“…82 Thus far, she has gone a long way with those apophatic theologians who are her inspiration, such as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, as well as with contemplatives who were more direct interlocutors of Anglican theologians, including Evelyn Underhill: though, as Ashley Cocksworth hints, the fact that Coakley and Ward do not necessarily characterize what they are doing in their systematic theological work as distinctively Anglican is itself significant. 83 Coakley and Ward are both, notes Cocksworth, of a generation inclined to be circumspect about the possibility and good of all-encompassing systematic projects, and while Coakley situates her theology in patterns of prayer and clearly sees the centrality of prayer as Anglican, this, argues Cocksworth, functions not in a totalizing but a destabilizing way. 84 However, Tonstad has held that Coakley may be insufficiently reflexive about the ways in which such obedient receptivity-in-contemplation can become weaponized by rapacious institutional machines such as the prison system, 85 even if Coakley's purported intent is to recognize God's profound distinction from human structures.…”