Recently added articles from Anglican Theological Review:
Something to Say: Pastoral Leadership and the Word
Jan 01, 2009; ... You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say; You can't make music if you ain't got nothin' to play. - Willie Nelson1 The asking of questions is an essential element of pastoral leadership. Not only does it push individuals and congregations to reflect on their core ...
Yes
Jan 01, 2009; ... "Yes was the best answer to every question." Frank McCourt, Teacher Man So I said yes to everything, yes to the green hills rolling out ahead, yes to the hayfield tied up in rolls, yes to the clouds blooming like peonies in the sky's blue meadow, the long ...
Awaiting Execution
Jan 01, 2009; ... Awaiting execution six followers of the late rabble rouser were intent only upon one another as if the prison courtyard were a walled garden, the gray helmets of the guard gray helmets of lupines as if banners, torn posters, parts ...
Next Question
Jan 01, 2009; ... If Adam and Eve Had never fallen; If we did not have to toil and sweat To earn our bread, Beleaguered by Regret and death; If we were full of grace, Knowledge infused Of all that is or could ever be. What would we ...
On the Priesthood
Jan 01, 2009; ... Episcopalians affirm the ministry of all the baptized. Our polity is also deeply inclusive of laity in our leadership structure-at parochial, diocesan, and national levels. As such, however, it is important to remember that not all Christian ministries and leadership are necessarily the same ....
Leadership from the Inside Out
Jan 01, 2009; ... While varying slightly from diocese to diocese or province to province, the Anglican Church has a formation process for leadership based heavily upon the creation of "one-size-fits-all" clergy. An accidental by-product of the outside-in process is a failure to honor the unique giftedness each ...
Looking at Leadership Beyond Our Own Horizon
Jan 01, 2009; ... When church people consider images and concepts of leadership, I inevitably hear them attempt to separate the ecclesia from the rest of human riffraff. "The church is not a business." "We are not like the military - we are a community of faith." "The church is not just any old nonprofit ...
"The Bells of Paradise I Heard Them Ring"
Jan 01, 2009; ... Down in yon forest there stands a hall, The bells of Paradise I heard them ring; It's covered all over with purple and pall And I love my Lord Jesus above any thing.1 That's not quite the way the grocer's apprentice wrote it, of course. On a break between ...
In Sanctuary
Jan 01, 2009; ... There are so many places to look - up above the organ pipes, where sun stabs our stories into the dusty air, down where we kneel into ourselves, confuting demons. Through the ribbed rood-screen with its ...
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary/Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary. By Robert Alter. New York: WW. Norton, 2007. xl + 518 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine. By Jason Byassee. Foreword by Robert W Jenson. Radical Traditions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans ...
Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering
Jan 01, 2009; ... Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering. By David B. Burrell. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2007. 144 pp. $19.99 (paper). Readers who have already encountered David BurrelPs Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions will recognize in this brief ...
What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
Jan 01, 2009; ... What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church. By John D. Caputo. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2007. 160 pp. $19.99 (paper). In What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (WWJD), John Caputo attempts to show exacdy that - what Jesus would deconstruct. For Caputo, ...
Jesus: The Village Psychiatrist
Jan 01, 2009; ... Jesus: The Village Psychiatrist. By Donald Capps. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008. 192 pp. $19.95 (paper). It is not every day that one happens upon a book wherein comparisons between Jesus of Nazareth and Sigmund Freud abound. Indeed, for many, those two names stand ...
Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective
Jan 01, 2009; ... Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective. By Pamela Cooper- White. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2007. viii + 359 pp. $34.00 (cloth). This book is a work of art. Cooper- White brings the full measure of her expertise as a theologian, ...
Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the Second Gospel
Jan 01, 2009; ... Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the Second Gospel. By Ira Brent Driggers. London and Louisville, Ky..- Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. ? + 135 pp. $24.95 (paper). Mark, as all readers of the New Testament know, is the antidote to John. Where John gives us the ...
Christianity in Latin America: A History
Jan 01, 2009; ... Christianity in Latin America: A History. By Ondina E. González and Justo L. González. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 331 pages. $23.99 (paper); $80.00 (cloth). Tackling the difficult task of encapsulating over five hundred years of religious history in a geographic area of ...
And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
Jan 01, 2009; ... And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament. By Edith Humphrey. Studies in Theological Interpretation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2007. 238 pp. $22.99 (paper). Edith Humphrey's latest book is an original and substantial contribution to biblical ...
On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process
Jan 01, 2009; ... On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process. By Catherine Keller. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2008. xv + 208 pp. $16 (paper). This most recent book by Catherine Keller offers an accessible, engaging introduction to her relational perspective and to process theology. It will be ...
The Many Marks of the Church
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Many Marks of the Church. Edited by William Madges and Michael J. Daley. New London, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, 2006. 232 pp. $24.95 (paper). The Many Marks of the Church goes far beyond one, holy, catholic, and apostolic to include conciliar, immigrant, sinful, and humorous ....
How (Not) to Speak of God
Jan 01, 2009; ... How (Not) to Speak of God. By Peter Rollins. Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2006. xv + 144 pp. $19.95 (paper). In this subtle but accessible book, Peter Rollins draws upon recent philosophy, Christian mysticism, and a broadly evangelical experience of faith in order to develop a ...