Theology Today
January 1986
Vol. 42, No. 4
EDITORIAL
Where Are You? Hugh T. Kerr 419
ARTICLES
Why, God? A Tale of Two Sufferers Burton Z. Cooper 423
Amadeus Revisited Samuel Terrien 435
Senile Dementia and A Resurrection Theology Glenn D. Weaver 444
Appalachian Spring? James H. Smylie 457
Jeremiah's Little Book of Comfort David Steele 471
SYMPOSIUM: THE BEM DOCUMENT
BEM: Challenge and Promise Paul A. Crow, Jr. 478
BEM: Questions and Considerations Markus Barth 490
CRITIC'S CORNER
Correlates and Causes John I. Snyder 499
Tuchman's View of History's Folly Howard J. Happ 504
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
When the Editorial Council Sits Down for a Chat Craig Dykstra 509
Searching and Finding: A Research Topic Diane Lobody Zaragoza 514
BOOK REVIEWS
Anthropology in Theological Perspective by Wolfhart Pannenberg Anne E. Carr 517
Church: Charism and Power-Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church by Leonardo Boff Gregory Baum 520
The Church With a Human Face: A New and Expanded Theology of Ministry by Edward Schillebeeckx Bernard Cooke 522
The Nature of Love, Vol. 2: Courtly and Romantic by Irving Singer Diogenes Allen 524
Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature by Martha Himmelfarb James C. VanderKam 526
The Hebrew Bible and Its Modern Interpreters edited by Douglas A. Knight and Gene A. Tucker Ben C. Ollenburger 530
Jesus and Judaism by E.P. Sanders Sharon H. Ringe 532
Blessed Be the Bond: Christian Perspectives on Marriage and the Family by William Johnson Everett William V. Arnold 535
The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology by H. Paul Santmire Jerry K. Robbins 537
Faithfulness in Action: Loyalty in Biblical Perspective by Katharine Doob Sakenfeld Robert G. Boling 540
Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey by Bruce Kuklick William H. Becker 543
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet by Robert Moats Miller John Brown Macnab 544
Freedom in Mission: The Perspective of the Kingdom of God by Emilio Castro
Sent Free: Mission and Unity in the Perspective of the Kingdom by Emilio Castro 		H. McKennie Goodpasture 548
Existence and Actuality: Conversations with Charles Hartshorne edited by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell
Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God by Donald Wayne Viney		 J. Edward Barrett 551
Daniel by John J. Collins John G. Gammie 553
Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach by Gerd Theissen Clyde A. Holbrook 555
BOOK NOTES
What's Right With the Church by William H. Willimon Wallace M. Alston, Jr. 557
The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity by Dorothee Soelle
Christian Feminism: Visions of a New Humanity by Judith L. Weidman		 Beverly J. Crute 557
The Politics of Liberation by John M. Swomley, Jr. Lester Edwin J. Ruiz 558
Jews in Black Perspective: A Dialogue edited by Joseph R. Washington, Jr. David W. Wills 559
Professional Ethics: Power and Paradox by Karen Lebacqz Charles M. Swezey 559
Conscience and Dividends: Churches and the Multinationals by Thomas C. Oden Belle Miller McMaster 560
Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Summary, Explanation, and Defense by Ronald Lawler, O.F.M.Cap., Joseph Boyle, Jr. and William E. May Lisa Sowle Cahill 560
Dutch Calvinism in Modern America: A History of a Conservative Subculture by James D. Bratt John M. Mulder 561
Walter Rauschenbusch: Selected Writings edited by Winthrop S. Hudson Max L. Stackhouse 561
Essays in Process Theology by Daniel Day Williams Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. 561
Fundamentals of Preaching by John Killinger Wallace M. Alston, Jr. 562
The Preacher as Jacob: A New Paradigm for Preaching by Kenneth L. Gibble John Stapleton 562
Striking Sails: A Pastoral-Psychological View of Growing Older in Our Society by Heije Faber James N. Lapsley 563
Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus by Harvey Falk Bruce Chilton 563
The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective by Pinchas Lapide
Easter Gospels: The Resurrection of Jesus According to the Four Evangelists by Robert H. Smith		 Cullen I K Story 564
II Corinthians (The Anchor Bible) by Victor Paul Furnish Cullen I K Story 564
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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