Anglican Theological Review back issues from July 2003:
New Testament Studies
Jul 01, 2003; ... I like to think of New Testament studies as an enterprise that focuses initially on the first century in its Jewish and Greco-Roman aspects but then moves, quite naturally, through the historical experience of the church and into our own time. While I value the distinction between exegesis ...
Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement
Jul 01, 2003; ... Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement. By Rowan Williams. London: Morehouse Publishing, 2000 (reprinted 2002). x + 190 pp. $15.95 (paper). Lost Icons is a sobering inquiry into the structures that support (or fail to support) the development of authentic selfhood and the ...
Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith: Consumerism and Christian Community
Jul 01, 2003; ... Books Discussed Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. By Robert B. Cialdini. Revised Edition. New York: Morrow/HarperCollins, 1993. xvi + 320 pp. $15.00 (paper). Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. By John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor. San Francisco: ...
Arius: Heresy and Tradition
Jul 01, 2003; ... Arius: Heresy and Tradition. By Rowan Williams. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2001. xiii + 378 pp. $24.00 (paper). Archbishop Rowan Williams's 1987 book, Arius, made an important contribution to the scholarly reconsideration of the fourth century that has been such an ...
Five Women of the English Reformation
Jul 01, 2003; ... Five Women of the English Reformation. By Paul F. M. Zahl. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. viii + 120pp. $18.00 (cloth). This is not a scholarly book, nor a contribution to the field of women's studies, nor a disciplined piece of theological analysis ....
The Nonviolent Atonement
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Nonviolent Atonement. By J. Denny Weaver. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. xiii + 246 pp. $22.00 (paper). The church's understanding of the saving power of Christ's death has been on a thousand year detour, whose signposts read "Anselmian atonement." ...
God: A Guide for the Perplexed
Jul 01, 2003; ... God: A Guide for the Perplexed. By Keith Ward. Oxford: Oneworld, 2002. vii + 264 pp. $24.95 (cloth). The trouble with God these days, according to Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, is not that God's existence has become untenable, but rather that God ...
A Biblical Theology of Exile
Jul 01, 2003; ... A Biblical Theology of Exile. By Daniel L. Smith-Christopher. Overtures to Biblical Theology Series. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. xiv + 209 pp. $20.00 (paper). In extremely accessible prose, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher (S-C) provides a very readable and applicable "biblical theology of ...
From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World
Jul 01, 2003; ... From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World. By Dennis E. Smith. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. xi + 411 pp. $25.00 (paper). This book represents the culmination of a lifetime's work for Smith, including a Harvard dissertation and publications in various ...
John Wesley and the Netherlands
Jul 01, 2003; ... John Wesley and the Netherlands. By Johannes van den Berg and W. Stephen Gunter. Nashville, Tenn.: Kingswood Books (Abingdon), 2002. 144pp. $24.65 (cloth). Why would John Wesley, a self-declared Anglican "Arminian," choose to visit the heartland of Calvinist orthodoxy? John Wesley and ...
In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges
Jul 01, 2003; ... In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges. By Elmer John Thiessen. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001. viii + 368 pp. CDN and US $75.00 (cloth); CDN $27.95 (paper); US $22.95 (paper). Thiessen's general purpose is a philosophical defense of religious schools ...
A Treasury of Anglican Art
Jul 01, 2003; ... A Treasury of Anglican Art. By James B. Simpson and George H. Eatman. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2002. 224 pp. $50.00 (cloth). This could have been a splendid book. The idea behind it is excellent: to sample the wealth of artistry associated with ...
Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity
Jul 01, 2003; ... Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity. By Philip Sheldrake. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 214 pp. $16.95 (paper). It only takes 171 pages for the English theologian Philip Sheldrake to present a grand sweep of the Christian spiritual tradition by ...
The Moravian Church in England, 1728-1760
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Moravian Church in England, 1728-1760. By Colin Podmore. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. xv + 332 pp. $85.00 (cloth). This precise and groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers of this journal as much for what it does not tell about the Moravian ...
Reading Isaiah: Poetry and Vision
Jul 01, 2003; ... Reading Isaiah: Poetry and Vision. By Peter D. Quinn-Miscall. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2001. vii + 224 pp. $20.95 (paper). Quinn-Miscall (Q-M) intends to provide an alternative to the conventional way of reading the book of Isaiah. Biblical scholars have long regarded this ...
Borders, Boundaries, and the Bible
Jul 01, 2003; ... Borders, Boundaries, and the Bible. Edited by Martin O'Kane. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 313. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. xii + 358 pp. $125.00 (cloth). The shift in biblical scholarship away from modernity's concentrated focus ...
A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria
Jul 01, 2003; ... A History of the English Parish: The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria. By Norman J. G. Pounds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxvi + 593 pp. $95.00 (cloth). To attempt to write a history of the English parish is to attempt to write a history of ...
Keeping Silence: Christian Practices for Entering Stillness
Jul 01, 2003; ... Keeping Silence: Christian Practices for Entering Stillness. By C. W. McPherson. Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse Publishing, 2002. 112 pp. $12.95 (paper). C. W. McPherson is a parish priest who has found, through his own experience of working both with individuals and church groups, that ...
Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons
Jul 01, 2003; ... Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons. Edited by Cleophus J. LaRue, Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. viii + 191 pp. $22.95 (paper). Power in the Pulpit is a necessary resource for the art of preaching. In addition to ...
The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism?
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism? By Gavin Hyman. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. x + 198 pp. $24.95 (paper). This work, which began as a thesis directed by Graham Ward, is a considerable gift to readers less than fully ...
