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THE LIVING CHURCH is published by the Living Church Foundation. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world. news | February 7, 2016 Three-Year Timeout for Episcopalians The Primates’ Meeting in Canterbury has suspended the Episcopal Church from full participation in the Anglican Communion. Effective for three years, the deci - sion prohibits the Episcopal Church from representing the Communion at interfaith and ecumenical bodies or commissions. It will be denied a place on the Communion’s Standing Com - mittee and will not vote at the next meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council. It is likewise suspended from Anglican decision-making on issues of doctrine or polity. The motion, approved Jan. 14, asks the Archbishop of Canterbury to ap - A press conference after the Primates’ Meeting featured Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, general secretary of the point a task group to explore how re - Anglican Communion, and Archbishops Thabo Makgoba, Justin Welby, and Paul Kwong. Primates 2016 photo lations in the Communion can be re - stored and mutual trust can be rebuilt between member churches divided by Episcopal Church as “recognizing the The primates will meet again in 2017 “deep differences.” need for mutual accountability on and 2019. They support Archbishop Media managers at Canterbury re - matters of doctrine within the family Welby’s plan that the Lambeth Confer - leased the statement ahead of their of the Communion.” ence meet again in 2020. planned schedule, following an appar - The suspension did not extend to The communiqué noted the pri - ent leak ahead of an official briefing the Anglican Church of Canada. mates’ discussion of several other con - the next day. The primates then re - It also emerged Jan. 14 that the Most cerns for the Anglican Communion: leased a full communiqué, “Walking Rev. Stanley Ntagali, Archbishop of • “The consideration of the required Together in the Service of God in the Uganda, left the meeting on the after - application for admission to member - World” (bit.ly/1Kn0lBL). The initial noon of Jan. 12. ship of the Communion of the Angli - statement became Addendum A of the “I moved a resolution that asked the can Church of North America was rec - communiqué. Episcopal Church USA and the Angli - ognized as properly belonging to the “Over the past week the unanimous can Church of Canada to voluntarily Anglican Consultative Council. The decision of the primates was to walk withdraw from the meeting and other primates recognize that such an appli - together, however painful this is, and Anglican Communion activities until cation, were it to come forward, despite our differences, as a deep ex - they repented of their decisions that would raise significant questions of pression of our unity in the body of have torn the fabric of the Anglican polity and jurisdiction.” Christ,” the primates wrote. “We Communion at its deepest level,” The Most Rev. Foley Beach, arch - looked at what that meant in practical Archbishop Ntagali said in a state - bishop of the ACNA, participated in terms.” ment. “I have left the meeting in Can - the Primates’ Meeting. Archbishop The Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, pri - terbury, but I want to make it clear Welby said he did not know whether mate of Jerusalem and the Middle that we are not leaving the Anglican Beach would attend the meeting again East, praised the resolution’s purpose: Communion.” in the future. “We affirmed with [an] overwhelming While affirming the Church’s doc - • “In the wake of the climate change majority the traditional and biblical trine of marriage, the primates also re - conference in Paris [in December], the teaching of marriage, which is be - iterated their longstanding condemna - meeting heard about a petition of al - tween a man and a woman for life.” tion of prejudice and violence based most two million signatures co-coor - In a statement, the Global Anglican on sexual orientation, resolved to offer dinated by the Anglican Environment Future Conference welcomed the pastoral care and service irrespective Network. Reports were made about presence of the Anglican Church in of orientation, and renewed their re - moves to divest from fossil fuels, the North America’s archbishop at Can - jection of criminal sanctions against expansion of the African deserts and terbury and the action against the people who feel same-sex attraction. the struggle for survival of the peoples

4 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 The Crucifixion of the Pacific as island life is threat - developments have caused further Understanding the Death ened in many places by the rise of sea deep pain throughout our Commun - of Jesus Christ levels.” ion. Fleming Rutledge • “The meeting discussed the reality 4. The traditional doctrine of the of religiously motivated violence and church in view of the teaching of its impact on people and communities Scripture, upholds marriage as be - throughout the world. Primates living tween a man and a woman in faithful, in places where such violence is a lifelong union. The majority of those daily reality spoke movingly and pas - gathered reaffirm this teaching. sionately about their circumstances 5. In keeping with the consistent po - and the effect on their members.” sition of previous Primates’ Meetings • “The primates look forward to such unilateral actions on a matter of the proposal being brought to the An - doctrine without Catholic unity is con - glican Consultative Council for com - sidered by many of us as a departure prehensive child protection measures from the mutual accountability and in - “In this amazingly complex but to be available throughout all the terdependence implied through being clear book Fleming Rutledge goes churches of the Communion.” in relationship with each other in the deftly where few seem willing to • “In a presentation on evangelism, Anglican Communion. go — to the variety of imagi- the primates rejoiced that the Church 6. Such actions further impair our nations shaping early Christian of Jesus Christ lives to bear witness to communion and create a deeper mis - explorations of the significance the transforming power of the love of trust between us. This results in sig - of Jesus’ death. She is one of the God in Jesus Christ.” nificant distance between us and few theologians who not only “We commit ourselves through places huge strains on the functioning preach inclusivism but practice it evangelism to proclaim the person and of the Instruments of Communion and by inviting all points of view into work of Jesus Christ, unceasingly and the ways in which we express our his - the discussion.” authentically, inviting all to embrace toric and ongoing relationships. — SCOT MCKNIGHT the beauty and joy of the Gospel,” the 7. It is our unanimous desire to walk primates wrote. “We rely entirely on together. However given the serious - “Penetrating and unflinching in its insistence on Jesus Christ, condem- the power of the Holy Spirit who gives ness of these matters we formally ac - ned, crucified, dead, and buried, us speech, brings new birth, leads us knowledge this distance by requiring this book powerfully demon- into the truth revealed in Christ Jesus, that for a period of three years the strates that the crucifixion of the thus building the Church.” Episcopal Church no longer represent Son of God is good news of cos- John Martin, in Canterbury us on ecumenical and interfaith bod - mic and comprehensive scope.” ies, should not be appointed or elected to an internal standing committee and — LEANNE VAN DYK Addendum A that while participating in the internal “I can hardly think of a book bodies of the Anglican Communion, more necessary for our time. . . . of the Communiqué they will not take part in decision mak - Read, mark, and inwardly digest ing on any issues pertaining to doc - this book if you want to learn 1. We gathered as Anglican Primates trine or polity. about the cross that truly recti- to pray and consider how we may pre - 8. We have asked the Archbishop of fies the ungodly, even the likes serve our unity in Christ given the on - Canterbury to appoint a Task Group to of you and me.” going deep differences that exist maintain conversation among our - — MARK GALLI among us concerning our understand - selves with the intention of restoration ing of marriage. of relationship, the rebuilding of mu - ISBN 978-0-8028-47324 2. Recent developments in the Epis - tual trust, healing the legacy of hurt, 695 pages Ɣ hardcover copal Church with respect to a change recognising the extent of our com - $45.00 in their Canon on marriage represent a monality and exploring our deep dif - fundamental departure from the faith ferences, ensuring they are held be - At your bookstore, and teaching held by the majority of tween us in the love and grace of or call 800-253-7521 our provinces on the doctrine of mar - Christ. www.eerdmans.com riage. Possible developments in other Visit bit.ly/1Kn0lBL for the full text provinces could further exacerbate of “Walking Together in the Service of 5565 this situation. God in the World,” the communiqué 3. All of us acknowledge that these from this year’s Primates’ Meeting.

February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 5 news | February 7, 2016 Responses to the Communiqué Excerpts of reflections from bishops led. It was a “God moment.” As leaders coming three years in a more con - and other Anglican leaders. Links to of our Anglican Communion, and structive contemplation on how to re - full texts follow each excerpt. more importantly as Christians, we store our impaired Communion. How looked at each other across our deep can we move ahead and advance the The Most Rev. Justin Welby, and complex differences — and we mission of our Lord? What kind of suit - Archbishop of Canterbury recognized those we saw as those with able structure can we have to guaran - The meeting reached a point on [Jan. whom we are called to journey in hope tee that we will not be distracted away 13] where we chose quite simply to towards the truth and love of Jesus from the purpose God has put before decide on this point — do we walk to - Christ. It was our unanimous decision us? Let us not think in terms of tri - gether at a distance, or walk apart? to walk together and to take responsi - umph and defeat, instead we have to And what happened next went beyond bility for making that work. fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and everyone’s expectations. It was Spirit- We remain committed to being to - the perfecter of our faith. gether, albeit we asked that [the Epis - I am aware of those who challenge copal Church], while attending and the authority of the primates to make Curry: Disappointed playing a full part in our meetings and decisions. I would say that the deci - but Pressing On all discussions, will not represent the sions of the Primates’ Meeting as they Anglican Communion to other appeared in the communiqué are not Presiding Bishop Michael Curry churches and should not be involved new; they are “consistent with previ - released a video statement Jan. 15 in standing committees for a period of ous statements” from the different In - regarding the majority decision at three years. During this time we also struments of Communion. the 2016 Primates’ Meeting. asked that they not vote on matters of bit.ly/1OI1l5g “This is not the outcome we ex - doctrine or how we organize our - pected, and while we are disap - selves. The Very Rev. Andrew McGowan, pointed, it’s important to remem - It’s clear in Christian teaching that dean and president of Berkeley Di - ber that the Anglican Communion it’s not for us to divide the body of vinity School and professor of An - is really not a matter of structure Christ, which is the church, but also glican Studies at Yale Divinity and organization,” Curry said. that we must seek to make decisions School He said instead that the Angli - bearing each other in mind, taking First, it has to be said that the gather - can Communion is a network of each other seriously, loving one an - ing of primates has stretched the limits mission and relationship. other despite deep differences of view. of any authority they have, in “requir - Curry acknowledged the pain bit.ly/1JZOHC0 ing that for a period of three years the this decision brings to some in the Episcopal Church no longer represent church, and added that the Epis - The Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, us on ecumenical and interfaith bod - copal Church remains a con - Bishop of Egypt with North Africa ies, should not be appointed or elected stituent member of the Anglican and the Horn of Africa, and pri - to an internal standing committee.” Communion. mate of the Province of Jerusalem The primates do not actually have con - “We are the Episcopal Church, and the Middle East trol over the membership of such bod - and we are part of the Jesus Two different kinds of reactions arose ies, which typically relate to the more movement, and that movement after the release of the communiqué. broadly constituted Anglican Consul - goes on, and our work goes on,” Some reacted with outrage and others tative Council. Curry said. “And the truth is, it with triumph. Sadly I found little grace While global Anglican leaders who may be part of our vocation to in these reactions. I recalled the com - are not part of the Primates’ Meeting help the Communion and to help passionate words of Jesus in Luke will not be pleased by the presump - many others to grow in a direc - 13:34, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who tion involved in this statement, and tion where we can realize and live kill the prophets and stone those who there will almost certainly be some the love that God has for all of us, were sent to you! How often I have fallout about it behind closed doors, and we can one day be a church wanted to gather your people just as a nevertheless the primates’ views will and a Communion where all of hen gathers her chicks under her be taken seriously, and interpreted as God’s children are fully wel - wings. But you didn’t want that.” I feel though they had spoken with proper comed, where this is truly a house that we need to pray so that we may authority (urging, calling on, etc.) of prayer for all people.” have such Christ-like compassion. rather than with an apparent prelatical I appeal to everyone to spend this lack of self-awareness. In other words,

