Theology Today
January 1989
Vol. 45, No. 4

EDITORIAL
The Person Behind The Theology Hugh T. Kerr 387
ARTICLES
Earthsong, Godsong: Women's Spirituality Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 392
Holy Disobedience In Esther Karol Jackowski 403
The Sting Of Death Bonnie Miller-Mclemore 415
POETRY
Who Baked The Bread? Katherine Dale Makus 427
Snowfire Karol Jackowski 428
Holy Saturday 4/2/88 Patrick G. Henry 429
CRITIC'S CORNER
Grünewald And Hindemith Mark S. Harvey 430
Stained Glass: Yesterday And Today William Morgan 440
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Treating God As Real Joanne Swenson 446
BOOK REVIEWS
Prophetic Fragments, By Cornel West Michael E. Dysonaa 451
Improper Behavior: When And How Misconduct Can Be Healthy For Society, By Elizabeth Janeway Virginia Ramey Mollenkott 454
Rhetoric And History In Revolutionary New England, By Donald Weber James H. Moorhead 458
Story, Text, And Scripture: Literary Interests In Biblical Narrative, By Wesley A. Korta Mieke Bal 460
The Myth Of Christian Uniqueness: Toward A Pluralistic Theology Of Religions, Edited By John Hick And Paul F. Knitter Denise Lardner Carmody 464
Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read The Jewish Bible, Edited By David Rosenberg Walter Brueggemann 468
Midrash And Literature, Edited By Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick
Perplexity In The Moral Life: Philosophical And Theological Considerations, By Edmund N. Santurri Max L. Stackhouse 474
A Theology Of The Jewish-Christian Reality: Part 3: Christ In Context, By Paul M. Van Buren Clark M. Williamson 478
Bible Believers: Fundamentalists In The Modern World, By Nancy Tatom Ammerman George M. Marsden 482
Black Womanist Ethics, By Katie G. Cannon Robin W. Lovin 484
The Creative Suffering Of God, By Paul S. Fiddes M. Douglas Meeks 488
For Righteousness' Sake: Contemporary Moral Philosophies, By A. Roy Eckardt Lois K. Daly 490
Judaism And Christianity In The Age Of Constantine, By Jacob Neusner Judith R. Baskin 494
Death And Birth Of Judaism: The Impact Of Christianity, Secularism, And The Holocaust On Jewish Faith, By Jacob Neusner  
The Enchantments Of Judaism: Rites Of Transformation From Birth Through Death, By Jacob Neusner  
The Canon Of The New Testament: Its Origin, Development, And Significance, By Bruce M. Metzger Robert W. Wall 496
The Structure Of The Resurrection Belief, By Peter Carnley Pheme Perkins 497
Jesus And The Spiral Of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance In Roman Palestine, By Richard A. Horsley Benjamin G. Wright, III 499
Paul And The Torah, By Lloyd Gaston Vincent L. Wimbush 501
The Reformed Imperative: What The Church Has To Say That No One Else Can Say, By John H. Leith Alexander J. Mckelway 503
BOOK NOTES
Israel's Praise:Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology, By Walter Brueggeman Terence E. Fretheim 506
An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective, By Alice L. Laffey Carolyn J. Pressler 506
Christian Perspectives on Politics, By J. Philip Wogaman Charles C. West 507
John Calvin's Perspectival Anthropology, By Mary Potter Engel
Benjamin W. Farley 508
The Color of God: The Concepr of God in Afro-American Thought, By Major J. Jones William H. Becker 508
A Crown of Glory: A Biblical View of Aging, By Rachel C. Dulin James M. Ward 509
Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly, By J. Gordon Harris
Many Things in Parables: Extravagant Stories of New Community, By Frederick Houk Borsch Karl A. Plank 509
Common Ground: Christianity, African Religion and Philosophy, By Emmanuel K. Twesigye Jacob K. Olupona 510
Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 1-25, By William L. Holladay J.J.M. Roberts 510
A Critical Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Vol. 1, By William McKane
Christology in Context: The Earliest Christian Response to Jesus, By Marinus De Jonge Jerry K. Robbins 512
Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World, By Alan F. Segal J. Andrew Overman 512
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
EDITOR: CRAIG DYKSTRA
BOOK EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER, JR.
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
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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