Theology Today
January 1982
Vol. 38, No. 4
EDITORIAL
The Living Truth Hugh T. Kerr 447
ARTICLES
Individualism and Christian Faith Richard J. Mouw 450
How We Respond to Natural Disaster Ronald Allen 458
A Bonhoeffer Sermon Translated

Daniel Bloesch
F. Burton Nelson

 465
Trinitarian Theology A Review Article M. Douglas Meeks 472
POETRY
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Daniel McDonald 478
Johannine Haiku Patrick Henry 479
Clapping Hands Abby Arthur Johnson 480
The Church in Dallas-II Lewis Chamberlain 481
The Man Born Blind -John 9:1-41 Loretta F. Ross-Gotta 485
The Pharaoh; Against the Odds; The Dinosaur Harold McCurdy 486
CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Politics of Justice David Hollenbach 489
CRITIC'S CORNER
A Jonah for Today Paul E. Luthman 494
BOOK REVIEWS
Understanding Church Growth (fully revised) by Donald A. McGavran Jeffrey I. Myers 496
Our Fragile Brains: A Christian Perspective on Brain Research by D. Gareth Jones
Brains, Machines, and Persons by Donald M. McKay		 Thomas E. Ludwig 497
Christian Realism and Liberation Theology: Practical Theologies in Creative Conflict by Dennis P. McCann Theodore R. Weber 500
The Ordination of Women: An Essay on the Office of Christian Ministry by Paul K. Jewett Katharine D. Sakenfeld 504
Creed and Personal Identity: The Meaning of the Apostles' Creed by David Baily Harned Margaret Schatkin 508
Our Christian Faith: Answers for the Future by Karl Rahner and Karl-Heinz Weger Carl J. Peter 512
Where Faith and Economics Meet by David M. Beckmann
Economic Anxiety and Christian Faith by Larry L. Rasmussen		 Thomas M. McFadden 513
How Brave A New World: Dilemmas in Bioethics by Richard A. McCormick, S.J.
The Main Issues in Bioethics by Andrew C. Varga		 Kenneth Vaux 517
The Theory of Christian Education Practice by Randolph Crump Miller C. Ellis Nelson 520
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 by George M. Marsden John M. Mulder 522
In the Beginning by Isaac Asimov Dietrick E. Thomsen 524
Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered by Paolo Matthiae John H. Marks 526
The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay by Giovanni Pettinato John H. Marks 527
Morality: Religious and Secular by Basil Mitchell Donald Evans 528
A History of Christian Spirituality: An Analytical Introduction Urban T. Holmes, III Joseph A. Tetlow 530
The Moral Majority: Right or Wrong? by Robert E. Webber Dennis Hollinger 532
The Traces of God In a Frequently Hostile World by Diogenes Allen James W. McClendon, Jr. 534
Women Ministers: How Women Are Redefining Traditional Roles by Judith L. Weidman (ed) Marcia Clark Myers 535
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder, and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America by Penny Lernoux Jorge Lara-Braud 537
Christian Origins in Sociological Perspective by Howard Clark Kee Dennis E. Smith 538
Human Nature and History: A Response to Sociobiology by Kenneth Bock
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology by Peter Singer		 Don Browning 539
BOOK NOTES
C. S. Lewis: Spinner of Tales by Evan K. Gibson
Patches of Godlight: The Pattern of Thought of C S. Lewis by Robert Houston Smith		 Nancy M. Tischler 542
Faith and the Prospects of Economic Collapse by Robert Lee Carnegie Samuel Calian 542
Exodus: A Hermeneutics of Freedom by J. Severino Croatto Richard Shaull 542
Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction by George W.E. Nickelsburg Charles T. Fritsch 543
After the Cross by Hugh J. Schonfield John F. Jansen 543
The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar by Gregor T. Goethals Milton J. Coalter, Jr. 543
The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America by Barbara Leslie Epstein
Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900 by Ruth Bordin		 Nancy A. Hardesty 544
Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology by Johannes b. Bauer, ed James S. Irvine 544
Ethics in Nursing by Marin, Benjamin and Joy Curtis Sister Dolores Pelletier, D.W. 545
The Structure of the Book of Job: A Form-Critical Analysis by Claus Westermann Samuel Terrien 545
The Gift of Administration by Thomas C. Campbell and Gary b. Reierson Conrad H. Massa 545
Scripture Today: Handling the Word Rightly by Durstan R. McDonald, ed. George E. Chorba, III 546
God and Marriage by Geoffrey W. Bromiley Wayne E. Oates 546
Carlyle Marney: A Pilgrim's Progress by John J. Carey David L. Stitt 546
Jesus in the Tide of Time: An Historical Study by John Ferguson John R. Keating 547
Christian Churches at the Crossroads! A Layman Speaks Out by Benjamin Coe Howard C. Blake 547
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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