Theology Today
October 1989
Vol. 46, No. 3

EDITORIAL
Magic Moments Hugh T. Kerr 253
ARTICLES
Merton As Zen Clown Belden C. Lane 256
The Grief of C.S. Lewis Ann Loades 269
Report From Steinbeck Country Robert Jones 277
Villainy, Humor, And Heresy W. Cary McMullen 283
Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice: A Theological Reflection Joel Marcus 288
POETRY
Stained Glass Story Kent I. Groff 299
Imperial Decree Tom Riley 301
Notre Dame De Chartres Gail White 303
THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
Beijing And Bethlehem J. Edward Barrett 304
BOOK REVIEWS
Thinking The Faith: Christian Theology In A North American Context, By Douglas John Hall Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite 312
The Rise And Fall Of The New Christian Right: Conservative Protestant Politics In America 1978-1988, By Steve Bruce Mark A. Noll 314
Era Of Persuasion: American Thought And Culture, 1521-1680, By E. Brooks Holifield John F. Wilson 315
American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History From The Early Republic To Vatican II, By Gerald P. Fogarty, S. J. Roland O. Murphy, O. Carm. 318
Issues Of Justice: Social Sources And Religious Meanings, Edited By Warren R. Copeland And Roger D. Hatch Thomas D. Kennedy 319
The Book Of God: A Response To The Bible, By Gabriel Josipovici Walter Brueggemann 323
James M. Gustafson's Theocentric Ethics: Interpretations And Assessments, Edited By Harlan R. Beckley And Charles M. Swezey Russell R. Reno 326
Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation As A Focus For Theological Education, Edited By Joseph C. Hough, Jr. And Barbara G. Wheeler J. Randolph Taylor 331
AD 1000: Living On The Brink Of Apocalypse, By Richard Erdoes John Van Engen 336
God And Religion In The Postmodern World: Essays In Postmodern Theology, By David Ray Griffin James J. Di Censo 337
Free Persons And The Common Good, By Michael Novak Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr. 338
Strangers In This Land: Pluralism And The Response To Diversity In The United States, By E. Allen Richardson Richard L. Rogers 341
Altered Landscapes: Christianity In America, 1935-1985, Edited By David W. Lotz E. Brooks Holifield 344
Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, And Family, By Cain Hope Felder Vincent L. Wimbush 345
Murder And Difference: Gender, Genre, And Scholarship On Sisera's Death, By Mieke Bal Margaret D. Zulick 348
Death And Dissymmetry: The Politics Of Coherence In The Book Of Judges, By Mieke Bal    
BOOK NOTES
Unconventional Partners: Religion and Liberal Culture in the United States, By Robert Booth Fowler John M. Mulder 352
The Freeedom of a Christian: Luther's Signifcance for Contemporary Theology, By EberhardJungel Timothy J. Wengert 352
Metaphor and Religious Language, By Janet Martin Soskice Alan M. Olson 353
Beyond Servanthood: Christianity and the Liberation of Women, By Susan Nelson Dunfee Katherine Koob Sakenfeld 353
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus, By Ched Myers Frank J. Matera 354
The Biblical Journey of Faith, By Frank R. VanDevelder Richard Boyce 354
Acts, By William H. Willimon Gail R. O'Day 354
Genesis, By Nahum M. Sarna Patrick D. Miller, Jr. 356
Leviticus, by Baruch A. Levine
The Psychology of Religious Knowing, By Fraser Watts and Mark Williams Charles V. Gerkin 358
The Fourth Gospel and its Predecessor: From Narrative Source to Present Gospel, By Robert T. Fortna Martinus C. de Boer 359
Authority and Leadership in theChurch: Past Directions and Future Possibilities, By Thomas P. Rausch Jeffrey Gros, FSC 359
James: the Man and His Message, By James B. Adamson Roy Bowen Ward 360
Why, God?, By Burton Z. Cooper Thomas F. Tracy 360
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
SENIOR EDITOR: HUGH T. KERR
BOOK EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER, JR.
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
EDITORIAL COUNCIL:

Thomas W. Gillespie, Chair
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia
Jane Dempsey Douglass, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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
Thomas G. Long, Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey
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 R. 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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