Theology Today
January 1984
Vol. 40, No. 4
EDITORIAL
Forty Years. And So? By Hugh T. Kerr 391
ARTICLES
Retrospective for Today By F. W. Dillistone 394
The Simple Gospel: A Plea to Theologians By Walter Lowrie 403
Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Theology--Black Church By James H. Cone 409
Beyond the Convent Wall: Sisters in the Modern World By John Deedy 421
Seminary and Congregation: Uneasy Alliance By Leonard I. Sweet 426
POETRY
Images of Justice By Patrick G. Coy 431
Bring the Cloak By Stanton Mellick 432
All According to Plan By Benjamin E. Williams 433
Foot Washing By Raymon L. White 434
Tenebrae By Peg Hartsell Ranson 436

THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
The Beauty of the Bible By Howard J. Happ 437

THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Christian Unity: What I Hope For By Leroy Garrett 444
CRITIC'S CORNER
The Bishops Bomb By Eileen P. Flynn 448
Let Us Pray By Paul A. Corcoran 451

MEMORIAL MINUTE
Memorial Minute: John Alexander Mackay 1889-1983 453
BOOK REVIEWS
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Study of Churches and Religions in the Modern World, A.D. 1900-2000 by David B. Barrett John M. Mulder 457
Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language by Sallie McFague Mark Kline Taylor 464
In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins by Elizabeth Schussler Firoenza
Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary Radford Ruether
The Woman Sealed in the Tower: A Psychological Approach to Feminine Spirituality by Betsy Caprio		 Mary Pellauer 472
Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education by Edward Farley
Seminary, A Search by Paul Hendrickson		 Lewis S. Mudge 476
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernityby James Davison Hunter Beverly J. Crute 482
Sacraments as God's Self Giving: Sacramental Practice and Faith by James F. White
Sacraments and Sacramentality by Bernard Cooke		 Jerry Handspicker 486
The Perilous Vision of John Wyclifby Louis Brewer Hall Albert C. Outler 489
The Witness of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz Thomas H. Troeger 491
A Survey of Recent Christian Ethics by Edward LeRoy Long, Jr. Richard P. Unsworth 494
by Wayne a. Meeks David R. Adams 497
God and Human Freedom: A Festschrift in Honor of Howard Thurman by henry J. Young (ed) William P. DeVeaux 500
Amish Life; Mennonite Life; Hutterite Life by John A. Hostetler Hugh T. Kerr 501
BOOK NOTES
Creative Suffering by Paul Tournier E. Dean Bergen 505
Living With Death by Helmut Thielicke E. Dean Bergen 505
The Community of Women and Men in the Church-The Sheffield Report by Constance F. Parvey, Ed Lois Montgomery 506
Who Is This Christ? Gospel Christology and Contemporary Faith by Reginald H. Fuller and Pheme Perkins George W. Stroup 506
The Faith of the Church by M. Eugene Osterhaven John H. Leith 506
Pilgrimage of the Heart: A Treasury of Eastern Christian Spirituality by George A. Maloney, S.J. (ed) Doris Donnelly 507
Once More Astonished, The Parables of Jesus by Jan Lambrecht Cullen I K Story 507
Shepherds and Sheep: A Biblical View of Leading and Following by Jerram Barrs Joann Wolski Conn 508
Christus Mediator. Platonic Mediation in the Thought of Simone Weil by Eric O. Springsted Henry Le Roy Finch 508
From Colonialism to World Community by John coventry Smith Gerald F. Moede 508
Communication Theory for Christian Witness by Charles H. Kraft Bertram Gordon Watkins 509
The Heart of the Christian Matter by John Carmody S. Mark Heim 509
Psalms From Prison by Benjamin F. Chavis Samuel L. Varner 510
The Archaeology of the Bible: Book by Book by Gaalyahu Cornfeld Edward F. Fampbell 510
Henry Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision by Jonathan F.S. Post Katharine Eisaman Maus 511
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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