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FALL 2015 ISSUE
NOW AVAILABLE!
Editor's Notes
Ellen K. Wondra
ARTICLE
Governance Egalitarianism in Jesus' Teaching
Clive Beed and Cara Beed
ADDRESSES
The Gifting of Responsibility: Learning How to Persist with the Ecclesial Task in the World
Julie Gittoes
The American Context of Ministry: An Exploration with Daniel W. Hardy
Jason A. Fout
Semiotics and Daniel Hardy's Eucharistic Theology
Stephen Srikantha
PRACTICING THEOLOGY
Minding the Gap: Building Partnerships Across Difference
Cathy H. George
The Bible Challenge and Why It Matters
Marek Zabriskie
The Defiant Ringmaster: Lessons in Christian Leadership from William Stringfellow
James Walters
POETRY
Featuring poems by
Kay Exley Gunkel, Philip H. Christensen, Samuel Harrison, Katherine Simmons, Jane Blanchard, and Peter W. Wenner
REVIEW ARTICLE
Who Is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, for Us, Today? A Survey of Recent Studies of Bonhoeffer
Preston D. S. Parsons
BOOK REVIEWS
newsletter editor
Vicki K. Black
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Fall 2015 Issue Now Available
Daniel Hardy, The Bible Challenge, Bonhoeffer, & Stringfellow
 In this wide-ranging issue of the
ATR you will find a common attentiveness to the relation of theory and practice, to how our theological efforts are formed by and help to form the practices of ordinary church life. The issue begins with an article on the question of egalitarian governance in the Jesus movement and
three addresses from a day of appreciation and elaboration of the work of Daniel W. Hardy, held at Roehampton University in June 2014. For Hardy, who died in 2007, t
he world is the arena of God's activity, and the church's task is one of accompaniment, of "gently edging forward the things that are being prompted" by God's generous loving activity. A key focus in Hardy's last work, Wording a Radiance, is pilgrimage--our journey through the eucharist and scripture to the world, the world's journey toward God and its own fulfillment.
 Three Practicing Theology essays are also included in this volume. We are pleased to offer the chance to read here "Minding the Gap" by Cathy George on the effect of various innovative partnerships in building up an economically challenged church and community in Massachusetts. Those of you who are familiar with the popular Bible Challenge project will find of particular interest Marek Zabriskie's essay describing its power to transform individuals and congregations. And followers of William Stringfellow will appreciate James Walters's consideration of his views on pastoral leadership, as not just alleviating people's distress, but also countering the "principalities and powers" whose dominion causes it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been the focus of numerous studies recently, and in his review article
Prescott D. S. Parsons highlights the importance of context--both Bonhoeffer's own, and the multiple contexts from which these works emerge. He finds in Bonhoeffer's works "a diversity of form, audience, context, and content" that allows them to be "a theological conversation within itself, a conversation that is open at the edges and thus available for different points of entry by any number of different interpreters."
This is my last issue as Interim Editor, and I must say I have enjoyed this time immensely and am happy to continue with the
ATR as Editor Emerita. The gift given to journal editors is the possibility of reading widely, entertaining new approaches and ideas, and discerning what might encourage those in both church and academy in their own vocations.
Tony Baker, our incoming Editor in Chief, is well aware of this gift as well as the challenges it brings. I am very much looking forward to his leadership in continuing the
ATR's mission and engagement with its varied readers, and with the church.
Ellen K. Wondra
Editor in Chief
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Welcome Aboard!
new seminary representatives & board members
The
ATR is not simply a collection of published essays: it is a worldwide conversation gathering the voices of theologians, scholars from a variety of disciplines, seminarians, monastics, clergy, and lay people who practice their faith in areas reflecting all dimensions of human life, from healthcare and politics to education and worship. The articles, essays, poetry, and book reviews you see in the journal are the fruit of long, thoughtful conversations within this diverse community, and we hope they provide nourishment for that conversation to expand, deepen, and flourish in fresh contexts.
An important role in furthering this conversation is played by the members of the ATR Board of Trustees and the representatives of our supporting institutions. At the September board meeting we welcomed two new board members and five representatives from our supporting institutions.
 Larry Benfield comes to us from the Diocese of Arkansas, where he served for many years as a priest and diocesan leader before being consecrated bishop
in 2007. He has served on the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops in the Episcopal Church for several years.
 Following his time as Editor in Chief, Richard Geoffrey Leggett will continue his long and faithful service to the ATR as an active member of the board. Professor Emeritus of Liturgical Studies at Vancouver School of Theology and a participant in numerous church committees and councils, he is also a parish priest and moderator of the online Liturgy Pacific.
Seminary representatives serve for a renewable term of five years, and are appointed by the dean or principal of their institution. They represent their seminary to the
ATR board, giving voice to particular issues of interest or concern. They serve as a communication link between the institution and the
ATR, promoting the essay competition and encouraging the submission of articles as well as the use of the
ATR in the classroom. We welcome the five new representatives who began their terms in September.
Michael Battle (The General Theological Seminary)
Thomas Eoyang (Episcopal Divinity School)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatoski (Seminary of the Southwest)
Scott MacDougall
(Church Divinity School of the Pacific)
Joseph Mangina
(Wycliffe College)
We are indeed grateful for the service of these and all the board members and representatives, and look forward to their lively contributions to the work of the
ATR
in the years to come.
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