Contents

Vol. 108, No. 1 Winter 2011

Ecology and Environment After the Oil Spill

First Words

 9    First Words . . . Editorial Introduction: Thinking about Ecology—Environment after the Spill:

A Reflection from the Beginning of this Conversation By Richard P. Olson, Distinguished Professor

of Pastoral Theology, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Shawnee, Kansas.

13  A Word From. . .Where Are You, God? Reflections on Spirituality and the Holocaust By Bill J. Leonard,

Professor of Church History, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

17  A Word About. . .A Budding Theologian: Clint Eastwood By David M. May, Professor of Pastoral Theology,

Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Shawnee, Kansas, and a member of the Editorial Board of Review & Expositor.

    Thematic Words

23 To Love as God Loves: The Spirit of Dominion By William Greenway, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophical

Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas.

37 Unique Aspects of a Technological Disaster and Its Effect Upon Community Life: A Pastoral

Essay on the BP Oil Spill By G. Reid Doster, DMin, LPC, LMFT, a pastor and professional counselor in

private practice, Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) of Louisiana, and Associate

Coordinator for CBF National Disaster Response.

53 Light in Darkness: Pastoral Conversations from Plaquemines Parish By Samuel C. Tolbert Jr., President

of the Louisiana Home & Foreign Missions Baptist State Convention, and Pastor of Greater St. Mary Missionary

Baptist Church, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

61 The Grace of Good Food and the Call to Good Farming By Norman Wirzba, Research Professor of

Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life, Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina.

73 Christian Prophetic Leadership for the Environment Richard O. Randolph, ordained minister in the

United Methodist Church, has served in the parish as well as teaching in a seminary and a medical school.

Expository Words

91 The Story of the Earth according to Paul: Romans 8:18-23 By Richard Bauckham, retired Professor of

New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, now Professor

Emeritus at St. Andrews. He is Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and is also a Visiting Professor at St.

Mellitus College, London.

99 The Calls from the Gulf Shore Tragedy—an Editor’s Response By Richard P. Olson, Distinguished

Professor of Pastoral Theology, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Shawnee, Kansas.

Words About Recent Books

107 Edited by Robert R. Ellis, Associate Dean and Phillips Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Logsdon

School of Theology, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas.

Indexes

141 Books Received

Books Reviewed