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BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

Pamela Couture's newest book deserves our close attention. Here she continues to develop the insights of her earlier publications, working at the interface of care, theology, public policy, and economic theory. The personal passion and experience that inform this book enrich its value, but readers should be forewarned that her intention is not only to change your understanding of the issues involved in caring for poor children. She also intends to change your heart in ways that will alter your own faith practices and involvements. The book is instructive in its particular content and methodological proposals. It is provocative in the challenges it poses to the field to revise boundaries and in the ethical claim it makes for the priority of children's poverty. Couture argues that children's poverty—lack of material resources as well as a poverty of "tenuous connections"—is, in fact, an adult problem—a problem of inadequate adult resilience. In the book she argues that these two forms of poverty, material and relational, are well addressed by drawing on theological, sociological, economic, and political sources. This book represents pastoral theology as public theology in that Couture claims her particular theological and theoretical positions offer resources for addressing the scandal of poor children. Ideally in Christian theology, when we speak confessionally out of any particular communion, we intend to enhance connections with those in other communions and perhaps with those in other faiths. This is a Wesleyan text that succeeds in offering many insights and connections beyond Couture's particular and rich theological home.