Theology Today
April 1986
Vol. 43, No. 1
EDITORIAL
The Presence of the Absence By Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
Black Theology in American Religion By James H. Cone 6
Re-Contextualizing Theology By Rosemary Radford Ruether 22
Intercultural Theology By Walter J. Hollenweger 28
In Praise of Shaky Ground: The Liminal Christ and Cultural Pluralism By Mark Kline Taylor 36
SYMPOSIUM ON WORSHIP
Catholic Liturgical Reform By German Martinez 52
Protestant Worship Today By Fred R. Anderson 63
Worship Between the Holocausts By Michael Downey 75
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
The Magi and Halley's Comet By William E. Phipps 88
POETRY
The Spire Next Door By Royal F. Shepard, Jr. 93
The Organ Recital By Sara MacDonald 94
A Room with a View By Lowry Bowman 97
The Creed in a Pagan Season By Harold G. McCurdy 98
BOOK REVIEWS
Praising and Knowing God, by Daniel W. Hardy and David F. Ford Walter Brueggemann 99
Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, by Jaroslav Pelikan
Jesus in European Protestant Thought, 1778-1860 by Colin Brown
The Jesus Debate: A Survey and Synthesis by William M. Thompson		 Donald G. Dawe 102
Can Modern War Be Just? by James Turner Johnson Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones 104
The God of Jesus Christ by Walter Kasper John H. Wright, S.J 108
The Genesis of Faith: The Depth Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel by John C. Merkle
Mutuality: The Vision of Martin Buber by Donald L. Berry		 James F. Moore 109
A History of Christianity - Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Threshold of the Reformation by Kurt Aland R. Emmet McLaughlin 112
The Sacraments in Religious Education and Liturgy: An Ecumenical Model by Robert L. Browning and Roy A. Reed David Ng 114
Covenant of Love: Pope John Paul IIon Sexuality, Marriage, and Family in the Modern World by Richard M. Hogan and John M. Levoir
The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises by Karol Wojtyla		 Mary Peter McGinty 116
John Calvin: On the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving by Elsie Anne McKee John H. Leigh 119
Preaching: A Comprehensive Approach to the Design and Delivery of Sermons by James W. Cox Ronald J. Allen 122
Freud on Femininity and Faith by Judith Van Herik Diane Jonte-Pace 123
Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps Anson Shupe 126
Process Ethics: A Constructive System by Kenneth Cauthen Paul R. Sponheim 130
Essays on the Sermon on the Mount by Hans Dieter Betz Richard A. Edwards 132
The Supper of the Lord: The New Testament, Ecumenical Dialogues, and Faith and Order on Eucharist by John Reumann
Church, Ministry, and Sacraments in the New Testament by C.K. Barrett		 Robert Kress 132
How Can We Know? An Essay on the Christian Religion by A.N. Wilson Holmes Rolston, III 138
Rediscovering Paul: Philemon and the Sociology of Paul's Narrative World by Norman R. Petersen Calvin J. Roetzel 139
Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emmanuel Hirsch by Robert P. Ericksen Walter Harrelson 142
BOOK NOTES
Resistance and Hope: South African Essays in Honour of Beyers Naude ed. by Charles Villa-Vincencio and John W. DeGruchy Belle Miller McCaster 145
American Presbyterians: A Pictorial History by James H. Smylie James H. Moorhead 145
Turn Toward Life: The Bible and Peacemaking by Jörg Zink Barbara Nelson Gingerich 146
Living the Truth in a World of Illusions by William Sloane Coffin
Faith: The Great Adventure by Helmut Thielicke		 John M. Stapleton 146
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ed by James H. Charlesworth James C. VanderKam 147
Kant and Job's Comforters by A.L. Loades Jeffrey C. Eaton 147
The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns by Thomas Merton Dewey Weiss Kramer 148
David's Truth in Israel's Imagination and Memory by Walter Brueggemann Terence E. Fretheim 148
Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu by Richard Kieckhefer Rebecca H. Weaver 149
Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible by Jon D. Levenson C.L. Seow 149
Gadamer's Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method by Joel C. Weinsheimer Edgar V. McKnight 149
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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