Theology Today
January 1980
Vol. 36, No. 4

EDITORIAL
Back in Style Again Hugh T. Kerr 485
ARTICLES
The Trinity of Human Liberty Daniel L. Migliore 488
Peace: The Fruit of Justice Philip Potter 498
The Traumatic Years: American Religion and Culture in the '60s and '70s Sydney E. Ahlstrom 504
Iran And Islam George W. Braswell Jr. 523
POETRY
The Death of a Next-Door Neighbor Gail White 534
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Religion by Cliche Leonard I. Sweet 535
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
John Paul II and American Catholicism John A. Coleman 544
CRITIC'S CORNER
Laity and Clergy as People of God Mark O. Hatfield 553
On Carl Rogers' Becoming LeRoy H.Aden 556
Richard Hooker as Theologian Marianne H. Micks 560
Folk Art and the Bible Jane Dillenberger 564
BOOK REVIEWS
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch Mark O. Hatfield 569
Christianity and the World Order by Edward R. Norman
Amsterdam to Nairobi: The World Council of Churches and the Third World
by Ernest W. Lefever
Richard John Neuhaus 570
Contemporary Missiology: An Introduction by Johannes Verkuyl W. Richey Hogg 575
Courage, Church! Essays in Ecclesial Spirituality by Walbert Bühlmann Gerald H. Anderson 579
The Study of Theology by Gerhard Ebeling, Duane A. Priebe (trans) Robert P. Scharlemann 580
Religious Reason: The Rational and Moral Basis of Religious Belief by Ronald M. Green Ronald E. Santoni 583
Schleiermacher the Theologian: The Construction of the Doctrine of God by Robert R. Williams Mary L. Potter 588
The Lure of God: A Biblical Background for Process Theism by Lewis S. Ford Marjorie Suchocki 590
Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity: New Testament Essays by E. Earle Ellis Lloyd Gaston 594
Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress Joseph Fletcher 595
The Problem of War in the Old Testament by Peter c. Craigie
War and Peace in the World's Religions
by John Ferguson
Ronald G. Goetz 598
"Dear Master": Letters of a Slave Family by Randall M. Miller (ed.) Albert J. Raboteau 600
Black Apostles: Afro-American Clergy Confront the Twentieth Century by Randall K. Burkett and Richard Newman (eds) James M. Washington 603
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There by Philip P. Hallie James Hastings Nichols 605
Alternative Altars by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr.
Understanding the New Religions
by Jacob Needleman and George Baker (eds)
Edwin S. Gaustad 607
Living Together Alone: The New American Monasticism by Charles Fracchia Robert Wuthnow 609
The Study of Liturgy by Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright and Edward Yarnold (eds) Howard G. Hageman 611
Worship as Pastoral Care by William H. Willimon William S. Adams 612
BOOK NOTES
The Living Word of the Bible by Bernhard W. Anderson Samuel Terrien 615
But as For Me: The Question of Election for God's People Today by Andre Lacocque Thomas W. Mann 615
The God Who Cares by Fredrick Holmgren Harriet L. Kaufman 615
Revelation by J.P.M. Sweet Bruce M. Metzger 616
Between Two Worlds by Diogenes Allen Leonard I. Sweet 616
Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Work of Elie Wiesel by Michael Berenbaum Robert W. Ross 616
Room to Be People by Jose Miquez Bonino William P. Frost 617
The Way to Peace: Liberation Through the Bible by L. John Topel Frederick Herzog 617
The Church and the National Security State by Jose Comblin Gaspar B. Langella 617
Christianity in Independent Africa by Edward Fashole-Luke, Richard Gray, Adrian Hastings and Godwin Tasie Charles H. Kraft 618
Aquinas: God and Action by David B. Burrell Robert P. Imbelli 618
Christianity in European History by William A. Clebsch Joseph N. Tylenda 619
Prophets and Millennialists: The Uses of Biblical Prophecy in England from the 1790s to the 1840s by W.H. Oliver Barbara J. MacHaffie 619
The Encyclopedia of American Religions, 2 vols by J. Gordon Melton John W. Kuykendall 620
The Gospel in America: Themes in the Story of America's Evangelicals by John D. Woodbridge, Mark A. Noll and Nathan O. Hatch Russell E. Richey 620
Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate by Martha Banta Bruce A. Ronda 621
Service Evangelism by Richard Stroll John R. Hendrick 621
Effective Church Planning by Lyle E. Schaller John M. Miller 621
The Westminster Dictionary of Worship by J.G. Davies, Ed. Conrad Harry Massa 622
What To Do With Sunday Morning by Harold M. Daniels Dean K. Thompson 622
Biblical Perspectives on Death by Loyd R. Bailey, Sr. Richard L. Schaefer 623
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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