Theology Today
October 1993
Vol. 50, No. 3

EDITORIAL
The Death and Birth of Theological Journals Patrick D. Miller 341
ARTICLES
The Craft of Forgiveness L. Gregory Jones 345
Being Good and Being Reasonable Brent Waters
Rob Stuart
358
Is the Postmodernist Always a Postfoundationalist? J. Wentzel van Huyssteen 373
The Craft of Christ's Imperfect Tailors Milton J. Coalter, Jr. 387
Fantasy and Geography of Faith Belden C. Lane 397
The Artist Works the Gold: The Vision of Philip Schaff David W. Johnson 409
The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity Vincent L. Wimbush 417
Jesus in Historical Context E.P. Sanders 419
CRITIC'S CORNER
Theology and Science: At the Frontiers W. Jim Neidhardt 449
POETRY
Lourdes Elizabeth Creamer 456
BOOK REVIEWS
What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think About Economic Justice Stephen Hart 458
No Other Gospel! Christianity Among the World's Religions Carl E. Braaten 460
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing Rosemary Radford Ruether 461
A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story William Martin 464
Replenish The Earth: A History of Organized Religion's Treatment of Animals and Nature-Including the Bible's Message of Conservation and Kindness toward Animals Lewis G. Regenstein 468
Teaching for Faith: A Guide for Teachers of Adult Classes Richard Robert Osmer 470
Mark: The New American Commentary, Vol. 23
Luke: The New American Commentary, Vol. 24
Acts: The New American Commentary, Vol. 26
Philippians, Colossians, Philemon: The New American Commentary, Vol. 32
James A. Brooks
Robert H. Stein
John B. Polhill
Richard R. Melick, Jr.
472
A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture Susan Curtis 476
The Making of the Creeds Frances M. Young 480
The Evangelical Century: College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression Michael Gauvreau 486
The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark Joel Marcus 490
We Have Been Believers: An African-American Systematic Theology James H. Evans, Jr. 491
A History of Christianity in Asia Volume I: Beginnings to 1500 Samuel Hugh Moffett 494
The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice Kathryn Tanner 495
The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy Roger Finke
Rodney Stark
497
BOOK NOTES
A Century of Biblical Archaeology P. R. S. Moorey 500
Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John Tina Pippin 500
So Wide a Sea: Essays on Biblical and Systematic Theology Ben C. Ollenburger 500
Unbaptized God: The Basic Flaw in Ecumenical Theology Robert W. Jenson 501
The Ethics of St. Augustine William S. Babcock 501
God-the World's Future Ted Peters 502
Telling Tales: Making Sense of Christian and Judaic Nonsense: The Urgency and Basis for Judeo-Christian Dialogue Jacob Neusner 502
Themes & Variations for a Christian Doxology: Some Thoughts on the Theology of Worship Hughes Oliphant Old 503
Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America Mark R. Schwehn 503
The Eucharistic Mystery: Revitalizing the Tradition David N. Power O.M.I. 504
Community of Faith: Crafting Christian Communities Today Evelyn Eaton Whitehead
James D. Whitehead
504
God the Redeemer Paul McGlasson 505
Renewal in Late Life Through Pastoral Counseling James N. Lapsley 505
Undermined Establishment-Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920 Robert T. Handy 505
THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL
EDITOR: PATRICK D. MILLER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: ELLEN T. CHARRY
BUSINESS MANAGER: NANCY E. PIKE
ASSISTANT EDITOR: ROLF A. JACOBSON
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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