Theology Today
January 1980
Vol. 37, No. 4

EDITORIAL
How Much Is Enough? Hugh T. Kerr 411
ARTICLES
Spanking Hurts Everybody Robert R. Gillogly 415
How Pastoral Theology Functions Robert L. Kinast 425
Christian Faith as Forgiveness Carnegie Samuel Calian 439
Sacraments as Visible Words David Willis 444
POETRY
The Jacob Cycle David Steele 458
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Unification Church and the City of Gloucester John Deedy 480
CRITIC'S CORNER
Everynovelness and the Second Coming: Walter Percy's Fiction Kent Gramm 487
Why Churches Wax and Wane Carl S. Dudley 491
Preaching Is Alive and Well Howard G. Hageman 493
Gnosticism, Feminism, and Elaine Pagels Kathleen McVey 498
BOOK REVIEWS
God at Work in Israel by Gerhard von Rad Roland E. Murphy 502
Old Testament Theology: A Fresh Approach by R.E. Clements Gerald T. Sheppard 503
The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description by Anthony c. Thiselton Walter Wink 506
Faith and History in Society: Towards a Practical Fundamental Theology by Johann Baptist Metz Charles e. Curran 508
Called to Freedom: Liberation Theology and the Future of Christian Doctrine by Daniel L. Migliore Frederick Herzog 512
Theology of Nature by George S. Hendry Geoffrey Wainwright 516
Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth by Geoffrey W. Bromiley
Karl Barth and Evangelicalism by Gregory G. Bolich
Karl Barth: Studies of His Theological Method
by S.W. Sykes (ed)
Daniel L. Migliore 517
Costly Grace: An Illustrated Introduction to Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eberhard Bethge Alfred D. Sunderwirth 523
The Survival of American Innocence: Catholicism in an Era of Disillusionment, 1920-1940 by William M. Halsey Donald Crosby 526
Salvation and the Perfect Society: The Eternal Quest by Alfred Brauntal
The Boundaries of Utopia
by Carol Weisbrod
Henry Warner Bowden 529
Religion and Art in Conflict by Samuel Laeuchli
Art in Action
by Nicholas wolterstorff
Horton Davies 531
Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Vision by Thomas Groome D. Campbell Wyckoff 532
Biblical Themes for Pastoral Care by William b. Oglesby, Jr. Kenneth r. Mitchell 534
BOOK NOTES
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia by Geoffrey W. Bromiley et al, eds Louis Charles Willard 537
Messianic Expectation in the Old Testament by Joachim Becker Fredrick Holmgren 537
When Prophecy Failed: Cognitive Dissonance in the Prophetic Traditions by Robert P. Carroll Robert a. Bennett 537
I, Mark: A Personal Encounter by Carl Walters, Jr. Ralph P. Martin 538
Cliffs Of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan John P. Meier 538
Jesus and the Living Past by Michael Ramsey Bennett J. Sims 538
The Secret Book of Revelation: The Last Book in the Bible by Gilles Quisrel Karlfried Froehlich 538
Inerrancy and Common Sense by Roger R. Nicole and J. Ramsey Michaels, ed. David Allan Hubbard 539
Christian Origins in Sociological Perspective: Methods and Resources by Howard Clark Kee Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. 540
Reason Enough: A Case for the Christian Faith by Clark H. Pinnock David H. Hopper 540
Creation and the World of Science by A.R. Peacocke Catherine M. LaCugna 540
The Future of Creation: Collected Essays by Jürgen Moltmann John E. Burkhart 541
Toward Reunion: The Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches by Edward Kilmartin Joseph Eagan, S.J. 541
Moral Principles and Political Obligations by a. John Simmons Paul H. Sherry 541
Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tradition by David Hollenbach Preston N. Williams 542
The Wheel and the Cross: A Christian Response to the Technological Revolution by Waldo beach Charles C. West 542
The Outward Bound: Caravaning as the Style of the Church by Vernard Eller Roderic P. Frohman 542
Truth Is Two Eyed by John A.T. Robinson Raimundo Panikkar 543
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran by Shahrough Akhavi George W. Braswell, Jr. 543
Sex in the World's Religions by Geoffrey Parrinder Joseph M. Kitagawa 544
Somebody's Calling My Name by Wyatt Tee Walker Henry H. Mithcell 544
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene H. Peterson Lewis Chamberlain 545
Death and Existence: A Conceptual History of Human Mortality by James P. Carse James N. Lapsley 545
Conversations with Jean Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier James E. Loder 545
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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