Introduction. The word of love : hermeneutics, selfhood, and the work of James Olthuis / James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema A poetic tribute. In the beginning : the creation of mother and child / Julie Robinson pt. 1. Hermeneutics, deconstruction, and Christian faith. Crossing the threshold : sojourning together in the wild spaces of love / James H. Olthuis Olthuis's risk : a heretical tribute / John D. Caputo Philosophizing the gift : a discussion between Richard Kearney and Mark Manolopoulos / Richard Kearney If I had a hammer : truth in Heidegger's Being and time / Lambert Zuidervaart In God we trust? : biblical interpretation and the hermeneutics of suspicion / Merold Westphal The battle belongs to the word : the role of theological discourse in David's victory over Saul and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17 / J. Richard Middleton pt. 2. Love, selfhood, and the gift of community. Face-to-face : ethical asymmetry or the symmetry of mutuality? / James H. Olthuis On love : with Aquinas, Kristeva, Nietzsche / David Goicoechea The Good Samaritan, the philosopher, and the madman / Constantin V. Boundas
Religion with an impure heart? : Kierkegaard and Levinas on God and other others / Jeffrey Dudiak
The risk of leaving home / Henry Isaac Venema
The call as gift : the subject's donation in Marion and Levinas / James K.A. Smith
With and without boundaries : Christian homemaking amidst postmodern homelessness / Brian J. Walsh and Steven Bouma-Prediger
pt. 3. The work of James H. Olthuis. Olthuis and the Project of Integral Christian Scholarship : a narrative by a friend / Hendrik Hart
A poetic adieu. A call to prayer / Julie Robinson.