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. By Eamon Duffy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xv + 232 pp. $22.50 (cloth). The Voices of Morebath is micro-micro history. It is not only the history of one tiny parish of approximately 150 ...
The Feast of the World's Redemption: Eucharistic Origins and Christian Mission
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Feast of the World's Redemption: Eucharistic Origins and Christian Mission. By John Koenig. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000. xvii + 301 pp. $25.00 (paper). Historical fact and theological meaning are intertwined in this examination of "eucharistic meals" in the New ...
Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation
Jul 01, 2003; ... Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation. By Tertyl N. Kinder. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2002. 407pp. $ 70.00 (cloth). Thirty-five years ago I stumbled by accident on the Cistercian Abbey of Senanque, in Provence, hidden ...
Christianity: A Global History
Jul 01, 2003; ... Christianity: A Global History. By David Chidester. San Francisco: HarperSanFrandsco, 2000. x + 627 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). As the title advertises, this book is an ambitious undertaking. David Chidester, a professor of comparative religion at the University of Cape Town in ...
Men and Their Religion: Honor, Hope, and Humor
Jul 01, 2003; ... Men and Their Religion: Honor, Hope, and Humor. By Donald Capps. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2002. xix + 204 pp. $17.00 (paper). "The wife, she does religion for both of us." Years of pastoral ministry and conversations with men in various settings have seen this and ...
Preaching is Believing: The Sermon as Theological Reflection
Jul 01, 2003; ... Preaching Is Believing: The Sermon as Theological Reflection. By Ronald J. Allen. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002. 162pp. $14.95 (paper). Persuaded that theological convictions and methods should be more explicit in preaching, Ronald Allen urges preachers to bring the ...
An Evangelical Episcopalian looks at pluralism
Jul 01, 2003; ... Attending the Transformation Summer School of ECONI (Evangelical Contribution on Northern Ireland) at Antrim in July 2002, I learned a few things about Irish Protestantism that relate to our chief American export: the idea of cultural pluralism. The time in Northern Ireland, my fourth visit in ...
The Rhetoric of the Gospel: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Rhetoric of the Gospel: Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts. By C. Clifton Black. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice, 2001. xvii + 224 pp. $26.99 (paper). This is an erudite and elegantly written collection of essays which brings together several of Black's articles extending the ...
Anglican Diversity: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
Jul 01, 2003; ... Anglican Diversity: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. By Patricia Bays' Toronto: ABC Publishing, 2001. 128 pp. CDN $14.95 (paper). When I remarked to a friend that I was reading Patricia Bays's latest contribution to the literature of Anglicanism, he remarked that he thought I ...
Ascension
Jul 01, 2003; ...[Author Affiliation] GREGORY FRUEHWIRTH* [Author Affiliation] * Gregory Fruehwirth is ...
Canonical hours
Jul 01, 2003; ... Beyond the windows of her nursing home the clouds process still, the world is green again, that much she can make out at ninety-two. But varieties of trees, the maple and the birch, the oak, to her eyes they are one shade, darkening, even though she knew ...
The wild and the sacred
Jul 01, 2003; ... A thundering rhythm echoes across the damp field, into the trees and back toward us, through us. The drummers have taken the stage. The mosh pit is starting to heat up. "Feel the pulse," one of the drummers cries out. "It's the pulse of the forest, the pulse of your heart." No one here needs ...
Lot's wife
Jul 01, 2003; ... Destroyed, turned forever into a pillar of salt seems too harsh a punishment for looking back, the old human need to see God's hand at work, the flames and smoke of justice. Perhaps her sin was not looking back, but refusing ...
The peaceable kingdom: Animals as parables in the virtues of Saint Macarius
Jul 01, 2003; ... Little animals from cartoons, talking rabbits, doggies, squirrels, as well as ladybugs, bees, grasshoppers. They have as much in common with real animals as our notions of the world have with the real world. Think of this, and tremble. Czeslaw Milosz, Road-Side Dog Blame it on ...
Anglicans and communion: Six propositions and an invitation to participate in the communion study
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission When David Hamid (now assistant bishop in Europe) was director of Ecumenical Affairs for the Anglican Communion, he noted the peculiar anomaly of his position. Whereas it might conventionally appear that the Anglican Communion ...
Boldness and reserve: A lesson from St. Augustine
Jul 01, 2003; ... There is a passage from one of Augustine's less frequented texts which has achieved considerable infamy. Whenever critics gather to discuss examples of patristic eisegesis, of allegorical interpretation run wild, someone will turn to Augustine's reading of the parable of the Good Samaritan in ...
Can the traditional view of hell be defended? An evaluation of some arguments for eternal punishment
Jul 01, 2003; ... Though the doctrine of hell is one of the tenets of traditional Christian belief, at present it does not seem to enjoy much popularity among believers. One rarely hears the doctrine explicitly addressed in a Christian church these days, and if hell is spoken about at all, it is commonly referred ...
Editor's notes
Jul 01, 2003; ... Theology, it has been said, is a "field-encompassing discipline," meaning roughly that theological thinking arises in the convergence and interaction of various, sometimes seemingly disparate, methods and materials. An older way of putting the point was to say that theology is about God and ...
The poverty of preaching in the Episcopal Church
Jul 01, 2003; ... I believe that preaching in the Episcopal Church is generally poor By that I mean simply that there is a general failure to preach the gospel of the good news of God in Christ. A former dean of King's College, Cambridge, put it this way in commenting on preaching in the Episcopal Church in the ...
In times of war and rumors of war
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Central Question of Christian Faith When Christians struggle with deciding what to do, their first question should be, "How is God acting upon us?" Christians should ask this question because faith in God makes the claim that God is at the center of our lives, as the power and ...