Fall 2025 • Volume 107 • Issue 4

Editor’s Notes

Robert MacSwain and Jennifer Hughes

Address

Mysticism and Materiality: Reading Julian of Norwich (circa 1342-1416) and Annie Dillard (1945-)
Caroline W. Bynum

Articles

Spiders Are Bad Kissers: The Kiss of Love and the Holy Kiss in Early Christian Writings
Jennifer Strawbridge

Sacrament and Model: Christology, Soteriology, and the Eucharist in Augustine’s De Trinitate 4 and Expositions of Psalm 22
Luke Zerra

Baptism and Confirmation? A Possibility for Reconciling the Book of Common Prayer 1979’s Rites
Aaron Brian Davis

Practicing Theology

Latino Ministry Competency: Understanding the Transcultural Dynamics of the U.S.-Born Latinos
The Rev. Albert R. Rodriguez

Ancient Christian Wisdom on Prayer as Bodily Remembering
Gabrielle Thomas

Birthing and Rebirthing: Why the Logic of Baptism Demands the Church Commit to Just Parental Leave
Rhody Walker-Lenow

Roundtable on Anthony Baker’s Leaving Emmaus

Roundtable on Anthony Baker’s Leaving Emmaus: A New Departure in Christian Theology
Daniel P Strandlund

On Leaving Emmaus, an Interdisciplinary Exploration of Faithful Transcendence and Testimony
Cheryl A Kirk-Duggan

Rustling Emmaus
Craig Hovey

Leaving Emmaus: Practicing Analogia Ecclesiae as Doxology
Charles Andrew Doyle

Three Questions for Baker’s Leaving Emmaus
David Bentley Hart

Emmaus on an Incline: Responses to the Panel
Anthony D Baker

Poetry

Winter Trees
Robert Cording

Book Reviews

Natalie Carnes, Attunement: The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology
Beth Ritter-Conn

Joseph K. Gordon, Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible
Noah J. Kampa

Teresa Morgan, Trust in Atonement: God, Creation and Reconciliation
Madeline Gold

Peter H. Sedgwick, The Development of Anglican Moral Theology, 1680–1950
Scott Macdougall

Janet Soskice, Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture
Trent Homan