Theology Today
July 1977
Vol. 34, No. 2
EDITORIAL
Tomorrow's Theology? Robert Imbelli 137
ARTICLES
The Nerve of Failure Leonard L Sweet 143
John Wesley: Folk-Theologian Albert C. Outler 150
SYMPOSIUM ON LIFE AND DEATH
The Changing Abortion Debate Richard N. Ostling 161
Sympathy Cards and Death Charles H. Lippy 167
Life Beyond Death Daniel L. Migliore 178
The Remarkable Trance William Tennent 188
POETRY
Is the Personification of God Necessary? Marcia Fouke 192
All In All Hugh T. Kerr 193
SPECIAL BOOK SECTION
Karl Barth, His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts Eberhard Busch 194
Politics and the Biblical Drama
Agenda for Biblical People		 Richard J. Mouw
Jim Wallis 		199
On Being a Christian Hans Küng 205
God, Revelation and Authority
Volume 1: God Who Speaks and Shows, Preliminary Considerations
Volume II: God Who Speaks and Shows, Fifteen Theses, Part One		 Carl F. H. Henry 212
BOOK REVIEWS
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monasteryby Henri J.M. Nouwen Bennett J. Sims 216
Theology and the Philosophy of Science by Wolfhart Pannenberg Frederick W. Dillistone 218
The Liberation of Theology by Juan Louis Segundo Letty Russell 222
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible ed by Keith Crim Sherman E. Johnson 224
World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe A. Roy Eckhardt 228
A Sociology of Belief by James T. Borhek and Richard F. Curtis C. Lincoln Johnson 230
C.S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought by Paul L. Holmer Roland Mushat Frye 231
Christian Worship in Transition by James F. White Horace T. Allen, Jr. 234
Archaeology of the Bible: Book by Book by Gaalyahu Cornfeld Charles T. Fritsch 236
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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