Anglican Theological Review back issues from October 2002:
Editor's notes
Oct 01, 2002; ... Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were digged. Isaiah 51:1 You might call this a rock-and-quarry issue. All the major articles have to do with origins and with identity as derived from origins. They look to the first, formative period of ...
Distinctive or all-embracing? Retrieving the foundations of Anglican spirituality in a postmodern era
Oct 01, 2002; ... In reflecting on how to retrieve the foundations of Anglican spirituality in our postmodern era, I write specifically as an outsider / insider in relation to the Anglican tradition. As an English Roman Catholic, I am an "outsider." However, I am also something of an "insider," because alongside ...
George Herbert and the architecture of Anglican worship
Oct 01, 2002; ... I Designation of George Herbert as Protestant in doctrine and poetic practice has been fashionable of late, and it has become common to locate the latter, in Barbara Lewalski's terminology, within the category of "Protestant poetics."1 About Herbert's identification of himself as a ...
Prelude: Hooker after 400 years
Oct 01, 2002; ... A clutch of essays on the writings of Richard Hooker follows this brief introduction. The name Richard Hooker is familiar to readers of this Review, and among these readers are surely a reasonably large number who have themselves read substantial portions of texts of Hooker's major work, Of the ...
The role of sin in the theology of Richard Hooker
Oct 01, 2002; ... The key leitmotiv throughout Richard Hooker's writings is the concept of order. Most obviously it served in defense of the Ecclesia Anglicana against what Hooker regarded as the Roman Catholic and Puritan errors. The central category in defining order was Hooker's theory of law, which he ...
Prudence and custom: Revisiting Hooker on authority
Oct 01, 2002; ... There is a standard Anglican rule on theological authority, quoted so often that it has become a commonplace. "Scripture, reason, and tradition," we are told, "are the authorities upon which Anglicans rely when doing theology; this is the grand synthesis which we inherit from Richard Hooker and ...
Scripture and the generous hermeneutic of Richard Hooker
Oct 01, 2002; ... Discussion within the Anglican Communion around the integrity of its moral teaching, the comprehensiveness of its theology, and its capacity to speak with both intellect and passion for the gospel, has occasioned a number of books from the last years of the twentieth century. 1 The common thread ...
Richard Hooker's trinitarian hermeneutic of grace
Oct 01, 2002; ... Robert K. Faulkner has identified two tendencies in the cultural upheaval that shaped the writing of Richard Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Faulkner demonstrates how Hooker's argumentation was addressed to powerful proponents of an emerging secularism and, at the same time, a ...
Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism or English magisterial reformer?
Oct 01, 2002; ... Richard Hooker (1554-1600) has long been considered the premier theologian and foremost apologist of the Church of England. Hooker's importance to the Anglican Communion at large remains today as great as ever. Yet the actual fellowship of those who may legitimately be designated "Hooker ...
Hooker's apprentice: God, entelechy, beauty, and desire in book one of Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie
Oct 01, 2002; ... We don't really look at the past for antiquarian reasons, we look at the past to see if in looking at its thought and its art, we can see things that have been lost and that we need for this very present moment of our existing. George Grant This paper is an exposition of the ...
Always Autumn
Oct 01, 2002; ... On a sermon by John Donne preached Christmas Day, 1624 If John Donne had his way, there would be no buds or flowers in Heaven-- only fruit fully ripe from the first. "In Heaven," he said, "it is always Autumn; God's mercies are ever in maturity." Heaven as bonanza, as ...
What She Knew
Oct 01, 2002; ... I saw four ways in which the body dried. The first was through bloodlessness, the second was the consequent pain, the third was that he was hanging up in the air as people hang up a cloth to dry, the fourth was that his physical nature needed liquid, and there was no kind of comfort ministered ...
Bright Maiden of the Purgatorio
Oct 01, 2002; ... I followed her along the river's banks-- how might I have traveled without her aid, scaled the mountain of visionary love? Over that stream of cleansing water she moved with such light, sweet singing, and so wise she awed even Virgil, my eldest guide ....
Eucharist in Ashland, Wisconsin
Oct 01, 2002; ... Water hisses on the shoal at the point, slaps, recalls the shipwrecks that dot these shores as surely as towns dot the map. From the point gazebo, I gaze past the oredocks, past other spits of land to where slate water blends into slate sky: a true ...
