Contents:

no. 1

Editorial: Remembering World War II/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 5

Articles

Personal Reflections of Wolfhart Pannenberg/ Jurgen Moltmann-- p. 11

Patience: A theological Experiment/ Paul Dafydd Jones-- p. 15

Who are we? Remembering and forgetting in the reparation of communal identity/ Adam Pryor-- p. 21

Incitement to dialogue: Josef Hromadka's call for Christian-Marxist dialogue in Gospel of Atheists/ Miranda Zapor Cruz-- p. 32

Bodies, selves, and human identity: A Conversation between transhumanism and the Apostle Paul/ Steven John Kraftchick-- p. 47

The sense of an ending: Take III/ J. Gerald Janzen-- p. 70

The Turn to the Other: Reflections on Contemporary Middle Eastern Theological Contributions to Christian-Muslim Dialogue/ Sylvie Avakian-- p. 77

The Necessity of Social Just-ness for a Postmodern Ecclesi-odicy/ Helen Taylor Boursier-- p. 84

Review Essay

Derrida, the death penalty, and the theologico-political/ Mark Lewis Taylor-- p. 100

Book Reviews:

Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal by Alister E. McGrath/ Stephen K. Moroney-- p. 109

The Early Luther: Stages in a Reformation Reorientation by Berndt Hamm/ Ronald K. Rittgers-- p. 111

Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm/ Joel L. Pless-- p. 112

Opening the Field of Practical Theology: An Introduction by Kathleen A. Cahalan and Gordon S. Mikoski, eds/ Melinda A. McGarrah Sharp-- p. 114

Evangelical versus Liturgical? Defying a Dichotomy (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship) by Melanie C. Ross/ E. Bryon Anderson-- p. 116

The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope by Shannon Craigo-Snell/ Kathryn Reklis-- p. 118

The Nonviolent God by Denny J. Weaver/ Elizabeth Gerhardt-- p. 122

Editor's Choice/ Nancy J. Duff

Preaching Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich by Dean G. Stroud, ed-- p. 122

No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi: Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern-- p. 123

The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators by Katharina von Kellenbach-- p. 125

no. 2

Editorial: Human Evolution and the nature of morality-- p. 135

J. Wentzel van Huyssteen: Exploring Venues for an Interdisciplinary Theology/ Niels Henrik Gregersen-- p. 141

What makes theology theology?/ Michael Welker-- p. 160

What evolution, the human niche, and imagination can tell us about the emergence of religion/ Agustin Fuentes-- p. 170

The birth of morality and the Fall of Adam through an Evolutionary inter-species lens/ Celia Deane-Drummond-- p. 182

Are we alone? And does it matter?/ David Fergusson-- p. 194

A Response to my colleagues/ J. Wentzel van Huyssteen-- p. 206

Review Essay

Better Together: New Perspectives on Human Uniqueness/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 227

Book Reviews

Interdisciplinary Interpretation: Paul Ricoeur and the hermeneutics of Theology and Science by Kenneth A. Reynhout/ John McCarthy-- p. 234

Science and Faith: A new introduction by John F. Haught/ John M. Braverman-- p. 236

The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion by J. David Pleins/ S. Brian Stratton-- p. 237

Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction by Robert John Russell/ Joshua M. Moritz-- p. 239

God and nature: a theologian and a scientist conversing on the divine promise of possibility by Curtis L. Thompson and Joyce M. Cuff/ Christopher Southgate-- p. 240

Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation by D. Stephen Long/ Amy Marga-- p. 242

In Defence of War by Niger Biggar/ Robert W. Hoag-- p. 244

Zen and the Spiritual Exercises: Paths of Awakening and Transformation by Ruben L. F. Habito/ Duane R. Bidwell-- p. 245

Dementia: Living in the Memories of God by John Swinton/ Peter Kevern-- p. 247

no. 3

Editorial: Of texts lost and found/ Gordon S. Mikoski

Articles:

Performance as liminality: between reality and possibility/ Walter Brueggemann-- p. 262

A postcolonial reading of The Great Commission (Matt 28:16--20) with a Korean myth/ Yonghan Chung-- p. 276

Water imagery and the power and presence of God in the Gospel of John/ Sherri Brown-- p. 289

Beyers Naude (1915-2004): Christianity, violence , and reconciliation in South Africa/ Retief Muller-- p. 299

Pastoral vocation: What shall we do now, and how?/ Lisa Nichols Hickman-- p.312

Lost ground: Jim Hanson's "neo-ontotheology" in dialogue with Merold Westphal/ Justin Sands-- p. 326

Book Reviews

From Nothing: A theology of creation by Ian A. McFarland/ Joshua B. Davis-- p. 336

Creator God, evolving world by Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod/ Michael Ruse-- p. 337

Backpacking with the Saints: wilderness hiking as spiritual practice by Belden Lane/ Timothy H. Robinson-- p. 339

Distance in preaching: room to speak, space to listen by Michael Borthers/ BeverlyZink-Sowyer-- p. 340

Good food: grounded practical theology by Jennifer R. Ayres/ Loren Wilkinson-- p. 342

Reading the parables : interpretation: resources for the use of scripture in the church by Richard Lischer/ William F. Brosend II-- p. 344

The Book of Job: a biography by Mark Larrimore/ Davis Hankins-- p. 345

no. 4

Editorial

Homo doxologicus/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 355

Articles

Justice, justification, and self-justification/ Ted F. Peters-- p. 355

The Trinity and the canonical process/ Philip Sumpter-- p. 359

My Jewish theology of Jesus/ Jerome Gellman-- p. 398

The (dis)-engendering of violence: Towards an eschatological understanding of being male and female/ Mindy Makant-- p. 404

Postsecular theology: Daly, Hampson, Buber, and Gordon/ Hagar Lahav-- p. 415

Taking the "single individual" back to church: the possibility of a Kierkegaardian ecclesiology/ Aaron Edwards-- p. 431

Books Reviews

Sacrifice and delight in the mystical theologies of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne by Bo Karen Lee/ Angus Morrison-- p. 447

Abraham Heschel and the phenomenon of peity by Joseph Harp Britton/ Susannah Heschel-- p.448

Exploring our Hebraic heritage: a Christian theology of roots and renewal by Marvin R. Wilson/ Joel S. Kaminsky-- p. 450

True and holy : Christian scripture and other religions by Leo D. Lefebure/ Robert Hunt-- p. 452

Reforming Rome: Karl Barth and Vatican II by Donald W. Norwood/ Nicholas Healy-- p. 453

Come Holy Spirit: Inner Fire, Giver of life, and comforter of the poor by Leonardo Boff/ Anselm K. Min-- p. 455

Saying is believing: the necessity of testimony in adolescent spiritual development by Amanda Hontz Drury/ Elizabeth W. Corrie-- p. 456

Walking with the mud flower collective: God's fierce whimsy and dialogic theological method by Stina Busman Jost/ Linn Marie Tonstad-- p. 458

The games people play: theology, religion and sport by Robert Ellis/ Patrick Kelly-- p. 459