Theology Today Contents
January 2000 Vol. 56 No. 4

Editorial

Who's Minding the Children?
   Ellen T. Charry


Articles

Christ as The Logos of Childhood: Reflections on the Meaning and Mission of the Child
   Robin Maas

"To Such as These Belongs the Reign of God": Jesus and Children
   Judith Gundry-Volf

Raising Them Right: Early Christian Approaches to Child Rearing
   Nonna Verna Harrison

Children of Adam, Children of God: Christian Nurture in Early Nineteenth-Century America
   Margaret Bendroth

The Christian Education of Children in the Protestant Tradition
   Richard R. Osmer

Proclaiming Salvation: Youth Ministry for the Twenty-First Century Church
   Kenda Creasy Dean

Exploring Our Hesitation: Feminist Theologies and the Nurture of Children
   Cynthia L. Rigby

Lamentations of a Rachel in the Digital Age
   Enola G. Aird

Why Do You Write for Children?
   Katherine Paterson

Illuminating Picture Books
   Jane Z Ophoff and Deborah G. MacVey

Child and Childhood as Metaphors of Hope
   Jürgen Moltmann


Poetry

Kingdom
   Eleanor Brawley

Lightbearer
   Harold McCurdy


Book Reviews

The War against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads,
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West
David Stewart

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, by Kathleen Norris

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott
Patrick Henry

Christian Faith as Religion: A Study in the Theologies of Calvin and Schleiermacher, by Paul Capetz
Katherine Sonderegger

Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers
to Feminism, by William J. Abraham
Jerry L. Walls

Kenosis and Feminist Theology: The Challenge of Gianni Vattimo, by Marta Frascati-Lochhead
Mary McClintock Fulkerson

Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Material
Possessions, by Craig L. Blomberg
David W. Miller

The Streets of Heaven: The Ideology of Wealth in the Apocalypse of John, by Robert M. Royalty Jr.
Sondra Ely Wheeler

The Theology of the First Christians, by Walter Schmithals
Luke Timothy Johnson

Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993, by Mark Hulsether
James H. Smylie

Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale
Richard B. Steele

Kierkegaard’s Vision of the Incarnation: By Faith Transformed, by Murray A. Rae
James E. Loder


Book Notes

The Encyclopedia of Christianity, vol. 1, A-D, edited by Erwin Fahlbusch, et al.
Ellen T. Charry

The Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of Jesus, edited by Stephen Davis, David Kendall, and Gerald O’Collins
Leanne Van Dyk

John Calvin and the Will: A Critique and Corrective, by Dewey Hoitenga Jr.
Ariane Arpels-Josiah

Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1:16-4:25 and a New Approach to the Letters, by Wendy Dabourne
J. Ross Wagner

What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?, by N. T. Wright
J. Ross Wagner

Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew, by Jerome Neyrey
Phil A. Quanbeck II

A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, by Craig KeenerA. K. M. Adam

Princeton in the Nation’s Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, by P. C. Kemeny
James H. Smylie


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