Theology Today
July 1976
Vol. 33, No. 2
EDITORIAL
The Rubicon James I. McCord 125
ARTICLES
The Crisis of Legitimacy James H. Billington 129
The Continuing Revolution John M. Mulder 138
Freedom: Hierarchy or Humanity? Marjorie Suchocki 148
Books That Shape Our Times James H Smylie 158
SYMPOSIUM: CHURCH AND HISTORY
The Necessity of the Past David C. Steinmetz 168
Options For American Religious History Glenn R. Bucher 178
July 4, 1852 Frederick Douglass 189
HYMN
God of the Land J. Richard Hart 192
CRITIC'S CORNER
Letter from Jonathan Edwards Leonard I. Sweet 193
Tomorrow via Yesterday Hugh T. Kerr 196
BOOK REVIEWS
Religious Liberty in America: History and Prospects by Glenn T. Miller Lefferts A. Loetscher 198
The Puritan Origins of the American Self by Sacvan Bercovitch
Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England by Emory Elliott		 John F. Wilson 200
John Witherspoon- Parson, Politician, Patriot by Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman George L. Hunt 204
The British: Their Identity and Their Religion by Daniel Jenkins Erik Routley 208
Jesus: The Man Who Lives by Malcolm Muggeridge Roland Mushat Frye 210
Christ in a Pluralistic Age by John b. Cobb, Jr. John e. Zuck 211
Contemporary Philosophy and Religious Thought. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Malcolm L. Diamond Charley D. Hardwick 213
Man and God in Art and Ritual by S.G.f. Brandon Samuel Laeuchli 215
The Gnostic Paul by Elaine H. Pagels John H. Schutz 216
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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