David Torevell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1204372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Torevell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Torevell |
| SIGNATURE | TOREVELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool Hope University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5284-2512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are you out of your mind? The challenge and benefits of self-acceptance
Mental health issues continue to beset sportsmen and women. This article explores the challenge of self-acceptance in relation to sexual identity and orientation within the footballing world. With reference to John Donnelly's play The Pass it suggests that, largely due to personal, financial, social and media pressures, some professional athletes not only succumb to living up to the image others create for them, but more dangerously, begin to bel…
Training the Body
The Naked Truth
This article highlights one likely 'fall' to which Catholic education is susceptible in the modern era due to the oppressive climate in which it operates. Our critical method in arguing for this position is to oscillate between two texts-one written and one visual: Genesis 3: 1-18 and Masaccio's painting of 'The Expulsion'. The hope is that one will inform and enrich a deeper understanding of the other. As part of this exercise in creative hermen…
Self-Assertion, ‘Ignorant Backwoodsmen’ and the Experience of ‘(Un) Safe Spaces’
I want to suggest that contemporary notions of individuality and self-assertion have been, to some extent, significantly influenced by the thinking of the 18th-century Genevan political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although a committed Christian, Rousseau nursed an understanding of the inner self which clearly resonates with the rise in the 21st century of secularized accounts of the person and the prevalence of ‘identity politics.’ I argue…
Distractions, illusion and the need for a contemplative spirituality
What I attempt to show in this article is that living in a consumerist culture often blurs the boundaries between truth and falsehood with the consequence that the world can appear opaque, insubstantial and not to be trusted. Many are duped into thinking they inhabit a ‘real’ world, which through contemplation, they learn is nothing more than a figment of their distracted selves. Drawing primarily upon the writings of Thomas Merton and Blaise Pas…
Racism, anger and the move towards reconciliation
Racism is still a scourge of our time. Those who find themselves at the centre of this onslaught carry in their hearts and minds centuries of debilitating prejudice, recognising that their own experience of discrimination is simply another stage in its unfolding history and the ongoing social structure which underpins it. Carrying such weight is bound to have a deleterious effect on their personal lives and determines their responses to any discr…
Waging a War against Oneself
I write this article as a Christian theologian working in higher education who has become fascinated with how the teachings and spiritual guidance contained in the writings of members of early monastic communities (both Christian and Buddhist) have much to offer contemporary culture. What such communities sought above all else was a balance between work, leisure and contemplation. Their creative integration of the active and contemplative modalit…
Consenting to the communion
It is 50 years since the death of the French Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin, on Easter Sunday 1955. Besides commemorating the life of an extraordinary theologian, spiritual teacher, geologist and palaeontologist, this article focuses on Teilhard's attitude to death, a theme rarely emphasized or researched in the secondary literature. However, as I argue in company with his fellow Jesuit and friend, Henri de Lubac, his writings and thoughts about dea…
Becoming 'Enraptured'—Beauty, Form and the Articulation of Feeling
The recent debate about the inclusion of the arts within the school curriculum has raised important issues about their transformative potential. This article discusses how the arts have a unique contribution to make through their creative articulation of beauty and their capacity to awaken feelings of sympathy. With reference to leading thinkers on aesthetic theory, I demonstrate how the arts can sustain pupils' spiritual and moral lives. In part…
Acting Out of Affections
This article discusses how the epistemological emphasis given to instrumental reason and cognitive classification (mathesis) during modernity resulted in the disparagement of the role of embodiment in constructions of the moral and spiritual self. I show how the disenchantment and desacralisation of nature which accompanied this shift led to an internalisation of the sources of moral action. I suggest that what is now required is a similar attent…
Taming the lion of Judah
Recent analyses of the impact of (post)modernity on contemporary expressions of religion have been influential in understanding some of the cultural transformations religious traditions inevitably experience. This article argues, within the context of gender studies (and in particular social theory about ‘masculinity'), that many aspects of contemporary Christian liturgy have undergone a significant shift from an emphasis upon bodily communicatio…
