Christian Theological Seminary

ABSTRACT Although a fairly marginal figure in some respects, the fame of Fr. Seraphim Rose has increased dramatically in an online age. His legacy, however, intersects with key tensions in Eastern Orthodoxy in the U.S., including the role of Russia, conspiracy theory, and apocalyptic theology. This article seeks to examine his life and reception in order to show how both of them shed light on these ongoing tensions among U.S. Eastern Orthodoxy.

Article Veronice Miles, Embodied Hope: A Homiletical Theology Reflection, Eugene, OR (Cascade Books) 2021, 268 pp., ISBN 9781532699863, $32.00 USD was published on November 1, 2023 in the journal International Journal of Practical Theology (volume 27, issue 2).

This chapter examines the author’s background through the lens of self, systems, and spirit in describing the book’s foundations. Through this description, the reader can identify threads of a story that understands spirituality to be an overall integrator of diversity concerns when utilized in a non-oppressive manner. Identifying with the author’s story will enable the reader to use specific personal and professional lenses that will connect them to the book as it unfolds.KeywordsSpiritualityReligionMFT supervisionMFT core competenciesDiversitiesIntersectionalitySelf of the therapistSelf of the supervisorLiving web of socio-spiritualitySelfSystemsSpirit

Abstract Drawing on parallels from Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian sources alongside of sociological models of agriculture in subsistence economies, this essay makes the case for the presence (if not preponderance) of child shepherds among those who receive the angelic message in Luke 2:1–20. By engaging a childist reading that both considers the position of the shepherds with regards to their economic and social standing in Bethlehem and re-reads the angelic message and proclamation of an infant as sign in light of such a youthful audience, this essay reframes the perceived identity of the Bethlehem shepherds to foreground the children in their midst.

Alexander Pruss has recently argued on probabilistic grounds that Christian philosophers should reject Open Futurism—roughly, the thesis that there are no true future contingents—on account of this view’s alleged inability to handle certain statements about infinite futures in a mathematically or religiously adequate manner. We argue that, once the distinction between being true and becoming true is applied to such statements, it is evident that they pose no problem for Open Futurists.