Spring 2015 • Volume 97 • Number 2

CONTENTS
Editor’s Notes
Richard Geoffrey Leggett197
Articles
Biblical Hermeneutics and Practical Theology: Method and Truth in Context
Richard S. Briggs201
Christ and Contemplation: Doctrine and Spirituality in the Theology of Rowan Williams
Dustin Resch219
The Gift of Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination of Western Medieval Christianity
Jessie Gutgsell239
Practicing Theology
Blood Cries Out from the Ground: Reflections on Ferguson
George Wayne Smith255
Being and Witnessness: Minding the Gap between Martyrs and Witnesses
Craig Hovey265
Lectio Divina and Divorce: Reflections in Twelve Parts about What Divorce Has to Teach the Church
Lauren F. Winner281
Poetry
The Beautiful BrokenSarah Rossiter299
Sparrow with PersonalityKelly Cherry300
Sunday after EasterGary Blankenburg301
Knots and PearlsBryce Milligan302
New FireFrank Richard Adams304
James the LessD. S. Martin305
Review Article
Questioning Authority
Ellen K. Wondra307
Book Reviews
Travis E. Ables, Incarnational Realism: Trinity and the Spirit in Augustine and BarthCynthia R. Nielsen327
Benjamin P. Blosser, Become Like Angels: Origen’s Doctrine of the SoulDavid Neal Greenwood330
Kathleen A. Cahalan and Gordon S. Mikoski, eds., Opening the Field of Practical Theology: An IntroductionBenjamin D. Espinoza331
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Global Justice, Christology and Christian EthicsJ. K. Melton334
Myk Habets, Theology in Transposition: A Constructive Appraisal of T. F. TorranceLuke Fodor336
Dwight N. Hopkins and Edward P. Antonio, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Black TheologyKortright Davis339
Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns ScotusScott MacDougall343
Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A BiographyAda Wong Nagata345
Pamela R. McCarroll, The End of Time—The Beginning: Narratives of Hope in the Face of Death and TraumaDavid W. Peters348
Mary Ann B. Miller, ed., St. Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the SaintsLuke Hankins351
Jennifer Moberly, The Virtue of Bonhoeffer’s Ethics: A Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics in Relation to Virtue EthicsTom Greggs354
Sharon Ely Pearson, comp., Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st CenturySusan Marie Smith357
Stephen Pickard, Seeking the Church: An Introduction to EcclesiologyStephanie Spellers360
Christian B. Scharen, ed., Explorations in Ecclesiology and EthnographyShawnee M. Daniels-Sykes SSND363
Susan Marie Smith, Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian RitualMichelle Baker-Wright364
John Suggit, A Breath of Fresh Air: Some Thoughts on the Future of the Christian Church in Southern Africa TodayAndrew-John Bethke366
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine PoemsHenry Hart370
Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans, The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the ImaginationRobert MacSwain373
Paul Tyson, Faith’s Knowledge: Explorations into the Theory and Application of Theological EpistemologyMike Dagle375
Gregory Vall, Learning Christ: Ignatius of Antioch and the Mystery of RedemptionJonathon Lookadoo377
Timothy Verdon, Art and Prayer: The Beauty of Turning to GodTobias Stanislas Haller, BSG380
K. K. Yeo, ed., From Rome to Beijing: Symposia on Robert Jewett’s Commentary on RomansBokyung Kim383