Theology Today
July 1996
Vol. 53, No. 2

EDITORIALS
Teaching the Faith Patrick D. Miller 143
SYMPOSIUM: CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The New Catechism: A Feast of Faith
Avery Dulles, S.J. 148
The New Catechism: I Can't Believe I Read the Whole Thing Boyd Wright 152
Life in Christ: The New Catechism and Christian Ethics

Charles E. Bouchard, O.P.

158
How Shall We Christians Understand Jews and Judaism? Questions about the New Catechism Mary C. Boys 165
The New Catechism and Christian Unity
Richard John Neuhaus 171
ARTICLES
The Loss and Recovery of Creation in Old Testament Theology Walter Brueggemann 177
African American Protestants, Political Activism, and "Liberal" Redemptive Hopes R. Drew Smith 191
"Different Strokes for Different Folks": America's Quintessential Postmodern Proverb Alyce M. McKenzie 201
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Ecumenism: Postconfessional? Consciously Contextual? Teresa Berger 213
CRITIC'S CORNER
Trusting Economics? A Review of Francis Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity Max L. Stackhouse 220
A Schleiermacher for Our Time: A Review of David Tracy's On Naming the Present: God, Hermeneutics and Church Susan B. Thistlethwaite 225
POETRY
Surfing the Net
R. M. Host 228
Of Michelangelo, Tents, and Time Aminta Marks 230
Sinner's Heaven
Peggy Whiteneck 232
Learning to Pray Alone
Fredrick Zydek 233
BOOK REVIEWS
Not the Way It's Supposed to Be by Cornelius Plantinga Patricia A. Codron 234
Reclaiming the Bible for the Church edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jensen
Walter Brueggemann 235
Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays by Leigh Eric Schmidt
James H. Moorhead 238
Medicine as Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics, and Hope by Margaret E. Mohrmann
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre   242
Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike by John A. Salmond
Donald W. Shriver 243
A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History by Albert J. Raboteau I
Lewis V. Baldwin 246
The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations edited by Thomas F. Tracy
William Stacy Johnson 248
Princeton Seminary, Volume 1: Faith and Learning, 1812-1868 by David B. Calhoun
D. G. Hart 252
Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff’s Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century American Religion by Stephen R. Graham
John F. Wilson 254
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D. G. Hart
A. J. McKelway 258
Searching the Scriptures, Volume 2: A Feminist Commentary edited by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza with the assistance of Ann Brock and Shelly Matthews
Amy L. Wordelman 262
A Salvation Audit by Colin Grant Robert T. Cornelison 263
Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft edited by Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson Paul E. Sigmund 266
Seeing the Lord: Resurrection and Early Christian Practices by Marianne Sawicki Alexandra R. Brown 268
Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities: The Moral Bonds of Community by Arthur J. Dyck Tokunbo Adelekan 271
Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma by Warren A. Nord P.C. Kemeny 274
BOOK NOTES
BOOK NOTES   277
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITORS: THOMAS G. LONG & PATRICK D. MILLER
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
TREASURER: MARSHA L. ROCHE
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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