CONTENTS | ||
Editor’s Notes | Charles Hefling | 1 |
Address | ||
“By the Working of the Holy Spirit”: The Crisis of Authority in the Christian Churches | Nicholas M. Healy | 5 |
Articles | ||
The Work of Loneliness: Solitude, Emptiness, and Compassion | Douglas Burton-Christie | 25 |
Faith and Doubt in Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond | David Hein | 47 |
Reconsidering a Bold Proposal: Reflections, Questions, and Concerns Regarding a Theology of Confirmation | Joe Goodwin Burnett | 69 |
Towards a New Theology of Confirmation | Kathryn Tanner | 85 |
Poetry | ||
A Taos Hymn | Catharine Savage Brosman | 95 |
Station Four (Jesus Meets His Holy Mother) | C. Dahlen | 97 |
A Shepherd’s Tale | Elizabeth Lavers | 98 |
Penance | Sheryl Slocum | 99 |
Book Reviews | ||
Frederick D. Aquino, Communities of Informed Judgment: Newman’s Illative Sense and Accounts of Rationality | Michael C. Martin | 101 |
Rosalind Brown, Being a Deacon Today: Exploring a Distinctive Ministry in the Church and in the World | Edwin F. Hallenbeck | 104 |
Terence Cuneo, Religion in the Liberal Polity | Ron Dart | 105 |
Brian Davies and Brian Leftow (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Anselm and Giles E. M. Gasper, Anselm of Canterbury and His Theological Inheritance and David S. Hogg, Anselm of Canterbury: The Beauty of Theology | Joseph H. Pearson | 107 |
Heidi Epstein, Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music | Wendy Dackson | 110 |
Marion Grau, Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption | Molly Claire Haslam | 113 |
Martin Greschat, Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times | Gordon A. Jensen | 115 |
James Henry Harris, The Word Made Plain: The Power and Promise of Preaching | Michael Battle | 116 |
Mark Patrick Hederman, Love Impatient, Love Unkind: Eros Human and Divine | L. William Countryman | 117 |
Bruce Kaye, Reinventing Anglicanism: A Vision of Confidence, Community, and Engagement in Anglican Christianity | Charles Hefling | 120 |
Michael Kessler and Christian Sheppard (eds.), Mystics: Presence and Aporia | Joseph Molleur | 121 |
Jim Kitchens, The Postmodern Parish: New Ministry for a New Era | John L. Kater | 122 |
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, A House of Prayer for All Peoples: Congregations Building Multiracial Community | David T. Gortner | 124 |
Maurice Lee, Jr., The “Inevitable” Union and Other Essays on Early Modern Scotland and Pamela E. Ritchie, Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560 and Rowan Strong, Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland | Alan P. R. Gregory | 126 |
William S. Craddock Jr., Restreaming: Thriving in the Currents of Retirement | Linda Watt | 130 |
Scott M. Lewis, What Are They Saying about New Testament Apocalyptic? | Andrea Spatafora | 131 |
Karen A. McClintock, Preventing Sexual Abuse in Congregations: A Resource for Leaders | Beth Marie Murphy | 133 |
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Let the Children Come: Childhood from a Christian Perspective | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook | 134 |
Robert L. Millet, A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints | Peter A. Huff | 137 |
J. Warren Smith, Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa | Thomas C. Ferguson | 138 |
J. M. R. Tillard, I Believe, Despite Everything: Reflections of an Ecumenist | John Gibaut | 140 |
Christopher L. Webber, Welcome to Sunday: An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church | James Farwell | 141 |
John H. Westerhoff III, Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People | J. Barrington Bates | 143 |
Karen-Marie Yust, Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Lives | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook | 144 |
Gleanings | ||
Readings at the Intersection of Culture and Faith: Resources for the Debate over Darwin | Catherine M. Wallace | 147 |