Contents:

no. 1

Editorial/ Steffen Losel

Articles

The Unfinished Reformation/ Jurgen Moltmann and Steffen Losel-- p. 10

Bearing Witness: Reframing Christian-Muslim encounter in light of the refugee crisis/ Joshua Ralston-- p. 22

The Problem of the Human in Theological Anthropology: Reading Jurgen Moltmann's Christology with Intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance/ Reggie L. Williams-- p. 36

Towards a Decolonial Approach in Latin American Theology/ Reinerio Arce-Valentin--p. 41

We still need the coming of God/ Gerald Liu-- p. 49

Cultivating the "Unquiet heart": Ecology, Education, and Christian Faith/ Jennifer R. Ayres-- p. 57

Editor's Choice book reviews;

An Introduction to Practical Theology: History, Theory, and the Communication of the Gospel in the Present by Christian Grethlein/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 66

Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Christiane Tietz/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 68

The Saints: A Short History by Simon Yarrow/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 69

Book Reviews:

George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State, and Renaissance in the Age of Dictatorship by Andrew Chandler/ Guido de Graaff-- p. 71

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know about life and love and how it can revitalize Christianity by Elizabeth M. Edman/ Brian Bromberger-- p. 72

The Imposing Preacher: Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith by Adam L. Bond/ Luke A. Powery-- p. 74

Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix/ Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth-- p. 76

The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World by Deanna A. Thompson/ Mary E. Hess-- p. 77

no. 2

Editorial:

Torture is a Crime-- and a moral outrage/ George Hunsinger-- p. 83

Articles:

Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum/ Christiane Tietz-- p. 86

In need of God: Mozart, Faith, and Cosi fan tutte/ Steffen Losel-- p. 112

"In einem Augenblick": Christian naturalism, death, and Brahm's Ein deutsches Requiem"/ Daniel J. Ott-- p. 138

Liberating Augustine: Rethinking Augustine's emphasis on interiority/ Nancy Elizabeth Bedford-- p. 149

John Dewey, God, and the religious education of the American public/ William R. Myers-- p. 157

A Study of the Theological implications of the Korean reunification movement focusing on the story of Rev. Ik-wham Moon/ ShinHyung Seong-- p. 172

Review Essay:

The Altars where we worship: The religious significance of popular culture/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 185

Editor's choice of book reviews

Bind us apart: How enlightened Americans invented racial segregation by Nicholas Guyatt/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 189

A Unique Time of God: Karl Barth's WWI Sermons by Karl Barth, translated and edited by William Klempa/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 191

Wisdom's Feast: An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures by Barbara E. Reid/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 192

Book Reviews:

Choosing our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones by Elizabeth Drescher/ Katherine M. Douglass-- p. 194

Networked theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture by Heidi A. Campbell and Stephen Garner/ Deanna A. Thompson-- p. 196

Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the ethics of personhood by Christina Bieber Lake/ Jeffrey Bilbro-- p. 197

Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action by Eron Lothes Bivianco/ Presian R. Burroughs-- p. 199

Pastoral Care: Telling Stories of Our Lives by Karen D. Scheib/ Barbara J. McClure-- p. 200

Being Human in God's World: An Old Testament Theology of Humanity by J. Gordon McConville/ Roy L. Heller-- p. 202

Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics by Ted A. Smith/ Emily J. Dumler-Winckler-- p. 204

no. 3

Editorial: "Dealing with Some Unfinished Business of the Reformation"/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 211

Articles

Martin Luther and the Jews: Context and Content/ Dean Bell-- p. 215

Martin Luther and the Jews: How Protestant Churches in Germany deal with the Reformer's Dark Side/ Martin Hauger-- p. 225

Martin Luther and Anti-Semitism: A Discussion/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 235

Christians Preparing for Conversation: Jewish-Christian Relations/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 243

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Reformation Day Sermons and Performative Remembering/ Robert Vosloo-- p. 252

Who Delivered Israel from Egypt/ Ellen T. Charry-- p. 263

A Good Reason to Celebrate? The Anniversary of the Reformation in 2017/ Marco Hofheinz-- p. 275

Editor's choice book reviews

Jesus and the Holocaust: Reflections on Suffering and hope by Joel Marcus/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 289

The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction by Joel S. Kaminsky and Joel N. Lohr/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 290

Review Essay

"Bodying Forth the Forms of Things Unknown"/ Gordon S. Mikoski-- p. 292

Book Reviews:

A Short Life of Martin Luther by Thomas Kaufman/ Mark Granquist-- p. 297

Martin Luther and the Enduring Word of God: The Wittenberg School and its Scripture-Centered Proclamation by Robert Kolb/ Joel L. Pless-- p. 298

Echoes in Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays/ Lidija Novakovic-- p. 300

The Challenge of Evil: Grace and the Problem of Suffering by William Greenway/ Mark S. M. Scott-- p. 301

A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit: Bible, Doctrine, Experience by Anthony C. Thiselton/ Fred Sanders-- p. 303

Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday by Gerry Bowle/ Donald Heinz-- p. 304

no. 4

Editorial: Reflections on Kait Dugan's "Charlottesville, Virginia"/ Nancy J. Duff-- p. 311

Articles

The Problem with Evil/ Ian A. McFarland-- p. 321

Agency and Restraint in Interpretation/ Walter Brueggemann-- p. 340

A view from within: the LGBTQ Struggle at Princeton Theological Seminary/ David Henry Wall-- p. 347

Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land/ Robert O. Smith-- p. 365

Living Upside Down: Inverting Consumerism's Notion of Freedom/ W.T. Dickens-- p. 376

A Catholic Inclusive Approach to Homosexuality in Nigeria/ Daniel Ude Asue-- p. 396

Critics Corner

The Witch, the Goat and the Devil: A Discussion of Scapegoating and the Objectification of Evil in Robert Egger's The Witch/ Alan Bernard McGill-- p. 409

Book Reviews:

Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory by Charlene P.E. Burns/ Alan Bernard McGill-- p. 409

Pathways in Theodicy: An Introduction to the Problem of Evil by Mark S. M Scott/ Kelly M. Kapic

Reading Jesus's Bible: How the New Testament Help Us Understand the Old Testament by John Goldingay/ Carla Swafford Works-- p. 418

The Old Testament is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment by Brent A. Strawn/ Paul K.-K. Cho-- p. 419

Proverbs and the Formation of Character by Dave Bland/ Tim Sensing-- p. 421

All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy by Diarmaid MacCulloch/ G. Sujin Pak-- p. 422

Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13: Appropriating the Apocalyptic by Peter C. de Vries/ W. David Hall-- p. 423