Theology Today
April 1994
Vol. 51, No. 1
EDITORIALS
Reflecting on Yesterday, Charting Tomorrow Thomas W. Gillespie 1
ARTICLES
From the Centripetal to the Centrifugal in Culture and Religion Martin E. Marty 5
Why are our Cities Dying? Susan Brooks Thislethwaite 17
Demystifying Martin and Malcolm James H. Cone 27
The Honest Account of a Memorable Life: An Apocryphal Gospel Reynolds Price 38
Having Broken Camp, We're Now on the Open Road Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel 68
Christianity in the Third Millenium Jurgen Moltmann 75
Preaching the Bible and Preaching the Gospel Edward Farley 90
Theology and the Many Faces of Postmodernity David Tracy 104
Theology and Culture in South Africa Charles Villa-Vicencio 115
Nature as the Image of God: Signs of the Sacred
 Langdon Gilkey 127
New Age, New Opportunities Dan Wakefield 142
POETRY
El Greco's "St. James, the Less" Grace Schulman 148
The Canaan Rainbow Jonathan Galssi 149
The Author of Torah Alfred Corn 150
The Quarry Anne Babson Carter 152
BOOK REVIEWS
Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible
Volume 1: Genesis to Malachi
Volume 11: Gospels to Revelation ed. by Robert Atwan and Laurence Wieder		 Thomas M. Disch 155
The Preaching Life by Barbara Brown Taylor Paul Scott Wilson 156
Race Matters by Cornel West Delores S. Williams 158
The Word and the Law by Milner S. Ball Thomas L. Shaffer 162
Book of Common Worship James F. White 166
Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion by John Hick Kelly James Clark 170
God As Trinity: Relationality and Temporality in Divine Life by Ted Peters Colin S. Gunton 174
The Body of God: An Ecological Theology by Sallie McFague Leanne Van Dyk 176
No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
By David F. Wells		 Jeffrey Gros 180
Between Athens and Berlin: The Theological Education Debate by David H. Kelsey James Hudnut-Beumler 182
BOOK NOTES
A Child Shall Lead Them: Lessons in Hope from Children with Cancer Bill Gaventa 188
Introducing Feminist Theology Tiina Allik 188
The Church Confident: Christianity Can Repent, But It Must Not Whimper Patrick J. Willson 190
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture Joseph C. Williamson 190
Christ and Creation Benjamin W. Farley 190
Blessed Excess: Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination Garrett Green 192
A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation William H. Becker 192
Jonah: A Commentary James A. Ackerman 196
The Transforming Power of Grace C. Benton Kline 196
Written Also for Our Sake: Paul and the Art of Biblical Interpretation Larry Yarbrough 197
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: CRAIG DYKSTRA
BOOK 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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