Year: 2020
Type: editorial
Abstract: Two striking articles open this issue of Theology.The first is by the psychiatrist and Anglican priest Professor Christopher C. H. Cook of Durham University on 'Mental health in the kingdom of God'.The second is by Dr Khegan Delport of Stellenbosch University on 'devotional doubt'.Separately and together -drawing on very different resources -they help deepen our understanding of Christian pastoral approaches to those living with an acute sense of personal vulnerability.The 'Difficult text' that follows, tackled once again by Canon Anthony Phillipsexamining how Job, eventually and despite contrary advice, was 'able to accept his miserable lot' -has affinities with Delport's notion of devotional doubt.In a change of tack, Professor Paul F. Bradshaw, now Emeritus Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, returns with another authoritative contribution on liturgy.This time he raises an important question about what principles (other than archaism) should guide future liturgical revision.And Professor John Goldingay and Kathleen Scott Goldingay offer a very timely and scholarly reflection on Covid-19 that is causing chaos around the world today.The Old Testament has much to say about plagues.This is followed by two review articles on books that metaphorically refuse to be covered by a 500-word review.Dr Paul Avis reviews the very substantial first volume of The Oxford History of Anglicanism.And I survey the first ten volumes of the Spanish-Indian Catholic theologian Raimon Panikkar's Opera Omnia, published impressively by Orbis Books and with another eight volumes still to come.Readers of Theology will be aware of T&T Clark's equally impressive commitment to the writings of and about the Flemish Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx .On the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, they published The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx in 11 volumes (reviewed in Vol.118, no. 3, and since then they have published a series of ongoing studies based on his work (reviewed in Vol.121, no. 1, pp. 1-2, Vol.121, no. 4, p. 319 and Vol.122, no. 4, pp.310-12).Now they have published a splendid multiauthor Handbook that adds much texture to an appreciation of this courageous theologian's writings.
Source: Theology
Author: Robin Gill
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4233291792