The Journal of Theological Studies 76/2

Volume 76, Issue 2, October 2025   View issue

Articles     Multiplicity and the Idea of Scripture David Lambert Psalm 51 and Original Sin: An Exercise in Reading the Old Testament as Christian Scripture R J Balfour Psalm 137 and Its Contribution to Book V of the Psalter T Fulcher Hedged in, Hunted, Haunted, Hiding: Divine Presence and Absence in the Dialogues in Job Brittany N Melton and Katharine J Dell The Sun in Mark's Crisis Management: Narratological Observations Christian Blumenthal Becoming a Neighbour: A Process-Relational Reading of the Parable of the Good Samaritan Alessandro Falcetta New Birth, Adoption, and the Πνεῦμα: The Role(s) of the Holy Spirit Within Paul's Kinship Discourse J Andrew Cowan ἘΠΙΘΥΜΙΑ, ΝΟΥΣ, and the 'I' in Romans 7:7–25: A New Solution to an Old Problem Paul A Holloway Those 'in the Lord' Are Free: 1 Corinthians 7 and a Stoic Paradox Annalisa Phillips Wilson Revelatory, Ontological, or Transformative? On Luther and the Theological Function of Paul's 'Strength in Weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9–10) B G White 'Yet not as I will, but as you will': On the Development of Partitive Exegesis in the Early Arian Controversy Adam Renberg Macrina's Hippocratic Method: Science and Theology in Gregory of Nyssa's De anima et resurrectione Timm Heinbokel Vision, Poikilia, and a Platonic Allusion in Asterius of Amaseia's Ekphrasis of the Eye Fotini Hadjittofi Christ Wholly and Always Everywhere: Augustine on Christ Extra Carnem in Ep. 187 K J Drake A Note on the Homily In decem uirgines in the Codex Athous Koutloumousiou 11 Radu Gârbacea

Book Reviews     The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony. By Nathan MacDonald Julia Rhyder Joshua. By John Goldingay Robin Baker The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation. By Charlie Trimm Jack A Day The Book of Samuel: Studies in History, Historiography, Theology and Poetics Combined. Part Two: A Study of the Narratives Depicting Four National Leaders and Their Dynasties. By Moshe Garsiel David G Firth King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt. By David J. Shepherd Hilary Marlow Exile, Incorporated: The Body in the Book of Ezekiel. By Rosanne Liebermann Tova Ganzel Micah: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary. Bob Becking Daniel L Smith-Christopher Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible. By Dalit Rom-Shiloni Katharine J Dell (Re)reading Ruth. By William A. Tooman with Marian Kelsey Katharine J Dell Ben Sira in Conversation With Traditions: A Festschrift for Prof. Núria Calduch-Benages on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday. Edited by Francis M. Macatangay and Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz Katharine J Dell 2 Maccabees 8–15: A Handbook on the Greek Text. By Seth M. Ehorn William A Ross The T&T Clark Handbook of Septuagint Research. Edited by William A. Ross and W. Edward Glenny Ryan Comins The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading. By Patrick Schreiner Earl Collins Paul the Storyteller: A Narratological Approach. By Christoph Heilig Wesley Thomas Davey The Final Triumph of God: Jesus, the Eyewitnesses, and the Resurrection of the Body in 1 Corinthians 15. By James P. Ware Glenn B Siniscalchi The Open Sanctuary: Access to God and the Heavenly Temple in the New Testament. By Nicholas J. Moore Ann Conway-Jones The Return of the Kingdom: A Biblical Theology of God's Reign. By Stephen G. Dempster Joshua W Jipp Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions. By Douglas S. Huffman David M Allen God Becoming Human: Incarnation in the Christian Bible. By Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann (translated by Brian McNeil) Jennie Grillo God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible. By Candida Moss Judith Lieu Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice. By Laura Salah Nasrallah Joshua H M Chan The Philocalia of Origen. A New Translation With Annotations. Edited by Ronald E. Heine H A G Houghton Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe. Catherine Michael Chin Guy G Stroumsa Ishoʿdad of Merv: Commentary on Daniel. Edited by T. C. Schmidt Alison G Salvesen Theosis and Religion: Participation in Divine Life in the Eastern and Western Traditions. By Norman Russell Joshua R McManaway A Civic Spirituality of Sanctification: John Calvin. Edited by Roger Haight, SJ, Alfred Pach III, and Amanda Avila Kaminski Jon Balserak John Locke's Theology: An Ecumenical, Irenic, and Controversial Project. By Jonathan S. Marko Yasuhiko Tomida Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Kritische Gesamtausgabe. 4. Abteilung, Band 2. Joseph Fawcett: Predigten aus dem Englischen übersetzt (1798). Mungo Park: Reisen im Innern von Afrika. Aus dem Englischen (Berlin, 1799). Mit Synopse der Übersetzungsvorlagen. Edited by Günter Meckenstock Clive Marsh Berolinensia: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Berliner Universität und ihrer Theologischen Fakultät. By Christoph Markschies Clive Marsh Catholics Without Rome: Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and the Reunion Negotiations of the 1870s. By Bryn Geffert and LeRoy Boerneke Mark D Chapman The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger. Edited by Daniel Cardó and Uwe Michael Lang Dennis Doyle The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus: Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics. By Austin Stevenson Richard Cross Sensing the Sacred: Recovering a Mystagogical Vision of Knowledge and Salvation. Hanna J. Lucas Jacob Quick Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty. By Eunil David Cho Wonjong Horace Lee Healthcare Chaplaincy as Specialised Spiritual Care: The Christian Call for Healing in a Global Health Context. Simon Peng-Keller Mark Newitt