Religion matters in Liverpool Working and studying together at the Liverpooi Institute of Higher Education
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Religion matters in Liverpool Working and studying together at the Liverpooi Institute of Higher Education
Taming the lion of Judah
Recent analyses of the impact of (post)modernity on contemporary expressions of religion have been influential in understanding some of the cultural transformations religious traditions inevitably experience. This article argues, within the context of gender studies (and in particular social theory about ‘masculinity'), that many aspects of contemporary Christian liturgy have undergone a significant shift from an emphasis upon bodily communicatio…
Becoming 'Enraptured'—Beauty, Form and the Articulation of Feeling
The recent debate about the inclusion of the arts within the school curriculum has raised important issues about their transformative potential. This article discusses how the arts have a unique contribution to make through their creative articulation of beauty and their capacity to awaken feelings of sympathy. With reference to leading thinkers on aesthetic theory, I demonstrate how the arts can sustain pupils' spiritual and moral lives. In part…
Acting Out of Affections
This article discusses how the epistemological emphasis given to instrumental reason and cognitive classification (mathesis) during modernity resulted in the disparagement of the role of embodiment in constructions of the moral and spiritual self. I show how the disenchantment and desacralisation of nature which accompanied this shift led to an internalisation of the sources of moral action. I suggest that what is now required is a similar attent…
Consenting to the communion
It is 50 years since the death of the French Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin, on Easter Sunday 1955. Besides commemorating the life of an extraordinary theologian, spiritual teacher, geologist and palaeontologist, this article focuses on Teilhard's attitude to death, a theme rarely emphasized or researched in the secondary literature. However, as I argue in company with his fellow Jesuit and friend, Henri de Lubac, his writings and thoughts about dea…
Waging a War against Oneself
I write this article as a Christian theologian working in higher education who has become fascinated with how the teachings and spiritual guidance contained in the writings of members of early monastic communities (both Christian and Buddhist) have much to offer contemporary culture. What such communities sought above all else was a balance between work, leisure and contemplation. Their creative integration of the active and contemplative modalit…
Distractions, illusion and the need for a contemplative spirituality
What I attempt to show in this article is that living in a consumerist culture often blurs the boundaries between truth and falsehood with the consequence that the world can appear opaque, insubstantial and not to be trusted. Many are duped into thinking they inhabit a ‘real’ world, which through contemplation, they learn is nothing more than a figment of their distracted selves. Drawing primarily upon the writings of Thomas Merton and Blaise Pas…
Racism, anger and the move towards reconciliation
Racism is still a scourge of our time. Those who find themselves at the centre of this onslaught carry in their hearts and minds centuries of debilitating prejudice, recognising that their own experience of discrimination is simply another stage in its unfolding history and the ongoing social structure which underpins it. Carrying such weight is bound to have a deleterious effect on their personal lives and determines their responses to any discr…
Self-Assertion, ‘Ignorant Backwoodsmen’ and the Experience of ‘(Un) Safe Spaces’
I want to suggest that contemporary notions of individuality and self-assertion have been, to some extent, significantly influenced by the thinking of the 18th-century Genevan political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although a committed Christian, Rousseau nursed an understanding of the inner self which clearly resonates with the rise in the 21st century of secularized accounts of the person and the prevalence of ‘identity politics.’ I argue…
The Naked Truth
This article highlights one likely 'fall' to which Catholic education is susceptible in the modern era due to the oppressive climate in which it operates. Our critical method in arguing for this position is to oscillate between two texts-one written and one visual: Genesis 3: 1-18 and Masaccio's painting of 'The Expulsion'. The hope is that one will inform and enrich a deeper understanding of the other. As part of this exercise in creative hermen…
Are you out of your mind? The challenge and benefits of self-acceptance
Mental health issues continue to beset sportsmen and women. This article explores the challenge of self-acceptance in relation to sexual identity and orientation within the footballing world. With reference to John Donnelly's play The Pass it suggests that, largely due to personal, financial, social and media pressures, some professional athletes not only succumb to living up to the image others create for them, but more dangerously, begin to bel…
Training the Body
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