Theology Today
October 1977
Vol. 34, No. 3
EDITORIAL
Theological Roots Hugh T. Kerr 239
ARTICLES
The Church as the Coming Future Barbara Hargrove 242
The Trinity and the Motorcycle William C. Placher 248
My Day in Court Frederic Fox 257
The Judaic Factor in Western Culture Jacob Neusner 277
The Shadow of the Death Camps A. Roy Eckardt 285
POETRY
St. Lucia's Day: Inner-City Parish Abby Arthur Johnson 291
In Praise of Old Things Paul L. Kauffman 292
FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN
A Hole in the Heavens Erik Routley 294
CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Sober Surveys and Religious Humor John Deedy 299
CRITIC'S CORNER
Saving Our Ship Richard Mouw 303
The Shaping of Jonah Mary Katharine Deeley 305
SPECIAL BOOK SECTION
Religious Best Sellers John B. Breslin 311
The RSV-Ecumenical Edition Bruce M. Metzger 315
BOOK REVIEWS
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Albert J. Raboteau 318
Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought edited by Elizabeth Clark and Herbert Richardson
Women of the Reformation from Spain to Scandinavia by Roland H. Bainton		 Jean Lambert 320
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett Andrew M. Greeley 324
A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson James H. Nichols 328
Historical Atlas of Religion in America by Edwin Scott Gaustad Melvin B. Endy, Jr. 332
Theological Method and Imagination by Julian N. Hartt George W. Stroup 336
The Leap of Reason by Don Cupitt Diogenes Allen 340
Simone Weil: A Life by Simone Pétrement Diogenes Allen 341
Covenant and Promise: The Prophetic Understanding of the Future in Pre-exilic Israel by John Bright Cheryl Exum 343
The Bible Answers Us with Pictures by Christa Meves Walter Wagoner 346
What New Creation?-The Agony of Church Restructure by Paul A. Mickey and Robert L. Wilson Janet Harbison Penfield 348
The Minister as Diagnostician: Personal Problems in Pastoral Perspective by Paul W. Pruyser James E. Dittes 349
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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