Theology Today
April 1980
Vol. 37, No. 1
EDITORIAL
The Bible in the Church Today Bernhard W. Anderson 1
ARTICLES
Scripture: Recent Protestant and Catholic Views Avery Dulles, S.J. 7
The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis David C. Steinmetz 27
The Responsibility of Biblical Theology to Communities of Faith Paul D. Hanson 39
The Plate Tectonics of New Testament Study Patrick Henry 51
Metaphors, Equations, and the Faith Roland Mushat Frye 59
POETRY
The Church in Samaria Gail White 68
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Theological Labels George S. Hendry 69
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
"The Battle for the Bible" Rages On Donald W. Dayton 79
CRITIC'S CORNER
The Epic of Billy Graham Leonard I. Sweet 85
The Double Vision of Home Rachel H. King 93
Wanted: Theologians Who Are Theologians Deane William Ferm 97
BOOK REVIEWS
Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture by Brevard S. Childs Bernard W. Anderson 100
The Elusive Presence: Toward a New Biblical Theology by Samuel Terrien Patrick D. Miller 108
The Word Becoming Flesh: An Introduction to the Origin, Purpose, and Meaning of the Old Testament by Horace D. Hummel J.J.M. Roberts 111
An Introduction to Old Testament Study by John H. Hayes David Noel Freedman 113
God the Father: Theology and Patriarchy in the Teaching of Jesus by Robert Hamerton-Kelly Phyllis Trible 116
The Future of Partnership by Letty M. Russell Marianne H. Micks 119
The Christian Story by Gabriel Fackre Alexander J. McKelway 120
Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace by Paul K. Jewett
Visible Words: The Interpretation and Practice of Christian Sacraments by Robert Jenson		 Donald H. Juel 124
The Heretical Imperative by Peter L. Berger Roger Hazelton 128
The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization by William Barrett Joseph J. Fahey 129
Justice and Reverse Discrimination by Alan H. Goldman James A. Joseph 131
Bread and Justice: Toward a New International Economic Order by James B. McGinnis Eugene Carson Blake 134
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman Lewis W. Spitz 135
Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865 by Thomas L. Webber Albert J. Raboteau 137
A Panorama of Christian Hymnody by Erik Routley
An English-Speaking Hymnal Guide by Erik Routley		 James H. Litton 138
Sacred Art in a Secular Century by Horton Davies and Hugh Davies William Morgan 141
BOOK NOTES
The Reader's Bible: A Narrative by Roland Mushat Frye, ed. Carlos Baker 144
Israel in Exile: A Theological Interpretation by Ralph W. Klein Fredrick Holmgren 144
Ezekiel I by Walter Zimmerli John J. Collins 144
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature ed. by Bauer-Arndt-Gringrich-Danker Cullen I.K. Story 145
The Vision of Matthew: Church and Morality in the First Gospel by John P. Meier Cain H. Felder 145
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II (Chaps. ix-xvi and Essays) by C.E.B. Cranfield Paul W. Meyer 146
Wrestling with Romans by John A. T. Robinson Paul W. Meyer 146
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation Of Narrative by Frank Kermode Stephen Crites 146
The Words of Jesus in Our Gospels: A Catholic Response to Fundamentalism by Stanley B. Marrow James M. Reese 147
The Spirit in the Church by Karl Rahner Arnold B. Come 147
The Holy Spirit by C.F.D. Moule Kilian McDonnell 147
The Power of Love by Donald Goergen Bernard J. Lee, S.M. 147
Theologies in Conflict by Alfred T. Hennelly Marina Herrera 148
A History of Christian Doctrine by Hubert Cunliffe-Jones and Ben-Jamin Drewery, eds. Margaret Schatkin 148
The Concise Dictionary of Christian Ethics ed. by Bernhard Stoeckle Jack L. Stotts 149
The Fragile Universe: An Essay in the Philosophy of Religions by Patrick Burke Glenn R. Bucher 149
After Reason by Arianna Stassinopoulos Elizabeth Bettenhausen 149
Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Renewal by Richard F. Lovelace Bernard Ramm 150
For All Your Seasons by Carnegie Samuel Calian David B. Watermulder 150
Crisis Experience in Modern Life by Charles V. Gerkin Kenneth R. Mitchell 150
The Minister as Family Counselor by Charles William Stewart Stanford R. Lucyk 151
Religion and the People: 800-1700 by James Obelkevich, ed. E. Ann Matter 151
Prophets of Rebellion: Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order by Michael Adas John F. Wilson 151
The Religion, Spirituality, and Thought of Traditional Africa by Dominique Zahan Charles H. Long 152
The Religions of the American Indians by Ake Hultkrantz James r. Ronda 152
The American Jeremiad by Sacvan Bercovitch Emory Elliott 153
Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1925 by Timothy P. Weber John M. Mulder 154
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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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