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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Canonical Reading of the Old Testament in the
Context of Critical Scholarship ......................................................................................................5
Rolf Rendtorff
The Old Testament: Jewish and Christian Bible ....................................................................... 13
Rolf Rendtorff
The Limits of a Limitless Science .................................................................................................23
Development of Womanist Theology: Some Chief Characteristics.. .........................41 Rufus Burrow, Jr.
Charles Goodwin
Hebrews I I : I I- "By Faith Sarah Received Ability" ................... ..................67
J. Harold Greenlee
Book Reviews ....................................................................................................................................73 Vicky Balabanski,
Eschatology in the Making: Mark, Matthew and the Didache [C.R. Nicholl]
Bruce Chilton, Pure Kingdom: Jesus' Vision of God [Knox Chamblin]
Ralph P. Martin antl Peter H. Davids, eds. Dictionary ofthe Later New Testament
and Its Developments [Robert W. Yarbrough]
Michael Eaton, No Condemnation: A New Theology of Assurance [Richard
Heyduck] Mark G Toulouse & James 0. Duke, eds. Makers of Christian Theology
in America
[David P. Whitelaw]
Glenn T. Miller, The Modem Church from the Dawn ofthe Reformation to the Eve
of the Third Millennium [Marc A. Clauson]
R. David Rightmire, Salvationist Samurai. Gunpei Yamamuro and the Rise ofthe
Salvation Army in Japan [Roger J. Green]
William C. Spohn, What Are They Saying about Scripture and Ethics? [David Alan
Reed] David C. Steinmetz, Luther in Context [Roger J. Green]
Catherine Stonehouse, Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey [Sondra
Matthaeil Douglas M. Strong, They Walked in the Spirit: Personal Faith and
Soda/ Action in America[Amy G. Oden]
James B. Torrance, Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace [Roy
Williams] Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed., The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological
Essays on Culture and Religion [Roderick T. Leupp]
Geoffrey Wainwright, Worship with One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism
Embrace [Wesley D. Tracy]
James Emery White, Rethinking the Church: A Challenge to Creative Redesign in
an Age of Transition [Howard A. Snyder]
Theistic Ethics: Toward a Christian Solution ............................ ..........................5
David J. Baggett
Why the Holiness Movement Is Dead................................................................................27
Kenneth J. Collins
Post-Soviet Protestant Theological Education: Come of Age?....................................3 7
Mark Elliott
Belonging to God:
The Quest for a Communal Spirituality in the Postmodern World ......................41
Stanley J. Grenz
Postmodernism on Race and Gender: An Evangelical Response.............................53
Douglas Groothuis
The X-Factor: Revisioning Biblical Holiness ......................................................................73
Brent A. Strawn
Book Reviews...............................................................................................................................93
Elizabeth Achtemeier, Preaching Hard Texts of the Old Testament [Dan G.
Johnson] Tremper Longman 111, Making Sense of the Old Testament: Three
Cruda/ Questions
[Bill T. Arnold]
John O. Currid, Andent Egypt and the Old Testament {Peter Herbert Dongell}
Andrew E. Hill, Malachi: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
{Bill T. Arnold}
James D.G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle [Paul N. Anderson] Victor C.
Pfitzner, Hebrews [N. Clayton Croy]
