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Volume 69 Number 2 2016 Articles 123 Doctrine in a radically apophatic register Susannah Ticciati 140 Crux probat omnia: Rowan Williams’ scriptural hermeneutic Derek W. Taylor 155 A tradition in crisis: understanding and repairing division over homosexuality in the Church of Scotland Liam J. Fraser Volume 171 ‘Realities side by side’: God’s patience and Abraham’s humanity in Genesis 18:16–33 Jeremy J. Wynne 69

189 Trinity, incarnation and time: a restatement of the doctrine of God in

conversation with Robert Jenson Number 2 Eugene R. Schlesinger 204 Finkenwalde - an experiment to restore a failing ecclesiology? Donald Fergus

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Contents

Articles

123 Doctrine in a radically apophatic register Susannah Ticciati

140 Crux probat omnia: Rowan Williams’ scriptural hermeneutic Derek W. Taylor

155 A tradition in crisis: understanding and repairing division over homosexuality in the Church of Scotland Liam J. Fraser

171 ‘Realities side by side’: God’s patience and Abraham’s humanity in Genesis 18:16–33 Jeremy J. Wynne

189 Trinity, incarnation and time: a restatement of the doctrine of God in conversation with Robert Jenson Eugene R. Schlesinger

204 Finkenwalde - an experiment to restore a failing ecclesiology? Donald Fergus

Book reviews

221 Oliver O’Donovan, Self, World and Time: Ethics as Theology, vol. 1

222 Stanley Hauerwas, War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity

224 Beverly Roberts Gaventa (ed.), Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5–8

226 Andrew Hofer, Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus

227 Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Orthodoxy and Political Theology

229 Angela Dienhart Hancock, Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic, 1932–1933: A Summons to Prophetic Witness at the Dawn of the Third Reich

231 R. W. L. Moberly, Old Testament Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture

233 Natasha F. H. O’ Hear, Contrasting Images of the Book of Revelation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art: A Case Study in Visual Exegesis

234 William Hasker, Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God

236 Michael Barnes, Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination

i 238 Douglas Jacobsen, The World’s Christians:Who They Are,Where They Are and How They Got There

240 Margo Todd (ed.), The Perth Kirk Session Books, 1577–1590

241 Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism

242 Kelly M. Kapic and Bruce L. McCormack (eds), Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction

245 Andrew T. Lincoln, Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition, and Theology

247 Don Capps, At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion and Art

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