6 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 the [Anglican Consultative Council] enough to divide us will not convince despite our differences, as a deep ex - and national groups who actually others who believe differently. Instru - pression of our unity in the body of make appointments to the committees ments are needed by which we can en - Christ.” referred to will almost certainly ad - gage each other and hold each other To be a member of the Church is to here to the principle that has been out - accountable, and not simply be be bound to all other members by the lined. churches that are talking past each enduring bond of baptism. Because bit.ly/1OFu7Ug other.” we are bound to one another, we walk I reaffirm my commitment to the together. Because we sometime dis - The Rt. Rev. John Bauerschmidt, Diocese of Tennessee, the Episcopal agree with one another or act in ways Bishop of Tennessee Church, and the Anglican Communion that hurt one another, that can be a Let me repeat my own words follow - of which the Episcopal Church re - painful thing. It is the pain of love. To ing another Primates’ Meeting in early mains a part. I encourage myself and be in in real communion is difficult. It 2007. “We need ways in which the every member of our diocese to be requires dying and rising. It requires Communion can hold together in spite humble and generous as we engage patience, perseverance, and en - of difference, and pursue a common the work that lies before us. durance. It requires the power of the life. Those ways will come through bit.ly/1nlrzEi Holy Spirit. And, as Archbishop Thabo consideration of the church, ‘that won - Makgoba of the Province of Southern derful and sacred mystery’ (BCP, 291). The Rt. Rev. Matthew Gunter, Africa said at the press conference at I’m sure that the church referred to in Bishop of Fond du Lac the close of the meeting, “The Holy this prayer is a worldwide phenome - We belong to one another. But, we Spirit is not done with us.” non with its roots firmly planted in the have been reminded again this week conta.cc/1OvTASc earliest times, growing and reaching that such belonging can be difficult. out to the future. A Communion in Perhaps the most significant and en - The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, pres - which there is no way to reach a com - couraging line in the communiqué is ident of the House of Deputies mon mind about the extent of differ - this one: The people most likely to suffer from ence will not be able to grow together, “Over the past week the unanimous this news are faithful LGBTI Anglicans or even hold together. Insisting that decision of the primates was to walk and their allies, especially in Africa. I our present differences are not together, however painful this is, and (Continued on next page)

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February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 9 BOOKS Rescuing Origen from Neglect

Review by Christopher A. Beeley Urs von Balthasar remarked years On First Principles ago, there are faithful people around By Origen . Foreword by John C. Cavadini . he first and most influential the world praying for the canonization Introduction by Henri de Lubac . work of Christian systematic of Origen, and Pope Benedict devotes Ave Maria Press. Pp. 576. $25 Ttheology, Origen’s On First an admiring section of his book on the Principles has had an eventful history, Fathers to the great Alexandrian. Had to put it mildly. Embroiled in contro - it not been for the labors or Gregory versy and misunderstanding since in Nazianzen and (possibly) Basil of Cae - been available to English readers only his own lifetime, Origen’s masterwork sarea, who anthologized several of in two, rather flawed versions: an out - suffered the tragedy of almost total de - Origen’s writings in their Philokalia , dated translation of Rufinus’s Latin, struction in its original, Greek form, we would not possess the sections of with a set of misleading footnotes, thanks to the condemnation of certain books 3 and 4 that are the only ex - published in the Anti-Nicene Fathers “Origenist” monks by the Second tended portions of On First Princi - series, and the 20th-century transla - Council of Constantinople in 553. ples that remain in the original Greek. tion of G.W. Butterworth, which un - Yet the collateral damage inflicted The only complete version of the fortunately renders Koetschau’s edi - by Emperor Justinian and the sixth- work to come down to posterity is tion straight into English, including the century council hardly reflects the real Rufinus of Aquileia’s Latin translation, fragments from Origen’s enemies, character of Origen’s work. Origen made in the late fourth century. Yet this some of which are printed directly in was the most influential theologian in translation, too, has languished in con - the body of the text, either alone or in all of Christian tradition, second only troversy in recent times. Since it con - parallel columns alongside an English to the apostles, and he forms a signifi - tains certain phrases that sound a little translation of Rufinus’s Latin. To make cant part of any serious course on too Nicene for someone writing in the matters worse, Butterworth’s transla - early Christian theology. Even if we early third century, readers have natu - tion, the better of the two, has long might question, for example, his treat - rally wondered how much Rufinus been out of print. ment of the unity of Christ’s divine and cleaned up Origen’s text to make it ap - But the tide has finally turned. In re - human natures, which he professed pear more orthodox that it really was. cent decades, scholars have con - never to have understood, it was Ori - In his 1913 critical edition of the work, cluded that Rufinus’s translation is gen who taught the later catholic tra - Paul Koetschau questioned the relia - generally reliable, and certainly more dition the basic outlines of orthodox bility of the translation and favored in - faithful than Koetschau’s reconstruc - trinitarian doctrine, and it was Origen stead the fragmentary witnesses to the tion. From detailed comparisons with who showed the entire Church, East Greek text that appeared in later au - the extant Greek of other works by and West, how best to read the Scrip - thors. Unfortunately, this meant incor - Origen, some of which Rufinus also tures “according to the Spirit,” follow - porating fragments from several of Ori - translated, they discovered that when ing the language and the method of St. gen’s enemies, including Jerome’s later Rufinus modified some of Origen’s Paul (see 2 Cor. 3:6). (but not earlier) writings and none wording he tended to do so in a man - To this day, On First Principles is other than Emperor Justinian himself. ner that was faithful to the original must reading for anyone seeking a It was hardly an impartial body of wit - meaning and did not alter the basic sound doctrine of God, Christ, and the nesses. While Koetschau’s decision re - theological program. Holy Spirit, and Origen’s treatment of flected an understandable philological The stage was now set for the reha - biblical interpretation in book 4 is one zeal — the use of later fragments is an bilitation of Origen’s work in English. of the two indispensable, and remark - integral part of making the critical edi - In a true labor of love, John Cavadini ably accessible, texts on how to read tion of an ancient text — in this case it of the University of Notre Dame has the Bible as a Christian, together with crossed the lines of sound scholarly produced a new, paperback edition of Augustine’s Teaching Christianity judgment. Butterworth’s translation that contains (De doctrina Christiana ). As Hans As a result, On First Principles has only text based on Rufinus’s Latin and

