Theology Today
October 1992
Vol. 49, No. 3

EDITORIAL
Myers-Briggs and Other Modern Astrologies Thomas G. Long 291
ARTICLES
Stories to Live By Robert Wuthnow 296
Pilgrims Lost in an Alien Land Brett Webb-Mitchell 311
From Psyche to System Larry Kent Graham 320
Trinitarian Thoughts on Descending into the Grand Canyon W. Paul Jones 333
Conflicts in Interpretation Hans W. Frei 344
Afrocentrism and Biblical Authority Cain Hope Felder 357
The Word of God May Be Hazardous to your Health Sharon H. Ringe 367
The Authority of Scripture: Normative or Incidental? J. Christiaan Beker 376
Jesus, Apocalyptic, and World Transformation David B. Batstone 383
CRITIC'S CORNER
More About Jesus Would I Know Keith F. Nickle 398
POETRY
The Other Grandmother Kathy Coffey 408
BOOK REVIEWS
The Promise of Trinitarian Theology Colin E. Gunton 409
Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine
Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship
Paul S. Fiddes
Michael C. Schoenfeldt
412
The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture Sandra M. Schneiders 414
The Distancing of God: The Ambiguity of Symbol in History and Theology Bernard J. Cooke 416
Image & Spirit in Sacred & Secular Art Jane Dillenberger 420
The Last Priests in America: Conversations with Remarkable Men Tim Unsworth 422
Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective: Studies in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich's Sixtieth Birthday Mark S. Burrows
Paul Rorem
426
In Good Conscience: Reason and Emotion in Moral Decision Making Sidney Callahan 430
Reformed Spirituality: An Introduction for Believers
Living the Christian Life: A Guide to Reformed Spirituality
Howard L. Rice
Robert H. Ramey, Jr.
Ben Campbell Johnson
432
The Gospel of Peace: A Scriptural Message for Today's World Ulrich Mauser 435
BOOK NOTES
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought Cornel West 439
Beyond the Big Bang - Quantum Cosmologies and God Willem B. Drees 439
Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons Lawrence Foster 440
Diakonia: Reinterpreting the Ancient Sources John N. Collins 440
Holocaust Theology Dan Cohn-Sherbok 442
Clergy Ethics in a Changing Society Mapping the Terrain James P. Wind 442
A Physician's Witness to the Power of Shared Prayer William F. Haynes, Jr., M.D. 444
God-His & Hers Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel
Jurgen Moltmann
444
Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women Katheryn Pfisterer Darr 444
The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century. Volume 1 of The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism Bernard McGinn 446
Homiletics Karl Barth 446
Holy War in Ancient Israel Gerhard Bon Rad 447
Shifting Boundaries: Contextual Approaches to the Structures of Theological Education Barbara G. Wheeler
Edward Farley
447
Faith Seeking Understanding. Learning in the Catholic Tradition George C. Berthold 448
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR: ELLEN T. CHARRY
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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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