Anglican Theological Review

Ambrose. Translated and with an introduction by Boniface Ramsey. The Early Church Fathers series. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1997. ix + 238 pp. $22.99 (paper). As another indication of the current renaissance in Ambrosian scholarship, Boniface...

A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity. By Johann Baptist Metz. Edited and translated, with an introduction, by J. Matthew Ashley. New York: Paulist Press, 1998. 212 pp. $19.95 (paper). Johann Baptist Metz turns seventy this...

Over the course of the last two decades, Anglican and Episcopal churches have been engaged in a vehement and often volatile debate about human sexuality. The reader will be delighted to know that in these brief notes I don't intend to pursue that topic...

East End Renewal: The 291 Gallery in Hackney Exciting things happen when you mix the architecture of a nineteenth-century church with the needs of a modern art gallery. 291 is just such a place: a new gallery and with a restaurant and bar which has opened...

Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: a life. By Peter Hinchliff. Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. iv + 311 pp. $75.00 (cloth). In 1857, Frederick Temple was elected headmaster of Rugby School. One of his pupils...

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion. By Ingvild Salid Gilhus. New York: Routledge, 1998. vii + 173 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Religious traditions address the universal human impulse to laughter on a spectrum from inclusion to...

Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973. By Michael B. Friedland. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 336 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Michael B. Friedland's...

Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism. By Carl E. Braaten. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. ix + 164 pp. $18.00 (paper). This book consists of previously published essays that Braaten has revised, forging them into a passionate summons to struggle...

Naked Before God: The Return of a Broken Disciple. By Bill Williams with Martha Williams. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1998. xiii + 327 pp. $19.95 (cloth). When I answered the phone, a voice came at me without even saying hello. "That book!...

Origen: Homilies on Jeremiah and 1 Kings 28. Translated by John Clark Smith. The Fathers of the Church, vol. 97. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xxi + 358 pp. $36.95 (cloth). Origen's homilies represent important evidence...

The pious man is alive to what is solemn in the simple, to what is sublime in the sensuous, but he is not aiming to penetrate into the sacred. Rather, he is striving to be himself penetrated and actuated by the sacred, eager to yield to its force, to...

I. Introduction What I would like to do in this paper is to share some reflections on the role of spirituality in Anglican theological education. This is an enormous topic and I can only touch on a few points that I have found particularly important,...

In the late twentieth century, following decades of reform and renewal in many of the Christian churches, one would perhaps expect the catholic/sacramental traditions to be alive and well. In many respects, they are. There is spirited commitment to Christian...

The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy. Edited by Robert K. C. Forman. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. iii + 245 pp. $42.50 (cloth). Robert Forman's current editorial project continues the work he began in The...

The Prince Mammoth Pumpkin. By James P. Adams. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1998. 48 pp. $14.95 (cloth). The Prince Mammoth Pumpkin tells the story of a solitary farmer who takes parental delight in the cultivation of a wondrous pumpkin. As the melon swells...