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The Winter 2014 Issue is now available!
The Presence of Faith: A Century of Anglican Engagement with World Religions
David Thomas and Douglas Pratt, guest editors
ARTICLES
Editor's Notes
Richard Geoffrey Leggett
Introduction
David Thomas
and Douglas Pratt
From Edinburgh to Georgetown: Anglican Interfaith Bridge-Building
Douglas Pratt
Remembering the Covenant: Judaism in an Anglican Theology of Interfaith Relations
Michael Ipgrave
The Episcopal Church and Religious Manyness: Steps Toward a Theology
Lucinda Allen Mosher
Hospitality and Embassy: The Persistent Influence of Kenneth Cragg on Anglican Theologies of Interfaith Relations
Richard Sudworth
Alan Coates Bouquet (1884-1976): Twentieth-Century Foundations for an Anglican Theology of Religion
Kenneth Cracknell
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Anglicans in Palestine/Israel and Christian-Muslim Relations
Yvonne Haddad
Dialogue Under Persecution: Anglicanism in Iran Engaging with Shi'a Islam
Guli Francis-Dehqani
PRACTICING THEOLOGY
Formation for Mission
Thomas E. Breidenthal
POETRY
A Scattering of Honey
Mary Mallek Haines
Her Hands
Steven Walters
Spirit
Recognition
Maryanne Hannan
Do Not Touch
Frederick Borsch
The Lost Kids of New Orleans
William Miller
Off the Coast
David Radavich
BOOK REVIEWS
Mia Anderson, The Sunrise Liturgy
reviewed by Pamela Cranston
Sergius Bulgakov, Jacob's Ladder: On Angels
reviewed by Dylan D. Potter
Patrick S. Cheng, Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit
reviewed by Tobias Stanislas
Haller BSG
Harvey Cox and Stephanie Paulsell, Lamentations and the Song of Songs
reviewed by Billie Anne Robinson
Anthony Dancer, An Alien in a Strange Land: Theology in the Life of William Stringfellow
reviewed by J. Scott Jackson
Brian Douglas, A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology
reviewed by Paul Friesen
William Gibson, Peter Forsaith, and Martin Wellings, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism
reviewed by Tara Flanagan
Luke Hankins, ed., Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets
reviewed by Christopher Davis
Deborah J. Haynes, Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path
reviewed by Allison St. Louis
Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley, eds., Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown
reviewed by Anthony D. Baker
Brian D. McLaren, Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
reviewed by Tim Vivian
William C. Mills, Church, World, and Kingdom: The Eucharistic Foundation of Alexander Schmemann's Pastoral Theology
reviewed by Kevin Flynn
Edmund Newey, Children of God: The Child as Source of Theological Anthropology
reviewed by Elizabeth Dodd
Irene Nowell, Pleading, Cursing, Praising: Conversing with God through the Psalms
reviewed by Jengzen Huang
Stephen Ozment, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther and the Making of the Reformation
reviewed by David McNutt
Adrian Pabst, Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy
reviewed by Jonathan Douglas Hicks
Lamin Sanneh, Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African
reviewed by Jesse Zink
Peter-Ben Smit, Tradition in Dialogue: The Understanding of Tradition in the International Bilateral Dialogues of the Anglican Communion
reviewed by R. William Franklin
Louis Weil, Liturgical Sense: The Logic of Rite
reviewed by J. Barrington Bates
Gordon Wenham, The Psalter Reclaimed
reviewed by Benjamin D. Espinoza
A. N. Williams, The Architecture of Theology: Structure, System, and Ratio
reviewed by Paul Dominiak
Rowan Williams, Faith in the Public Square
reviewed by James Walters
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A Public Work for the Common Good
initiatives for the future from our new Editor in Chief
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 At the September meeting of the Board I was invited to offer some thoughts on the priorities that would colour my tenure as Editor in Chief. I began with a brief consideration of the original meaning of the Greek word leitourgia, "a public work voluntarily undertaken for the common good." To my way of thinking this is exactly what the Anglican Theological Review is: we are a public work voluntarily undertaken by the seminaries, theological colleges, and Anglican programmes of study in Canada and the United States for the purpose of exploring what it means to be a Christian in the twenty-first century. Why do we do this? Because in a society overwhelmed by data rather than analysis, hearing sound bites rather than wisdom, Christians need to go beneath the surface to find the deep structures, the "deep magic" as C. S. Lewis sometimes put it, that give life its meaning and its hope.
