Theology Today
January 1994
Vol. 50, No. 4

EDITORIAL
Whatever Happened to the Soul? Patrick D. Miller 507
ARTICLES
What is a Human Being? Reflections on Psalm 8 By James L. Mays 511
"Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh" By Phyllis A. Bird 521
Touched By The Eternal By Gilbert Meilaender 535
Humble Dominion By James B. Tubbs, Jr. 543
Asking About Who We Are By W. Dow Edgerton 557
The Difference Theological Anthropology Makes By Kathryn Tanner 567
CRITIC'S CORNER
Why a Pastor Should Not Be a "Person" By William H. Willimon 580
THEOLOGICAL TABLE TALK
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Evening News By Randall K. Bush 586
POETRY
The Short History of Dogma By Gene Fendt 593
La Cathedrale (Rodin, 1908) By Gene Fendt 594
Palm Sunday By Kathy Coffey 595
Holy Thursday By Kathy Coffey 596
Good Friday By Kathy Coffey 597
The First Resurrection Appearance By Kathy Coffey 598
Dodona: Sunday Morning By Anthony S. Abbott 599
BOOK REVIEWS
A Theology of Reconstruction: Nation-Building and Human Rights By Charles Villa-Vicencio 600
Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions By Margaret R. Miles 601
Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children By Robert Coles, ed. by Margaret Sartor 606
The Son of Laughter By Frederick Buechner 607
Memory Fields: The Legacy of a Wartime Childhood in Czechoslovakia
Katerina
By Shlomo Breznitz
Aharon Appelfeld
611
Christian Faith in Dark Times: Theological Conflicts in the Shadow of Hitler By Jack Forstman 614
But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation By Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza 619
Is There Only One True Religion or Are There Many? By Schubert M. Ogden 622
Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of Worship and Evangelism By Patrick R. Keifert 626
Tribes: How Race, Religion & Identity Determine Success in the Global Economy By Joel Kotkin 628
The Protest and the Silence: Suffering, Death, and Biblical Theology By G. Tom Milazzo 631
Models of Contextual Theology By Stephen B. Bevans 634
The Love Commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy Edmund N. Santurri
William Werpehowski
636
The Text as Thou: Martin Buber's Dialogical Hermeneutics and Narrative Theology By Steven Kepnes 639
Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution By Steven Ozment 640
The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism By A. Gregory Schneider 644
The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology By N. T. Wright 646
Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66 CE By E. P. Sanders 648
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins By Burton L. Mack 650
Born Before All Time? The Dispute over Christ's Origin By Karl-Joseph Kuschel 652
Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling By Larry Kent Graham 655
BOOK NOTES
Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora By Walter F. Pitts 660
The Incarnation of Freedom and Love By Ruth Page 660
Virtuoso Theology: The Bible and Interpretation By Frances Young 660
Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep By Harold J. Recinos 661
Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates By G. R. Evans 662
Healing Body and Soul: The Meaning of Illness in the New Testament and in Psychotherapy By John A. Sanford 663
An Introduction to Judaism: A Textbook and Reader By Jacob Neusner 663
A Rabbi Talks With Jesus: An Intermillenial, Interfaith Exchange By Jacob Neusner 664
Belonging To God: A Commentary on A Brief Statement of Faith By William C. Placher
David Willis-Watkins
664
Calvin's Preaching By Thomas Henry Louis Parker 665
Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith
Major Themes in the Reformed Tradition
By Donald K. McKim 665
A Virtuous Life In Business: Stories of Courage and Integrity in the Corporate World By Oliver F. Williams
John W. Houck
666
Sensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism By Virginia Ramey Mollenkott 667
The Vigilant God Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin and Barth By Horton Davies 667
From Fantasy to Faith By D. Z. Phillips 667
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: THOMAS G. LONG
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER
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, 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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