Theology Today
July 1979
Vol. 36, No. 2

EDITORIAL
Life Is What Happens Hugh T. Kerr 161
ARTICLES
The Paradox of Freedom and Authority Diogenes Atlen 167
Black Theology: Retrospect and Prospect Noel Leo Erskine 176
Frederick Buechner and The Strange Work of Grace Horton Davies 186
SYMPOSIUM ON ACADEMIC STALEMATE
Symposium on Academic Stalemate 194
Teaching History Today Myron A. Marty 195
Scholars and Society William D. Schaefer 200
Literary Criticism and Gospel Criticism Roland Mushat Frye 207
Theological Reflection in an Uncertain Age Charles Shelby Rooks 220
POETRY
Mother and Son Joan Campbell Barnett 228
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Sociobiology and Ethical Reflection Don S. Browning
Bernie Lyon
229
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Current Moral Climate: What Pastors Think Robert Wuthnow 239
CRITIC'S CORNER
Some Novels for the Pastor's Study John R. Killinger 251
New Science, Old Apologetic George S. Hendry 258
BOOK REVIEWS
Tradition and the Modern World Reformed Theology in the Nineteenth Century by Brian A. Gerrish Gordon D. Kaufman 263
The Remaking of Christian Doctrine by Maurice Wiles Leroy T. Howe 264
Essentials of Evangelical Theology by Donald G. Bloesch Clark H. Pinnock 266
The Inner Eye of Love by William Johnston Bennett J. Sims 268
The Piety of John Calvin. An Anthology Illustrative of the Spirituality of the Reformer by Ford Lewis Battles, ed Charles Partee 270
Faith, Skepticism, and Evidence: An Essay in Religious Epistemology by Stephen T. Davis Hiroshi Obayashi 274
Reason and Morality by Alan Gewirth James L. Muyskens 275
Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement by James M. Gustafson Margaret A. Farley 276
Futures-Human and Divine by Ted Peters Edward B. Lindaman 278
Footprints on the Planet: A Search for an Environmental Ethic by Robert Cahn Rebecca L. Knight 280
Comparative Religious Ethics: A New Method by David Little and Sumner b. Twiss Leonard J. Biallas 282
Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems by Roland Mushat Frye John H. Leith 284
Son of the Morning by Joyce Carol Oates Kent Gramm 286
Chesapeake by James Michener Stuart G. Leyden 287
Charismata: God's Gifts for God's People by John Koenig J. Massynnberde Ford 290
Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time by Leonardo Boff Richard Shaull 292
God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality by Phyllis Trible Katharine Doob Sakenfeld 294
The White Man's Indian Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Bruce David Forbes 295
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau Randall M. Miller 297
The Pursuit of Equality in American History by J.R. Pole Robert T. Handy 299
Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860 by Herbert Hovenkamp Theodore Dwight Bozeman 301
McGuffey and His Readers by John H. Westerhoff, III C. Carlyle Haaland 304
The Church as Evangelist by George E. Sweazey Grady N. Allison 306
Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women by Alan P. Bell and Martin S. Weinberg Seward Hiltner 307
The Human Puzzle: Psychological Research and Christian Belief by David G. Myers Walter E. Conn 309
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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