Theology Today
April 1982
Vol. 39, No. 1
EDITORIAL
What Are the Issues? Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
Religious Studies and Life Stories James Woelfel 7
Comedy and Creation Conrad Hyers 17
Prince Hamlet and the Protestant Confessional Roland Mushat Frye 27
The Lonely Marathon Kevin Lewis 39
Daughters of Creation Manitonquat 46
MEDITATION
The Way of the Cross Leads Home Annie Mae Martin 55
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Transformation in Faith and Morals Craig R. Dykstra 56
CRITIC'S CORNER
Books on Spirituality Joann Wolski Conn 65
It's All In Twos Paul A. Corcoran 69
Enjoying the Older Years J. Douglas Brown 71
BOOK REVIEWS
The Christian Life: Church Dogmatics IV/4, Lecture Fragments by Karl Barth George S. Hendry 74
Pastoral Counseling and Preaching: A Quest For an Integrated Ministry by Donald Capps william B. Oglesby 76
The Case for Liberal Christianity by Donald E. Miller Kenneth Cauthen 78
Toward An Exegetical Theology by Walter C. Kaiser Kenneth Hagen 82
Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction by james L. Crenshaw Arnold B. Rhodes 83
Luther: An Experiment in Biography by H.G. Haile
Luther and Staupitz: An Essay in the Intellectual Origins of the Protestant Reformation by David C. Steinmetz		 Brian A. Gerrish 86
The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Aries
Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920 by James J. Farrell		 E. Brooks Holifield 88
The Scope and Authority of the Bible by James Barr Paul W. Meyer 93
Doors to the Sacred by Joseph Martos Bernard Cooke 95
Abraham and the Contemporary Mind by Silvano Arieti Eugene B. Borowitz 96
Alienation and Charisma: A Study of Contemporary American Communes by Benjamin Zablocki Donald E. Miller 100
A Musician's Guide to Church Music by Joy E. Lawrence and John A. Ferguson Morgan Simmons 101
The Formation of Christian Understanding: An Essay in Theological Hermeneutics by Charles M. Wood
Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation by Henry A. Virkler		 David H. Hopper 102
Soviet Believers: The Religious Sector of the Population by William C. Fletcher
Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II by Walter Sawatsky		 George H. Williams 103
BOOK NOTES
Grace Notes and Other Fragments by Joseph A. Sittler Davie Napier 106
Making All Things New by Henri J. M. Nouwen Joseph A. Tetlow, S.J. 106
Intimacy: Essays in Pastoral Psychology by Henri J. M. Nouwen Joseph A. Tetlow, S.J. 106
A Sense of Mission by Albert Curry Winn David H.C. Read 106
The Third Reich and the Christian Churches ed by Peter Matheson David J. Diephouse 107
Congregations Alive by Donald P. Smith Carl S. Dudley 107
Harper's Introduction to the Bible by Gerald Hughes and Stephen Travis
Harper's World of the New Testament by Edwin Yamauchi		 Adela Yarbro Collins 108
To Set at Liberty: Christian Faith and Human Freedom by Delwin Brown Brian O. McDermott, S.J. 108
Christians With Secular Power by Mark Gibbs Thomas W. Gillespie 108
Ministry: Leadership in the Community of Jesus Christ by Edward Schillebeeckx Robert L. Kinast 109
Jacob's Ladder by Charles C. Hefling, Jr. Russell F. Adlwinckle 109
The Logic of Theism: An Analysis of the Thought of Austin Farrer by Jeffrey C. Eaton Russell F. Aldwinckle 109
Letter to Pilgrims: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews by Robert Jewett George Johnston 110
Early Arianism: A View of Salvation by Robert Gregg and Dennis E. Groh Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. 110
Kierkegaard and Christendom by John W. Elrod Mark C. Taylor 110
Taking Leave of God by Don Cupitt Leonard J. Biallas 111
Death and Life by Otto Kaiser and Eduard Lohse Frederick H. Borsch 111
The Bible for Ethics: Juan Luis Segundo and First-World Ethics by Anthony J. Tambasco Dennis P. McCann 111
The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century by Melvin Easterday Dieter Fred J. Hood 112
Life at Death by Kenneth Ring
Beyond the Gates of Death by Hans Schwartz		 James E. Loder 112
Evil: The Shadow Side of Reality by John A. Sanford James W. Fowler 112
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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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