Introduction. Receiving and transmitting the deposit of faith ; The shape of theological retrieval : resemblances, models and authority ; Method, organization and overview -- Scripture. Commonality and diversity ; Vantage points for theological interpretation of scripture ; Theological cultures that prosper TIS ; The spiritual sense and spiritual practices ; Configuring theology and exegesis by the rule of faith ; Conclusion -- Theology. An alien relevance : theological pasts ; Theology for the Christian life ; Retrieval of and for a trinitarian gospel ; Fred Sanders : the deep things of God ; Donald Fairbairn : life in the trinity ; Conclusion -- Worship. Whose house is this? ; An alternative way ; Resources ; Worship in the key of retrieval ; Bloom ; New Life downtown ; Conclusion -- Spirituality. A need for wisdom ; Quest for sages and sources ; Cruciform wisdom ; Spirituality guided by Christian wisdom ; Tom Schwanda : soul recreation ; Gary Neal Hansen : kneeling with giants ; Conclusion -- Mission. Five expressions of new monasticism ; The monastic impulse ; Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove : cultivating and sustaining the new monastic theological imagination ; The monastic impulse as social imaginary ; Etienne Wenger : imagination, practices, reification and repertoire ; Conclusion -- Cosmos. Radical orthodoxy ; Reclaiming the cosmos, or "once there was no secular" ; Improvising tradition's harmony(s) ; Constraint and freedom in jazz improvisation ; Catherine Pickstock : tradition and the drift of time ; John Milbank : renarrating Christ and tradition ; Conclusion -- Conclusion.