10 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 Wealth and Eternity The Ransom of the Soul the Greek of the Philokalia . Cavadini Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity has removed Koetschau’s fragments By Peter Brown . Harvard. Pp. 262. $24.95 from the body of the work and re - placed them with endnotes that direct Review by Kevin Dodge the reader to the locations in the more recent edition and commentary of hat happens after we die? A 2014 CBS News Henri Crouzel and Manlio Simonetti, Wpoll found that 82 percent of Americans be - in the French Sources Chrétiennes se - lieved they would go to heaven. Of those claim - ries, which contains an informed dis - ing no religion, 36 percent believed in both cussion of the pros and cons of each heaven and hell. It appears Americans have fragment. In addition, Cavadini has based their belief systems on characteristically placed the Scripture references in optimistic assumptions. parentheses in the body of the text, so A fascinating perspective on the afterlife the reader can more easily follow Ori - comes from Peter Brown’s latest book, The Ransom of the Soul . Having es - gen’s frequent references to the Bible. sentially invented the field of late antiquity during a 60-year career, Brown An admiring introduction to Origen is the leading historian of the period. Brown’s many books consistently the theologian by Henri de Lubac, SJ, demonstrate unparalleled mastery of sources. His latest offering is no ex - as well as helpful indices of topics and ception. Scripture citations, are included. To Brown explores how Christians from the third through the seventh century top it off, the book is remarkably af - in the West perceived the afterlife as something they could influence while fordable. alive. The most important finding of the study is that Christians, most notably For those interested in historical St. Augustine, believed giving alms not only expiated sin but helped the soul theology, which should include any on its journey in the afterlife. Thus, giving to the Church (and, later, to pastor who hopes to preserve a spiri - monasteries) became a significant way one could redress post-baptismal sin. tual foundation of ministry, this is a Brown shows that by the end of the seventh century, Christians had major publishing event to celebrated adopted a much richer perspective than their predecessors. For example, St. with fanfare and great acclaim. My Cyprian in the third century paid almost no attention to the eschatological only wish is that the excised frag - fate of individual believers, focusing on martyrs instead. By the time of Ju - ments had been printed in an appen - lian of Toledo in the seventh century, however, a complex theology of the in - dix, with brief notes of their relative termediate state had developed amid a genuine concern for average people. merits, so that readers who lack By this time, the Church believed souls moved at different paces toward the French or who have no access to the afterlife because of varying degrees of sin. Sources Chrétiennes series could Thus, early Christians, facing significant eschatological uncertainty, the - study them. Despite the many slan - orized what the living can do for the dead. Into this obscurity flowed their ders to which they have given rise, the favorite proof text: “The ransom of the soul of a man is his wealth” (Prov. fragments are not unimportant, and 13:8), from which Brown draws the title for the book. The living can help the in some cases they give valuable al - dead on their journey through the intermediate state by giving alms, pray - ternative readings of Origen’s text. ing, and celebrating the Lord’s Supper. Nevertheless, John Cavadini has done One immediately notes how different this depiction is from those today the Church and the academic com - who assume redeemed souls go straight to heaven at death. Outside of munity a very great service by bring - martyrs and saints, we see that few early Christians believed this. ing back into print, in a much im - Brown reminds us that the early Christian view of an intermediate state proved version, a text that he calls was usually not painful purgation, the kind the reformers would criticize in with only slight exaggeration “the the 16th century. Rather, the intermediate state was a time of incompletion most breathtaking work bequeathed and waiting for resurrection. Thus, alms supplied an essential link between to us by Christian antiquity” (p. ix). the living and the dead, providing a major impetus for why the Church be - came wealthy in late antiquity. The Rev. Christopher A. Beeley is Wal - Unlike Brown’s other studies, which can prove daunting for readers be - ter H. Gray Associate Professor of An - cause of their length and erudition, this offering benefits from a very clearly glican Studies and Patristics at arranged argument with refreshing brevity that makes it approachable. Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and Studying the Fathers is often absorbing because it challenges our assump - author of a chapter on Origen’s Chris - tions. Brown has made doing so a pleasure. Stewardship sermons should tology in The Unity of Christ: Conti - never be the same. nuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradi - tion (Yale, 2012). Kevin Dodge resides in Dallas and is author of Confessions of a Bishop: A Guide to Augustine’s Confessions (2014).

February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 11 BOOKS John Stott’s Timeless Wisdom The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill and Jim Collins to John Maxwell, Eu - gene Peterson, and Henri Nouwen. Is t is not uncommon to observe in there cause to make time and room for clergy libraries a section filled with one more? Ititles dedicated to the study of suc - The posthumously published Prob - Problems of Christian cessful leadership. Books in this genre lems of Christian Leadership by An - Leadership also find their way into the hands of lay glican giant John Stott is an eminently By John Stott . IVP. Pp. 90. $8 leaders. The plethora of contemporary worthy contribution to this category of studies of corporate and Christian church reading. Revered and read by cently been made available in English leadership indicates no small demand. generations of evangelicals the world by IVP Books through Langham Part - I have wondered if my accumulated over, Stott wrote much on the topic of nership International. Seemingly collection of such works seems un - Christian leadership in his long and aimed at those engaged in or contem - necessarily large, perhaps indicative of distinguished ministry. The unique gift plating full-time ministerial leadership, quite diverse and subjective definitions of this slim volume is that it contains the book is accessible enough to be of “leadership success.” Perhaps it also previously unavailable material now used by lay volunteers and for small- reveals my personal and not always published for the first time: transcripts group discipleship. humble quest for the same. Those as - of talks Stott delivered in 1985 at a piring to be more effective Christian conference in Quito, Ecuador, for ongtime devotees of Stott’s writ - mentors, ministry leaders, or execu - Latin American staff members of the ing will recognize and appreciate tives may already possess books on ef - International Fellowship of Evangeli - L his typically careful scriptural exposi - fective leadership by authors ranging cal Students. Originally published in tion in this book, as well as his char - from Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard, Spanish, these addresses have only re -

ponents of a mystical theology, but they avoided the Latin The Wisdom of the Beguines logic and dialectic of the university and deliberately The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement wrote in the vernacular. By Laura Swan . BlueBridge. Pp. 208. $16.95 Swan’s book is intentionally accessible, welcoming, and immersive, and she accurately conveys the sweep and aura Swan’s book is a praiseworthy effort to intro - significance of the beguine movement in late medieval re - Lduce the general reader to a topic that has garnered ligious life. Her desire to popularize the movement, how - enormous critical attention in recent years: the rise of the ever, to a contemporary audience means that her treat - beguines in the late Middle Ages in the Low ment glosses over many of the movement’s more Countries, Germany, and Italy. Historians uncomfortable aspects such as extreme fasting and as - now recognize a movement that, far from ceticism, and the extent to which, in deliberately sub - being the decadent last gasp of the late me - verting or escaping religious authority, beguines often as - dieval church, was a dynamic and complex sociated with heretics or ended up as heretics themselves. religious universe driven, perhaps for the Just how unified a “women’s movement” the beguines first time in the Latin West, by the interests were is debatable: regional and linguistic identity was and demands of laypeople. crucial, often trumping other considerations. Swan The beguines deliberately avoided the glosses over the extent to which a woman like Marguerite traditional parameters of medieval religious Porete, burned at the stake in 1310, was, if anything, fe - life: they sought to live lives dedicated to God but refused rociously critical of beguine spirituality even while she to take formal vows. They practiced active charity, par - could be associated with it in some respects. Neverthe - ticularly among the newly urban poor, their communities less, to any curious general reader wondering what ranging from single houses to court beguinages housing women were up to in the church in the late Middle Ages, hundreds and even thousands of members. They were fi - it is an excellent introduction. nancially independent, often working in the textile in - Hannah Matis Perett dustry. They were often literate and highly articulate pro - Alexandria, Virginia acteristic graciousness and humility. teers, one should be careful not to in - Like St. Paul writing to Timothy and flate its achievement. Though never Titus, the book carries the conversa - quaint, these transcribed talks carry a Wright’s Paul: tional tone of a beloved elder speaking vaguely dated feel, despite the peren - with gentle clarity to young appren - nial challenges they name and the An Early tices. Stott infuses Problems of Chris - timelessness of biblical wisdom. This tian Leadership with avuncular affec - is not a volume addressing many prob - tion rather than patronizing advice. He lems that confront 21st-century Chris - Retrospective is also less concerned to impart tips on tian leaders in the West, such as the organizational strategies and manage - challenge of evangelism in a context of Review by Wesley Hill ment techniques than to encourage deep cultural commitment to spiritual the formation of Christian character pluralism and personal autonomy, in - wo years ago, N.T. Wright’s fer - as the principal goal of leadership de - creasing percentages of people who vently anticipated Paul and the velopment. are skeptical of organized religion, TFaithfulness of God finally ap - Underlying Stott’s talks is the pre - radical changes in technology and me - peared. Many had been awaiting it for supposition that Christian leadership dia, and the scarcity of resources to more than two decades. In 1992, is inevitably characterized by chal - support institutions with declining Wright launched one of the most au - lenge and disappointment. He speaks memberships. Again, there are other dacious and thrilling projects ever to to four specific problems faced by contemporary resources on Christian appear in the discipline of biblical leaders: discouragement, self-disci - leadership to consult. studies and the history of early Chris - pline, relationships, and youthfulness. The final chapter of Problems of tianity. Under the rubric “Christian Ori - The supreme occupational hazard for Christian Leadership comprises eu - gins and the Question of God,” Wright Christian leaders in failing to under - logizing testimonials from two of began a forecasted five-volume series stand and confront these problems is Stott’s former protégés. The deep af - on the rise of Christianity and all the the risk of lost vision, a faded sense of fection and profound gratitude ex - major themes of New Testament the power of the gospel, and shriveled pressed in these pages are a fitting scholarship: the historical Jesus, the energy for God, self, and those one is tribute to Stott, whose teachings on apostleship of Paul, the writing of the called to lead. leadership were so obviously inte - four canonical Gospels, and much Contrary to I’m OK — You’re OK grated into his life. Mark Labberton, else. The initial two volumes ( The New (1967), Stott situates contemplation of now president of Fuller Theological Testament and the People of God and ministerial leadership within a proper Seminary, writes: “Although I was a Jesus and the Victory of God ) soon Christian anthropology: “I’m Not OK young Christian and recent seminary burgeoned to three, with the resurrec - — You’re Not OK.” Leaders of Chris - graduate at the time I came to work as tion of Jesus coming to occupy its own tian character recognize their weak - John’s assistant, it had already become 700-page-plus tome ( The Resurrection ness, seek to serve Christ in others, clear to me that while God provides of the Son of God ). And now, the pro - and thereby shun defensive posturing gifts for ministry, the greater effect jected fulsome treatment of Paul, or manipulative power politics in the comes through character, the fruit of while still technically one “volume,” face of external challenge. Stott’s sim - God’s Spirit. Charisma, winsomeness, has been published as two books, the ple but challenging message is that popularity, charm, and cleverness can first one around 600 pages and the sec - Christian leaders always point to the matter; in fact, they can matter too ond approaching 1,000. Still more vol - cross, the means by which the all-sur - much. What endures and bears pecu - umes are promised. passing power of God is known liar witness to God comes from be - For many, receiving their copy and through earthen vessels (2 Cor. 4:7): yond mere capacity before a crowd. reading this book has felt like the cul - “The veil over people’s minds is very The greater testimony comes in an mination of a pilgrimage. My own ob - thick. Our body is very frail. But it is otherwise unexplained character.” sessive interest in the apostle to the not beyond the power of God either to The sage wisdom offered in Prob - Gentiles was kindled in large measure penetrate the veil or to sustain the lems of Christian Leadership offers by the few days I spent during college body.” To persevere in Christ is to another gracious glimpse into the faith sitting out in the sun on the front lawn grow more like him. To continue of one of the most influential Chris - of campus reading Wright’s What preaching the gospel in the face of tian figures of the last 100 years. It also Saint Paul Really Said . All the lines of problems, affirming the indispensable points to the enduring significance argument that book presaged — that nature of evangelism, is to succeed in that living examples of good Christian Paul was best understood as a Christian leadership. Thus, we have character may have on future genera - covenant theologian announcing the cause never to lose heart. tions of leaders, and this is the book’s Messiah Jesus as the climax of God’s most important leadership lesson. commitment to Abraham and Israel, hile Problems of Christian Lead - that Jesus’ faithfulness to God was si - Wership is an excellent resource The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill is rector of multaneously God’s creative faithful - for church professionals and volun - St. George’s Church, Nashville. (Continued on next page)

