Review of Stephen Holmes, Baptist Theology (T&T Clark Doing Theology series)

Courtesy of the Brill Self-Archiving Rights policy, I'm pleased to be able to to share the full text of my review of Stephen R. Holmes, Baptist Theology (Doing Theology series; London and New York: T&T Clark, 2012), which appears in Ecclesiology 11, no. 1 (2015): 123-26 (click on hyperlink).

New issue of Ecclesiology: Harmon on Holmes, Chapman on Baptist-Catholic dialogue, Lim on new WCC F&O text

The new issue of the journal Ecclesiology published by Brill includes several articles and reviews of interest. Among them: my review of Stephen Holmes' book Baptist Theology in the T&T Clark Doing Theology series; David M. Chapman's article "Roman Catholics and Baptists in Dialogue: Convergence and Divergence Assessed"; and Timothy Lim's article "'What If We Could?': An Essay on Productive Ecumenism" that engages the recent text issued by the World Council of Churches Commission on Faith and Order, The Church: Towards a Common Vision. Previews and abstracts of these are available online (click on hyperlinks above). The table of contents follows:

• Publisher’s Note

  • pp.: 1–1 (1)

• Contributors

  • pp.: 3–4 (2)

• Editorial: An Agonistic Ecclesiology

  • Author: Paul Avis
  • pp.: 5–8 (4)

• Evaluating Church Organisations by the Light of Lumen Gentium

  • Author: Christina Kheng
  • pp.: 9–33 (25)

• From Infants to Mothers

  • Author: Cristina Lledo Gomez
  • pp.: 34–64 (31)

• ‘What if We Could?’

  • Author: Timothy Lim T. N.
  • pp.: 65–83 (19)

• Roman Catholics and Baptists in Dialogue

  • Author: David M. Chapman
  • pp.: 84–92 (9)

• Book Review: Anglican Theology, written by Mark Chapman

  • Author: Alan Bartlett
  • pp.: 93–97 (5)

• Book Review: Pro Communione: Theological Essays on the Anglican Covenant, edited by Benjamin M. Guyer

  • Author: Simon Oliver
  • pp.: 98–101 (4)

• Book Review: The Ecclesial Canopy: Faith, Hope, Charity, written by Martyn Percy

  • Author: Elaine Graham
  • pp.: 102–105 (4)

• Book Review: Trent: What Happened at the Council, written by John W. O’Malley

  • Author: Gerald O’Collins, SJ
  • pp.: 106–108 (3)

• Book Review: Witness of the Body: The Past, Present and Future of Christian Martyrdom, written by Michael Budde and Karen Scott

  • Author: Michael Nazir-Ali
  • pp.: 109–112 (4)

• Book Review: From Trent to Vatican II: Historical and Theological Investigations, edited by Raymond F. Bulman and Frederick J. Parrella

  • Author: Norman Tanner
  • pp.: 113–116 (4)

• Book Review: Exegesis and Theology in Early Christianity, written by Frances Young

  • Author: Mark Santer
  • pp.: 117–119 (3)

• Book Review: Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, edited by Katherine Van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan

  • Author: Felicity Heal
  • pp.: 120–122 (3)

• Book Review: Baptist Theology, written by Stephen R. Holmes

  • Author: Steven R. Harmon
  • pp.: 123–126 (4)

• Book Review: Pacifism, Just War, and Tyrannicide: Bonhoeffer’s Church-World Theology and His Changing Forms of Political Thinking and Involvement, written by David M. Gides

  • Author: Javier Garcia
  • pp.: 127–129 (3)

• Book Review: The Last Judgment: Christian Ethics in a Legal Culture, written by Andrew Skotnicki

  • Author: David Grumett
  • pp.: 130–132 (3)

• Book Review: Evangelicals and the Early Church: Recovery. Reform. Renewal, edited by George Kalantzis and Andrew Tooley

  • Author: Martin Wellings
  • pp.: 133–135 (3)

• Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Francis of Assisi, edited by Michael J. P. Robson

  • Author: Jeremy Worthen
  • pp.: 136–138 (3)

• Book Review: What Christianity is Not: An Exercise in ‘Negative’ Theology, written by Douglas John Hall

  • Author: Paul Avis
  • pp.: 139–140 (2)

• Book Review: The Anglican Understanding of the Church: An Introduction, written by Paul Avis

  • Author: David Tustin
  • pp.: 141–143 (3)

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2015

The 2015 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18-25) begins today. Resources for its observance are available online thanks to the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement/Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute: http://www.geii.org/week_of_prayer_for_christian_unity/