| Contents | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 255 |
| Baptism as the Model for a Sacramental Aesthetic | Louis Weil | 259 |
| The Breath of Life: Christian Perspectives on Conception and Ensoulment | Lindsey Disney and Larry Poston | 271 |
| Healing Broken Bodies: The Missional Ecclesiology Behind J. H. Oldham’s Middle Axioms | William J. Danaher, Jr. | 297 |
| Evolutionary-Emergent Worldview and Anglican Theological Revision: Case Studies from the 1920s | W. Mark Richardson | 321 |
| Myself: Walt Whitman’s Political, Theological Creature | Beatrice E. Marovich | 347 |
| Poetry | ||
| Love Song for Sarah | Troy Reeves | 367 |
| What She Can Still Enjoy | Joe Benevento | 369 |
| Mother Camel | Bonnie Thurston | 371 |
| Sarah Faraday’s Dilemma | Ray Givans | 372 |
| Father, forgive them | Elizabeth Lavers | 373 |
| Review Article | ||
| The Elusive Identity | Mark D. W. Edington | 375 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Wayne C. Booth, My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony | Eric Gilder | 393 |
| Matthew Myer Boulton, God Against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology through Worship | Walter Knowles | 397 |
| Delwin Brown, What Does a Progressive Christian Believe? A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious | Peter Bargh | 398 |
| Colin Buchanan, An Evangelical Among the Anglican Liturgists | Walter M. Dunnett | 400 |
| Jason Byassee, An Introduction to the Desert Fathers | Jesse T. Alexander IV | 403 |
| Brevard S. Childs, The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus | Walter M. Dunnett | 404 |
| Esther deWaal, Seeking Life: The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of St. Benedict | Louis Weil | 407 |
| Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate and David Bently Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies | Lyndon Shakespeare | 409 |
| Donald Kraus, Sex, Sacrifice, Shame, and Smiting: Is the Bible Always Right? | Robert J. Myles | 414 |
| Eileen Luhr, Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture | Vaughan S. Roberts SCP | 415 |
| Gary Macy, The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West | Charles Bennison | 417 |
| Marvin Meyer, Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends About the Infamous Apostle of Jesus and Simon Gathercole, The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity | C. K. Robertson | 421 |
| Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus | Paul Gibson | 423 |
| John Milbank, The Legend of Death: Two Poetic Sequences | Anthony D. Baker | 424 |
| Greg Miller, Watch | Marjorie Maddox | 426 |
| Patrick D. Miller, The Way of the Lord: Essays in Old Testament Theology | Walter M. Dunnett | 428 |
| C. Melissa Snarr, Social Selves and Political Reform: Five Visions in Contemporary Christian Ethics | Geoff Salomons | 431 |
| Rembert G. Weakland, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop | Richard Burnett | 432 |