Theology Today Contents
April 2006 Vol. 63 No. 1

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Editorial

Overture
James F. Kay

Articles

With Gratitude
Martin Tel

Religious Music and Secular Music: A Calvinist Perspective, Re-Formed
Frank Burch Brown

Lyrical Theology: Theology in Hymns
S T Kimbrough, Jr.

Motive and Motif in the Church Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Robin Leaver

Roots into the Future: Recovering Gregorian Chant to Renew the Church’s Voice
Richard A. Smith

Does God Manifest Himself in the World in Trickles of Music?
Calvin Stapert

The Ecstasy of Lament: Opera as a Model of Theology
Kristine Suna-Koro

Crossing Boundaries

How Can I Give You Up, O Ephraim?
Robert Merrihew Adams

Let Us Now Praise . . .

Stanley J. Grenz (1950–2005)
John R. Franke

M. Basil Pennington, osco (1931–2005)
Bernard McGinn

Poetry Corner

Editorial Note: Theology Today no longer publishes poetry, we invite our readers to view a rich collection of our submissions on our website.

Book Reviews

The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
by David Bentley Hart
Ellen T. Charry

Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian
by Thomas G. Long
Patrick Henry

Imagining Redemption
by David H. Kelsey
Elisabeth K. J. Koenig

Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics
by Samuel Wells
David S. Cunningham

Recultivating the Vineyard: The Reformation Agenda of Christianization
by Scott H. Hendrix
Eric W. Gritsch

Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa
by J. Warren Smith
John L. Drury

Apostolicity Then and Now: An Ecumenical Church in a Postmodern World
by John J. Burkhard
Paul J. Wojda

Exploring and Proclaiming the Apostles’ Creed
edited by Roger E. Van Harn
Michael L. Lindvall

A Mirror for the Church: Preaching in the First Five Centuries
by David Dunn-Wilson
Ronald J. Allen

Before God
by George W. Stroup
Sarah Heaner Lancaster

One With God: Salvation as Deification and Justification
by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
David C. Ratke

Communio Sanctorum: The Church as the Communion of Saints
by the Bilateral Working Group of the German National Bishops’ Conference and the Church Leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany
David C. Ratke

The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology
edited by Niels Henrik Gregersen et al.
David C. Ratke

Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music
by Heidi Epstein
Kristine Suna-Koro

How to Relate Religion and Science: A Multidimensional Model
by Mikael Stenmark
Jennifer J. Thweatt-Bates

Book Notes

In the End – In the Beginning: The Life of Hope
by Jürgen Moltmann
Fraser Watts

Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community 1536-1564
by Karen E. Spierling
John L. Thompson

An Introduction to Christianity
by Linda Woodhead
James E. Kirby

The Worshiping Life: Meditations on the Order of Worship
by Lisa Nichols Hickman
Karen C. Sapio

Erasmus
by Erika Rummel
John W. O’Malley

The Evolution of Christianity: Twelve Crises That Shaped the Cross
by Marshall D. Johnson
Patrick J. Hayes

Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology
by Kwok Pui-lan
Denise M. Ackermann

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil: A Study in Christian Responsiveness
by Vivienne Blackburn
F. Matthew Schobert Jr.

Bonhoeffer & King: Speaking Truth to Power
by J. Deotis Roberts
F. Matthew Schobert Jr.

The Community of the Word: Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology
edited by Mark Husbands and Daniel J. Treier
W. David Buschart

Two Worlds are Ours: An Introduction to Christian Mysticism
by John Macquarrie
Linda C. Loving

So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
by Debra Rienstra
Linda C. Loving

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