This book makes me hopeful for the future of theology. Muers draws us into the unruly crowd of people who do in fact speak about God, and who take care over the coherence and implications of what they say. Introducing us to members of this crowd who are very much not amongst the usual suspects, she shows us how to attend to the emergence of their voices, to the compulsions that drive them, to the spaces their speaking makes for itself, and to their refusals to be silenced or made decorous. She is a deft, generous and enthusiastic guide to all this irrepressible speech, and her book stands as an invitation to attend and to join in. * Mike Higton, Durham University, UK * Muers has brought exceptional clarity and insight, as well as a deep grounding in faith, to the subject of how theologians approach their tasks and contexts. This is a work of astonishing range and virtuosity, with something in it to appeal to anyone interested in Christian theology or interfaith dialogue. Her generosity and ecumenicity are strongly in evidence in this book. The way she engages her positionality as both a Quaker and a feminist helps to bring to the surface perspectives in truth, compassion, and liberation that desperately need an audience in the twenty-first century world. * Stephen W. Angell, Earlham School of Religion, USA * In these fourteen succinct chapters, written from varied perspectives over the course of her career, Muers offers fascinating insights into the voices, contexts, and tasks of theology. Blending experience with experiment, Muers maps the voices and facets of the world of theology. Her work goes beyond the study of Quaker and feminist theologies to consider the study and practice of theology from multiple points of view. Muers work does so much more than engage Quaker theology; she asks what can a theologian who is a Quaker and a feminist say about theology generally and the spaces it occupies? * Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University, Canada *
