"""Douglas John Hall is the most thoughtful, brooding, steadfast Reformed theologian in North America, a fine, crafted mix of dourness and joy. In this retrospect on his life as a teacher of the church, of course, we never get Hall alone. We get cadences of Luther and Barth, of Tillich and Niebuhr all into this personally artistic combination. We never get only theology, we get economics and environmentalism and epistemology and hope. Above all, we get the cross... The process of reading has been for me, as so often with Hall, an occasion of repentance and of healing."" - Walter Brueggemann, McPheeters Emeritus Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "