The New TestamentAccentuating the link between discipleship in the time of Jesus and today, this volume combines critical scholarship with a passionate concern for the meaning of faith in a world of violence and injustice. Wes Howard Brook, a former attorney for the US and Washington State, has been teaching the Bible at the intersection of church, academy and the street since 1988. He is recently retired from Seattle University and continues to collaborate in the

canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998

for humility

a leading voice in contemporary spirituality for more than twenty-five years

David Tracy

and The American Conservative

and the Decree on Ecumenism

then director of the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico in Washington

In addition to the editors

as in so many other areas

He then reflects on key themes: the Incarnation

Virgilio Elizondo described the "Galilee principle" that is

how the process of reconciliation can move forward