February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 13 BOOKS inal commission in Genesis 1, is theirs. Yet they themselves have recapitu - (Continued from previous page) lated Adam’s rebellion and are conse - ness to his covenant people Israel and quently suffering the curse of exile. the nations, that all the classic cate - Under the thumb of pagan imperial gories of Jewish thought (monothe - power, the people who were meant to ism, election, Christology, eschatol - be God’s healing for the wound of the ogy) therefore had to be rethought world are now in need of a physician. around Jesus and his Spirit, that the The hero of the story needs rescue; powers and empires and gods of this theirs is “a story in search of an end - present age were now seen to be ing” (p. 109, italics removed). And, flimsy parodies of God’s cruciform thankfully, Israel has hope that such a power — cried out for fuller develop - rescue will occur. At some unspecified Paul and the ment. Those of us who devoured that point, God will circumcise their hearts Faithfulness of God small book were left hungry for more. afresh, reinstate his full covenant By N.T. Wright . Fortress. Pp. 1,696. $89 Across the years, Wright obliged us. blessings through the forgiveness of I remember how, as a sophomore in sins and the pouring out of his Spirit, college, I greedily ripped open the box and vindicate Israel in the face of idol - in which my copy of Wright’s com - atrous foreign powers (per the prom - tion is the inauguration of Israel’s mentary on Romans arrived ( The New ises of Deut. 30, Jer. 31, and Ezek. 36, hoped-for resurrection: he experi - Interpreter’s Bible, Volume 10 ) and among other texts, as received and in - ences in the present what Israel had spent the next few weeks inching my terpreted in Second Temple period long awaited. Moreover, his arrival in way through its exegesis. In 2009 he contexts). Such was the expectation Jerusalem and his promised coming followed up the commentary with a “on the ground” where Paul grew up in again are nothing less than the return set of lectures titled Paul: In Fresh the Jewish Diaspora, as well as in Is - of Israel’s God himself to Zion (p. 654). Perspective that slaked our thirst a bit rael’s ancestral land of Palestine, now And Paul’s missionary preaching, to more. A volume on Paul’s theology of occupied by the Romans. which Gentiles and Jews respond, re - justification by faith ( Justification: In the middle of this welter of es - sults in a “freshly reworked” (p. 774) God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision ) ap - chatological expectations comes people of God, in continuity with peared the same year. And coinciding Paul’s Damascus Road encounter with God’s original people (see the olive with the publication of Paul and the Jesus, a Jewish man recently executed tree analogy of Rom. 11). Insofar as Faithfulness of God came a collection and yet, evidently, now bodily alive Jesus is an inclusive figure, first nar - of essays from the span of Wright’s ca - and enthroned as Lord. What Paul rowing down Israel’s destiny to his reer, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on comes to understand is that Jesus’ own person but then expanding it out - Paul, 1978-2013 , followed this past death and resurrection together con - ward, like an hourglass, he incorpo - autumn by the release of The Paul De - stitute the strangely unexpected way rates in himself all those who turn to bate: Critical Questions for Under - in which Israel’s God will demonstrate him in trust and obedience: “Messiah- standing the Apostle and Paul and his fidelity to Israel’s covenant prom - and-his-people” as a singular summing His Interpreters . Still, though, Paul ises, as well as include the Gentiles in up of Israel’s vocation is what Paul and the Faithfulness of God repre - their ambit. As Wright puts it, “the means when he speaks of Christ and sents the real banquet. It is a historical great change in Israel’s fortunes [fore - the Church (p. 17). And, finally, Paul and theological feast, the culmination told in Deut. 30] is precisely what has guarantees a future physical, tangible of Wright’s engagement with Paul: en - come about through Jesus the Mes - new creation (see Rom. 8), in which cyclopedic, energetic, and, at multiple siah” (p. 1,172). “Paul’s theology turns, the newly re-formed people of God, points, sermonic. With this book in at its center, on the belief that Jesus of the new Jew-and-Gentile “Israel,” cen - particular, Wright has delivered his de - Nazareth was and is Israel’s Messiah, tered on Jesus the Messiah, will rule finitive statement of what Paul’s mis - the long-promised one from the line the earth as Adam was originally in - sionary enterprise and theological, of David, the one through whom Is - tended but failed to do. In that way, pastoral writings were all about. rael’s final battle was to be fought, the what God envisioned from the begin - Temple was to be cleansed and rebuilt, ning — a human figure, and a corpo - right’s Paul is animated by the God’s justice and peace were to be es - rate people, stewarding God’s good Wconcerns he shares with his fel - tablished in the world and the ancient world under God’s lordship — is ac - low Jews living in the shadow of the promises to Abraham were to be ful - complished at last, in spite of human Roman Empire in the first century CE. filled” (p. 816). failure, through the eschatological ap - According to their shared story, Paul Jesus the Jew sums up and recapit - pearing and achievement of Jesus and and the people of Israel are the bear - ulates Israel’s history in himself. He the Spirit. ers of God’s covenant with Abraham: suffers the curse of Israel’s exile in his the call to image God and bless the en - crucifixion, bearing the weight of Is - here is no gainsaying the sweep, tire world, inherited from Adam’s orig - rael’s failure and guilt. His resurrec - Tthe power, and the sheer excite -

14 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 ment of Wright’s vision. Within days of most exactly backwards. It is not that standing a deeper, more fundamental its publication, Paul and the Faithful - Paul shares with his fellow Jews a “promise” (see Gal. 3 and Rom. 4) the ness of God was among the top sellers foundational story into which he then workings of which give hope for Is - on Amazon. I have talked with numer - locates Jesus as the climax. Rather, it rael’s future salvation but do not put ous pastors and Christian leaders for is that Paul encounters a Jesus who Paul in agreement with his fellow whom it was at the top of their reading shatters all his previous stories, in - Jews about Israel’s past. As John Bar - stack. What other figure in contempo - cluding his scriptural ones, who then clay has put it in his recent monograph rary academic scholarship can boast forces Paul to discover a new plotline on grace in Paul, “the story [Paul] tells such popular appeal? But, more in - for Israel’s history, one that does not is not a common Second Temple nar - triguingly, what explains that appeal? map neatly onto any other on offer rative with a Christological conclu - The first thing to say, I think, is that among Paul’s contemporaries. Jesus sion: it has a newly discovered plot- Wright’s prose often reads like good rewrites Israel’s history as a story of line, shaped by the incongruity of preaching. It is bombastic, urgent, resurrection from the dead and incon - grace.” Such a conclusion is, it seems, even folksy at times. On the other gruous grace, you might say, rather a veiled critique of the heart of hand, Wright can sound aggrieved or than (as Wright has it) Jesus summing Wright’s recent book. even tetchy, since he spends a good up Israel’s history as a story of Wright’s Paul is, in short, a lightning bit of time chiding other Pauline inter - covenantal continuity. rod. Early reviews spanned the gamut preters for misreading his earlier Many current Pauline interpreters from breathless adulation to polemical books and essays. — I think of John Barclay, Martinus C. critique, and such varied engagement Second, Wright exerts an enormous de Boer, and Beverly Roberts Gaventa, shows little sign of abating. Anyone influence on ordinary Bible readers in to mention only a few — read Paul as who wishes to take stock of the cur - large measure, I judge, because of his a disruptive, radical Jew whose un - rent state of biblical scholarship can - interest in reading Paul as a biblical derstandings of monotheism, election, not avoid Wright. Anyone who wishes theologian. Putting the point slightly covenant, and new creation were not to preach Paul will not want to avoid differently, Wright is the furthest thing so much the “fulfillment” of previously him. He has written one of the most from an atomistic reader of Scripture. held hopes but rather the aftershocks ambitious books on Paul in the history He exhibits no patience for doing of an unlooked-for mercy. According of the discipline of biblical scholar - “Pauline theology” in isolation from to these readers, instead of seeing the ship, perhaps in Church history. Two Matthew and Acts and Isaiah and Gen - Gentiles as grafted into a pre-formed years later, we are still writing and esis. His interpretive vision is gen - covenant people of God, Paul was in - talking about it — as, no doubt, we uinely synthetic, aiming to gather up terested in redefining Israel herself as will be in two hundred. all the threads of the Bible and see constituted by a scandalous grace (see them as in some way held together in especially Paul’s bizarre readings of Paul’s vision of a renewed covenant Old Testament narratives in Romans Wesley Hill is assistant professor of and an already-but-not-yet new cre - 9). Instead of seeing a covenant up - biblical studies at Trinity School for ation, revolving around Jesus as the held, Paul was interested in under - Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Jewish Messiah. For readers commit - ted to confessing Scripture’s basic unity and authority in the Church, Wright’s ability to integrate and en - rials liven many of Scripture’s most promi - Handcrafted mate nent themes is deeply compelling. ritten by And yet it is also here, at this very for stories w d point, that many other readers may be Sonja Stewart an least persuaded. Wright’s book, with rryman. its synthetic vision, arrives on the Jerome Be scene at a time when much of the most creative current Pauline scholar - ship is questioning the foundational premises of that vision. For Wright’s Paul, the entire Jewish story of cre - ation, election, and future redemption “is not set aside. It is brought into fresh Worship Woodworks focus, rethought, reimagined and re - Visit us at www.worshipwoodworks.com worked around Jesus himself, and par - ticularly around his death, resurrec - Email: [email protected] tion, and enthronement” (p. 816). 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February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 15 BOOKS Strengthen the Vocation of Friendship

