Book Review Editors for the Anglican Theological Review
Dr. Peter Ajer, Biblical Studies, pajer@bexleyseabury.edu
Bexley Seabury Seminary
1407 E 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Rev. Dr. Joseph Ananias, Theology and Ethics, jananias@div.duke.edu
Anglican & Episcopal House of Studies
Duke University
Durham, NC
The Rev. Dr. Miriam Haar, Ecclesiology and Ecumenism, miriam.haar@ki-eb.de
Konfessionskundliches Institut
Bensheim, Germany
The Rev. Dr. Walter Hannam, Historical Theology, atrhistoricaltheology@gmail.com
The Cathedral Church of St. James
65 Church Street (at King)
Toronto, ON M5C 2E9
The Rev. Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Pastoral Theology, skujawaholbrook@cst.edu
Claremont School of Theology
1325 North College Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
The Rev. Dr. Lizette Larson-Miller, Liturgical Studies, llarson3@uwo.ca
Huron University
University of Western Ontario
1349 Western Rd.
London, ON N6G 1H3
Dr. Lucinda Mosher, Inter-Religious Studies, Lucinda@lucindamosher.com
NeighborFaith Consultancy
2891 Woodstone Drive
Middleburg, FL 32068
The Rev. Dr. Preston Parsons, Religion & Culture, prestondsparsons@mac.com
The Church of St. John the Evangelist
23 Water Street North,
Kitchener, ON N2H 5A4
Dr. Rachel Toombs, Reviews in Depth and Essay Reviews, rachel_toombs@baylor.edu
Baylor University and St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
Waco, TX
The Rev. Dr. Regina Walton, Poetry Book Review Editor, poetry@anglicantheologicalreview.org
Attn: Dawn Sorenson
Office of Ministry Studies
Harvard Divinity School: 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Reviewers should direct any questions that arise in their review work to the editor of the content section for which the review is planned.
If you are interested in contributing a review to the Anglican Theological Review, please contact the editor of the content section to which you would like to contribute.
Guidelines for Book Reviews
(1) Purpose of book reviews
A review is a brief introduction to a book, which tells the reader something about the book’s topic and approach. It should also discuss how useful the book might be, and to whom. A review that fulfills this purpose will involve praise, criticism, or both. If it involves praise, show your reader some of what is good (rather than just saying it is good). If it involves criticism, give some basis for your negative judgment (rather than just saying it missed the mark). A review will also take some notice of which audience would most benefit from the work (General readers? Undergraduates? Professionals?). It may also, where appropriate, make brief comparison with similar works by other authors.
(2) Length
A book review in the ATR should be 600-800 words in length. If you judge that because of special circumstances a longer review is appropriate, consult with the appropriate book review editor in advance. You may also judge that a book is not worthy of any review: in this rare case please also consult with the book review editor.
(3) Style
In general, the instructions given above for articles apply to book reviews as well. So, for example, you should follow the Chicago Manual of Style and use U.S. spellings.
Quotations from the text are encouraged, but should be brief and run into the paragraph text, not set as block quotes. Cite any quotations by page number, within parentheses, preceded by “p.” or “pp.” When including citation, please close the quote, add parenthetical citation, and then end with punctation. Example: St. Julian affirms “all shall be well” (pp. 13–42).
Do not add titles to the names of people referred to in your review. Avoid “The Rev.,” “Prof.,” “Dr.,” “Fr.,” and the like.
(4) Standard form of a book review
(a) Put a bibliographical heading at the top of the review, giving the number of pages in the book and its price (if you know it), in this form:
Title: Subtitle. By author. Edited by editor. Translated by translator. Series. Number of volumes. Edition. City: Publisher, year. Number of pages. Price (cloth); price (paper).
Not every book will need all these items of information.
(b) The text of the review.
(c) Your name (in roman type) and institution or location or both (in italics).
Example: a review by Anthony Baker of the book Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England by Benjamin J. King, would take this form:
Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England. By Benjamin J. King. Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 288 pp. $110.00 (cloth).
This book, the most recent in this series, is about …
Anthony Baker
Seminary of the Southwest
Austin, Texas
(5) Submitting a review
All book reviews should be sent as e-mail attachments to the appropriate book review editor, as listed above.
If possible, the file should be in Microsoft Word. Files in other formats, such as WordPerfect, can usually be accommodated. If these are impossible, save and attach the file in a text format, or paste it into the body of your e-mail message.
The file should have a title in the following form:
[book author’s last name] by [reviewer’s last name].doc
For the example above, the file would have the title: King by Baker.doc
(6) Deadlines
There are four deadlines each year for book reviews: October 1, January 1, April 1, and July 1. Very often a deadline is agreed in advance with the editor who commissions the review. If you need to discuss matters related to your review, please consult with the book review editor for your content section.