{"title":"Leah D. Schade and Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis","authors":"Brendan Barnicle","doi":"10.1177/00033286231187326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231187326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"22 1","pages":"378 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84821164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gary Commins, Evil and the Problem of Jesus","authors":"Brendan Barnicle","doi":"10.1177/00033286231187328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231187328","url":null,"abstract":"printed in any order. That is why the printing of one book could be shared by two printers, as it was with the earliest Prayer Book, or even by several, as with the Elizabethan version ten years later. From Blayney’s standpoint, each of those books tells a story about events that took place within printing houses. It is not, of course, a story that can be told without referring to the social and political events of the English Reformation, of which the Book of Common Prayer was both a product and an engine. Blayney sets his specialized research within as much of this wider context as he needs in order to explain the genesis of the Tudor Prayer Books as books. Although the words they contain are in the first instance black marks on paper, they are also vehicles of religious meaning, from which his account does not prescind. Liturgists and theologians might say he oversimplifies a little, but if so, it does not detract from the value of his archeological findings. The British Library has already begun to revise its online English Short Title Catalog so as to take account of what Blayney has found. The likelihood that his discoveries will need to be corrected soon, if ever, seems very small.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"4 1","pages":"368 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81388162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Samuel Yonas Deressa and Mary Sue Dreier, Forming Leaders for the Public Church: Vocation in Twenty-First Century Societies","authors":"Siri Erickson","doi":"10.1177/00033286231189207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231189207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"40 1","pages":"382 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73481494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Susan Beaumont, How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Leading in a Liminal Season","authors":"Lyndon Shakespeare","doi":"10.1177/00033286231188120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231188120","url":null,"abstract":"The five dimensions of culture which Bailey explores are a helpful guide to a critical theological engagement with culture. As an Asian, I especially enjoyed reading chapter two, where Bailey discusses the power of naming. In labeling people and cultures, humans assert their authority, and given my background as a Filipino, I am reminded of the extent to which colonizers have sought to “name” us. I also agree with Bailey’s observation that cultures outside the Western world do not dichotomize or separate culture and religion as independent from one another and that the latter is more than just a container of propositional beliefs about the sacred. This thin, well-written volume argues that the relationship between culture and theology is complex, necessitating hermeneutical skills, humility, and patience. It helpfully includes questions for reflection and discussion in every chapter to help readers interact with the arguments and consider the implications for their own contexts.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"538 1","pages":"364 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77069646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David B. Yaden and Andrew B. Newberg, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives","authors":"Charles D. Mayer","doi":"10.1177/00033286231187881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231187881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"25 1","pages":"380 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83541618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew Root, The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship","authors":"Lyndon Shakespeare","doi":"10.1177/00033286231187325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231187325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"34 1","pages":"376 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84418906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth by Stanley Hauerwas","authors":"Samuel C Still","doi":"10.1177/00033286231187371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231187371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80466766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter W.M. Blayney, The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561","authors":"C. Hefling","doi":"10.1177/00033286231186054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231186054","url":null,"abstract":"agency” (p. 3). Ours is a moment of “unraveling” where the logics and practices of modernity that shaped a vision of church leaders as experts, managers, and professionals has been exposed as insufficient and unreliable sources for moving forward. Although this unraveling began before COVID-19, the global pandemic has hastened and amplified an invitation to abandon the mechanisms of the Euro-Tribal church in favor of communities discerning and discovering the fermenting work of the Holy Spirit in their neighborhoods. Joining God in the Great Unraveling has the subtitle, Where We Are & What I’ve Learned. While it is a work focused on the question of how church leaders and congregations can join God in the places and with the people where the Spirit’s work is unfolding, it is told from the perspective of Roxburgh’s own theological journey with this question. Throughout the book, we are introduced to several “conversation partners,” which vary from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a sociologist and scholar who re-entered her indigenous North American context and discovered resurgence in the face of dispossession, to the Catholic, social theorist, Ivan Illich who challenges the hegemonic culture of technocratic modernity. These various dialog partners provide Roxburgh with metaphors and experiences that inform his vision of church life and leadership that is centered on practicing being with God and others through the ordinary rhythms of life while being open to how God is reweaving the life of the world in this season of disruption. What Beaumont and Roxburgh offer through their respective studies is practical and faithful wisdom for leaders and congregations in a particular moment of significant social and ecclesial reevaluation and reimaging. Neither seeks to package their vision as a set of solutions or new techniques. This will disappoint readers still in search of sure and certain ways to lead in a way that reflects the success of their favorite business or tech hero. Instead of solutions, as fellow travelers into new territory, Beaumont and Roxburgh draw widely and deeply on various traditions of thought and practice that can help equip readers with clearer sight when the way forward remains cloudy. So equipped, the prudent and wise leader replaces the tools of expertise and professionalism with a courageous trust grounded in the practices of listening and vulnerability that allow us to discern and join God in the emergence (Beaumont) and reweaving (Roxburgh) of our communities into communities of humility, patience, courage, and joy.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"40 1","pages":"366 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74931381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenosis to Solidarity: A Reflection on The Church Cracked Open by Stephanie Spellers","authors":"Drew Jackson","doi":"10.1177/00033286231182652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231182652","url":null,"abstract":"The journey of kenosis is the beautiful struggle that each one of us is invited to walk. To let go. To lay down life. In her book The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community, Rev. Stephanie Spellers says that on this journey of kenosis we, “let die what needs to die, so that God’s new creation can be born. Let the cracks form, let the jar break, so the oil can finally flow free.” But embedded within that journey is a question that we are invited to live: where does the kenotic path lead? This reflection discusses the necessary direction of kenosis toward greater solidarity with all things.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"7 1","pages":"339 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78464997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Markyate Project: An Anglican response to logoclasm","authors":"Grace Gibbs DuPree","doi":"10.1177/00033286231180146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231180146","url":null,"abstract":"Even as pre-Reformation images have been carefully and lovingly restored in parish churches in England, the liturgical poetry that informed and inspired those images has languished or remained obscure, as the province of specialists and scholars. The rich body of pre-Reformation hymnody and liturgical poetry—much of which has its roots in sixth- and seventh-century texts—deserves to be a source of prayer, reflection, and theological inspiration for all Christians. The Anglican world is especially well-suited to offering fresh translations and mediating increased access to pre-Reformation poetry.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"29 1","pages":"272 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89831089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}