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Book Review: Expectant Creativity: The Action of Hope in Christian Ethics

Scripture come alive and available to personal identification and interpretation. The strength of the book is its ability to challenge existing theories in soteriology and Christology in a true theological fashion. The reader is made aware of prevailing ideas. Then, step by step, one is exposed to the limitations of particular aspects. Alternate and theologically more plausible insights are proposed and likely conclusions are projected. These dynamics are much at play when M. explains the meaning of rites and rituals in liturgy as sources of transformation and spiritual renewal. The final chapter especially deals with the human aspects of Jesus in his development of wisdom and virtue. It demonstrates the basic characteristics of a true apprenticeship as perceived by M. The weakness of the book is at least twofold. First, the index is content-oriented and hardly includes names of authors of significance in the text. Second, M. fails to place his observations in the context of related professional literature: e.g., the names of Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Tracy are absent. This weakness proves to be the book's strength insofar as it is delightfully genuine in the bulk of personal insights and discoveries which substantiate M.'s own apprenticeship.