Telling the Truth: Preaching about Sexual and Domestic Violence
John S. McClure and Nancy J. Ramsay, eds.
Cleveland. United Church Press.1998. 162 pp. Pb. $15.95
ISBN 0-8298-1282-2
Reviewed by Gail A. Ricciuti
The Church as Moral Community: Ecclesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate
Continuum. 1998. 176 pp. $19.95
ISBN 0-8264-1048-0
Reviewed by Clifton Kirkpatrick
Lewis Mudge, professor of systematic theology at San Francisco Seminary, is one of the greatest gifts the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) shares with the ecumenical movement. His vision and insights, matched by his gracious and generous spirit, have decisively shaped all of the major ecumenical movements in which our church has been engaged for more than a generation.
Creation and Reality
Fortress. 1999. 102 pp. Pb. $13.
ISBN 0-8006-2628-1
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
Michael Welker, Heidelberg University, is only now becoming known and visible in the United States, both through his publications and his extended residency at Princeton Seminary. He is emerging as a major force in Reformed theology, perhaps destined to be the dominant German figure in Reformed theology as was JŸrgen Moltmann before him.
Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
and Barbara G. Wheeler.
Oxford . 1997. 299 pp. $35.
ISBN 0-19-511493-0 Reviewed by David Steele
The book has a snappy title: Being There. I wanted to read it because one of the four authors is Barbara G. Wheeler, president of Auburn Seminary, and I think she has one of the best minds in Christendom.
Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History
Cambridge. 1999. 400 pp. $18.95.
ISBN 0-521-64674-x
Reviewed by Donald L. Mykles
As a molecular biologist, I have grown to appreciate the complexity of genetic mechanisms underlying biological processes. No one doubts that molecular biology has revolutionized the biological sciences in the 20th century. We know a great deal about how genes are expressed, replicated and transmitted.
Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men
Eerdmans. 1998. 187 pp. $20
ISBN 0-8028-4282-8
Reviewed by Freda Gardner
If you are a feminist, female or male, you will find convictions and new insights resonating deep in your being. You will also be challenged to think through again the broader and deeper dimensions of life lived on the basis of feminism rather than the patriarchy that has so long dominated the culture of much of the world.
What Presbyterians Believe about the future, Part 2: How we differ from the Dispensationalists
In the previous article, we traced our Reformed theological roots concerning the future. In understanding what we believe, it is often helpful to contrast our beliefs with those of a differing view. One such view is called dispensational premillenarianism.
What Presbyterians Believe about the future, Part 3: Our Distinctive Theological Voice
It is no wonder that few Presbyterians know exactly what our church believes about the end of the world. The issue is complicated and there is no clear consensus within our denomination. It has also been 20 years since our denomination has spoken about these matters.
Together, As the Church
Through the years, I have said it before Presbyterian churches and governing bodies, I have written it in Presbyterian publications and I continue to believe that the ordained Presbyterian pastor is the front line, the cutting edge of our Presbyterian witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Prof. Mark Achtemeier responds to Johnson viewpoint and Busch interview
In the May 14 Outlook William Stacy Johnson presents a very helpful and learned reminder that the situation facing today's PC(USA) is very different from that which confronted the German church in the 1930's. Precisely because of those differences I would argue that any reasonable assessment of the contemporary confessing movement ought to have its primary focus on events taking place in 2001 rather than in 1934.