Table of Contents

Foreword - John Thiel; Introduction - Rosemary P. Carbine and Hilda P. Koster; Part I. Doing Theology: Gift and Task; 1. f (S) Is: The Instance of Pattern, or Kathryn Tanner's Trinitarianism - Paul DeHart; 2. Tanner's Theology-logy - Charles Mathewes; Part II. The Fullness of God's Gift-Giving; 3. "Always and Everywhere:" - lan A. McFarland; 4. Christ, the Receiver of Gifts - Amy Plantinga Pauw; 5. The Chief Point of Our Faith - George Hunsinger; 6. On Making Christology Look Too Easy - William A. Wright; 7. Tanner's Noncompetitive Account and the Blood of Christ - Eugene F. Rogers Jr.; Part III. Christianity as Culture: A Gift to Theology; 8. Creative Appropriation and lnterreligious Respect - Hugh Nicholson; 9. lnculturation as Theology of Culture - Jan H. Pranger; 10. Creative Christian identity - Mary McCIintock Fulkerson; Part IV. The Gift of Theology to Praxis; 11. Closed Eyes and Blocked Vision -Joy Ann McDougall; 12. Creation as Gift - Hilda P. Koster; 13. From "Thrift Shop" to the Zero-Waste Home - Courtney Wilder; 14. Placards, Icons, and Protests - Rosemary P. Carbine; Afterword - Serene Jones.

About the Author

Rosemary P. Carbine is associate professor of religious studies and director of fellowships at Whittier College in Whittier, California. Hilda P. Koster is associate professor of theology and cochair of environmental studies at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.