Theology Today
July 1994
Vol. 51, No. 2
EDITORIALS
Beavis and Butt-Head Get Saved Thomas G. Long 199
ARTICLES
Can I Know That My Time Has Come? John P. Burgess 204
How To Decide? Homosexual Christians, the Bible, and Gentile Inclusion Jeffrey S. Siker 219
Thinking Through the Ethics of Abortion Kathy Rudy 235
Lay Liberalism Among Baby Boomers Donald A. Luidens
Dean R. Hoge
Benton Johnson		 249
Spiritual Struggle in Contemporary America William H. Becker 256
CRITIC'S CORNER
Athens, Berlin, and Lima Frederick Herzog 270
Rapidly Rises the Morning Tide: An Essay on P. D. James's The Children of Men Ralph C. Wood 277
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
A Half Century of Ecumenism in Hungary Ecumenical Study Center 289
POETRY
Calvin's Heirs Anthony S. Abbott 291
jeremiah lives Joy R. Sawyer 292
Return of the Virgin to an Episcopal Church in Iowa Once Called St. Mary's Harold McCurdy 294
BOOK REVIEWS
The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity by Jon D. Levenson Walter Brueggemann 295
Blasphemy by David Lawton William H. Willimon 297
For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler by Victoria Barnett Robert McAfee Brown 298
No God But God: Breaking with the Idols of Our Age ed. by OS Guinness and John Seel Paul B. Brown 302
Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey: An American Odyssey by Daniel R. Rice Ronald H. Stone 306
Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles by Jurgen Becker Joseph F. Fitzmeyer 307
A Christian Perspective on Political Thought by Stephen Charles Mott Glenn Tinder 308
Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor by Carter Lindberg Lee Palmer Wandel 309
Church and Denominational Growth: What Does (or Does Not) Cause Growth or Decline by David A. Roozen and C. Kirk Hadaway John W. Stewart 316
Jesus and the Last Days: The Interpretation of the Olivet Discourse by George R. Beasley-Murray David M. Freedholm 321
A Poetics of Jonah: Art in the Service of Ideology by Kenneth M. Craig, Jr. James Limburg 322
Listening to the Word: Studies in Honor of Fred B. Craddock ed. by Gail R. O'Day and Thomas G. Long Joseph R. Jeter, Jr. 326
Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to Their Influence by Paul Rorem Carl A. Volz 328
BOOK NOTES
Passion for justice: Retrieving the Legacies of Walter Rauschenbusch Max L. Stackhouse 331
Ancient Churches Revealed John McRay 331
The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament Ulrich Mauser 331
Bultmann James F. Kay 332
Angelic Monks and Earthly Men. Monasticism and Its Meaning to Medieval Society Paul Rorem 333
The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach Ronald P. Hamel 333
Old Testament Theology: Essays on Structure, Theme, and Text Deborah Klee 334
Religion and the Ambiguities of Capitalism Max L. Stackhouse 334
Conscience and Its Recovery: From the Frankfurt School to Feminism Eric Mount 334
Documentary History of Faith and Order Charles C. West 336
Eucharist: Christ's Feast with the Church James F. White 336
St. Paul At The Movies: The Apostle's Dialogue with American Culture Ronald P. Salfen 336
Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year B Robert Kysar 338
Anger in the Old Testament. Bruce Edward Baloian Deborah Hannay Sunoo 338
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
CONTACT INFORMATION

Theology Today
PO Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu
E-mail: theology.today@ptsem.edu

Copyright © 1999-2002 Theology Today