Theology Today
April 1979
Vol. 36, No. 1
EDITORIAL
Hail to the Chief! James I. McCord 1
ARTICLES
God, Morality, and Politics Eugene Carson Blake 4
Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Paul Ramsey 10
Communal Ecclesiology: The Power of the Anabaptist Vision Dale W. Brown 22
Ethical Assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education Brooks Holifield 30
SYMPOSIUM
Symposium: Clinical Pastoral Education Joseph Fletcher
Rollin J. Fairbanks
Seward Hiltner		 45
POETRY
Empty Benjamin Williams 54
After the Struggle, Gently Alice Carver Cramer 55
The Bond Persisting Alice Carver Cramer 57
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Human Sexuality Richard P. Unsworth 58
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Jonestown: The Enduring Questions Henry Warner Bowden 66
CRITIC'S CORNER
"The Classics of Western Spirituality" John B. Breslin 75
"The Long Search" Conrad Hyers 78
St. Mark On Stage: Laughing All The Way to the Cross John Koenig 84
The Forces and Powers of Nature Stanley L. Jaki 87
Why Are Churches Declining? Dean R. Hoge 92
BOOK REVIEWS
Our Life in God's Light: Essays by Hugh T. Kerr by John M. Mulder Martin E. Marty 96
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt Thomas F. O'Meara 99
The Betrayal of the West by Jacques Ellul James Y. Holloway 103
The Passion for Life: A Messianic Lifestyle by Jürgen Moltmann John E. Burkhart 112
Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry Into the Character of Earliest Christianity by James D.G. Dunn
Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity by Gerd Theissen		 Wayne A. Meeks 116
The Resilient Church: The Necessity and Limits of Adaptation by Avery Dulles Philip Gleason 121
The Flaming Center: A Theologyof the Christian Mission by Carl E. Braaten Charles C. West 124
Liberation and Change by Gustavo Gutierrez and Richard Schaull John H. Yoder 128
The Churches of Africa: Future Prospects by Claude Geffre and Bertrand Luneau (ed) Paul A. Hopkins 130
The Evangelical Challenge by Morris A. Inch
Common Roots: A Call to Evangelical Maturity by Robert E. Webber		 Jack Rogers 133
Effective Leadership for Today's Church by Arthur Merrihew Adams George E. Sweazey 136
Christ and the Media by Malcom Muggeridge J.W. Gregg Meister 137
No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste by John Murray Cuddihy C. Conrad Cherry 140
Woodrow Wilson: The Years of Preparation by John Mulder Alpheus Thomas Mason 143
Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticisms and Their Implications for the Churches by Robert Wuthnow Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. 147
In Search of White Crows: Spiritualism, Parapsychology, and American Culture by R. Laurence Moore Sandra S. Sizer 149
The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience,and the Self in Early America by Philip Greven Richard D. Shiels 151
The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth County, Massachusetts: 1689-1805 by Peter Benes Anita Schorsch 153
Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation by Jean Delumeau F. Ellen Weaver 155
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
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EDITORIAL COUNCIL:

Thomas W. Gillespie, Chair
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia
Jane Dempsey Douglass, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
Craig R. Dykstra, Lilly Endowment, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School Durham, North Carolina
Kosuke Koyama, Union Theological Seminary New York, New York
George Lindbeck, Yale Divinity School New Haven, Connecticut
John M. Mulder, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky
Richard John Neuhaus, Institute on Religion and Public Life New York, New York
Ben C. Ollenburger, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Elkhart, Indiana
Eugene H. Peterson, Regent College Vancouver, British Columbia
Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, Illinois
Mark Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago, Illinois
David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School Chicago, Illinois
Cornel West, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
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