Theology Today
January 1996
Vol. 52, No. 4
EDITORIALS
Whither the Church? Patrick D. Miller 445
ARTICLES
Works and Grace: Reflections on Religious Practice Christianity and the Ubiquity of God Wendy Farley 449
The Future of Pretestantism in North America Douglas John Hall 458
America in Search of Its Soul Gibson Winter 466
Practicing Hospitality in a Time of Backlash Letty M. Russell 476
Building a Visionary Church: An Organizational Theology for the Congregation Carnegie Samuel Calian 485
The Church of the Future, Its Mission and Theology: A View from Africa Mercy Amba Oduyoye 494
CRITIC'S CORNER
Miles Davis' Kind of Blue Jon Michael Spencer 506
POETRY
Carl Sagan Recommends Escape-Flight to Mars Harold McCurdy 511
Marcion (Second Century A.D.) Harold McCurdy 512
If God Is a Circle Warren L. Molton 514
BOOK REVIEWS
Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America Brian K. Blount 516
Love Your Enemies: Discipleship Pacifism, and Just War Theory Glen H. Stassen 518
Nonfoundationalism J. Wentzel van Huyssteen 521
Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine Laurence Hull Stookey 524
Models for Scripture A. K. M. Adam 525
Language and Love: Introducing Augustine's Religious Thought through the Confessions Story Donald Capps 528
Modern Trinitarian Perspectives Joseph A. Bracken 532
Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology Daniel S. Schipani 536
God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams John Bolt 540
Wisdom and Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature James L. Crenshaw 544
Together Bound: God, History, and the Religious Community William Schweiker 548
Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve Philip L. Quinn 550
BOOK NOTES
The New Testament: A Thematic Introduction Frances Taylor Gench 554
John Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament Elsie McKee 556
Christian Worship and Technological Change Paul B. Brown 556
The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology Benjamin W. Farley 556
A Social Reading of the Old Testament: Prophetic Approaches to Israel's Communal Life Arthur Van Seters 558
Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories Bertram Atwood 558
Two Ways of Praying Patricia Wilson-Kastner 558
Pastoral Care and Social Conflict Brian H. Childs 560
The Magnificat: Musicians as Biblical Interpreters Roger A. Bullard 560
All Things Are Possible to Believers: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount Robert Q. Pierce 562
How Shall We Witness? Faithful Evangelism in a Reformed Tradition John W. Stewart 562
The English Religious Tradition and the Genius of Anglicanism Horton Davies 564
Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions Walter Wink 564
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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