Theology Today
January 1990
Vol. 46, No. 4
EDITORIAL
The Quivering Leaf Hugh T. Kerr 361
ARTICLES
What Should Religion Departments Teach? John W. Dixon, Jr. 364
The Hymnology of Black Methodists Jon Michael Spencer 373
SYMPOSIUM: ON WRITING COMMENTARIES
Reflections on Commentary Writing Gordon D. Fee 387
Commentaries: Windows To The Text Pheme Perkins 393
The Why and How of Commentary F. Dale Bruner 399
Some of My Favorites Eugene H. Peterson 405
A TRUE STORY
Traveling Home With Jenny Diane M. Komp 411
BOOK REVIEWS
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 420
The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism Kathleen C. Boone 422
Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World and Living in Between Stanley M. Hauerwas 425
Transcendence and Providence: Reflections of a Physicist and Priest William G. Pollard 427
Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective Letty M. Russell
Kwok Pui-lan
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
Katie Geneva Cannon		 430
What Language Shall I Borrow? God-Talk in Worship: A Male Response to Feminist Theology Brian Wren 432
The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890: Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America Charles D. Cashdollar 436
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Christian Moral Judgment 		Bruce Birch
Larry L. Rasmussen
J. Philip Wogaman 		438
God in History: Shapes of Freedom Peter C. Hodgson 442
Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture Lamin Sanneh 444
Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, The Three-Self Movement, and China's United Front Philip L. Wickeri 446
Intimations of Divinity David Platt 449
Law, Medicine, and Social Justice Larry I. Palmer 452
Reformed Faith and Economics Robert L. Stivers 454
Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History: I Samuel Robert Polzin 458
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent John Hick 461
BOOK NOTES
The Geneva Bible: The Annotated New Testament 1602 edition Gerald T. Sheppard 463
Christian Realism and Peacemaking: Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy Ronald H. Stone 463
Cross Cultural Theology: Western Reflections in Asia Daniel J. Adams 464
The Nature of Go& An Inquiry into Divine Attributes Edward R. Wierenga 464
Recovering the Personal: Religious Language and the Post-Critical Quest of H. Richard Niebuhr R. Melvin Keiser 464
Christian Thought Revisited: Three Types of Theology Justo L. Gonzalez 465
Biblical Interpretation Robert Morgan
John Barton 		465
The "I" of the Sermon Richard Thulin 466
The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary Jaroslav Pelikan 466
People of the Book? The Authority of the Bible in Christianity John Barton 467
Christian Marriage and Family: Caring for Our Generations John Patton
Brian H. Childs		 467
The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke's Gospel. Overtures to Biblical Theology Halvor Moxnes 468
God and the Processes of Reality: Foundations of a Credible Theism David A. Pailin 468
Morning Light: The Spiritual Journal of Jean Sulivan Jean Sulivan 469
St. Francis of Assisi and Nature: Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment Roger D. Sorrell 469
Christian Ethics in the Protestant Tradition Waldo Beach 469
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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