| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 187 |
| Articles | ||
| “For God So Loved the World”: An Incarnational Ecology | Martha Kirkpatrick | 191 |
| Opening the Table: The Body of Christ and God’s Prodigal Grace | Stephen Edmondson | 213 |
| The Origins of Modernity: An Alternate Interpretation of Western Cultural History | Owen C. Thomas | 235 |
| Learning from Left Behind? A Call for Coherent Accounts of Scripture | Brock Bingaman | 255 |
| Public Reason and Public Theology: How the Church Should Interfere | Bradley Pace | 273 |
| Poetry | ||
| St. Charles Seminary | Jeanne Murray Walker | 293 |
| Iona | Peter Huggins | 295 |
| Remember Sabbath | Jeffrey Johnson | 296 |
| Pink Impatiens | Wendy Vergoz Carlsen | 297 |
| Toward Ripening | Vivian Teter | 298 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| David Brown, God and Mysteries in Words: Experience through Worship and Drama | Vaughan S. Roberts SCP | 301 |
| Peter M. Candler, Jr., Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God | Anthony D. Baker | 304 |
| Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Magisterium: Teacher and Guardian of the Faith | Glenn B. Siniscalchi | 307 |
| Franz Dunzl, A Brief History of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church | Michael Jendza | 310 |
| Eliza Griswold, Wideawake Field | Gary R. Hall | 313 |
| Craig Hovey, To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for Today’s Church | Lyndon Shakespeare | 316 |
| Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers | J. Barrington Bates | 318 |
| Jon Nilson, Hearing Past the Pain: Why White Catholic Theologians Need Black Theology | Ellen K. Wondra | 321 |
| Joe Perez, Soulfully Gay: Harvard, Sex, Drugs, and Integral Philosophy Drove Me Crazy and Brought Me Back to God | Eric Gilder | 324 |
| Pheme Perkins, Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels | O. C. Edwards, Jr. | 327 |
| Joerg Rieger, God and the Excluded: Visions and Blind Spots in Contemporary Theology | Sam Portaro | 329 |
| Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., After the Spirit: A Constructive Pneumatology from Resources Outside the Modern West | Jacob L. Goodson | 335 |
| Dorothee Soelle, The Mystery of Death | Sam Portaro | 338 |
| Ben Witherington, The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles | J. C. Baker | 340 |