Review by Natalie Robertson life who seem most open about their loneliness are other gay men who have ow does a Christian gay man, chosen celibacy. That may say some - one who believes that celibacy thing about relational conversations in H is the path to obedience, man - the Church. Is there room for married age to live happily, and without feeling Christians to admit loneliness without isolated from practically everyone? feeling ashamed or like they are con - Wesley Hill has been at this for a while: fessing marital failure? But ultimately, his first book, Washed and Waiting: if Hill is right that committed, life-giv - Reflections on Christian Faithfulness ing, lifelong friendship is a substantial and Homosexuality , is heartfelt and part of what is missing in his life, the engaging. Hill and some companions loneliness he experiences is not ex - also write an absorbing weblog on clusively “gay” loneliness, it is cultural these same subjects (spiritualfriend - loneliness, and he and his friends are ship.org). Hill suggests that his voca - just some of the first to be so honest tion is one of renewal: somewhere about its devastating effects. Spiritual Friendship along the way, the Church lost its There are moments that Spiritual Finding Love in the Church strength at forming the astonishing Friendship is a bit uneven. The book as a Celibate Gay Christian and life-changing friendships that highlights questions that have no an - By Wesley Hill . Brazos. Pp. 160. $14.99 transformed history and showed the swers or do not yet have robust an - world something about who God is. swers. It’s a frustrating book because Hill and his friends want to live in cre - it’s a frustrating situation. Yet this frus - both ways. Ethical questions about ative ways that help bring the voca - tration makes it a categorically good this issue are important, but advocat - tion back. and potentially important book, espe - ing either way on sexual ethics does The book asks whether we should cially for those who have never seri - nothing to change a culture that often continue to think about friendship as a ously considered the lonely in their excludes other kinds of historically voluntary bond or if friendship should midst. We ought to be frustrated by a Christian, life-giving relationships, be seen as more sacred and binding. culture, especially in the Church, that such as spiritual friendships. As Hill Part One sets Hill’s personal stage, and leaves people feeling alienated — or, elucidates, without these friendships, introduces a few important Christian worse, incapable of escaping alien - we are all left wanting. figures to the conversation. He spars ation. Widespread experiences of Spiritual Friendship is a com - with C.S. Lewis’s views on friendship, alienation are not the mark of a pelling, often moving introduction to much to the delight of those of us who healthy culture, whether traditional or what should be a fruitful conversation have always wondered how this progressive. And it is not only sexual on the nature of friendship in the Inkling could keep a straight face minorities who experience entrenched Church. It pushes beyond highly po - while he made some of his claims in loneliness: the mentally ill, the dis - larized issues, and ultimately provides The Four Loves, such as how friend - abled, and the socially awkward are language that can help us to heal, and ship has no natural utility. He ends the vulnerable as well. to recall our vocation to love one an - section with a lovely exploration of This book, as well as the rest of other in practical, felt ways. Its brevity, the nature of Christ’s friendship with Hill’s project, ought to stir us to con - timbre, and accessibility make it ideal us, and what that means for the versation and action. We cannot ig - for group discussion, perhaps fol - Church. Part Two deals mainly with nore the challenges that Spiritual lowed by trying some of the ideas Hill practical considerations, along with Friendship brings to our often iso - suggests for renewing spiritual friend - some suggestions for how we might lated and isolating mode of existence ships in the Church. improve friendship in the Church. and still claim to think with theological A major motivation for this project clarity. Especially in light of the Natalie Robertson lives in Fresno, is the experience of loneliness. Hill of - Obergefell ruling and the General Con - California, where she is an intern for ten identifies his own loneliness as be - vention’s acceptance of same-sex mar - the city’s Historic Preservation Com - ing most linked to his sexuality. This riage (subject to diocesan approval), mission and a student of literature makes partial sense: the people in his Hill’s suggestions about friendship cut and languages.

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Review by Michael Tessman iconographic: visual koans rendered on paper in ink and light shades of ast year’s celebrated publication bronze, brown, and beige. Pondering of the two-volume Norton An - them, I found myself wanting a color L thology of World Religions edition, however subtle the tones. brings to students of the Religions - Kakuan accompanied each of the ten gewissenschaft a magnificent com - koans with a poem of his own compo - The Ox-Herder pendium of sacred texts from Hin - sition, and a brief commentary for and the Good Shepherd duism, Buddhism, Daoism (Vol. 1), each poem and picture. Finding Christ on the Buddha’s Path Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Vol. Hart is modest in his own explicitly By Addison Hodges Hart . 2). At well over 3,000 pages and $100 Christian comments on the Ten Pic - Eerdmans. Pp. 126. $15 for the set, it is worth the investment. tures. He writes: “Just as I would wel - Or, if you’re looking for a more man - come a Buddhist reflection on, say, the ageable (and affordable) taste of the Way of the Cross, so I trust that a rich diet of texts that form the world’s Christian reflection on these brilliant of seeking (even desperately chasing religions, then Addison Hodges Hart’s Zen Buddhist icons will be welcome. after) God. slim volume is your ticket. The theme of the series is universal … Once or twice, however, “caution” In a review of the Norton Anthol - and tells a perennial truth about the in - lights flashed as I recalled the public ogy for the New York Times (Dec. 21, ner work of discipleship, reminding us dressing down (complete with egg 2014), Karen Armstrong writes that all that contemplation without loving toss) of Wendy Doniger a dozen years Jack Miles, the general editor, “com - action is incomplete.” ago at a scholarly conference in Lon - pares faith to the human propensity to The result is an illuminated breviary don ( University of Chicago Maga - ‘play,’ a disciplined make-believe that of sorts, with guided meditations suit - zine , Dec. 2004). While the egg-tosser leads to ekstasis , a ‘stepping outside’ able for a private retreat or, as I found was evicted from the hall, the back - of normal perception, which, when during my summer reading of it walk - story making news was a staged at - translated into action, has also helped ing the beach — meditation in mo - tempt to challenge Western acade - develop law, commerce, art and sci - tion, text in hand. The lightly lami - mia’s propensity to psychologize and ence.” nated cover, with paper flyleaves, sexualize, in this case, Hindu gods and “Playful” as good as defines the de - allows for easy tucking into a pocket goddesses. As the Mircea Eliade Pro - veloping enlightenment borne of the or daypack. fessor of the History of Religions at relationship of the Boy and the Bull the University of Chicago, Doniger oc - (or the Ox) in a Chinese fable about he genre of pilgrimage comes to cupies the foremost Western Hindic life’s journey in pursuit of integration; Tlife in each of the ten koans, from chair in academia. Additional objec - body with mind, soul, and spirit. How “Seeking the Ox” and “Finding Foot - tion to her work, from some Hindus, refreshing to have such a companion - prints” through “Riding Home on the includes translation of Sanskrit texts able text with which to appreciate, Ox’s Back” and “Returning to the Ori - into English (somewhat paralleling the and yes, even venerate the Way of the gins, Back to the Source.” There’s no concern of conservative Muslims that Buddha. spoiler alert here; the book must be the Qur’an can only be understood in Free of polemics, Hart, a retired pas - experienced, not simply read. Hart’s Arabic and the Prophet must never be tor and university chaplain, writes a very practical commentary is more illustrated). skillful though not pedantic commen - like having a companion to talk with tary on a 12th-century series of ten po - than a tour guide telling us it’s now art commits no similar faux pas, ems from a Chinese Zen master, time to move on. Hsteering clear of toxic issues with Kakuan Shien, with accompanying His style comes closer to Sister several disclaimers: that he is writing pictures reproducing a 15th-century Wendy Beckett walking us through the as a confessing Christian and the text version by the Japanese Zen monk Bodleian or the Tate than to the regu - he comments upon is already well Shuban, the original of which is lae of Augustine, Basil, or Benedict. In known in English translation, as any housed in the museum of the Shok - short, Hart is not suggesting a road Wikipedia visitor will discover. Occa - ouji Temple in Kyoto. map as much as illuminating, from a sionally he flirts with trouble when The pictures are, by themselves, Christian perspective, the experience (Continued on next page)

