Theology Today
October 1985
Vol. 42, No. 3
EDITORIAL
Bible-Theology-Church Patrick D. Miller Jr. 275
ARTICLES
Toward A Postliberal Hermeneutics Albert C. Outler 281
Biblical Theology and Sociological Interpretation Bernhard W. Anderson 292
Social Matrix and Canonical Shape Norman K. Gottwald 307
Prayer and Christology: Psalm 22 as Perspective on the Passion James L. Mays 322
God in the New Testament: Preliminary Soundings Pheme Perkins 332
The Identity and Purpose of the Church Paul D. Hanson 342
CRITIC'S CORNER
Church and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue Sandra M. Schneiders 353
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Keep Your Lamps Burning: Advent in the Arctic Abby Arthur Johnson 359
BOOK REVIEWS
Religious Pluralism edited by Leroy S. Rouner
On Nature edited by Leroy S. Rouner		 Mark Kline Taylor 364
Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Pheme Perkins 368
The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics As Gospel by John Howard Yoder Harlan R. Beckley 371
Worship by Hughes Oliphant Old
The Church by Wallace M. Alston, Jr.		 James A. Wharton 374
The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff Zachary Hayes 376
From Luther to Tillich: The Reformers and Their Heirs by Wilhelm Pauck Alexander J. McKelway 378
Bonhoeffer and South Africa: Theology in Dialogue by John W. DeGruchy Hendrik J.C. Pieterse 382
A Moment of Truth: The Confession of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, 1982 edited by G.D. Cloete and D.J. Smit Hendrik J.C. Pieterse 384
Images of Man: Studies in Religion and Anthropology edited by J. William Angell and E. Pendleton Banks C. David Grant 386
The Schillebeeckx Reader by Edward Schillebeeckx P. Joseph Cahill 389
Critical Concerns in Moral Theology by Charles E. Curran Leslie Griffin 390
Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian: Adult Development and Christian Faith by James W. Fowler
Maturing in the Christian Life: A Pastors Guide by Neill Q. Hamilton		 Donald E. Miller 393
John 1 by Ernst Haenchen
John 2 by Ernst Haenchen		 Gerard S. Sloyan 397
Profiles in American Judaism: The Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist Traditions in Historical Perspective by Marc Lee Raphael Myron Berman 398
Christian Ethics and Imagination: A Theological Inquiry by Philip S. Kane Robert W. Wall 401
Jesus and Community: The Social Dimension of Christian Faith by Gerhard Lohfink John J. Pilch 404
Merton: Those Who Knew Him Best edited by Paul Wilkes
Getting It All Together: The Heritage of Thomas Merton edited by Timothy Mulhearn 		Elena Malits 406
BOOK NOTES
Before Abraham Was: The Unity of Genesis 1-11 by Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn Lloyd R. Bailey 410
John, the Martyrs Gospel by Paul S. Minear Martinus C. deBoer 410
1, 2, 3 John. Word Biblical Commentary 51 by Stephen S. Smalley Pheme Perkins 410
Wisdom from St. Augustine by Vernon J. Bourke Rebecca H. Weaver 411
Gospel Love: A Narrative Theology by John Navone, S.J. Susan Marie Praeder 411
Jesus Answer to God by Elizabeth B. Howes Walter Wink 411
1 and 2 Timothy, Titus by Gordan d. Fee
1, 2 Thessalonians, 1, 2 Timothy, Titus by Gary W. Demarest		 Lamar Williamson 412
The Future of the Methodist Theological Traditions by M. Douglas Meeks, ed. John Deschner 413
Evangelicalism and Modern America by George Marsden, ed. Paul K. Jewett 414
Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought by John Hellman
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by William J. Abraham		 Eric O. Springsted 414
Religion in Strange Times: The 1960s and 1970s by Ronald B. Flowers James H. Moorhead 415
Catching the Conscience: Essays in Religion and Literature by Horton Davies Anthony C. Yu 415
The Meaning of Health: Essays in Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, and Religion by Paul Tillich Donald Capps 416
Human Medicine by James b. Nelson and Jo Anne Smith Rohricht Joyce E. Miller 416
A Spirituality for the Long Haul by Robert S. Bilheimer Michael A. Burdick 417
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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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