Zoë Bennett is Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies in Pastoral Theology at Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Theological Federation. She is the author of Your MA in Theology (SCM Press 2014). Christopher Rowland was formerly Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture and Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford from 1991 until 2014 and is a co-author of Theological Reflection for Human Flourishing (SCM Press 2012).

'God’s word… examines critically the reflections and thoughts of a heart’. It is this function of Scripture that Bennett and Rowland explore in this highly creative book – the role the Bible plays in our learning to be critically reflective. Through an imaginative engagement with apocalyptic and its unmaskings, insights from John Ruskin and William Blake, and moving autobiographical reflections, In a Glass Darkly provokes the reader to examine their assumptions as to how the text of the Bible and life interact. It will certainly ‘rouse the faculties’ of the reader as the authors intend.'

• Introduction1. The Start of the Journey2. The Horizon of Hope3. Turning Points along the Way4. Inescapable Struggles5. Companions of the Road6. 'Give me a place to stand.'7. An Emerging Map8. The Owl of Minerva - a Retropect