Renaissance Rome and Emersonian Boston: Michelangelo and Sargent, between triumph and doubt
Oct 01, 2002; ... Art Review Article In 1896, when he first encountered the grandeur of the Boston Public Library's Sargent Hall-a gallery that takes its name from John Singer Sargent's resplendent mural cycle there, The Triumph of Religion-Ernest Fenollosa, the legendary curator of Japanese art, found ...
An answering heart: Reflections on saving participation
Oct 01, 2002; ... God's gift of salvation is freely offered, and it is to be freely received. Grace completes but does not annihilate nature. "Force is not of God," and we are never compelled to accept God's grace.1 God never strips us of our free will, and never reduces us to robots or puppets. The process of ...
Russo-Greek Papers, 1863-1874
Oct 01, 2002; ... Russo-Greek Papers, 1863-1874. Edited and introduced by Edward Kasinec and J. Robert Wright. New york: Norman Ross Publishing Inc., 2001. xv + 389 pp. The fifteen papers in this volume were printed in connection with the work of a Joint Committee on Communication with the Russo-Greek ...
Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War
Oct 01, 2002; ... Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War. Edited by Jon L. Berquist. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2002. xv + 355 pp. $29.99 (paper). If there has been a consistent complaint by and about the academic community since the terrorist attacks of September 11, it has been that ...
The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies
Oct 01, 2002; ... The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies. Edited by Wesley Carr, with Donald Capps, Robin Gill, Anton Obholzer, Ruth Page, Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, and Rowan Williams. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. xviii + 414 pp. $50.00 (cloth). In my academic work I use a ...
Comparing Spiritualities: Formative Christianity and Judaism on Finding Life and Meeting Death
Oct 01, 2002; ... Comparing Spiritualities: Formative Christianity and Judaism on Finding Life and Meeting Death. By Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000. xv +140 pp. $16.00 (paper). Neusner and Chilton present a reflection on several "existential" issues, ...
John Calvin's Rhetorical Doctrine of Sin
Oct 01, 2002; ... John Calvin's Rhetorical Doctrine of Sin. By Don H. Compier. Texts and Studies in Religion, Volume 86. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. x + 154 pp. $99.95 (cloth). Don Compier's book on Calvin is a worthy contribution to a growing body of theological texts that attempt to situate ...
The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about their Faith
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about their Faith. Edited by Philip L. Culbertson. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. xiv + 282 pp. $25.00 (paper). Christianity in the United States is at a dangerous and foreboding crossroads. Promising and progressive conversations about the ...
Waging Reconciliation: God's Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis
Oct 01, 2002; ... Waging Reconciliation: God's Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis. Edited by Ian T. Douglas. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 2002. 263 pp. $19.95 (paper). Waging Reconciliation brings together the papers read and discussed at the September 20-26, 2001 meeting of the ...
Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology
Oct 01, 2002; ... Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology. By Douglas Farrow. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. xi + 340 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Also published by T&T Clark (Edinburgh), 24.95 (cloth). Douglas Farrow's ...
The Pastoral Care of Children
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Pastoral Care of Children. By Daniel H. Grossoehme. Binghamton, NX: The Haworth Press, 1999. 160 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). In the hospital where I was a chaplain, we had a specialty unit that treated children who were profoundly retarded or otherwise disabled from ...
The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought. Edited by Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason, and Hugh Pyper, with Ingrid Lawrie and Cecily Bennett. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxix + 777 pp. 40.00 (cloth); $75.00 (cloth). At first glance this seems to be an impossible ...
The Ancient Church as Family
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Ancient Church as Family. By Joseph H. Hellerman. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. xv + 295 pp. $23.00 (paper). Urbanization leading to dislocation during the first two centuries of the Common Era encouraged the development of voluntary associations that provided family-like ...
The Mystery beneath the Real: Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Mystery beneath the Real: Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot. By Peter C. Hodgson. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. x + 244 pp. $20.00 (paper). Published in England as Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot: The Mystery beneath the Real (London: SCM, 2001) 17.95 (paper). Hodgson ...
