Volume 5 (2019) – Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology

Editorial Hope-making for the Future: A Transitionary Reflection	Henry S. Kuo
2018 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Graduate Theological Union Follow the Women: Freeing Dialogue	Marianne Farina, CSC
*Distinguished Faculty Lecture Response*	Rita D. Sherma
2019 Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought, Graduate Theological Union Seminaries and the Building of Interfaith America	Eboo Patel
2019 Borsch-Rast Lecture, Graduate Theological Union Pentecostalism, Individualism, and the New World Order in El Salvador	Timothy H. Wadkins
*Borsch-Rast Lecture Response*	Margaret R. Miles
*ARTICLES:*
*Slavery as a Foil: Gregory of Nyssa’s In Ecclesiasten Homiliae* IV**	Clifton Huffmaster
Joseph Ratzinger, Student of Thomas	Jose Isidro Belleza
A Swerving Ethics: Marx’s Epicurean Atomism and Levinasian Ethics	Michael Laminack
BOOK REVIEWS:
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics by Linn Marie Tonstad	Kai Moore LeFranc
God in Cosmic History: Where Science and History Meet Religion by Ted Peters	Joseph Ramelo
Ascension Theology and Habakkuk: A Reformed Ecclesiology in Filipino American Perspective by Neal D. Presa	Henry S. Kuo

ARTICLES:
Five Foundational Women in the Qur’an: Reading their Stories from a Shia Female Perspective	Mahjabeen Dhala
Cross-border Marriage and Religion in South Korea: Foreign Brides and their Membership in Local Protestant Churches	Hanna Kang
The Persistent Widow through Latina Eyes: Mission as Political Theology for Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the U.S.A.	Marcia L. Ledford
Hearts on Fire: Mission and Discipleship of Female Catholic Christians in the Asian Context	Marinda Keng Fan Chan
Women of Spirit and Power: Could Sister Fidelma Be Real?	Joy T. Barnitz
The Impact of Ecowomanism and African Cosmology on Carceral Anti-Ecology	Keyona Saquile Lazenby
The Making of an American Mystic: Reverend Dagmar Braun Celeste’s Ever-ascending Spirals on the Journey toward the Beloved Community	Leslye M. Huff