Book Review: Icons of Christ: Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt

Abstract

duals and communities toward God’s intention of “flourishing for every other life and all creation” (172). No researcher in pastoral and practical theology addressing concerns of emotions will ignore this text, nor should we wish to. McClure has gifted readers not only with an erudite perspective on emotions in human flourishing, unique in our field’s literature for its comprehensive nature, but she has also given readers over 140 pages of endnotes and citations that will point future researchers in myriad directions helpful to our own work. If there is a limitation to this text, it is that it leaves readers wanting further guidance from McClure in incorporating her theory on emotions’ role in flourishing into practices of care, counseling, ethics, ministry, and community development. Perhaps this will emerge in future work. Until then, it will be the reader’s good work to construct praxis upon McClure’s theoretical foundations.