February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 17 BOOKS (Continued from previous page) parsing the symbolism of the “Ox and the Boy,” but for the most part he re - flects accepted spiritual protocols. “The Boy,” he writes, “represents In Christ, the the changing identity each of us has … integration of the from a fearful and confused to a more focused and settled state of mind.” In spiritual and modern parlance, the Boy has learned material/temporal mindfulness, and this certainly is a useful discipline for any disciple/pil - is made perfect. grim on the journey of faith. Hart adds that “he has discovered deep calm in himself, and this harmony within is in Christ the Good Shepherd accord with the inner heart of living from the Callisto Catacomb nature.” Wikimedia Commons Here, the old chestnut from the Hymnal 1940 comes to mind (text by E.H. Bickersteth): “Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The love of Jesus whispers peace within. Peace, perfect peace, with sorrows surging round? On Jesus’ bosom Rome. In this most ancient of Chris - cretism that the Buddhist and Chris - naught but calm is found.” tian icons, the shepherd “Boy” has bri - tian texts share a self-evident truth, In Buddhist context, the Ox repre - dled and tamed the “Lamb” (or the which we ignore at our peril. Uncom - sents “that natural, earthy, animal level Ox). We know that in the Lamb Christ promising in his Christian beliefs, like in our selves every bit as much as it is rendered as completely identified Thomas Merton before him, Hart represents our capacity to love and with “earthy and sinful man” and is seeks the universality of other faith have compassion.” In that sense, Hart identified as the “Lamb of God who systems as purveyors of God’s truth. says, “the Ox, which is united essen - takes away the sin of the world.” In The Second Council of Nicea (A.D. tially with all created beings, is both Christ, then, the integration of the spir - 787) settled the iconoclastic contro - closest to God in the highest (the Ox's itual and material/temporal is made versy by allowing for the veneration of nose brushes heaven!) and at ease in perfect. images, but also of the material cos - the lowest level of creation. … He en - mos that God creates and redeems compasses our spirit and also our pas - s with so much else these days, through Christ (Col. 1:15-17). Perhaps sions, our interior heights and depths.” Athe climate for interfaith explo - what our conflicted world needs most This description may evidence a ration and enrichment has become are renewed attempts at living by the classical integration of spirituality politicized to a fault. Whether amid the profound truths we share, through our with temporality, but it borders on the confusing conflict of Jewish and Mus - religious traditions and faith commu - derivative, especially when Hart dis - lim faith systems, strife in Gaza and nities, without fear of competition closes that the Ox is “the Buddha- on the West Bank, the looming threats among them. Might Christians be mind and the Buddha-nature, to be of ISIS/L in the Middle East, or the pro - more faithful, less fearful, and thus sure; but it’s also in need of a bridle, tracted civil upheavals in places like emboldened to help lead the pilgrim - some hard taming, and a good scrub- Syria and Myanmar it is barely possi - age to a lasting peace that surpasses down. In Christian terms,” he adds, ble to sort the temporal socio-political understanding? “the Ox isn’t simply the kingdom of issues from their essential spiritual St. John of Damascus wrote: “I do God, or some sort of symbol of God foundations among the multitude of not worship matter, but the Creator of …. Rather, he is the most natural part human efforts to express faith in God. matter, who for my sake became ma - of us, as well as the most ‘spiritual’ — What better way, then, to appreciate terial and deigned to dwell in matter, the feeling part of us that can be the culture and faith of the world’s re - who through matter effected my sal - brought to empathy and stirred to ligions than to find accessible texts vation.” deep involvement with others.” that, as Hart defines so well, “hold Derivative though it may seem, common truth with our own.” Building The Rev. Michael Tessman is director Hart’s point is driven home when, at upon an earlier book, Taking Jesus at of Alpha & Omega Ministries in the end of the book, he places a re - his Word: What Jesus Really said in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and priest production of Christ the Good Shep - the Sermon on the Mount (Eerdmans, associate at St. John the Evangelist, herd from the Callisto Catacomb in 2012), he observes without hint of syn - Newport.

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truism of the last decade of inter-Anglican sis of our faith and order beyond what Archbishop turmoil has been that a crisis concerning Williams called the consensus of the moment. That A sexuality has provided the occasion for long- being so, the next natural question is: How long will needed ecclesiological conversation and potential the consensus hold? But the deeper and more diffi - development. A cursory reading of The Windsor Re - cult, essential question is: Why should this, or any, port (2004) yields this distinction immediately. The consensus be maintained? On what grounds? Lambeth Commission care - Insofar as the communiqué fully set aside discussion of and its addenda approach the theology of sexuality, re - these last questions, they an - porting simply that the Angli - nounce the majority position can Communion has a “con - in the manner of a place - sensus” on point, before diving holder: “The traditional doc - into questions of authority, trine of the church, in view of structure, accountability, and the teaching of Scripture, up - much else. In this, the authors holds marriage as between a recognized our moment to be man and a woman in faithful, primarily ecclesiological. Two lifelong union. The majority of years later, Archbishop Rowan those gathered reaffirm this Williams, throwing his support teaching” (Addendum A, para. behind the Covenant notion 4). This is an announcement mooted by Windsor , memo - because no argument is of - Evensong at the Primates’ meeting Primates 2016 photo rably wrote that “if we are to fered, and it is a placeholder continue to be any sort of ‘Catholic’ church, if we be - because no means of prosecuting the argument are lieve that we are answerable to something more proposed. Would-be apostolic doctrine seeks than our immediate environment and its priorities sources for which the would-be catholic order of the and are held in unity by something more than just following paragraph could provide structure. the consensus of the moment, we have some very hard work to do to embody this more clearly” f course, not all Anglican parties seek intensi - (bit.ly/1P3jyhu ). What, for instance? We need, the Ofied catholicity and apostolicity, at least in the archbishop said, to develop an adequate set of near term. One vision for the Communion looks for “structures for decision-making” in order to “cope relief from the more democratically structured An - with the diversity of views that will inevitably arise glican Consultative Council and notes that there are in a world of rapid global communication and huge no control mechanisms in the Anglican world. Com - cultural variety.” munion itself is constituted by relationships rather Supposing that Archbishop Williams was right in than “structure and organization,” in the words of 2006 that the Anglican Communion needs to de - Presiding Bishop Michael Curry ( bit.ly/1JXN3Rl ). At velop decision-making structures in order to sus - its best, this view might lead to the accountability tain and nourish its common life qua Catholic , have and affection of family members, including our gay we made any progress in this regard? Of course, we and lesbian brothers and sisters and those with gradually developed an Anglican Covenant, which whom we most painfully disagree, on all sides. As about a quarter of the Communion adopted or oth - children of God, we are all bound to “the high call - erwise tentatively embraced. But it failed to garner ing of love,” as Curry says. Less robustly, this line of the interest of most and so sits neglected, unre - thought settles for human striving — simply “Chris - solved. Ten years on, we are basically in the same tians seeking to work together and build stronger re - place that we were, as the communiqué and accom - lationships … so that we can have a stronger voice panying addenda from the 2016 Primates’ Meeting to take a stand for human rights and to work for jus - make clear. Many Primates, at least, seek a com - tice,” in the words of Bishop Bill Franklin of Western mon “doctrine” upheld by “Catholic unity,” but for New York ( bit.ly/1ZyZUv9 ). now they concede that this is only the “majority” An adjoining vision presumes that the progres - consensus (Addendum A, paras. 2, 4-5). sivism of the Episcopal Church anticipates a very dif - We remain unable to articulate and defend the ba - (Continued on next page)

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ferent but finally universal future: Episcopalians (and and Order and comrades in arms to work carefully others) are leading the way toward what will, one and collaboratively to cast a compelling vision and day, be the new Anglican consensus, and if it isn’t, it curriculum for our structural and doctrinal future. should be. When Presiding Bishop Curry says that “it The objective: to grow, as Lambeth 1920 said, into may be part of our vocation to help the Communion “the unity of a universal Church” and so articulate and to help many others to grow in a direction where “ideals” that are “less Anglican and more Catholic” we can realize and live the love that God has for all of (Lambeth Conference 1920, “Report of the Whole us,” many will hear this as patronizing, and from pow - Committee on some important results of the exten - erful U.S. bishops and dioceses they will fear bullying. sion and development of the Anglican Communion” A cynical version of the view presumes, as in a in Ecumenism of the Possible: Witness, Theology Guardian editorial, that the Primates’ Meeting has and the Future of the Church , ed. William A. Norgren achieved an inherently unstable and necessarily tem - [Forward Movement, 1994], p. 99). porary “settlement” ( bit.ly/1PpwV7e ). The vacuum What catholic ideals? Those that express apos - will be filled by more and mere politics in the ha - tolic doctrine. The method unlocks a great store - bitual Anglican interim on the way to, thank God, house of common and precious property. In his 2004 generational change sans old-fashioned theological letter to Rowan Williams following the publication baggage. of The Windsor Report , Cardinal Walter Kasper Missing in both cases is the theological basis of praised the report’s commitment to catholicity but the Church as a divine act and instrument of salva - urged redoubled attention to apostolicity, “wit - tion: a single Body whose members are remade in nessed in the Scriptures, the early councils, and the the image of their Head, who is love, compassion, patristic tradition” ( bit.ly/1PpwIBe ). Christians, sympathy, joy, unanimity, humility (see Phil. 2:1-3). Kasper said, have both “synchronic” and “di - “To be in real communion is difficult,” writes Bishop achronic” obligations, that is, obligations both to to - Matt Gunter of Fond du Lac ( conta.cc/1OvTASc ). “It day’s “communion of churches” and to the historical requires dying and rising. It requires patience, per - “consensus” of the whole Church — beyond the in - severance, and endurance. It requires the power of herent instability of merely contemporary agree - the Holy Spirit.” Indeed. “You who were once es - ment. The particular and universal together, across tranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he time, make possible the health of the one Body. has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and his year’s Primates’ Meeting set a successful and irreproachable before him — provided that you con - Tpotentially profound precedent that should be tinue securely established and steadfast in the faith, built upon: a “unanimous decision … to walk to - without shifting from the hope promised by the gether, however painful this is, and despite our dif - gospel that you heard” (Col. 1:22-23). ferences, as a deep expression of our unity in the body of Christ” (communiqué). April’s ACC meeting hat does it mean for Anglican Christians to in Zambia and next year’s Primates’ Meeting will be Wprofess reformed catholicity in a visible com - upon us in no time and will provide fresh opportu - munion across great stretches of geography and cul - nities to speak about our shared faith, common ture, and how can we seek and serve one another commitments, and agreed-upon structures. As we faithfully? In fact, collegial structures are essential take them up, we will move beyond meta-ecclesio - to the vocation of unity because they are themselves logical markings to speak again, pray God with con - evangelical. Wise counsel, good order, and prudent fidence, of the reasons for apostolic doctrine, sus - discipline protect and enable the primary work of tained and propagated by a visible Church. preaching and teaching the good news of reconcili - “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope ation in Christ. without wavering, for he who has promised is faith - Now is the moment — in the run-up to the Angli - ful. And let us consider how to provoke one another can Consultative Council’s meeting in April, in prepa - to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet to - ration for next year’s Primates’ Meeting, setting the gether, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one stage for the 2020 Lambeth Conference — for the In - another, and all the more as you see the Day ap - ter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith proaching” (Heb. 10:23-25).

