Abstract

This issue is my first as editor of this journal. Lisa Landoe Hedrick, the journal’s incoming reviews editor, and I are participating in a tradition that includes Michael Hogue, Michael Raposa, and Jennifer Jesse, to name only our most immediate predecessors, and extends ultimately back to W. Creighton Peden, the journal’s founder. We are aware of the gravity of this inheritance. As the chief publication of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy has long hosted critical and creative scholarship in such traditions as pragmatism, process thought, liberal theology, and various forms of naturalism and empiricism. Important figures like...