Theology Today
April 1987
Vol. 44, No. 1

EDITORIAL
Unfinished Business Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
The Embarrassing Footnote Walter Brueggemann 5
Martin Luther King, Jr. As Public Theologian Frederick L. Downing 15
May We Invoke The Saints? Elizabeth A. Johnson 32
Creation And The Structure Of The Physical World John C. Polkinghorne 53
SYMPOSIUM
Sectarian Passivism? Wilson D. Miscamble 69
Beyond Sectarianism? Michael J. Quirk 78
Will The Real Sectarian Stand Up? Stanley Hauerwas 87
POETRY
Holy Luck Eugene H. Peterson 95
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Models Of Youth Ministry William R. Myers 103
CRITIC'S CORNER
Update On Christian Science Stephen Gottschalk 111
BOOK REVIEWS
Till The Heart Sings: A Biblical Theology Of Manhood And Womanhood, By Samuel Terrien Sonya A. Quitslund 116
Beyond Explanation: Religious Dimensions In Cultural Anthropology, By Mark Kline Taylor Peter C. Hodgson 119
Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections On Medicine, The Mentally Handicapped, And The Church, By Stanley Hauerwas Jeffrey L. Stout 124
Immaculate And Powerful: The Female In Sacred Image And Social Reality, Edited By Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles Constance F. Parvey 128
Eschatology In The Old Testament, By Donald E. Gowan John J. Collins 130
The Old Testament Canon Of The New Testament Church, By Roger Beckwith James A. Sanders 131
Jesus And The Kingdom Of God, By G. R. Beasley-Murray Richard A. Edwards 134
The Lady And The Virgin: Image, Attitude, And Experience In Twelfth-Century France, By Penny Schine Gold Richard Kieckhefer 138
Women-Church: Theology And Practice Of Feminist Liturgical Communities, By Rosemary Radford Ruether Diane Tennis 139
The Political Mythology Of Apartheid, By Leonard Thompson Charles C. West 142
The Logic Of God Incarnate, By Thomas V. Morris Philip E. Devenish 144
Simone Weil And The Suffering Of Love, By Eric O. Springsted Ralph Nazareth 146
A Lover's Quarrel With The World, By R. Maurice Boyd; City Sermons: Preaching From A Downtown Church, By Bruce McLeod Donald MacLeod 149
City Sermons: Preaching from a Downtown Church, By Bruce McLeod    
Toynbee's Philosophy Of World History And Politics, By Kenneth W. Thompson Roger L. Shinn 152
BOOK NOTES
Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence; The Powers. Volume Two, By Walter Wink Lloyd Gaston 153
Responsible Faith: Christian Theology in the Light of Twentieth-Century Questions, By Hans Schwarz Cynthia M. Campbell 153
The Jesus Tradition: Images of Jesus in the West, By Gerard S. Sloyan Daniel A. Helminiak 153
Bultmann, Retrospect and Prospect: The Centenary Symposium at Wellesley, Edited by Edward C. Hobbs James F. Kay 154
The Early Christians: Their World Mission and Self-Discovery, By Ben F. Meyer Luke T. Johnson 155
The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus: An Analysis and Critique of Modern Jewish Study of Jesus, By Donald A. Hagner Bruce Chilton 155
The Peacemaking Struggle: Militarism and Resistance, Edited by Ronald H. Stone and Dana Wilbanks Beverly J. Crute 156
The Catholicity of the Church, By Avery Dulles Michael G. Lawler 157
Saying Yes and Saying No: On Rendering to God and Caesar, By Robert McAfee Brown George Chauncey 157
The Pastor-Evangelist in Worship, By Richard S. Armstrong John R. Hendrick 157
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: CRAIG DYKSTRA
BOOK EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER, JR.
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
EDITORIAL COUNCIL:

Thomas W. Gillespie, Chair
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia
Jane Dempsey Douglass, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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
Thomas G. Long, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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 R. 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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