Theology Today
October 1979
Vol. 36, No. 3

EDITORIAL
New Day-New Laity Hugh T. Kerr
John M. Mulder
313
ARTICLES
The Laity in Biblical Perspective Thomas W. Gillespie 315
Christian Vocation - In Context Barbara Brown Zikmund 328
Shared Ministry Donald P. Smith 338
Christian Formation For Corporate Life Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C. 347
The Church: Catholic and Ecumenical Bernard J. Cooke 353
THE SEMINARIES AND THE LAITY
Learning From The Laity Phillip M. King 368
Ministries of Identity and Vitality Gabriel Fackre 375
Preparing Clergy for the New Laity Robert Kinast 383
POETRY
Flaugh's Summer Lewis Chamberlain 389
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
A Funeral in Calcutta Peter L. Berger 394
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Permanent Diaconate Ernest J. Fiedler 401
CRITIC'S CORNER
Lay Ministry in Cincinnati Ellen Frankenberg 412
New Impetus in COCU? Lewis S. Mudge 417
Kierkegaard Today Mark C. Taylor 420
BOOK REVIEWS
Protestantism ed. by Hugh T. Kerr George Laird Hunt 424
Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity by Karl Rahner David Burrell 425
The Moral Choice by Daniel C. Maguire
Principles for a Catholic Morality
by Timothy E. O'Connell
David Hollenbach, S.J. 430
Moral Life by Roger Beehler
Religious Education and Religious Understanding: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religious Education
by Raymond Holley
Craig Dykstra 438
The Church and Racial Hostility: A History of Interpretation of Ephesians 2:11-22 by William Rader Edward T. Rewolinski 441
The Early History of Israel by Roland De Vaux Bruce Vawter 443
Understanding the Old Testament by A.H.J. Gunneweg Jospeh Blenkinsopp 445
Theology in a New Key by Robert McAfee Brown Noel Leo Erskine 448
The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) by Jaroslav Pelikan Horton Davies 449
Historical Theology: An Introduction by Geoffrey W. Bromiley Donald G. Bolesch 452
The Reader, the Text, the Poem by Louise M. Rosenblatt Donald M. Mackenzie, Jr. 453
The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination by Giles Gunn
Art and the Theological Imagination
by John W. Dixon, Jr.
James G. Moseley 455
A Reason To Hope by David L. Edwards Hugh A. Koops 458
A General Theory of Secularization by David Martin Owen Chadwick 460
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones Howard G. Hageman 461
Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform by William G. McLoughlin Nancy A. Hardesty 463
A History of Philosophy in America by Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey John W. Kuykendall 464
The Great Apostolic Blunder Machine by John R. Fry G. Daniel Little 467
BOOK NOTES
The Foundations of Biblical Authority by James Montgomery Boice, Ed Cullen I K Story 471
Mary in the New Testament by Raymond E. Brown, Karl P. Donfried, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and John Reumann, eds. M. Nadine Foley, O.P. 471
The Bible and the Future by Anthony a. Hoekema Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza 472
Christ in Perspective: Christological Perspectives in the Theology of Karl Barth by John Thompson James A. Todd 472
Ritschl: A Reappraisal: A Study in Systematic Theology by James Richmond Garrett Green 472
The Search for Salvation by David F. Wells Thomas W. Currie III 473
Mirrors of Man in Existentialism by Nathan a. Scott, Jr. John W. Dixon, Jr. 473
Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology Of Liberation by Schubert M. Ogden Letty M. Russell 473
Faith, Science, and the Future by Paul Abrecht, ed. Charles C. West 474
The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860 by E. Brooks Holifield Robert H. Bullock, Jr. 474
Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Revivalism by Sandra S. Sizer James F. Findlay 475
The Power of Their Glory: America's Ruling Class-The Episcopalians by Kit and Frederica Konolige William S. Adams 475
The Human Mind Revisited: Essays in Honor of Karl A. Menninger by Sydney Smith, ed. James N. Lapsley 476
Steve Biko-I Write What I Like by Aelred Stubbs C.R., ed Ethan Raath 476
The Logic of Promise in Moltmann's Theology by Christopher Morse M. Douglas Meeks 477
The Heart of the Matter by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Brian O. McDermott, S.J. 477
The Charismatic Renewal and Ecumenism by Kilian McDonnell John Koenig 478
The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church from Biblical Times to the Present by Paul D. Opsahl John Koenig 478
The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism, 1958-1974 by John A. Coleman Michael A. Fahey, S.J. 479
Crazy for God by Christopher Edwards John W. Kuykendall 479
Images of Childhood: An Illustrated Social History by Anita Schorsch John M. Mulder 480
American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860-1869 by James H. Moorhead John M. Mulder 480
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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