Theology Today
April 1992
Vol. 49, No. 1

EDITORIAL
Reading Backwards Hugh T. Kerr 1
ARTICLES
Preaching the Gospel in Academy and Society William C. Placher 5
Catechetical Language and Religious Education Maria Harris and Gabriel Moran 21
The Moral Function of Doctrine Ellen T. Charry 31
Restructuring Confirmation Richard Robert Osmer 46
A Mystery Story: Children, Cancer, and Covenant Diane M. Komp 68
CRITIC'S CORNER
The Effusiveness of Christian Charity William H. Willimon 75
POETRY
The First Sign Jay G. Williams 82
BOOK REVIEWS
Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology Daniel L. Migliore 85
The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics Jean Porter 88
Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary J.J.M. Roberts 94
Creation and the History of Science Christopher Kaiser 98
From Conquest to Struggle: Jesus of Nazareth in Latin America David Batstone 100
Gender, Doctrine, and God: The Shakers and Contemporary Theology Linda A. Mercadante 108
The Christology of Jesus Ben Witherington, III 110
Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521-1532
A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture
Martin Brecht
Alister E. McGrath
116
Jesus: The Crucified People C.S. Song 122
Wolf in the Sheep Fold: The Bible as a Problem for Christianity Robert P. Carroll 124
Jesus and Judas: Biblical Exegesis in Barth Paul McGlasson 129
Genesis and Apocalypse: A Theological Voyage Toward Authentic Christianity Thomas J.J. Altizer 134
BOOK NOTES
Despair: Sickness or Sin? Hopelessness and Healing in the Christian Life Mary Louise Bringle 135
Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth Danna Nolan Fewell
David Miller Gunn
135
God With Us: A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament Christoph Barth 135
A Reading of Calvin's Institutes Benjamin A. Reist 136
Philip Schaff, Historian and Ambassador of the Universal Church: Selected Writings Klaus Penzel 137
The New Covenant in Hebrews Susanne Lehne 138
Charles Augustus Briggs and the Crisis of Historical Criticism Mark S. Massa 138
The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion Northrop Frye 140
The Dream Betrayed: Religious Challenge of the Working Class Karen Bloomquist 140
Faith, Power and Politics: Political Ministry in Mainline Churches Audrey R. Chapman 142
Theology in Postliberal Perspective Daniel Liechty 142
Reformed and Feminist.- A Challenge to the Church Johanna W.H. Van Wijk 142
The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth John Thompson 143
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence James W. Jones 144
Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber Shmuel Hugo Bergman 144
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: THOMAS G. LONG
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: ELLEN T. CHARRY
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ASSISTANT EDITOR: ROLF A. JACOBSON
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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