Theology Today
July 1988
Vol. 45, No. 2
EDITORIAL
A Brief Statement of Reformed Faith Hugh T. Kerr
Craig Dykstra		 151
ARTICLES
The Bunyan Tercentenary F. W. Dillistone 159
Pilgrimage as Metaphor in a Nuclear Age Margaret Miles 166
In Praise and Thanksgiving Patrick D. Miller, Jr. 180
Surrogate Motherhood Ignacio L. Gotz 189
POETRY
This Land's Not Your Land, This Land's Not My Land Eugene Kraft 196
Ring-Worm Boy W. Dow Edgerton 198
CRITIC'S CORNER
A Literature of Soul-Searching Robert Coles 200
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
Theology Without Revelation? Mark I. Wallace 208
Seminary Histories John M. Mulder 214
BOOK REVIEWS
The Education of Desire: Plato and the Philosophy of Religion Michel Despland 218
At the Origins of Modern Atheism Michael J. Buckley, S.J. 219
Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud J. Samuel Preus 222
Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions William R. Hutchison 230
United and Uniting: The Meaning of an Ecclesial Journey
Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ: Studies in Identity and Polity 		Louis H. Gunnemann
Barbara Brown Zikmund
Dorothy C Bass
Kenneth B. Smith 		236
Deadly Sins and Saving Virtues Donald Capps 239
Preaching: The Art and the Craft Walter Burghardt 241
No Ladder to the Sky: Education and Morality Gabriel Moran 242
The Logic of Theology Dietrich Ritschl 246
Theology and Religious Pluralism: The Challenge of Other Religions
Risking Christ for Christ's Sake: Towards an Ecumenical Theology of Pluralism 		Gavin D'Costa
M. M. Thomas 		248
Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America Mark A. Noll 251
The Dream of the Perfect Act: An Inquiry into the Fate of Religion in a Secular 'World Richard Fenn 254
Gender and God: Love and Desire in Christian Spirituality
Sophia: The Future of Feminist Spirituality 		Rachel Hosmer
Susan Cady
Marian Ronan
Hal Taussig 		256
Christ and His Benefits: Christology and Redemption in the New Testament Arland J. Hultgren 259
Doctrines of Religious Communities: A Philosophical Study William A. Christian, Sr. 261
BOOK NOTES
Pastoral Care as Dialogue Joachim Scharfenberg 263
Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Early Christianity Donald Juel 263
Divorce and Remarriage: Recovering the Biblical View William F. Luck 263
Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on Women, Religion, and Social Change Diana L. Eck
Devaki Jain, eds.		 264
Lost in Wonder: Charles Wesley, The Meaning of His Hymns Today S. T. Kimbrough Jr. 264
Allegory; The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique Jon Whitman 265
Contemporary Religious Poetry Paul Ramsey, ed 265
Preaching About Family Relationships
Preaching About Life in a Threatening World
Preaching About Conflict in the Local Church		 Elizabeth Achtemeier
Ronald J. Sider
Michael A. King
William H. Willimon 		265
New Testament Tensions and the Contemporary Church Carl S. Dudley
Earle Hilgert		 266
The Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar Louis Roberts 267
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: ELLEN T. CHARRY
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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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