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22 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 The Rev. Mark E. Seitz The Rev. John E. Bird Thomas A. Gizara Mrs. Covington Shackleford Jean K. Birkett The Rev. Helen M. Goltl The Rt. Rev. Harry W. Shipps Dr. Richard A. Bohannon Margaret H. Gordon The Rev. Deane S. Shively The Rev. John Bonner Glen G. Gracyk The Rev. Bruce M. Shortell Janet Botengan Robert Gross Mr. and Mrs. Edward Simmons, Jr. Michael Brauer The Rt. Rev. Matthew Gunter The Rev. Joseph Wesley Smith Joan W. Bray The Rev. Thomas Haifley Dr. David J. Strang The Rev. Sarah L. Bronos Helen F. Hale The Rev. Nancy S. Streufert John Brooks The Rev. Dr. John L. Hall The Rev. Dr. Ronald Summers The Very Rev. Walter Brownridge The Rev. Allen K. Hall The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton The Rev. Doug Buchanan The Rev. Paula Claire Hall Dr. and Mrs. David S. Svahn The Rev. Norman Burke The Rev. Lyle G.Hall The Rev. A. Orley Swartzentruber Horace C. Buxton Mrs. Donald L. Hamlin Rev. and Mrs. Tim Taylor Simon Caddick The Rev. Dr. Leander Harding Carol E. Thompson The Rev. Donavan Cain Howell Harralson Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Tischler Fay Campbell Bobbie W. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Tomkovitch Linda Carroll The Rev. John Carleton Hayden Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hood Trane The Rev. Charles A Carter III The Rev. Richard A. Hazzard Robert Tucker Bonnie Caudell The Rev. Arnold W. Hearn The Rev. Teunisje Velthuizen Bruce Chapman The Rev. U. Dean Hekel Theresa Viton Susanna Chatametikool The Rev. Jerry Hill Arthur E.P. Wall The Rev. Milo G. Coerper The Rev. Dr. Russell Hilliard The Rev. Clifford S. Waller The Rev. E. Allen Coffey George Hixson Alice Walters Don Collette The Rev. Charles E. Hocking The Rt. Rev. William C. Wantland Mrs. Halsey M. Cook Jerome Holmes The Rev. Harold R. Warren John A. Cooper Dennis Houser L.L. Westling, Jr. The Rev. R. David Cox Mary Huber The Rev. Elijah B. White The Rt. Rev. William J. Cox C. Kern Huff David Wright Monte Craig The Rev. Preston B. Huntley, Jr. Bill and Katie Weaver Charitable Trust The Rev. Mark T. Crawford Asher Imtiaz The Cavanagh Company The Rev. J.A. Frazer Crocker, Jr. Paul Isaacson Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka, KS Joseph L. Croman James W. Jackson Otey Memorial Parish Church, The Rt. Rev. John P. Croneberger Sue Jenkins Sewanee, TN The Rev. Philip and Amy Cunningham The Rev. Dr. Nathan G. Jennings Oxford Document Management Dr. Laura S. Dabundo The Rev. James A. Kaestner Shanley and Associates Margaret Kay Dagg David Kalvelage Society of the Transfiguration Richard D’Antoni Patricia M. Kellam St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA The Rev. William A. Davidson William Keller Scott F. Davis E. Allen Kelley Kathy De Costa The Rev. Edward King $5 to $99 The Rt. Rev. Johathan Deacon J. Mark Klamer Tom Adamson Carmen Deleon The Rev. Frederick F. Kramer Carroll M. Akard Mrs. T.E. Dewey The Rev. James A. Krehemker Dr. and Mrs. John L. Alipit Susan Dicamillo The Rev. Gilbert S. Larsen The Rev. Michael Allen Marion Dice Lucy K. Lenhardt A.L. Alley The Rev. Arthur C. Dilg Pamela Lewis The Rev. Dr. David M. Angelica Mary L. Dixon Betty Lewis Rodney M. Austin The Rev. Canon William F. Dopp Dr. Buron O. Lindbloom Suzanne B. Bach The Rev. Amonteen R. Doward John Lord The Rev. and Mrs. Bruce D. Baker The Rev. Eugenia M. Durham The Rev. Richard T. Loring W. Delavan Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Ehrmann Marcia MacArthur Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Bale Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Elliott Norman MacArthur Frances Barr Elizabeth Ewing William B. Madden Ellen Batchelor The Rev. William Feus Priscilla A. Magar The Rev. Dwayne Bauman The Rt. Rev. William H. Folwell Debra Maggart The Rev. William N. Beachy Dr. Jeffrey Fowler Joanne E. Maguire The Rev. Dr. Anita M. Bell Elaine C. Francis Henry A. Male The Rev. Bruce L. Benshoff Julian Frasier III The Rev. Tom Malionek The Rev. and Mrs. J Stephen Bergmann The Rev. Paul A. Frey The Rev. Canon Anne Mallonee Arthur T. Berkley, Jr. Angela Gaston Lee Manning Donald Betts The Rev. W. Gedge Gayle David R. Bickel Betty Gilmore (Continued on next page)

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The Rev. Eugene A. Stormer St. Aidan’s Church, Boulder, CO $5 to $99 William Stowell St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, Atmore, AL (Continued from previous page) Rev. and Mrs. Richard A. Swan St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, The Rev. Thomas E.C. Margrave Dr. Richard Tardiff Marianna, FL The Rev. James F. Marquis Reece P. Thomson St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, James Martell The Rev. John Charles Tolley, Sr. Teaneck, NJ The Very Rev. Kevin E. Martin The Very Rev. David C. Tontonoz St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, The Rev. Dr. Loring W. Mcallister Brian Turner Arlington, VA James C. McGough Raymond E. Tuttle St. Paul’s in the Desert, Palm Springs, CA The Rev. Loren B. Mead Charles W. Tuttle, Jr. St. Timothy’s Church, LaPlace, LA Kathy Meilner John Vanderstar The Rev. Wilmot T. Merchant II Julie Vroon Reginald Mervine The Rev. J. Alfred Wade in Memoriam The Rev. Eleanor Michaud The Rev. Mark E. Waldo The Rev. Richard Anderson The Rt. Rev. Rodney R. Michel The Rev. Edwin M. Ward Dail R. Bunch Ruth B. Miles Chip Webb The Rev. Dr. R. Emmet Gribbin, Jr. The Rev. Charles J. Minifie The Rev. and Mrs. William L. Weiler The Rev. F.L. Phillips The Rev. Joseph A. Minnis Shauna Westall The Rev. Tom Phillips The Rev. Albert N. Minor Connor Wiggins The Rev. Nicholas D. Pierce Richard F. Mitchell The Rev. James B. Wilson Mary Lou Summers James M. Mitchell, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Winters, Jr. The Rev. Canon Anthony C. Viton Dr. Paul Morrissette The Rev. Robert F. Wollard Adam Joseph Walters The Rev. J. Douglas Moyer, Jr. Ann M. Woody Jay Mullinix The Rev. Carl Walter Wright Morgan and Susan Mullins William P. Young The Rev. and Mrs. David P. Muth The Rev. George Zabriskie honoraria Joan Natoli Erwin, Graves and Associates Mrs. Joseph Goldkamp Jim Neal K-B Books David Kalvelege The Rev. Dolores Nicholson Sisters of the Holy Nativity, Ripon, WI Gwendolyn Kaminski Barbara N. Nichols-Rubin Margaret Nolde Leo P. O’Brien Stephen D. Panter J.L. Parkin The Very Rev. Charles Parthum Make a gift of Lasting value Linda Patterson Joseph Perry to the endowment fund of The Living ChurCh The Rev. Nicholas D. Pierce Name The Rev. H.G. Randolph Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ranger Joseph Rella Address Nigel A. Renton City State Zip - The Rev. Michael G. Rich Telephone Darlene Richkus Poa Email Laura Rico The Rev. Robert Rizner Peggy R. Rogers Enclosed is my: q Check q VISA/MC Dolores J. Ropes Credit Card # 3-digit code (card back) James M. Rose, Jr. Exp. date Credit Card Amount $ Margaret Sayre Signature Philip Schatz Celinda Scott q I WISH TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS Neale A. Secor PLEASE ACCEPT MY GIFT: q IN MEMORY OF q IN HONOR OF Christian Senyoni The Rev. Todd Sermon Terence Shepherd The Rev. Norman F. Somes Clip & mail to: The Living Church, P.O. Box 510705, Milwaukee, WI 53203-0121 The Rev. John Spicer Mrs. Dan W. Stansbury Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Starnes Miriam Stauff To learn more about giving to the Living Church George B. Stebbins, Jr. The Rev. James L. Steele Foundation, visit livingchurch.org/donate

