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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Spring 1997, Vol. 52, No. 1
On Our Work of Teaching .............................5
James Earl Massey
Looking at the World Through the Word ................................. 11
James Earl Massey
Thinking Beyond Ourselves .................................. 17
James Earl Massey
The Gracious Imperative ................................ 2l
James Earl Massey
Understanding the Burden We Feel ..................................27 James Earl Massey
Sharing the Joy We Know ................................. 37 James Earl Massey
The Role of the Spirit in Creation .................................47 Clark H. Pinnock
The Role of the Spirit in Redemption ..................................... 55 Clam H. Pinnock
Book Reviews ................................. 63
Paul Johnson, The Quest for Cod: A Personal Pilgrimage [Kenneth J. Collins]
Richard B. Steele, "Gracious Affection" and "True Virtue" According to Jonathan
Edwards and John Wesley [Henry H. Knight lll]
Richard B. Steele, "Gracious Affection" and "True Virtue' According to Jonathan
Edwards and John Wesley [Randy L. Maddox]
Cornelius A Buller, The Unity of Nature and History in Pannenberg's Theology
[Charles E. Gutenson]
Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind [Mark Elliott]
Bible Works for Windows by Hermeneutika [Ben Witherington III]
Karl Heinz Voigt, Die Heiligungsbewegung zwischen Methodistischer Kirche -
und Landeskirchlicher Gemeinschaft ... {J. Steven O'Malley}
Fall 1997, Vol. 52, No. 2
The Beauty of Holiness .............................................................5
J. Prescott Johnson
Pascal's Biblical Omission Argument Against Natural Theology ..............................17
Douglas Groothuis
Martin Luther King, Jr., Personalism, and Moral Law ...................................................27
Rufus Burrow, Jr.
Biblical Theological Foundations for a Response to Religious Pluralism ...........43
Dean Hemming
Wesley on Imputation: A Truly Reckoned Reality or Antinomian Polemical
Wreckage? .................................... 63
Woodrow W Whidden
Some Personal Reflections on the Jesus Seminar. ....................... 71
William Richard Stegner
John Wesley as Editor and Encyclopedist ............................81
Samuel J. Rogal
Book Reviews ............................................................................................... 91
Alan R. Bowman, The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume X; The Augustan
Empire, 43 B.C-A.D. 69 [David A. DeSilva]
James W. Fowler, Faithful Change: The Personal and Public Challenges of
Postmodern Life [Randy L. Maddox]
John M. Haas, ed., Crisis of Conscience [John Culp]
David R. Bauer and Mark Allen Powell, eds., Treasures New and Old: Recent
Contributions to Matthean Studies [B. Keith Brewer]
Christopher R. Seitz, Isaiah 1-39. Interpretation, A Bible Commentary for
Teaching and Preaching [John N. Oswalt]
James Montgomery Boice and Benjamin E. Sasse, eds., Here We Stand! A Call from Confessing Evangelicals [David P. Whitelaw]