Anglican Theological Review back issues from October 2006:
Editor's Notes
Oct 01, 2006; ... Scripture, tradition, reason. Hooker said. When one reads Hooker's notes, it's clear that a wide-ranging and varied gathering of texts and practices comprise "tradition," which Hooker then interprets in response to the matters and concerns facing him. As theologians continue to point out, it is ...
Evelyn Underhill's Quest for the Holy: A Lifetime Journey of Personal Transformation
Oct 01, 2006; ... "What is it to be holy?" This question fashioned Evelyn Underhill's life. The young Underhill struggled with lack of intimacy and a disembodied spirituality. Her arduous spiritual searching drove her from pursuing magic, to a meticulous empirical study of the mystics, to facing personal tragedy ...
"Roomy Hearts" in a "More Spacious World": Origen of Alexandria and Ellen Davis on the Song of Songs
Oct 01, 2006; ... This paper compares the exegesis of the Song of Songs done by Origen of Alexandria and Ellen Davis of Duke Divinity School. Once it would have been nearly impossible to make a fruitful comparison between a patristic exegete and a modern one. Now, convergences in church history and in biblical ...
Julian's Audacious Reticence: Perichoresis and the Showings
Oct 01, 2006; ... Julian of Norwich's "Showings" manifests a number of characteristics commonly held to be intrinsic to a distinctively Anglican spirituality, not least a long-recognized tendency toward reticence. Her profound Trinitarianism has also been accorded much scholarly attention. What scholarship on ...
"Like a Gleaming Flash": Matthew 6:22-23, Luke 11:34-36 and the Divine Sense in Origen
Oct 01, 2006; ... While the modern maxim says that the eye is the window of the soul, Jesus said that the eye is the lamp of the body. This essay relates one of the more opaque Gospel sayings to one of the distinctive themes of Origen's spiritual theology. In his interpretation of Jesus' saying that "The eye is ...
Augustine of Hippo: Father of Christian Psychology
Oct 01, 2006; ... Classical Christianity is thoroughly psychological. Augustine was the first person to write psychologically by sharing his personal struggle to know, love, and enjoy God. He set up the framework wherein this struggle is the basic issue of human life from which all other struggles arise and into ...
Crematorium
Oct 01, 2006; ... Private star of hidden fire, you draw the years to you, you burn with years inside, rise and show me how to go. It is Christ mas again and I need guidance to come to the place my child has gone. It's four years now we put ...
In Praise of Water
Oct 01, 2006; ... 1. Clear-voiced, joyful maiden, Your girlish chatter over stones Enchants me. Slender between mossy banks, You slip away from hands that try To hold you. What journey are you on? What call impels your rapid ...
To Religious Poets
Oct 01, 2006; ... We are a fractured group, relics, stained glass- dyed by bird feathers and bygone rainbows. We have been broken up- true, taken apart. We are not poets, but religious poets. A specific brand: circumcision. But be ...
Purgadiso
Oct 01, 2006; ... Harbor lights slicked the surface. Pond arcs of untold circumference Reached out from some far-dropped stone, Rolling toward us like a school Of mythic serpents or enormous seals, Their faces and tails hidden in the murk, Their black, indifferent ...
The Theological Legacy of Maurice Wiles
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Theological Legacy of Maurice Wiles The death of Maurice Wiles on June 3, 2005, deprived British and indeed international theology of one of the ablest and best-known Christian teachers and thinkers of our time. This article is primarily written to expound and examine his theology ...
A Ministry Shaped by Mission
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Ministry Shaped by Mission, By Paul Avis. London: T & T Clark International, 2005. xvi + 131 pp. $29.95 (paper). Over the last few decades, in Episcopal/Anglican and wider ecumenical circles, discussions of the nature of Christian mission, or more specifically God's mission, have ...
Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture
Oct 01, 2006; ... Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture. By Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 188 pp. $55.00 (textbook binding). $18.50 (paper). "Diaspora," along with the closely related term, "exile," has recently ...
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom
Oct 01, 2006; ... Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom, by David Bradshaw, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 312 pp. $59.93 (cloth). As the subtitle of the book indicates, Bradshaw attempts to explain the division of Christendom through metaphysics: ...
The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology. By Eberhard Busch. Translated by Geoffrey W Bromiley. Edited by Judith and Darrell Guder. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004. 302pp. $18.27 (cloth). Nearly a half-century has passed since Karl Barth died: time for fresh ...
The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event. By John D. Caputo. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006. 299 pp. $24.95 (paper). The concept of the event has been gaining currency in philosophical circles in recent years, most notably in the work of Jacques ...
