Anglican Theological Review: Spring 2019

About the ATR

The Anglican Theological Review is a quarterly journal of theological reflection within the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada. Its aim is to foster scholarly excellence and thoughtful conversation in and for the church. The journal is committed to creative intellectual engagement with Christian tradition and interdisciplinary inquiry that includes literature and the arts, philosophy, and science.


Description of the Spring 2019 Issue



This issue of the ATR brings together essays centered on theological imagination. David F. Ford demonstrates how his own theological imagination allows him to answer the question Jesus poses to us all: “Who do you say that I am?” Ndidi Justice Gbule makes a case that there is a “translation principle” at work in the spread of world Anglicanism. Scott MacDougall, R.W.L. Moberly, and Jana Marguerite Bennett engage with Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, volume 1, which seeks to rehabilitate ways of conceiving of God that have been eclipsed by other conceptions, and Katherine Sonderegger responds to those essays. Lyndon Shakespeare, Joel C. Daniels, and Robyn King take up the question of theological imagination in the context of ecclesiology, considering how the theological imagination of churches is key to their flourishing. Jesse Zink reviews six recent books that examine the ways human beings in capitalist contexts are tempted to deify financial markets, demonstrating how unexamined theological imaginations running in the background of our societies have immense power to warp us as individuals and groups. Maria Gwyn McDowell provides an in-depth review of the trilogy Ethics as Theology, written by Anglican theologian Oliver O’Donovan, taking the reader through the landscape of O’Donovan’s theological imagination as it issues in a moral theology rooted firmly in his scriptural hermeneutic. And, as always, this issue of the ATR contains informative book reviews and stunning poetry.