Theology Today
January 1997
Vol. 53, No. 4
EDITORIALS
Popularizing the Bible Patrick D. Miller 435
ARTICLES
Christianity as a Second Language: Rethinking Mission in the West
 Brian K. Smith 439
The Bible Says: Evangelical and Postliberal Biblicism James Callahan 449
Paul Tillich and the Millennialist Heritage

Raymond F. Bulman

 464
New Birth of Conscience Frederick Herzog 477
Why We All Can't Just Get Along : Racism as a Lenten Issue
 William H. Willimon 485
New Geometries of Ecumenism. Patrick Henry 491
THEOLOGICAL TABLE TALK
"Tell Us What You Don't Know," or, To Be a Pastor to People
Who Can't Even Predict the Weather
Browne Barr 503
CRITIC'S CORNER
An Awful Rowing toward God: A Review of Some Recent Literature from the Church's Conversation on Homosexuality

D. Cameron Murchison, Jr. 508
POETRY
Morning Sickness Harold McCurdy 514
At Jacob's Well Harold McCurdy 516
All Hallows' Eve
Nancy G. Westerfield 517
A Time to Mourn and a Time to Plant Marie Vianney Bilgrien 518
BOOK REVIEWS
Faust the Theologian by Jaroslav Pelikan
Ralph C. Wood 521
Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis
by L. Gregory Jones
M. Cathleen Kaveny 522
Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and
Development, 1909-1936 by Bruce L. McCormack

Mark I. Wallace 524
Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious
and Cultural Criticism by Victor Anderson

Willie James Jennings 527
Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus by Beverly
Roberts Gaventa

David M. Scholer 528
Hurrying toward Zion: Universities, Divinity Schools, and
American Protestantism by Conrad Cherry

James H. Moorhead 531
Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline
by Walter H. Capps

Robert Cummings Neville 534
In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness
by Emilie M. Townes

Karen Baker-Fletcher 536
The Corinthian Body by Dale B. Martin
Herman C. Waetjen 540
John Wesley's Conception and Use of Scripture
by Scott J. Jones

Nancy R. Bowen 543
Models for Interpretation of Scripture
by John Goldingay
Bernhard W. Anderson 544
Arguing about Sex: The Rhetoric of Christian Sexual Morality
by Joseph Monti
Lisa Sowle Cahill 547
Postmodern Theologies: The Challenge of Religious Diversity
by Terrence W. Tilley with others
Carol Wayne White 550
Rethinking Metaphysics edited by L. Gregory Jones
and Stephen E. Fowl
Leanne Van Dyck 552
The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross
by Jon Sobrino
Alan Neely 556
Jesus and Liberation: A Critical Analysis of the Christology of Latin
American Liberation and Theology by Carlos R. Piar
 Alan Neely 556
Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's
Shadow by Brian D. Ingraffia
A. K. M. Adam 560
BOOK NOTES
BOOK NOTES   563
INDEX
INDEX   575
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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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