A ridiculously rich meditation on the nature, contents, and spiritual logic of Christian theological tradition, understood as a kind of collective effort of memory, testimony, dialogue, reflection, conducted within the body of Christ, across space, across communities, across time—from generation to generation.

—David Bentley Hart, theologian, philosopher, and writer

This text is a must-read for those interested in thinking in new ways about theology as prophetic praxis and pragmatic pedagogy.

—Rev. Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, scholar, consultant, poet, and performer

Theologically sophisticated, fluently in command of recent critical discussion, and above all, sensitive to the dramatic integrity of Shakespeare’s text, this is a brilliant and enriching study.

—Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury

Baker’s study opens an avenue to read the divine through language and character decisions when God is not always immediately apparent. His ability to read between the lines using his theological background makes the book particularly poignant for scholars seeking to reconcile the religious debates within the Bard’s work when there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.

—Grace Kimball, University of California at Santa Barbara

I am a Methodist which means I have never trusted the language of perfection. So I am in Anthony Baker’s debt for reclaiming the notion of perfection. This is a wonderful book that is not only sound scholarship but is morally profound .

—Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual.

The most sophisticated theological treatment of this topic to date. . . This book is as close to perfection as one could hope for.

—Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge