The Present and Future Church

by Wolfhart Pannenberg

The Church of the future must take up the ecumenical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

Countercultural Christians

by R. Booth Fowler

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalismby George M. Marsden Eerdmans, 206 pages, $12.95 Evangelicalism and fundamentalism continue to represent a vital and flourishing sector of American religion, one often at war with the American cultural elite and latterly much engaged in politics. For . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

God and Man at Tuscaloosa

by Peter J. Leithart

A friend of mine, more radical and pessimistic than I, claims that it is illegal to be a Christian in the United States today. Though I find that assessment overstated, not to say hysterical, it can hardly be doubted that public expressions of Christianity have, in the last several decades, been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

Trinitarian Morality?

by Leslie E. Gerber

The traditions Gregory Jones explores in Transformed Judgment are grand ones: Aristotelian virtue-centered moral philosophy; Thomism, especially as it elucidates the relation between the sacraments and friendship with God; Trinitarian thought; Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. One . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

The Complexities of Morality

by Paul C. Vitz

In this challenging book, Owen Flanagan addresses a number of important and neglected connections between ethics and psychology. He begins with the suggestion that it is time for philosophers of the moral life to take “a cold, hard look at what is known about human nature.” Psychological . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

The Church Militant

by William H. Willimon

War is waged within the Southern Baptist Church of the 1970s and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The WCC at Canberra: Which Spirit?

by Lawrence E. Adams

In the theological world, Liberation theologies express the yearning for human wholeness . . . . They reread the Bible and reinterpret Christian tradition and theology from their experience of oppression and liberation. This must be the time we have to reread the Bible from the perspective of birds, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II)

by James Tunstead Burtchaell

If the Vanderbilt transition from Methodist to neuter exhibits a typical pattern of academic secularization, what we will find at the root of these events is a sponsoring church that is nonchalant about its burden: one that wishes to be the patron of a college or university without being its . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991

Across the Gulf of Faith

by Matthew Berke

The interfaith dialogue between Christians and Jews has become such a familiar feature of contemporary religious life that it is hard to imagine a time when it was virtually unheard of. Yet this dialogue has existed in self-conscious form only since the end of World War II. Jewish Perspectives . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991

A Jewish Theological Understanding of Christianity in Our Time

by David Novak

It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level. Once during that time, when I was part of a small group of students who . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1991