Stories, Tales, and a Few Small Lies of a Country Parson
Oct 01, 2002; ... Stories, Tales, and a Few Small Lies of a Country Parson. By Robert B. Horine. Cincinnati: Forward Movement Publications, 2002. vii + 204 pp. $10.00 (paper). The country parson is a recurring type much beloved in Anglican spirituality. Chaucer enshrined him in the fourteenth century in ...
How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation
Oct 01, 2002; ... How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation. By Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. ix + 241 pp. $24.95 (cloth). I first heard about this book from a parish priest who said it was one of the most important books ...
Jesus Among the Theologians: Contemporary Interpretations of Christ
Oct 01, 2002; ... Jesus Among the Theologians: Contemporary Interpretations of Christ. By William J. La Due. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2001. viii + 216 pp. $21.00 (paper). This survey of Christological literature from the second half of the twentieth century is noteworthy for the ...
Jesus and the Fundamentalism of His Day
Oct 01, 2002; ... Jesus and the Fundamentalism of His Day. By William Loader. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2001. vi + 156 pp. $14.00 (paper). William Loader makes a lucid case: the gospels and Jesus did not take up a fundamentalist orientation to Scripture. "[T]hose who insisted on keeping ...
Evil and the Augustinian Tradition
Oct 01, 2002; ... Evil and the Augustinian Tradition. By Charles T Mathewes. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 271 pp. L40.00 (cloth); $60.00 (cloth). Evil and the Augustinian Tradition is more than an intervention into the endless scholarly debates on the problem of evil ....
Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue
Oct 01, 2002; ... Religious Pluralism in the Academy: Opening the Dialogue. By Robert J. Nash. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 224 pp. $29.95 (paper). Public university campuses ought to be arenas for "unbounded dialogue" and moral conversation on issues of spirituality and religion: so argues Robert J. Nash ...
Time and Chance
Oct 01, 2002; ... Time and Chance. By Sharon Kay Penman. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 2002. 515 pp. $27.95 (cloth). For the past twenty years, Sharon Kay Penman has brought the Middle Ages to life for readers who would never willingly take a history course or read an academic study. Starting with ...
All We Know of Heaven
Oct 01, 2002; ... All We Know of Heaven. By Remy Rougeau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 228 pp. $23.00 (cloth); $13.00 (paper). Nuns, and now monks, appear to be enjoying a certain popularity these days as subjects of novels. First there appeared Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen (HarperCollins, 1992) ...
Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture
Oct 01, 2002; ... Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture. By Christopher R. Seitz. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. xii + 228 pp. $24.95 (paper). This is a compilation of twelve essays which variously explore and extend many of the important themes addressed in the ...
Critical Social Theory: Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination
Oct 01, 2002; ... Critical Social Theory: Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination. By Gary M. Simpson. Guides to Theological Inquiry Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. xiv + 178 pp. $14.00 (paper). Gary Simpson's book is the latest volume in the Guides to Theological Inquiry, a ...
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance. By Dorothee Soelle. Translated by Barbara and Martin Rumscheidt. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. x + 325 pp. $20.00 (paper). Of the many books published on mysticism in recent years, this is one of the most provocative and one of the most ...
A Theology of Worship
Oct 01, 2002; ... A Theology of Worship. By Louis Weil. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2002. xiii + 160 pp. $11.95 (paper). The newest release in the New Church's Teaching Series is a consideration of worship by Louis Weil, Hodges Professor of Liturgies at the Church Divinity School of the ...
The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
Oct 01, 2002; ... The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man. By Walter Wink. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. xvi + 356 pp. $26.00 (paper). None can argue with the assertion, inherent in the title of Walter Wink's new book, that the phrase under scrutiny is enigmatic. Most of the New ...
Reading at the intersection of culture and faith: Life, death, poetry, and pastoral care
Oct 01, 2002; ... Gleanings Books Discussed Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper. By Barry K. Baines, M.D. New York: Perseus Publishing, 2001. xv + 160 pp. $13.00 (paper). When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways of Living with Tragedy. By Gregory S. Clapper. Nashville, ...
Essential reading
Oct 01, 2002; ... "Essential Reading" for theologians must include texts that help us think theologically in the contemporary world. What follows are some books to which I turn again and again to help "faith seeking understanding" become clearer and more precise. That doesn't mean the books themselves are ...