Theology Today
April 1983
Vol. 40, No. 1
EDITORIAL
Simple - But Not Easy Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
Definition Of Brain Death John J. Paris
Ronald E. Cranford		 5
Faith And Imagination In Science And Religion Michael Barnes 15
Conversion And Christian Ethics James P. Hanigan 25
The Christening Ray Russell 36
Let The Church Live On The Frontier John A. Mackay 39
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Calvin's Proverbs William F. Keesecker 44
CRITIC'S CORNER
More On Narrative James W. McClendon, Jr. 49
School Song Kenyon Emrus-Roberts 54
Emile Cailliet (1894 - 1981) Frank E. Gaebelein 55
BOOK REVIEWS
Luther: A Life by John M. Todd
Martin Luther: An Illustrated Biography by Peter Manns		 Robert McAfee Brown 58
No Cross, No Crown by William Penn (revised and edited by Ronald Selleck) Edwin B. Bronner 62
God Has Many Names by John Hick Conrad Hyers 68
Five Biblical Portraits by Elie Wiesel
Jews and Christians after the Holocaust by Abraham J. Peck (ed)		 William A. Hartfelder 71
Forced Options: Social Decisions for the Twenty - First Century by Roger L. Shinn
Moral Theology: A Continuing Journey by Charles E. Curran		 Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C. 74
Abraham Went Out: A Biography of A. J. Muste by Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson Harold E. Fey 77
Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525 - 1695 by Dewey D. Wallace, Jr. Georgia Christopher 80
Holy Days and Holidays: The Medieval Pilgrimage to Compostela by Horton and Marie-Helene Davies Howard J. Happ Joann
The Splendid Risk: An Existential Approach to Christian Fulfillment by Bernard I. Mullahy, C.S.C. Joann Wolski Conn 84
The Religious Experience: A Social - Psychological Perspective by C. Daniel Batson and W. Larry Ventis Norman Autotte, O.M.I. 86
The Fatherhood of God and the Victorian Family: The Social Gospel in America by Janet Forsythe Fishburn Mary Pellauer 87
Solidarity With Victims: Toward A Theology of Social Transformation by Matthew L. Lamb Frederick Herzog 89
The Creative Word: Canon as a Model for Biblical Education by Walter Brueggemann
The Bible in American Education by David L. Barr and Nicholas Piediscalzi (eds) 		D. Campbell Wyckoff 92
God - Christ - Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki Lewis S. Ford 94
Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths: Essays on Imagination in Scripture by Amos N. Wilder (edited by James Breech) George Stroup 99
BOOK NOTES
The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy From a Black Church Perspective by Archie Smith, Jr. Marvin Andrew McMickle 101
The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar by Gregor T. Goethals
Finding Inner Peace and Strength by Jerry Falwell		 J.W. Gregg Meister 101
Social Ministry by Dieter T. Hessel Howard G. Hageman 102
Biblical Authority or Biblical Tyranny? by William Countryman Elizabeth Gordon Edwards 102
The Final Beast by Frederick Buechner John O. Mellin 103
Our Search for Identify Humanity in the Image of God by Marianne H. Micks Sue Anne Steffey Morrow 104
God's Grace and Human Health by J. Harold Ellens E. Dean Bergen 105
Hymns and Their Uses by James Rawlings Sydnor
The Hymns and Ballads of Fred Pratt Green by Fred Pratt Green		 G. Robert Jacks 105
Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel, The Coming Triumph of God by J. Christiaan Beker H. Dana Fearon, III 106
From the Rising of the Sun: Christians and Society in Contemporary Japan by James M. Phillips Marius B. Jansen 106
Men Against Time: Berdyaev, Eliot, Huxley, and Jung by Douglas K. Wood Horton Davies 107
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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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