| CONTENTS | ||
| Editor’s Notes | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 229 |
| Articles | ||
| Hoping Without a Future: Augustine’s Theological Virtues Beyond Melancholia | Jeffrey S. Metcalfe | 235 |
| Economic Inequality as God’s Law?: Considering the Nature of Economic Life | Alison Lutz | 251 |
| Exodus from Privilege: Reflections on the Diaconate in Acts | Thomas E. Breidenthal | 275 |
| Imagination, Hope, and Reconciliation in Ricoeur and Moltmann | Julie Clawson | 293 |
| Practicing Theology | ||
| “Vindicated by her Deeds”: A Preferential Option for the Dispossessed | Tim Vivian | 311 |
| The Dark Side of the Mountain | Marshall A. Jolly | 325 |
| On Poetry and Theology | ||
| Faith Poetry as Songtravel: An Appreciation | Judy Little | 335 |
| Poetry | ||
| Untitled | Aron Dunlap | 351 |
| Joy: Exitus-Reditus | Pamela Smith | 352 |
| Ad altare | Steve Lautermilch | 353 |
| Mary Rowlandson’s Removes | Suzanne Underwood Rhodes | 354 |
| Waiting for Easter | Linda Ardison | 356 |
| 11,77 | Nigel Holt | 357 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Harold W. Attridge, trans. and ed., The Acts of Thomas | William Richards | 359 |
| Joyce Borger, Martin Tel, and John D. Witvliet, eds., Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship | M. Milner Seifert | 362 |
| David L. Clough, On Animals: Volume 1, Systematic Theology | James R. A. Merrick | 363 |
| Deirdre Helen Crumbley, Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia | John Kenneth Gibson | 365 |
| Andrew Davison, ed., Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy, and the Catholic Tradition | Daniel Wade McClain | 370 |
| Tim Dowley, Christian Music: A Global History | Carol Doran | 373 |
| Mary C. Earle, Marvelously Made: Gratefulness and the Body | Jane Lancaster Patterson | 374 |
| Ted Grimsrud and Michael Hardin, eds., Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend | Andrew Sutherland | 377 |
| K. A. Hays, Early Creatures, Native Gods | Julia Kasdorf | 380 |
| Hannah Hunt, Clothed in the Body: Asceticism, the Body an dthe Spiritual in the Late Antique Era | Kyle Schenkewitz | 381 |
| Sandra M. Levy-Achtemeier, Flourishing Life: Now and in the Time to Come | Kathleen Russell | 384 |
| James F. McGrath, ed., Religion and Science Fiction | Pierre W. Whalon | 387 |
| Christine Valters Paintner, Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings, Annonated and Explained | Tobias Stanislas Haller, BSG | 390 |
| Elizabeth Phillips, Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed | Paul Dominiak | 391 |
| Stephen K. Pickard, In-Between God: Theology, Community and Discipleship | John Frame | 393 |
| Klaus Schwarzwäller, Cross and Resurrection: God’s Wonder and Mystery | Luke Fodor | 396 |
| Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No Longer I” | Gary W. A. Thorne | 399 |
| Anthony C. Thiselton, Life after Death: A New Approach to the Last Things | Walter M. Dunnett | 402 |
| Bonnie Bowman Thurston, Belonging to Borders: A Sojourn in the Celtic Tradition | Irene Zimmerman | 403 |
| Dwight J. Zscheile, People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity | Ellen K. Wondra | 406 |