Within these pages a younger generation of Orthodox scholars in America takes up the perennial task of transmitting the meaning of Christianity to a particular time and culture. This collection of twelve essays, as the title Thinking Through Faith implies, is the result of six years of reflective conversation and collaboration regarding core beliefs of the Orthodox faith, tenets that the authors present from fresh perspectives that appeal to reason and spiritual sensibilities alike. The titles of the essays are: The Kingdom of God: Paul and the Apostle's Perilous ProclamationThe Foundations of Noetic PrayerWhat Are We Doing Talking About God? The Discipline of TheologyUnderstanding Pastoral Care in the Early ChurchOrthodox Theologies of Women and Ordained MinistryReading the Lives of the Saints The Meaning and Place of Death in an Orthodox Ethical FrameworkHonest to God:Confession and DesireInternational Religious Freedom and the Challenge of ProselytismFour Types of "Orthopraxy" among Orthodox Christians in AmericaByzantine Liturgy as God's Family at PrayerLearning About Ourselves:A Snapshot of the Orthodox Church in the Twenty-first Century.