attractive but it is more souvenir than reliable guide...
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...He then discusses the place of the synagogue in the life of the Jews during the time of Jesus...
...The merit of Griffiths's book is that he brings much of this argument to bear on the work of the academy as it pursues what is commonly called "religious studies...
...New Testament Christology by Frank Matera Westminster John Knox, $26,304 pp...
...Basic to this line of argument is Mclntosh's conviction that spirituality is about "the activity of being drawn into an encounter with the other...
...In fact, one can come away from it less pessimistic about the academy than the author, while still hoping that the old tradition of religious reading will continue to thrive in institutions apart from the academy...
...Applicants must have an earned doctorate at time of appointment and diverse and significant experience in pastoral ministry...
...Oddly, the chapters on the fundamental genres of religious reading, which he sees as commentaries and anthologies, exclude the most fundamental genre of all: the sacred book, from which commentaries and anthologies spring...
...For instance, the ancient fathers and biblical commentators looked for that which was hidden under the plain sense of Scripture (accessible only to those who read "religiously" and not as consumers—to borrow Griffiths's distinction...
...Walter Ong, among others, has been making that argument for some time...
...Master's Degree preferred...
...The interiors, mostly modern, are hardly distinguished examples of Christian art or architecture...
...This work is not for the theologically timid...
...It provides solid information and is a feast for the eyes, a beauty made evident by the high quality of the visual materials on every page of the text...
...In that sense, he undertakes a great task in contemporary theology, namely, to overcome the chasm that can develop between professional exegesis and theological reflection...
...In the Footsteps of Jesus: 2000 Years Later by Wolfgang Pax Continuum, $29.95,224 pp...
...Mystical theology, then, stood as shorthand for the attempt to articulate what finally could not be said of the divine mystery as opposed to those positive things—albeit by analogy—that could be said of God...
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...In the introduction Matera states that one of his aims is to help theology students take more seriously and centrally the data of Scripture...
...Responsibilities also include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of pastoral ministry and sacramental theology, teaching introductory general education courses, and maintaining a program of research and scholarly publication...
...Porter Oxford University Press, $35,240 pp...
...Indeed, the fundamental argument of Mclntosh's book is that there was no distinction between theology and spirituality for a long period in the church's history...
...His easy-to-read narrative about the sites is illustrated with some one hundred and forty crisp photographs of churches, shrines, and holy places...
...Mark Mclntosh, in this excellent study, understands that classical sense of the term "mystical theology" so well he makes the perceptive remark that the phrase meant the experience of the utter mystery of God rather than a mystic's own experience...
...Mystical Theology by Mark Mclntosh Blackwell, $26.95,246 pp...
...noetic?—is a category mistake...
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...The sixth-century SyriCommonweal 27 September24,1999 an monk Dionysius wrote Mystical Theology as a counterpoint to his earlier work listing and describing the meaning of The Names of God...
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...The book has five large sections: the setting of the life of Jesus...
...Discounts 5 percent, 3 times...
...mediated through religious categories...
...Some are highly technical while others are more inclined to the devotional...
...This is an important work which heralds what I hope will be more serious attempts to marry real theological learning to committed Christian praxis...
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...But how does one sharply distinguish his two categories...
...To grasp that distinction is to understand that much of the contemporary philosophical inquiry into the nature of the mystic's experience—is it pure consciousness...
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...The word "mysticism" is of modern coinage, but the term "mystical theology" has an ancient pedigree...
...We are on the cusp of a revolution in communication as far-reaching as that inaugurated by the invention of movable type in the fifteenth century...
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...Indeed, one of the hallmarks of this book is its use of classic works of art to illustrate the topics at hand...
...The author intertwines a kind of running narrative of the gospel story with side glances toward archaeological discoveries and historical observations...
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...His chapters on test cases are immensely learned but, in the case of Buddhism, demanding for the nonexpert...
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