Theology Today
January 1992
Vol. 48, No. 4

EDITORIAL
The Everlasting Arms Hugh T. Kerr 381
ARTICLES
Divine Folly: Being Religious And The Exercise Of Humor Doris Donnelly 385
Divine Incongruity: Comedy And Tragedy In A Post-Holocaust World A. Roy Eckardt 399
John Updike And The Funny Theologian John McTavish 413
The Day The Rabbi Speculated Kenneth Barker 426
Was Graham Greene A Donatist? Samuel Terrien 436
Rapsody In Black: Utopian Aspirations Jon Michael Spencer 444
CRITIC'S CORNER
Writing Poetry Harold McCurdy 452
POETRY
Communion Harold McCurdy 456
Purple Dirge Kathy Coffey 457
Annunciation   458
The Cana Couple Reminisce   459
After The Transfiguration   460
Unresurrected   461
Chartres Revisited: To A Critic Anthony S. Abbott 462
Sancta Camisia   463
Struggle John W. Crawford 464
I Am I Am: According To Dr. Seuss W. Alan Froggatt 465
BOOK REVIEWS
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream Or A Nightmare, By James H. Cone Lewis V. Baldwin 468
The Simple Gospel: Reflections On Christian Faith, By Hugh T. Kerr Frederick Buechner 470
Thinking About God: An Introduction To Theology, By Dorothee Soelle Linda A. Mercadante 472
The Window Of Vulnerability: A Political Spirituality, By Dorothee Soelle    
The Actuality Of Atonement: A Study Of Metaphor, Rationality And The Christian Tradition, By Colin E. Gunton Alexander J. McKelway 476
The Republic Of Many Mansions: Foundations Of American Religious Thought, By Denise Lardner Carmody And John T. Carmody Ronald C. White, Jr. 480
The Second Naivete: Barth, Ricouer, And The New Yale Theology, By Mark I. Wallace Charles M. Wood 482
God, Power And Evil: A Process Theodicy, By David Ray Griffin Terrence W. Tilley 485
Good And Evil: Interpreting A Human Condition, By Edward Farley    
The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, And Moderates, By Bradley J. Longfield James H. Moorhead 490
Slavery As Salvation: The Metaphor Of Slavery In Pauline Christianity, By Dale B. Martin Beverly Roberts Gaventa 492
The Patient's Ordeal, By William F. May Diane M. Komp 496
BOOK NOTES
The Bible and the Literary Critic, By Amos N. Wilder Norman R. Petersen 501
Ending Marriage, Keeping Faith, By Randall Nichols Brian H. Childs 501
Abiding Astonishment: Psalms, Modernity and the Making of History, By Walter Brueggemann Mark Hillmer 501
A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson Max Champion 502
The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, By Parker J. Palmer Douglas G. Scott 502
The Conversation Continues: Studies in Paul & John in Honor of J. Louis Martyn, Edited by Beverly R. Gaventa and Robert T. Fortna David M. Hay 504
Making Moral Decisions, By J. Phillip Wogaman C. West 504
The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction Through Paul's Rhetoric, By Antoinette Clark Wire Virginia Burrus 506
Centering on God: Method and Message in Luke Acts, By Robert L. Brawley Charles H. Talbert 506
Paul, in Other Words: A Cultural Reading of His Letters, By Jerome H. Neyrey John J. Pilch 506
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
EDITOR: THOMAS G. LONG
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
Craig R. Dykstra, Lily Endowment, 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 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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