24 THe LIVInG CHURCH • February 7, 2016 PEOPLE & PLACES

Appointments Church in Camarillo, CA, died Nov. 13. He was 81. Tracy Alexander is 5th grade and sacred Born in Springfield, IL, he was a gradu - studies teacher, and chapel coordinator at ate of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech - St. Martin’s School, 375-A Benfield Rd., Sev - nology and Church Divinity School of the erna Park, MD 21146. Pacific. He was ordained priest and deacon The Rev. Mariann Babnis is interim rector in 1966. of Christ Church, 3100 Broomes Island Rd., He served in the U.S. Air Force as a re - Port Republic, MD 20676. search engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB The Rev. John Beach is rector of St. while helping to develop St. Christopher’s Paul’s, 20 Fair St., Nantucket, MA 02554. Mission in Fairborn, OH. The Rev. Natalie Blasco is chaplain at St. While serving in California he helped as - Christopher’s By-the-Sea Montessori School, sure the survival of the Samaritan Center, a 95 Harbor Dr., Key Biscayne, FL 33149. day-care and support facility for the home - The Rev. Justin R. Cannon is rector of All less in Simi Valley. Knowing God, Saints, 911 Dowling Blvd., San Leandro, CA Fr. Luthringer is is survived by his wife, 94577. Ann, and several stepchildren. and Making The Rev. Barbara Clarke is priest-in-charge of St. Luke’s, 59 High St., Wilton, ME 04294. The Rev. , who was The Rev. is canon to the or - Molly Paine McGreevy Him Known Patrick Collins an actress before her ordination, died dinary in the Diocese of Easton, 314 North Rooting all things in worship, St. David’s St., Easton, MD 21601, and priest-in-charge Nov. 1. She was 79. of All Faith Chapel, 26281 Tunis Mills Rd., Born in New York City, she was a gradu - Church, Radnor, 3,000 strong, offers a Easton, MD 21601. ate of Vassar College. After college she wide variety of opportunities for our studied mime in Paris with Marcel The Rev. Judy Davis is associate rector parish family to grow in their faith and school chaplain at St. Andrew’s School, Marceau. She acted in the film Shoot it and put their faith in action week by 227 S. Cherry St., Richmond, Virginia 23220. Black, Shoot it Blue (1974), was associate producer of a documentary, Nothing By week, both at home and in the world. The Rev. Canon Cathy Dempesy-Sims is Our church’s shared life extends into canon for connections in the Diocese of Chance (1975), and played Polly Longworth Western New York, 1064 Brighton Rd., on Ryan’s Hope (1977-81). • learning for all ages Tonawanda, NY 14150. She was a 1986 graduate of General The - • dozens of individual ministries ological Seminary, and was ordained dea - • outreach into the wider Deaths con and priest in 1989. During the height of the AIDS crisis in New York, she worked as community and world. The Rev. Canon George Hemingway , who a chaplain at Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital Whether it is packaging essentials for worked as an oceanographer for more and, from 1989 to 1996. As an assistant to low-income children, assisting in than 30 years before his ordination, the rector at the Church of St. Luke in-the- building for our companion parishes Fields, New York City, she provided funeral died Nov. 8. He was 75. in Guatemala, or supporting the Born in Corvallis, OR, he served for two services to more than 60 AIDS victims and years in the U.S. Army. He earned both un - their families. housing, feeding, and education of dergraduate and graduate degrees from San She is survived by her daughters Pamela, 2,500 students at schools in Uganda, Diego State University. He earned further Jessica, and Barbara McGreevy and two we continue to live into our fourth graduate degrees from Episcopal Theolog - grandchildren. century of mission and ministry in ical School at Claremont and George Fox Christ’s name. Evangelical Seminary. The Rev. Rodney E. Reinhart , whose min - “Science is an orderly, structured way of istry comprised Vietnam veterans, peo - knowing,” he said in a San Diego Union- ple living with AIDS, and interfaith rec - St. David’s Episcopal Church Tribune story in 1996. “For me, as a Chris - onciliation, died Nov. 24. He was 66. 763 S. Valley Forge Road tian, science contributes to the self-revela - Born in Toledo, OH, he was a graduate of Wayne, PA 19087 tion of God’s order and plan.” Oakland University (MI) and Bexley Hall. 610.688.7947 He was ordained deacon in 1984 and He was ordained deacon in 1984 and priest www.stdavidschurch.org priest in 1985. Working as a self-supporting in 1986. priest, he served congregations in the Dio - While serving at St. Andrew’s on the cese of San Diego and in Oregon. campus of Wayne State University in De - A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor After he retired, Fr. Hemingway served troit, Fr. Reinhart established programs to as chairman of a watershed council in Ore - care for Vietnam veterans, university stu - gon, where he worked on restoring native dents, and AIDS patients. fish habitats and wetland conservation. In 1999 he established the World Sab - He is survived by his wife, Jean; a daugh - bath of Religious Reconciliation, an annual ter, Gillian H. Asch; sisters Lynne Cordiner, interfaith holy day dedicated to overcoming Laurie Hemingway, and Gail Decker; a religious and racial war. He was a leader of brother, Ian Hemingway; and a grandson. Integrity in the Diocese of Chicago. Both in Detroit and in Chicago he was The Rev. George Francis Luthringer , 81, host of Faith on the Front Line , a radio and longtime priest at St. Columba’s TV program.

February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 25 SUNDAY’S READINGS | Last Epiphany, February 7 THE LIVING CHU RC H ex. 34:29-35 • Ps. 99 • 2 Cor. 3:12-4:2 • Luke 9:28-36 (37-43a) VoLUMe 252 • nUMbeR 3 eDIToRIAL Light Executive Director and Editor Christopher wells [email protected] • ext. 1240 he Lord sits above the cherubim, then, stand where Moses did upon Managing Editor John schuessler Tnot merely above the earth, but the holy mountain, and so are trans - [email protected] • ext. 1241 above heaven (Ps. 99). Presiding over formed into the divine light. Associate Editor Douglas Leblanc all being, God is holy. The mere Jesus is that presence among us in [email protected] • ext. 1242 thought for a human, which can all its fullness. “The Father loves the Associate Editor for International News John Martin barely be thought and never fully Son and has placed all things in his Correspondent G. Jeffrey MacDonald known, is to tremble and quake, to hands” (John 3:35). 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One face, how - crease. Jesus shines in glory, his face boARD oF DIReCToRs ever, burned the other; Moses took is changed, his garments blaze like President: The Rt. Rev. D. bruce MacPherson, edmond, okla. Vice President: The Rev. Canon e. Mark stevenson, Dallas on something of the fear and wonder the sun. Strikingly, the story never secretary: Daniel Muth, Leland, n.C. and brilliance of the distant and high says that his countenance returned The Rt. Rev. John C. bauerschmidt, nashville God. Seeing Moses, the people were to its former state. A cloud and voice The Rev. Jordan Hylden, Columbia, s.C. afraid (Ex. 34:30). In radiant wonder, reveal this: “This is my Son, my Cho - Richard J. Mammana, Jr., new Haven, Conn. he shared what he had heard from sen; listen to him” (Luke 9:35). Fi - The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. 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Deut. 26:1-11 • Ps. 91:1-2, 9-16 • Rom. 10:8b-13 • Luke 4:1-13 Gift od pushes land above the seas; it LORD , the God of our ancestors; the Gerupts under the tectonic force LORD heard our voice and saw our af - of divine command. The dry land ap - fliction, our toil, and our oppression. pears (Gen. 1:9). God tells seed in the The LORD brought us out of Egypt fecund earth to drop roots and send with a mighty hand and an out - up blades, green grass and fruit-bear - stretched arm …; and he brought us ing trees (Gen. 1:11-12). How can this into this place and gave us this land, be unless there is a preacher? And a land flowing with milk and honey” blessed be the preacher who says, (Deut. 26:5-10). Existence, freedom, “Let there be” (Gen. 1; Rom. 10:15). sustenance, and a land of plenty are The voice of the Lord is upon the wa - pure gift. Notwithstanding the truth ters, a powerful voice, a voice of and demand of human effort, there is splendor (Ps. 29:3-4). The voice yet the yet more powerful truth of love’s speaks every moment into life-bear - outpouring. Worship and Service ing being, and providence has set a Consider gift as the heart of God. The Cathedral Church of All Saints creature upon the dry land to hear The Word never asks, “May I be be - has served as a center for mission, the call and then give voice to every gotten of the Father?” The Word is formation, and worship in the Diocese creature under heaven. To be human the house of love’s outpouring, many of Milwaukee since 1873. More than is to praise and to wonder at what is mansions where love abides. The given. Who is like the Lord our God? Word never asks, “May I love you in 100 saints depicted in the windows and What are we to do upon the dry turn?” The Most High has a shelter statuary keep vigil over a sacred space land? How are we to use fruit from too, and the Word is in it (Ps. 91:1, that is steeped in prayer and incense. the giving tree, grain from the waving John 1:1). Love is not a series of care - Blessed Jackson Kemper, the first fields? “Take some of all the fruit on ful decisions and calculations. Love Bishop of Wisconsin, envisioned a the ground, which you harvest from is free, willing but never forcing the cathedral that would be a center for the land that the Lord God is giving will. formation, ministry, and worship. All you, and you shall put it in a basket We are caught up in the gift, being Saints’ strives to live into that vision in and go to the place that the LORD ourselves the gift of God. This is the context of the 21st century. your God will choose as a dwelling faith: love loving the source of all The liturgies at the cathedral allow for his name” (Deut. 26:2). You may, love. It is in the heart and upon the worshipers to escape our loud and in time, eat the fat of the land, but not lips. It is near and present. It is be - raucous world by offering a moment of yet. The full basket is the Lord’s do - lieved; it is confessed (Rom. 10:10). transcendence. The 10 a.m. service on ing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. It The passive voice — please note — Sunday features a 30-voice choir that is overflows as a small testimony of a prevents a world of unnecessary unsurpassed in Milwaukee. All Saints’ is great wonder on all sides. All things heartache. also resident to five ensembles and hosts were made through him. Things, thus Faith believes with the heart that numerous musical events throughout the founded, thus sustained, are a sacra - the gift of God is the gift of salvation year. mental calling, a provocation to glo - through his beloved Son. But this is The cathedral congregation extends rify God. not the will marching forward, the service to the community by preparing The fruit is brought to the place of brow furrowed with decision, the fist and serving meals to the homeless and mystery, the dwelling place of the un - clenched. This is a “tender spiritual inner-city residents, and by underwriting speakable name. A priest takes the touch” (Luther), “unobservable and feeding ministries with funds raised at basket and sets it before the altar, unheard” (Barth). God. the annual Hunger Book Sale, which and then awaits a well-known con - generated $20,000 in the past year. fession. “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Look It Up e Cathedral Church of All Saints Egypt and lived there as an alien, few 818 East Juneau Avenue in number, and there he became a Read Rom. 10:10. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 great nation, mighty and populous. 414.271.7719 When the Egyptians treated us www.ascathedral.org harshly and afflicted us, by imposing Think About It hard labor on us, we cried to the Faith is evoked. A LIVING CHURCH Sponsor February 7, 2016 • THe LIVInG CHURCH 27 CLASSIFIEDS TINY NEW CHURCH FURNISHINGS

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