{"id":5753,"date":"2022-05-31T00:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T00:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:50:16","slug":"editors-introduction-book-review-issue-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/editors-introduction-book-review-issue-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Introduction: Book Review Issue 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[1] Our first review asks the timely question: How do we \u201cbring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic?\u201d\u00a0 In <em>I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Courageously Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times<\/em>, journalist M\u00f3nica Guzm\u00e1n urges us to \u201charness our innate curiosity to break down the formidable walls that keep us confined within tribal silos.\u201d\u00a0 In his appreciative yet critical review, Joel Berman argues that curiosity also needs the careful art of Compassionate Listening. His review is grounded in his own rich experience using this methodology in Israel-Palestine and in the deep south of the United States. The review also recommends additional valuable resources and organizations that can aid us on this difficult but important journey.<\/p>\n<p>[2] In <em>Amending the Christian Story: The Natural Sciences as a Window into Grounded Faith and Sustainable Living,<\/em> Ron Rude examines the role of Christian theology in promulgating an anthropocentric narrative that has harmed the Earth. Reviewer Adam White notes that Rude interweaves the natural sciences, personal memoir and constructive theology to reject the primacy of the human species within God\u2019s story, offering an unflinching diagnosis of the impact of human sinfulness on the natural world. Rude invites readers into a Christian faith grounded in \u201can interconnected ecosystem created by God in which humans are not special, primary, or wise but are, with the rest of creation, <em>tov <\/em>(good).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[3] Speaking to a culture with \u201can increasing number of \u2018Nones\u2019 and many who aver they are \u2018spiritual but not religious,\u2019\u201d Thomas Cathcart draws on the Death-of-God theologians as he both challenges and retrieves resources from the Christian tradition to focus our love on the world around us, experiencing Christianity not as a set of doctrines, but \u201cas something we live.\u201d\u00a0 <em>There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother; Rediscovering Religionless Christianity<\/em> is reviewed by Craig Nessan.<\/p>\n<p>[4] Recommending a novel for your summer reading, Will Bergkamp reviews Jonathan Franzen\u2019s <em>Crossroads.<\/em> Members of a contemporary clergy family whose lives are entwined with the complex life of their church, grapple with problems that come from being \u201cmortal, sexual, emotional beings.\u201d\u00a0 These characters bring to life theological and ethical considerations surrounding what it means to live, and act, in the ambiguity of daily life.\u00a0 The entertaining plot and its characters reveal that \u201cit is our keen sensitivity to time\u2019s passing that raises the thoughts, actions, and difficulties on which ethics bears\u2026.Things matter and you only get to do them once\u2026.Ethical action becomes possible when we see the world anew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[5] Mary Farrell Bednarowski reviews a challenging new scholarly work by Demian Wheeler, <em>Religion Within the Limits of History Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology<\/em>. Wheeler brings together historicism with American pragmatism to create a \u201cbigger, pluralist, naturalistic historicism\u201d that responds to the pressing religious questions of our day.\u00a0 Primarily for academics, the text also speaks to anyone interested in the ever-evolving theological conversations about \u201cauthenticity, credibility, religious pluralism and \u2018truth\u2019 in contemporary religious thought and life.\u201d\u00a0 While Wheeler does not take on specific issues of social justice, he engages a theological worldview and model of God that moves us toward \u201cever-greater embodying of the Gospel values of love and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[1] Our first review asks the timely question: How do we \u201cbring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic?\u201d\u00a0 In I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Courageously Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, journalist M\u00f3nica Guzm\u00e1n urges us to \u201charness our innate curiosity to break down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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