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xvii Acknowledgments Iam indebted in this collection to many editors who have accepted my submission of articles and to many who invited me to speaking venues that evoked my many words. More specifically I am indebted to Tempie Alexander and now currently to Tia Foley, who shaped my probes into a manuscript. I am grateful to the several folk at Fortress Press, particularly Michael West, who continue to be receptive and attentive to my work, and to Chris Hooker who prepared the indices. Above all I am grateful to Patrick Miller who has again patiently moved these materials toward a coherent book form. In order to do that, he has done much more than put things together. He has paid enough attention to the argument to see the progression from text to possibility to discipleship. In this shaping he has seen the coherent intentionality of my work and I am grateful for his discernment. On all counts I am blessed to be in a community of support and challenge where my work is drawn to the issues that concern us all. Most particularly I am glad to dedicate this collection to Lee Carroll and Erskine Clarke, who are among my most generous colleagues and my most steadfast friends. Credits Chapter 1: “A Text that Redescribes,” Theology Today 58:4 (2002): 526– 40. Chapter 2 first appeared as “Four Proclamatory Confrontations in Scribal Refraction” in The Scottish Journal of Theology 56:4 (2003): 404–26. Chapter 3 first appeared as “Rescripting for a Fresh Performance Midst a Failed Script,” Reformed Review 55:1 (2001): 5–17. Chapter 4: “Faith at the Nullpunkt,” pages 143–54 in The End of the World and the Ends of God, ed. John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000). xviii D Acknowledgments Chapter 5: “The City in Biblical Perspective: Failed and Possible,” Word & World 19:3 (1999): 236–50. Chapter 6: “Evangelism and Discipleship: The God Who Calls, The God Who Sends,” Word & World 24:2 (2004): 121–35. Chapter 7: “Options for Creatureliness: Consumer or Citizen,” Horizons in Biblical Theology 23:1 (2001): 25–50. Chapter 8: “Ecumenism as the Shared Practice of a Peculiar Identity,” Word & World 18:2 (1998): 122–35. Chapter 9: “Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part I: Homework against Scarcity,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 54:1–2 (2000): 21–39. Chapter 10: “Vision for a New Church and a New Century: Part II: Holiness Becomes Generosity,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 54:1–2 (2000): 45–64. Chapter 11: “Patriotism for Citizens of the Penultimate Superpower,” Dialogue 42:4 (2003): 336–43. ...

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