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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2018 Anglican Theological Review Corporation
- ISSN
- 0003-3286
- eISSN
- 2163-6214
- DOI
- 10.1177/000332861810000233
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ATR/100.2 Book Reviews 433 New Testament textual criticism, or biological sciences. It is a book about us—the text critics, theologians, clergy, laypeople, and others who read and use the New Testament. It is about the assumptions that we make when we come to the text, and the stories, metaphors, and ideas that we rely on to try to make the difficult, unwieldly, and obscure comprehensible, orderly, and understandable. It is a work that has broad applicability across disciplinary lines and it certainly deserves a wide reading. Brad Pickens Bexley Seabury Seminary Chicago, Illinois An Introduction to Ministry: A Primer for Renewed Life and Leader- ship in Mainline Protestant Congregations. By Ian S. Markham and Oran E. Warder. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. 284 pp. $94.95 (cloth), $39.95 (paper). A primer, from the Latin primarius liber (primary book) and primarium manuale (primary manual), aptly describes Ian Markham’s and Oran Ward- er’s An Introduction to Ministry: A Primer for Renewed Life and Leadership in Mainline Protestant Congregations. The first of its kind, this volume offers a compendium of studies that conform to the traditional divinity tract, from the sacred call (vocation), to the tools of the trade (worship, scripture,
Journal
Anglican Theological Review – SAGE
Published: Aug 25, 2021