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Theology Today
January 1995
Vol. 51, No. 4
EDITORIALS
Waiting for the Morning Star Thomas G. Long 491
ARTICLES
Evangelical Theology Today Mark Noll
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
David Wells		 495
Spirit, Mercy, and the Other Juding Gundry-Volf 508
Postmodernism: Intellectual Velcro Dragged Across Culture? Tyron Inbody 524
With All God's People: Toward a Protestant Reclaiming of the Communion of the Saints Donald Steele 539
The Christian Reason for Being Progressive John B. Cobb, Jr. 548
Knowing How to Go On When You Do Not Know Where You Are: A Response to John Cobb, Jr. Stanley Hauerwas 563
Ally or Opponent? A Response to Stanley Hauerwas John B. Cobb, Jr. 570
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
A Not-So-Distant Mirror: Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction and Pulpit Storytelling Charles L. Campbell 574
CRITIC'S CORNER
When Worldviews Collide: Religion and the Culture of Disbelief Alton B. Pollard, III 583
The Harrowing Grace of Truthful Fiction: A Review of Richard Power's Operation Wandering Soul Cleo McNelly Kearns 588
Is Religion A Language Game? A Real World Critique of the Cultural-Linguistic Theory C. John Sommerville 594
POETRY
Ave Maria Aminta Marks 600
Statement of Faith Aminta Marks 602
Bequest Aminta Marks 604
Song of the Shulamite Carla Badgett 605
Origins Donald T. Williams 607
Letter to St. Augustine Gene Fendt 608
Matrilineage Kathy Coffey 610
BOOK REVIEWS
Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America's New Quest for Community by Robert Wuthnow Robert Coles 611
The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker by John Polkinghorne Diogenes Allen 613
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman Virginia Burrus 614
The Lord's Prayer: Perspectives for Reclaiming Christian Prayer & Credo: The Apostles' Creed Explained for Today by Hans Kung Thomas W. Currie, III 618
Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770 by Frank Lambert James H. Moorhead 626
Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination by Robert H. Abzug Milton J. Coalter, Jr. 630
Also a Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Virginia W. Landgraf 632
Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis by Max Oelschlaeger W. Paul Jones 636
Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America by Charles B. Strozier Wayne E. Oates 640
Who Will Go for Us? An Invitation to Ordained Ministry by Dennis M. Campbell J. Carter Hiestand, III 642
BOOK NOTES
Unto Caesar: The Political Relevance of Christianity Glenn Tinder 646
Somebodyness: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Theory of Dignity Richard Lischer 646
Raising Up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology Dennis T. Olson 646
The Power of the Cross: Foundations for a Christian Feminist Ethic of Community Wendy Farley 650
What is Social Scientific Criticism? Richard L. Rohrbaugh 650
Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story Nancy R. Bowen 652
Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition Walter Harrelson 652
God Plays Piano, Too: The Spiritual Lives of Disabled Children Roger K. Peters 652
Reading Luke-Acts: Dynamics of Biblical Narrative Beverly Roberts Gaventa 654
Faithquakes Patrick J. Willson 654
Spiritual Life in the Early Church: The Witness of Acts and Ephesians Sandra M. Schneiders 656
Canon and Theology: Overtures to an Old Testament Theology Dennis T. Olson 656
Ministry in an Oral Culture: Living with Will Rogers, Uncle Remus & Minnie Pearl Lamar Potts 656
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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