Theology Today
October 1982
Vol. 39, No. 3
EDITORIAL
Primal Paradigm Hugh T. Kerr 245
ARTICLES
The Beginning Richard W. Berry 249
Two Books of God Roland Mushat Frye 260
Excess of Virtue Lowry Bowman 267
Nothing George S. Hendry 274
THEOLOGICAL TABLE-TALK
How to Think Theologically Janet Harbison Penfield 290
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
The Christology of Shusaku Endo Fumitaka Matsuoka 294
A Cow Named Faith Leo R. Ward 300
POETRY
Carol for the Animals Alice Carver Cramer 302
CRITIC'S CORNER
"Annie"- Yesterday and Today Kenneth S. Barker 303
BOOK REVIEWS
The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century (Proceedings of a Symposium held at Oxford) by A.R. Peacocke
Christian Theology and Scientific Culture by Thomas F. Torrance
Theology and Science in Mutual Modification by Harold P. Nebelsick		 Dietrick E. Thomsen 314
The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism by David Tracy F.W. Dillistone 321
Divine and Contingent Order by Thomas F. Torrance David B. Burrell 325
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick Harold A. Durfee 327
The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History by James L. Kugel Patrick D. Miller, Jr. 331
When Bad Things Happen To Good People by Harold S. Kushner Norman R. Adams 335
Padre Pio: The True Story by Bernard Ruffin Thomas McGowan 336
Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century by Lawrence Foster Dean K. Thompson 338
Women in New Worlds by Hilah F. Thomas and Rosemary Skinner Keller (eds.) Beverly J. Crute 340
American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict by Henry Warner Bowden Neal Salisbury 343
The Mind of John Paul II Origins of His Thought and Action by George Huntson Williams Margaret A. Schatkin 346
Three Victorian Women Who Changed Their World by Nancy Boyd
The Female Experience and the Nature of the Divine by Judith Ochshorn
Women and Religion in America, Volume I: The Nineteenth Century by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller (eds)		 Janet F. Fishburn 349
Islam: A Concise Introduction by D.S. Roberts Donald N. Wilber 352
Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Donald N. Wilber 353
The Kingdom Revisited by Charles L. Kammer, III Theodore M. Steeman 354
Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature by Richard Kenneth Emmerson Rodney L. Petersen 357
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse by David Daiches (ed) Carlos Baker 359
Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan Jeffrey L. Spear 360
BOOK NOTES
Karl Barth in Review by H. Martin Rumschedit, ed
The Spirit is Lord by P.J. Rosito, SJ		 Daniel Jenkins 363
The Human Center: Moral Agency in the Social World by Howard L. Harrod Mary Barbara Agnew 363
By What Authority: The Rise of Personality Cults in American Christianity by Richard Quebedeaux James Daane 363
The Bible Vote by Peggy L. Shriver Robert Lloyd Sullivan 364
Politics Is My Parish by Brooks Hays Donald F. Beisswenger 364
Parish, Priest and People: New Leadership for the Local Church by Andrew Greeley, Mary Durkin, John Shea, David Tracy, and William McCready Donald M. Mackenzie, Jr. 365
Send My Roots Rain by Donald Walhout Gary Hilfiger 365
The Cult of the Saints. Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity by Peter Brown Patrick Henry 365
The Courage to Love by William Sloane Coffin Bertram Gordon Watkins 366
Satan. The Early Christian Tradition by Jeffrey Burton Russell Cyprian Davis 366
Images and the Imageless by Thomas M. Martin Neil Peter Hurley, S.J. 367
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior by Edwin S. Shneidman (ed) Seward Hiltner 367
Mystery Religions In the Ancient World by Joscelyn Godwin William J. Walsh, S.J. 367
Moral Responsibility in Prolonging Life Decisions by Donald G. McCarthy and Albert S. Moraczewski, O.P. Omar S. Lantz 368
New Testament Apocalyptic by Paul S. Minear John F. Jansen 368
What Are They Saying About Christ and World Religions? by Lucien Richard, O.M.I. Ronald Goetz 369
Abortion and Moral Theory by L.W. Sumner
Priorities in Biomedical Ethics		 John L. Young 369
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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