Few can compare to David Brown in depth and range of learning, and this collection of essays is strong testimony to his contribution to British theology. The earliest piece published here first saw the light of day in 1985—the same year as his landmark work in philosophical theology The Divine Trinity—and the essays, individually and collectively, demonstrate Brown’s overall concern for the doctrinal well-being and the spiritual health of the Christian community. Some of the essays had their first outing in learned journals, others in a variety of church settings. Readers already familiar with Brown’s work will find retractations and modifications of earlier positions in this collection, and it would make a very good introduction to his work, too. The book is divided into four parts, with three or four essays per part: ‘The Created Order’, ‘Experience and Revelation’, ‘Incarnation, Trinity, and Redemption’, and ‘Heaven and our Communal Destiny’....