Theology Today
July 1980
Vol. 37, No. 2
EDITORIAL
Lent To Be Spent Hugh T. Kerr 159
ARTICLES
Compassion for the Sinned Against Raymond Fung 162
Carlyle Marney as Ethicist John J. Carey 170
Suffering at the Hands of Nature Diogenes Allen 183
When Religion and Death Meet William Hamilton 192
Christianity in the USSR James H. Billington 199
A Descriptive Appraisal, 1935 - 1980 Seward Hiltner 210
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Encyclopedia of Bioethics Lisa Sowle Cahill 221
POETRY
Being Human Robert P. Montgomery 225
CRITIC'S CORNER
Dare We Look Where We are Headed? Carol Harting Wilcox 226
The Christian Community and the Energy Crisis Peter Monkres 231
An Inside Look at an Outside Mission: Social Action and the Church Jon W. Magnuson 236
BOOK REVIEWS
New Directions in New Testament Study by Patrick henry
The Past, Present, and Future of Biblical Theology		 David L. Bartlett` 241
Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern by D.S. Russell Walter Harrelson 242
Free and Faithful in Christ Vol. I: General Moral Theology for Clergy and Laity, Vol. II: The Truth Will Set you Free, by Bernard Haring Daniel C. Maguire 243
Freud and the Problem of God by Hans Küng Thomas C. Oden 248
The Go - Between God: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Mission by John V. Taylor James M. Phillips 250
Christianity in Culture: A Study in Dynamic Biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective by Charles H. Kraft Marina Herrera 253
The World Council of Churches and the Demise of Evangelicalism by Harvey T. Hoekstra
God So Loved the World by A.J. van der Bent		 J. Robert Nelson 256
Ethics, Functionalism, and Power in International Relations by Kenneth W. Thompson John C. Bennett 258
Aborting America by Richard N. Ostling and Bernard N. Nathanson Belle Miller McMaster 261
The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse
Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation by Neal C. gillespie		 George S. Hendry 262
Religion in America, 1950 to the Present by Jackson W. Carroll, Douglas W. Johnson and Martin E. Marty
Crisis in the Church by Andrew M. Greeley		 James H. Smylie 265
Understanding Church Growth and Decline: 1950 - 1978 by Dean R. Hoge and David A. Roozen (eds)
Where Have All Our People Gone? by Carl S. Dudley		 Edward Brubaker 269
Vision of the Disinherited by Robert M. Anderson Vinson Synan 272
Ethical Confrontation in Counseling by John c. Hoffman James N. Lapsley 275
Growth Counseling by Howard Clinebell Paul a. Mickey 277
BOOK NOTES
Greek to Me: Learning New Testament Greek through Memory Visualization by Cullen I K Story and J. Lyle Story David M. Hay 279
Biblical Affirmations of Woman by Leonard Swidler Katharine Doob Sakenfeld 279
Agenda for Theology by Thomas c. Oden F.W. Dillistone 279
A Critical Faith by Gerd Theissen Roy A. Harrisville 280
In Search of Christianity: Discovering the Diverse Vitality of Christian Life by Ninian Smart Peter Slater 280
Black Theology: A Documentary History, 1966 - 1979 by Gayraud Wilmore and James cone Noel Leo Erskine 280
The Integrity of Mission: The Inner Life and Outreach of the Church by Orlando E. Costas Jorge Lara-Braud 281
Liberating Grace by Leonardo Boff T. Howland Sanks 281
Christ and Violence by Ronald J. Sider Richard J. Mouw 281
In Habit by Suzanne Campbell-Jones Mary Charles Bryce, O.S.B. 282
The Discipline of the Mountain by Daniel Berrigan Mary L. Schneider, O.S.F. 282
With Clumsy Grace: The American Catholic Left, 1965 - 1975 by Charles A. Meconis John Deedy 282
The History of the Evangelical United Brethren Church by J. Bruce Behney and Paul H. Eller Ralph E. Luker 283
The Prophetic Melville by Rowland A. Sherrill Nancy M. Tischler 283
Prayer in Action: A Growth Experience by Miriam Murphy Elmer G. Homrighausen 283
Reach Out to Singles: A Challenge to Ministry by Raymond Kay Brown Nancy Hicks-Hershey 284
Stages: Understanding How You Make Moral Decisions by Nathaniel Lande and Afton Slade Craig Dykstra 284
Understanding Human Values: Individual and Societal by Milton Rokeach, ed. Sara Little 284
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
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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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