The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV: Global Western Anglicanism, c. 1910-present The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV: Global Western Anglicanism, c. 1910-present. Edited by Jeremy Morris. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017, 424 pp. $142.50. Reviewed by Matt Rucker     The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV is the first of two volumes detailing twentieth-century Anglicanism, dealing specifically with the “Western” provinces of the Anglican Communion, “principally the three regional areas of North America, the British Isles, and Australasia” (1). This valuable collection of essays by some of the leading minds in the Western Anglican world brings clarity to the effects of the deeply transformative twentieth century on the Western Anglican Communion. The division of the volume is threefold. First is an expansive thematic survey that comprises the bulk...

    The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson’s Trinitarian Theology Swain, Scott R. The God of the Gospel: Robert Jenson’s Trinitarian Theology. Downers Grove: IVP Academic Press, 2013, 258 pp. $38.00 Reviewed by Brandon Watson     Scott Swain, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, enters what has been a heated debate within Barth scholarship with his publication of The God of the Gospel. The debate has not only centered on the interpretation of Barth’s theology, but has shifted toward a constructive dialogue concerning the relationship between “God and the evangelical events whereby God becomes our God” (14). In other words, the discussion focuses on the relationship between God’s being apart from creation and God’s being with creation in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Swain engages this topic through the lens of Robert Jenson’s Trinitarian theology....

      God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology. Volume II: Virtue and Intellect John Webster. God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology. Volume II: Virtue and Intellect. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016, 187 pp. $112.00 (hardback). Reviewed by Alex Siemers   In several senses, God Without Measure is an appropriate title for this collection of essays by John Webster. Firstly, God is without measure. Thus, even though Webster is ostensibly addressing virtue and intellect in this volume, his ultimate aim is to refer these back to God. That is, Webster is concerned that moral theology be moral theology – and only to this extent is it truly moral. Furthermore, God is without measure in at least three senses for Webster: God is beyond any standard of comparison to created things (since God is their source), God lies beyond any bounds or measurements,...

      Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation Walter Brueggemann, Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation, ed. Davis Hankins. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014, pp. 439. $59.95 (hardback). Reviewed by Marcus A. Hong   The main title of this collection of Walter Brueggemann’s recent writings draws the attention, while the subtitle gives an idea of the content. In line with the prolific agitator’s oeuvre, these pieces—edited by his former student and current collaborator Davis Hankins—aim to crack open hearts, minds and communities made numb by our society’s unrelenting anxiety. Brueggemann does so through sharp-edged and clear-eyed examination of biblical texts, avoiding the closure of fundamentalism on one hand and the aimlessness of progressivism on the other by wrestling with the God of the texts as an active agent. The essays are...

      Confessing Christ for Church and World: Studies in Modern Theology Kimlyn Bender. Confessing Christ for Church and World: Studies in Modern Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014, pp. 389. $40.00 (paperback). Reviewed by Max Heidelberger   In Confessing Christ for Church and World, Truett Theological Seminary’s Kimlyn Bender presents a collection of essays which set Karl Barth and—to a lesser extent— Friedrich Schleiermacher in conversation with the American theological landscape. Bender’s desire in this collection is to look along with (rather than at) Schleiermacher and Barth toward the “the true object… nothing less than God’s glorious breaking into our world in the person of Jesus Christ” (16). The topics range from ecclesiology to revelation to the legacy of the reformation, and are helpfully divided into three thematic sections: “Church and Conversation,”...

      Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human Michael Banner. Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 240. $35.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Stephanie Mota Thurston   Michael Banner, of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, takes up two broad tasks in Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human. The first is to argue that moral theology, moral philosophy, and social anthropology currently relate to one another in a disordered way and that there should be a disciplinary realignment that addresses this disorder. The second and more constructive task is to demonstrate, albeit in a cursory fashion, what this newfound relationship between moral theology and social anthropology...