Theology Today
April 1989
Vol. 46, No. 1
EDITORIAL
The Simple Gospel Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
The Holy Spirit Michael Welker 5
The Exegesis of Tears Dow Edgerton 21
Praying the Psalms Lawrence S. Cunningham 39
POETRY
HBRW Jessica Shaver 45
Methods Jessica Shaver 46
Dressed in Red Rick Brand 47
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Impressions from Backstage Polly Holliday 48
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents Jeffrey Stout 55
Review George Lindbeck 59
Review Nancey Murphy
James Wm. McClendon		 61
Review Sheila Briggs 64
Review Cornel West 66
Response Jeffrey Stout 69
BOOK REVIEWS
The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II Robert Wuthnow 74
Death, Sin and the Moral Life: Contemporary Cultural Interpretations of Death Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore 76
God's Federal Republic: Reconstructing Our Governing Symbol William Johnson Everett 77
Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution 1859-1900 Jon H. Roberts 80
Marxism and Religion: A Description and Assessment of the Marxist Critique of Christianity David McLellan 83
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination Eugene H. Peterson 86
One Nation Under God? Christian Faith and Political Action in America Mark A. Noll 87
The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 92
Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer Paul M. Minus 96
A Search for Wisdom and Spirit: Thomas Merton's Theology of the Self Anne E. Carr 97
Creation and the Persistence of Evil Jon D. Levenson 98
The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards Sang Hyun Lee 101
Is There a Christian Ethics? Lucien Richard 102
Risking Liberation: Middle Class Powerlessness and Social Heroism Paul G. King
Kent Maynard
David O. Woodyard		 108
The Way of Living Faith: A Spirituality of Liberation
Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy 		Segundo Galilea
Robert MacAfee Brown
111
The Magic Lantern Ingmar Bergman 114
BOOK NOTES
Elders and the Plural Ministry: The Role of Exegetical History in Illuminating John Calvin's, Theology Elsie Anne McKee 116
The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History Baruch Halpern 116
Preaching Jesus Christ: An Exercise in Homiletic Theology David G. Buttrick 116
The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature David Damrosch 118
Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism Paul Ramsey 118
God in the White House: How Religion Has Changed the Modern Presidency Richard G. Hutchenson, Jr. 119
Jesus: A New Vision Marcus J. Borg 119
Religion and the Life Cycle Robert C. Fuller 120
Looking Both Ways: Exploring the Interface Between Christianity and Sociology Richard Perkins 120
A Political Dogmatic Jens Glebe-Moller 122
To Love As God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church Roberta C. Bondi 122
Defending & Declaring the Faith: Some Scottish Examples, 1860-1920 Alan P. F. Sell 122
Be Blessed in What You Do Michael K. Duffey 124
On the Tail of a Comet: The Life of Frank Buchman Garth Lean 124
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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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