Paul Tillich and Psychology: Historic and Contemporary Exploration in Theology, Psychotherapy, and Ethics
Oct 01, 2006; ... Paul Tillich and Psychology: Historic and Contemporary Exploration in Theology, Psychotherapy, and Ethics. By Terry D. Cooper. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2006. 222 pages. $30.00 (paper). This book examines the relationship between the work of Paul Tillich and psychology in two ...
The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value. By John Cottingham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 186 pp. $24.99 (paper). John Cottingham's The Spiritual Dimension is a genteel manifesto. It argues that the philosophy of religion should turn away from ...
William Stringfellow in Anglo-American Perspective
Oct 01, 2006; ... William Stringfellow in Anglo-American Perspective. Edited by Anthony Dancer. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. 200 pp. $94.95 (cloth). Ardent critic of imperial America and the institutional church, William Stringfellow (1928-1985) was commended by Karl ...
A Concise History of Christian Doctrine
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Concise History of Christian Doctrine, by Justo L. González. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 2005. 220 pp. $16.80 (paper). Justo González has spent a lifetime distilling with great success the history of Christian life and doctrine for the interested but nut necessarily scholarly ...
Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness
Oct 01, 2006; ... Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness. By Kathryn Greene-McCreight. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2006. 176 pp. $16.99 (paper). This thoughtful and engaging hook addresses the fissure between medical and theological responses to mental illness ....
Augustine and Modernity
Oct 01, 2006; ... Augustine and Modernity, By Michael Hanby. Radical Orthodoxy Series. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 292 pp. $120.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper). Augustine and Modernity joins the corpus of Augustinian scholarship fighting over the soul of Augustine. The book is intended for an academic ...
Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love
Oct 01, 2006; ... Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love. By Daniel Homan and Lonni Collins Pratt. Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2002. xxxviii + 233 pp. $16.95 (paper). In conversation with a post-9/11 America overcome with fear and increasingly wary of the stranger, Daniel Homan and Lonni ...
Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities 1880-1950
Oct 01, 2006; ... Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities 1880-1950. By William H. Katerberg. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 306 pp. $60.00 (cloth). The Anglican Communion may well he unraveling. The surface issue ...
Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming
Oct 01, 2006; ... Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. By Catherine Keller. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xx + 307 pp. $25.95 (paper). In her eloquently written book, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, Catherine Keller argues that how we conceive of the world's beginning importantly ...
God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys
Oct 01, 2006; ... God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys. By Catherine Keller. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2005. xii + 184 pp. $22.00 (paperback). From end to beginning and back, unending apocalypse and open-ended creation without given finalities or pure beginnings, this collection unveils ...
Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness
Oct 01, 2006; ... Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness by Joseph L Mangina. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper). "As an aside" Joseph Mangina writes in a revealing endnote, "a whole essay could be written comparing the many 'Barths': Barthian, dialectical, ...
Christ Is the Question
Oct 01, 2006; ... Christ Is the Question. By Wayne A. Meeks. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. x + 166 pp. $12.97 (paper). This is not a typical treatment of the historical Jesus. Nonetheless, in this book, which originated as lectures at Emory given at the request of Luke Timothy ...
Poetics for the Gospels? Rethinking Narrative Criticism
Oct 01, 2006; ... Poetics for the Gospels? Rethinking Narrative Criticism. By Petri Merenlahti. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2002. xi + 174 pp. $49.95 (paper). This insightful book seeks to take stock of a shift in biblical studies toward narrative criticism since the late 1970s, as well as some ...
Aspects of Anglican Identity
Oct 01, 2006; ... Aspects of Anglican Identity. By Colin Podmore. London: Church House Publishing, 2005. v-xi +196 pp. $28.86 (paper). Anglican life is going through a period of tremendous change with the ordination of women in the Church of England and Gene Robinson's election as bishop in ECUSA ....
Living Easter through the Year: Making the Most of the Resurrection
Oct 01, 2006; ... Living Easter through the Year: Making the Most of the Resurrection. By John Pritchard. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2005. 160 pp. $12.95 (paper). Anglican Bishop John Pritchard of Jarrow takes on the task of representing Easter to a people who have yet to understand that we ...
Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers
Oct 01, 2006; ... Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers. By Laura K. Simmons. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005. 222 pp. $19.99 (paper). Dorothy L. Savers is most commonly recognized as a great writer of detective fiction, though some people remember her ...
A Commerce of Moments
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Commerce of Moments. By Sofia M. Starnes. Columbus, Ohio: Pavement Saw Press, 2003. 88 pp. $12.00 (paper). Winner of the editor's prize in the Transcontinental Poetry Award for an Outstanding First-book Collection, Sofia M. Starnes's A Commerce of Moments expertly portrays the ...