Positive mentoring relationships are held to be essential to the formation of strong Christian leaders—but why? How can theological and biblical insights inform mentoring relationships? And what do these vital relationships look like across a range of Christian experience?  Opening multiple angles of vision on the practice of mentoring, Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison here present a group of eminent scholars who explore mentoring from biblical-theological perspectives, within the context of diverse national and international communities, and across generations. CONTRIBUTORS: David L. Bartlett  Walter Brueggemann  Katie Geneva Cannon  Thomas W. Currie  Cristian De La Rosa  Jill Duffield  Elizabeth Hinson Hasty  Luke Timothy Johnson  Kwok Pui Lan  Thomas G. Long  Melva Lowry Martin E. Marty  Rebekah Miles  D. Cameron Murchison  Camille Cook Murray  Rodger Nishioka  Douglas Ottati  Alton B. Pollard III  Cynthia L. Rigby  Dean K. Thompson  Theodore J. Wardlaw