Models of God: Empowerment, Intimacy, Hope

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Kathryn Guthrie

Outlines John Bradshaw's understanding of the roots of addition, summarizes several traditional images of God, and notes their limitations relative to recovery programs. Suggests necessary criteria for a model of God which would serve well the recovery process and finds the fulfillment of the criteria via process theology when wedded to feminist theology.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Rezapour ◽  
Mohammad Barzegari ◽  
Elham Sharifi ◽  
Nastaran Malmir ◽  
Hamid Reza Ghiasvand ◽  
...  

BackgroundA brief neuroscience-informed psychoeducation program (neuroscience-informed psychoeducation for recovery, NIPER) was developed to promote awareness (metacognition) in the main cognitive domains affected by drug and alcohol use to increase willingness to invest time and effort in the brain and cognition recovery process. The primary aim of this study was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the NIPER program and its potential effectiveness in terms of increasing metacognition, psychological wellbeing and willingness for the brain and cognition recovery programs among people with substance use disorders (SUDs).Methodology56 individuals with SUDs recruited from four outpatient treatment centres in Tehran, Iran and attended four 90-min sessions delivered weekly adjunct to their treatment as usual. The effectiveness was measured in terms of metacognition, and psychological wellbeing at baseline and at the end of the program. Rate of adherence and participation as well as willingness to continue with brain and cognition recovery programs were measured as feasibility outcomes.ResultsA total of 51 participants completed the study. Compared to the baseline assessments, participants reported significantly higher problems in dimensions of attention, memory, inhibitory control, decision making, motor/speech, interocpetion and insight, as well as higher level of psychological wellbeing (t=4.66. p<0.001). In terms of feasibility outcomes, the adherence and participation rates were found above 85%. The majority of participants expressed their high willingness to continue the brain and cognition recovery programs (86.2%) and introduce NIPER to their peers (98%).ConclusionTaking into account the results in terms of feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of NIPER in clinical context of addiction treatment, we consider NIPER as a potentially beneficial interventions to be offered to people with SUD to increase their awareness and engage them to the brain and cognition recovery process. The clinical efficacy of the intervention should be tested in future randomized clinical trials.


Author(s):  
Rick Benjamins

SummaryCatherine Keller’s constructive theology includes an original and very interesting combination of process theology, feminist theology and negative theology. This combination culminates in the articulation of an “apophatic panentheism” that is urgent for its accentuation of connectivity and interdependency in our global world. In this article, Keller’s apophatic panentheism is clarified on the basis of her major works on the relational self, creation, apocalyptic patterns of thought, and negative theology.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio De Oliveira Ribeiro

A pesquisa trata de um dos desafios que se apresenta para a teologia latino-americana, que é o aprofundamento das questões que emergem da valorização do pluralismo religioso e como ela incide no fortalecimento da democracia, das práticas ecumênicas e de cunho libertador e da defesa dos direitos humanos e da terra. O ponto central de nossa análise está em torno da revisão metodológica da teologia latino-americana, tendo em vista a diversificação crescente do quadro de pluralismo religioso. Para esta revisão, as questões suscitadas pelas relações entre fés e culturas têm tido destaque. Metodologicamente, identificamos dois blocos para análise. Um que emerge do contexto da teologia feminista latino-americana e outro das teologias afro-indígenas. O esforço da teologia feminista da libertação em buscar imagens femininas de Deus está centrado nas expressões da fé em uma divindade não androcêntrica, que seja fonte de iluminação crítica das formas de patriarcalismos e sexismos. O foco é a vivência espontânea da fé que promova a cura e que valorize o corpo, a sexualidade, o cuidado e a proteção e a responsabilidade ética com a criação e a natureza. A necessidade de mudança de lugar teológico, a partir da realidade das culturas religiosas afro-indígenas, valoriza a contribuição de uma teologia indígena e de uma teologia negra, especialmente por desfrutarem da tensão criativa entre ritualidade e racionalidade e por articularem as subjetividades do mundo afro-indígena e a racionalidade cristã ocidental.Palavras-chave: Teologia da libertação. Teologia feminista. Teologia afro- -indígena. Pluralismo religioso.Abstract: The research deals with one of the challenges that is presented to the Latin American theology that is the deepening of the issues emerging from the appreciation of religious pluralism and how it focuses on strengthening democracy, ecumenical practices and the Hallmark and the protection of human rights and the Earth. The focal point of our analysis is around the methodological revision of Latin American theology in view of the growing diversification of the framework of religious pluralism. For this revision, the issues raised by relations between faiths and cultures have been highlighted. Methodologically, we’ve identified two blocks for analysis. One that emerges from the context of Latin American feminist theology and another of the Afro theology. The effort of the feminist liberation theology in seeking feminine images of God is centered on the expressions of faith in a non-androcentric deity, which is a source of critical illumination of the forms of patriarcalisms and sexism. The focus is the spontaneous living of the faith that promotes healing and that values the body, sexuality, care and protection and ethical responsibility with creation and nature. The need to change theological place from the reality of Afro religious cultures, values the contribution of an indigenous theology and black theology, especially because they enjoy the creative tension between rituality and Rationality and articulate the subjectivities of the Afroindigenous World and Western Christian rationality.Keywords: Theology of liberation. Feminist theology. Afroindigenous theology. Religious pluralism.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hekman

For many years feminist theologians have found much in common with process theology. As a consequence a robust tradition has developed that links feminist theology with many aspects of process theology. An important element of this tradition is the attempt to draw similarities between postmodernism and feminist process theology. In this article I argue, first, that the connection between feminist process theology and postmodernism is philosophically problematic and, second, that another contemporary feminist approach, the new materialism, provides the basis for a more fruitful dialogue between feminist theology and process theology. My goal is to extend this dialogue.


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