Theology Today
January 1993
Vol. 49, No. 4

EDITORIAL
Spiritual Discipline Hugh T. Kerr 449
ARTICLES
Journey Toward Wholeness Frederick Buechner 454
Ecobible: The Bible and Ecojustice Walter Wink 465
Invitation to a Simple Feast Diane M. Komp 478
The Promise of Life in the Gospel of John Paul S. Minear 485
The Reign of God Michael Welker 500
TRIBUTE TO HUGH THOMSON KERR, JR.
Memories of Tim Kerr F. W. Dillistone 516
Positive Protestantism: A Return to First Principles John M. Mulder 519
CRITIC'S CORNER
In Whose Name? Feminism and the Trinitarian Baptismal Formula James F. Kay 524
Political Incorrectness and Theological Education Glenn R. Bucher 534
POETRY
Winter Solstice Joyce Crain 538
Dogwood in September Harold McCurdy 539
A Poem For My Mother Polly Holliday 540
BOOK REVIEWS
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation Harold Bloom 542
Humanization and the Politics of God: The Koinonia Ethics of Paul Lehmann Nancy J. Duff 544
Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review Hershel Shanks 548
Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology Robert Cummings Neville 550
The Shape of the Good: Christian Reflections on the Foundation of Ethics C. Stephen Layman 553
An Introduction to Systematic Theology Wolfhart Pannenberg 557
Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity Peter J. Paris 560
Stages of Faith and Religious Development: Implications for Church, Education, and Society James W. Fowler
Karl Ernst Nipkow
Friedrich Schweitzer
562
The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred James G. Williams 566
With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism Craig M. Gay 569
The Abuse of Power: A Theological Problem James Newton Poling 572
A Window to Heaven: When Children See Life in Death Diane M. Komp 574
BOOK NOTES
A Fundamental Practical Theology. Descriptive and Strategic Proposals Don S. Browning 578
Liberating Reformed Theology: A South African Contribution to an Ecumenical Debate John W. De Gruchy 578
Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition Carnegie Samuel Calian 578
Asian Christian Spirituality: Reclaiming Traditions Virgina Fabella
Peter K. H. Lee
David Kwang-Sun Suh
579
Gospels and Tradition: Studies on Redaction Criticism of the Synoptic Gospels Robert H. Stein 579
Doing Theology in Today's World. Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Kantzer John D. Woodbridge
Thomas Edward McComisky
579
Matters of Life and Death John B. Cobb, Jr. 582
The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day: A Feminist Perspective June E. O'Connor 582
Public Theology and Political Economy: Christian Stewardship in Modern Society Max L. Stackhouse 584
The Secularization of Sin: An Investigation of the Daedalus Complex Richard K. Fenn 584
Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga: An Introduction to Reformed Epistemology Dewey J. Hoitenga, Jr. 584
Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works Anne Savage
Nicholas Watson
585
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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
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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