Theology Today
April 1993
Vol. 50, No. 1
EDITORIAL
The Wright Space Patrick D. Miller 1
ARTICLES
Vision and Imagination in Atonement Doctrine Leanne Van Dyk 4
The Wild Bird Who Heals: Recovering The Spirit In Nature Mark I. Wallace 13
Tar Baby and Womanist Theology Karen Baker-Fletcher 29
Xodus Musings: Reflections on Womanist Tar Baby Theology Garth Baker-Fletcher 38
The Word is Near You: A Feminist Conversation with Lindbeck Amy Plantinga Pauw 45
A Hyperbolic Imagination: Theology and The Rhetoric of Excess Stephen H. Webb 56
Tribal Talk: Black Theology in Postmodern Configurations Will Coleman 68
The Disunity of the Church and the Credibility of the Gospel Bruce D. Marshall 78
Academic Theology in Pastoral Perspective Ellen T. Charry 90
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Church in Brazil: Old Problems New Challenges Fred B. Morris 105
POETRY
Catherine, In the Streets of Siena, Faces the Problem of Evil Pamela Rice Porter 114
Visitation Gene Fendt 115
Lot's Wife Gene Fendt 116
Nimrod Jay G. Williams 117
Learning to Make Easter Bread Patricia Flower Vermillion 121
BOOK REVIEWS
The Space Between: Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard Sandra Humble Johnson 123
Types of Christian Theology Hans W. Frei 124
Processive Revelation Benjamin A. Reist 126
Women as Interpreters of the Bible
The Women's Bible Commentary		 By Patricia Demers
Carol A. Newsom
Sharon H. Ringe 		129
Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power Elizabeth A. Castelli 130
Salvation Outside The Church? Tracing The History of The Catholic Response Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. 133
Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Dogmatics Gordon J. Spykman 136
Does God Exist? A Believer and an Atheist Debate Terry Miethe
Antony Flew		 140
Divine Revelation: Our Moral Relation with God Kern R. Trembath 142
Tragedy and Biblical Narrative: Arrows of the Almighty J. Cheryl Exum 144
Literary Forms in The New Testament: A Handbook James L. Bailey
Lyle D. Vander Broek 		146
Let Justice Roll Down: The Old Testament, Ethics and Life Bruce C. Birch 148
The God of Life Gustavo Gutierrez 149
Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred Robert S. Wistrich 152
Psychology of Religion: Personalities, Problems, Possibilities H. Newton Malony 153
The Death of Herod: An Essay in the Sociology of Religion Richard Fenn 156
BOOK NOTES
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vol. 1: Called to Serve January 1929 - June 1951 Clayborne Carson 159
The Worship of the American Puritans, 1629-1730 Horton Davies 159
The Promise and Practice of Biblical Theology John Reumann 159
Remembering the Poor: The History of Paul's Collection for Jerusalem Dieter Georgi 160
Do Justice: Linking Christian Faith and Modem Economic Life Rebecca M. Blank 160
Women Who Knew Paul Florence M. Gillman 162
The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modem Nihilism Ioan P. Couliano 162
Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian S.T. Kimbrough, Jr. 162
Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace Glen H. Stassen 164
Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Hans Kung 164
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: ELLEN T. CHARRY
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
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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