Horizons 52/2

ISSN: 0360-9669, EISSN: 2050-8557 Horizons Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025 Published Online January 2026 From the Editor From the Editor Elena Procario-Foley Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp iii - vi doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10086 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Articles Human and Created: Expanding the Common Good with Integral Ecology Monica Marcelli-Chu Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 145 - 175 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10066 Published Online on 18 November 2025 Retrieving Teresa of Avila's Resiliency in the Interior Castle Jamie Myrose Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 176 - 200 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10065 Published Online on 1 December 2025 Huei Tlamahuiçoltica: The Hagiographic Origin of the Guadalupan Narrative and Spanish Ideals for Nahua Sanctity Austin Cruz Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 201 - 228 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10064 Published Online on 18 November 2025 Let Us Consider Our Considerate and Inconsiderate Lives William P. George Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 229 - 261 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10062 Published Online on 19 November 2025 "Theodicies and Defenses" Revisited Terrence W. Tilley Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 262 - 277 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10067 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Review Symposium Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas. By Christopher D. Tirres. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024. x + 176 pages. $27.95, $98.00, $26.99 (softback, hardback, eBook). Antonio D. Sison Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 278 - 282 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10072 Published Online on 19 January 2026 II. Liberating Spirituality as an Experiential Quality of Decolonial Knowing: A Response to Liberating Spiritualities Jacqueline M. Hidalgo Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 282 - 287 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10071 Published Online on 19 January 2026 III. Toward a Spirituality of the Saints Next Door Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 287 - 291 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10070 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Author's Response Christopher D. Tirres Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 291 - 297 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10068 Published Online on 19 January 2026 College Theology Society Presidential Address Hope and Communion at the College Theology Society Johann M. Vento Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 298 - 305 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10061 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Book review Biblical Theology: Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical. By C. Clifton Black. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2024. xx + 508 pages. $65.99. Scott Starbuck Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 306 - 307 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10082 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Icon of the Kingdom of God: An Orthodox Ecclesiology. By Radu Bordeianu. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. vii + 364 pages. $34.95 (paper). Brian P. Flanagan Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 308 - 309 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10078 Published Online on 19 January 2026 The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si': Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology. By Lucas Briola. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of American Press, 2023. vii + 242 pages. $34.95 (paper). Rodica M.M. Stoicoiu Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 309 - 311 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10084 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today. Edited by Nicolete Burbach and Lisa Sowle Cahill. New York: T&T Clark, 2024. x + 369 pages. $133.00. Jason Steidl Jack Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 311 - 313 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10083 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Thinking the Unknowable: The Essential Louis Dupré. By Louis Dupré. Edited by Peter J. Casarella. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. xx + 187 pages. $65.00. William J. Collinge Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 313 - 315 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10075 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Enfleshed Counter-Memory: A Christian Social Ethic of Trauma. By Stephanie C. Edwards. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2024. xxx + 226 pages. $40.00 (paper). David A. Clairmont Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 315 - 317 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10073 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Theology and Catholic Higher Education: Beyond Our Identity Crisis. By Massimo Faggioli. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2024. x + 181 pages. $30.00 (paper). William L. Portier Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 317 - 319 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10081 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Precarious: A Survivor of Clerical Abuse Remembers. By Patrick C. Goujon, SJ. Translated by Joseph Munitiz, SJ. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. xv + 85 pages. $19.95. Brian J. Clites Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 319 - 321 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10074 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Amos and Hosea: The Justice and Mercy of God. By Katherine M. Hayes. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2023. vii + 122 pages. $19.95 (paper). Carol J. Dempsey Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 321 - 322 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10076 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Modern Mystics: An Introduction. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2023. viii + 340 pages. $49.95. Anastasia Wendlinder Horizons, Volume 52 / Issue 2, December 2025, pp 323 - 325 doi: 10.1017/hor.2025.10085 Published Online on 19 January 2026 Jesus and Divine Christology. By Brant Pitre. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2024. viii + 408 pages. $39.99 (paper). 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