Theology Today
January 1987
Vol. 43, No. 4
EDITORIAL
Trademarks of Theology Hugh T. Kerr 467
ARTICLES
The Ways of Praise W. Dow Edgerton 472
Language, Metaphor, and Pastoral Theology Belden C. Lane 487
Franciscan Exegesis John W. Dixon, Jr. 503
Debated Issues in Liberation Theology William R. Barr 510
A Mexican Hymnal and the Struggle for Justice William H. Katra 524
SYMPOSIUM
Inclusive Language and Linguistic Blindness Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite 533
The Translation Task Patrick D. Miller, Jr. 540
The Power of Language in Worship Robert A. Bennett 546
Standing Toward the Text Sharon H. Ringe 552
POEMS
A Birthday Gift William J. Rewak 558
Our Jeopardy Thomas John Carlisle 559
The High Priest's Servant Tom Riley 560
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Making Homilies for Our Times Monika K. Hellwig 561
CRITIC'S CORNER
A Closet Christian's Closet William Sayres 569
BOOK REVIEWS
Theology for a Nuclear Age, By Gordon D. Kaufman Max L. Stackhouse 573
God In Creation: A New Theology Of Creation And The Spirit Of God, By Jurgen Moltmann George S. Hendry 119
Job, By J. Gerald Janzen Richard N. Boyce 578
The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction, By Norman K. Gottwald J. J. M. Roberts 580
Form And Vitality In The World And God: A Christian Perspective, By Trevor Williams Walter Brueggemann 584
The Foundations Of Bioethics, By H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. James B. Tubbs, Jr. 586
The First Liberty: Religion And The American Public, By William Lee Miller James H. Moorhead 589
Churchmen And The Western Indians, 1820-1920, Edited By Clyde A. Milner and Floyd A. O'neil D. Campbell Wyckoff 591
Faith Encounters Ideology: Christian Discernment And Social Change, By Douglas J. Elwood Charles C. West 593
Women's Consciousness, Women's Conscience: A Reader In Feminist Ethics, Edited by Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, Christine E. Gudorf, and Mary D. Pellauer Isabel W. Rogers 594
A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad To The Age Of Reforms, By Mircea Eliade R. Emmet McLaughlin 597
Early Biblical Interpretation, By James L. Kugel And Rowan A. Greer Bruce M. Metzger 598
The New Testament In Its Social Environment, By John E. Stambaugh and David L. Balch Bruce J. Malina 601
The End Of American History: Democracy, Capitalism, And The Metaphor Of Two Worlds In American Historical Writing, 1880-1980, By David W. Noble Charles H. Lippy 602
Old Testament Criticism In The Nineteenth Century: England And Germany, By John Rogerson Ben C. Ollenburger 605
BOOK NOTES
Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, By Barbara J. MacHaffie Joann Wolski Conn 609
Edith Stein: A Biography, By Waltraud Herbstrith Dewey Weiss Kramer 609
The Art of Biblical Poetry, By Robert Alter Patrick D. Miller, Jr 609
Women and Religion in America (Vol. 3: 1900-1968), Edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller Barbara Brown Zikmund 610
Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America, Edited by Charles DeBenedetti John M. Mulder 610
God Is Love: A Study in the Theology of Karl Rahner, By Mark Lloyd Taylor Eric O. Springsted 611
Theology and Technology: Essays in Christian Analysis and Exegesis, By Carl Mitchan and Jim Grote Jamews E. Reagan 611
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: CRAIG DYKSTRA
BOOK EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER, JR.
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EDITORIAL COUNCIL:

Thomas W. Gillespie, Chair
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia
Jane Dempsey Douglass, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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
Thomas G. Long, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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 R. 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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