Theology Today
April 1990
Vol. 47, No. 1
EDITORIAL
Theology Tomorrow Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
The Holy and the Sacred Paul S. Minear 5
Jesus and Women in Matthew Jane Kopas 13
SYMPOSIUM: REFLECTIONS ON THE RELIGIONS
Naming the Names of God: Muslims, Jews, Christians David Burrell 22
When the Religions Become Context Francis X. Clooney 30
Encountering Buddha Theologically Paul J. Griffiths 39
Summation and Critique Kusumita P. Pedersen 52
CRITIC'S CORNER
False Tolerance, False Unity Elizabeth Kristol 60
POETRY
Divided Viewpoint Beatrice Page 62
Nicodemus, Nicodemus William D. Tammeus 63
BOOK REVIEWS
Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation by William C. Placher George A. Lindbeck 65
God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? by Kathryn Tanner Joseph M. Incandela 66
Jesus Christ and Christian Vision by Douglas F. Ottati Shirley C. Guthrie 69
Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion by Philip Clayton Philip L. Quinn 70
Paradigm Change in Theology: A Symposium for the Future edited by Hans Küng and David Tracy Paul R. Sponheim 74
Eternal God: A Study of God without Time by Paul Helm Kathryn Tanner 77
Toward a Theology of Inculturation by Aylward Shorter Walter Brueggemann 80
Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and The Bourse Francaise by Jeannine E. Olson Elsie A. McKee 82
Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality by Margaret R. Miles Janet K. Ruffing 85
The Bicentennial History of the Catholic Church in America: Historical Studies of the Catholic People in America, 1789-1989 by Christopher J. Kauffman Andrew M. Greeley 86
The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch James H. Moorhead 89
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America by Randall Balmer John M. Mulder 92
The Visual Arts and Christianity in America: From the Colonial Period to the Present by John Dillenberger John W. Cook 93
Hear Then the Parable: A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus by Bernard Brandon Scott Jeffrey T. Tucker 98
The Illuminating Icon by Anthony Ugolnik Michael G. Cartwright 100
BOOK NOTES
Puritan Race Virtue, Vice and Values 1620-1820 by Joseph R. Washington, Jr. Donald A. Wells 106
The Widows: A Women's Ministry in the Early Church by Bonnie Bowman Thurston Ben Witherington, III 106
Religious Right, Religious Wrong: A Critique of the Fundamentalist Phenomenon by Lloyd J. Averill D.G. Hart 107
Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation by Harold Fisch Patrick D. Miller 107
Luke the Theologian: Aspects of His Teaching by Joseph A. Fitzmyer S.J. Sharon H. Ringe 109
The Defeat of Death: Apocalyptic Eschatology in I Corinthians 15 and Romans 5 by Martinus C. De Boer Karl P. Donfried 109
Psalms Part One, With an Introduction to Cultic Poetry by Erhard S. Gerstenberger J. Clinton McCann, Jr. 110
Anti-Covenant: Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible by Mieke Bal, Ed Dennits T. Olson 112
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew. Volume I by W.D. Davies and Dale C. Allison, Jr. John P. Meier 112
Calvin's Institutes: A New Compend edited by Hugh T. Kerr Elsie McKee 112
Barth and Schleiermacher: Beyond the Impasse? edited by James O. Duke and Robert F. Streetman Daniel L. Migliore 113
Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions by Mary C. Boys Ronald H. Cram 113
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
EDITOR: THOMAS G. LONG
EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER, JR.
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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