 To do this work well, I have identified several initiatives I hope that we will achieve over the next five years. First, we shall work hard to expand our digital presence without sacrificing our print publication. This means exploring the possibilities of digital delivery of the ATR to those subscribers who wish to receive it in this format. We may find ways to use our present website more interactively, to engage a wider public in theological discourse. Second, we shall build upon the success of Practicing Theology, a section that has become a regular feature of the Review, where practitioners apply their hearts, minds, and souls to the issues and questions that are of importance to our readers and to a wider public and have become a vital part of our identity. Third, we shall actively seek out the "emerging" voices within our Communion and beyond, those new scholars who hail from less-frequently heard lands and cultures. We are, I believe, well positioned to accomplish these goals. The task of public theology is engrained in the DNA of the ATR. While we will continue to work to strengthen the financial foundation of the journal, we do so knowing that we have a world of gifted and committed clergy and laity whose wisdom, humour, and hope will fill the pages of the Review and enrich our public. -- Richard Geoffrey Leggett,
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The Presence of Faith: A Century of Anglican Engagement with World Religions
Winter 2014 issue available now
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Douglas Pratt
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The articles brought together in this issue of the ATR were originally papers presented at the Presence of Faith conference held at Lambeth Palace, London, in December 2011. The intention of the conference was threefold: to examine the history of Anglican engagement with non-Christian religions through the
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twentieth century; to explore Anglican theological reflection on relations with other religions; and to survey the various forms of encounter with other religions in the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The papers presented here reflect one or other of these themes, and frequently allude to both Edinburgh 1910 and Kenneth Cragg. The positive and encouraging developments explored by the earlier papers in the volume are counter-balanced by the challenging demands of contemporary contexts and troublesome realities described in the two final papers, on interfaith dialogue in
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Yvonne Haddad
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Israel/Palestine and Iran.
Interreligious engagement is no comforting picnic, and dialogue is a perennial double-edged challenge: its active engagement is often fraught with political and social minefields, and it certainly raises acute theological questions of self-understanding and so too Christian understanding of the ways of God and the place of the religious other in the scheme of God. As these papers--and the originating conference--show, Anglicans and Anglican theological thinking have played, and continue to play, a vital role in the evolution of Christian interfaith engagement.
--from the Introduction by guest editors
David Thomas and Douglas Pratt
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Please take note: We have new e-mail addresses!
Jackie Winter:
Roberto Pamatmat:
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People and Places
news from the ATR community
Robert MacSwain is the editor of Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry: Austin Farrer's The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary, in the series Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts (Ashgate, 2013). A critical edition of Austin Farrer's 1948 Bampton Lectures, it also contains thirty years of selected commentary by British and European scholars: David Brown, Ingolf Dalferth, Hans Hauge, Douglas Hedley, David Jasper, and Gerard Loughlin. Professor MacSwain edited the volume, wrote the introduction, and provided the notes for the critical edition of Farrer's text.
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C. K. (Chuck) Robertson's latest book, The Book of Common Prayer: A Spiritual Treasure Chest (SkyLight Paths, 2013), has been nominated for the American Academy of Religion Book Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion. The awards honor works of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity and importance, books that affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted.
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 In the fall of 2013, Sofia Starnes was guest poet at the national headquarters of the National League of American Pen Women, in Washington, DC. The event, an evening celebration of poetry and music, also included a performance by classical harpist Nina Brooks. In December, Sofia's poem "Those Genes We'd Choose," which was published in The Freeman, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Nearest Poem Anthology, edited by Sofia Starnes, has just been issued by Cedar Creek Books, www.cedarcreekauthors.com. The 250-page anthology collects over 100 poems that touched the lives of Virginians, alongside essays by the readers who submitted them.
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 William Kondrath's book Congregational Resources for Facing Feelings was published by Alban Institute as an e-book in December 2013. It is available on Kindle and Nook. This e-book is a companion to Facing Feelings in Faith Communities, which was published by Alban in August 2013. Bill also presented three workshops at the Being Culturally Responsive in Urban Settings conference for mental health providers and educators who work with diverse youth and families in January co-sponsored by EDS, VISIONS-Inc., Boston Children's Hospital, and Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.
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 Michael Stephenson has been named Canon Missioner for the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, after serving as interim rector at St. Andrew's, Stillwater. Prior to his return to Oklahoma he was on the bishop's staff in the Diocese of Chicago.
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 Several ATR board members taught at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia this past January. David Smith (University of Indiana Bloomington, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center) taught a week-long seminar on "Bioethics for the Church."
 Frank Griswold (former Presiding 
Bishop), Kathryn Tanner (Yale Divinity School,) Mark Jordan (John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics), and Jackie Winter (the ATR) together taught "Art and the Theological Imagination." This  course addressed the question, 
How can the visual arts deepen our understanding of theology? Images from Latin American colonial art were used as a vehicle for discussing three major theological topics: the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, and the Body of Christ.
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 Alan Jones, dean emeritus of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and a longtime member of the ATR Board, sends his news: "It is very encouraging to see that the ATR is alive and flourishing. I have been retired for five years and have 'floated' far and wide around the church and find its intellectual life pretty thin (that's why the ATR is so important). I continue to write, and am part of a bi-partisan think tank called Convergence (centered in Washington DC) which sent me to Pakistan in the Fall (Islamabad and Lahore) as part of an interfaith consortium. Later, I taught for a couple of weeks in Shatin (Hong Kong) at the Tao Fong Shan (an ecumenical center founded by a Norwegian Lutheran in the 1930s). All the students were free-wheeling evangelical Protestants (three from a mega church in Hong Kong) who were eager to learn about the tradition of spiritual direction. Later this year, I will be the preacher at Chautauqua in upstate New York--my third visit. All in all, I feel very grateful.
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