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. FOR USE IN LIBRARY ONLY PER BV 4070 . P712 N.S. v.13 c.2 Princeton Theological Seminary The Princeton Seminary illetin FOR USE IN LIBRARY ONLY.. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library https://archive.org/details/princetonsemina1331prin_0 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN 'OLUME XIII, NUMBER 3 NEW SERIES 1992 IMMENCEMENT I 992 ans and Doors PETER J. GOMES Dur Obligation THOMAS W. GILLESPIE \ Consuming Fire KARLFRIED FROEHLICH NAUGURAL ADDRESS n Service to the Servants of the Word: Teaching Speech at Princeton Seminary CHARLES L. BARTOW daladies of the Middle Class ROBERT WUTHNOW Theology and Science WOLFHART PANNENBERG >ERMONS rhe Anatomy of a Dream E.K. BAILEY dary’s God—And Ours JAMES F. KAY /lemorial: Hugh Thomson Kerr THOMAS W. GILLESPIE ndex Vol. XIII 1 (1992) PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Thomas W. Gillespie, President BOARD OF TRUSTEES Johannes R. Krahmer, Chair Robert M. Adams, Vice Chair Louise Upchurch Lawson, Secretary Clarence B. Ammons David M. Mace Fred R. Anderson Kari Turner McClellan Helen Mabry Beglin M. Scott McClure Eve S. Bogle Donald C. McFerren Robert W. Bohl Anne Kimrey Myers Warren D. Chinn Young Pai John H. Donelik Earl F. Palmer Peter E. B. Erdman Jean M. Rech Rosemary Hall Evans Barbara A. Renton Sarah B. Gambrell Thomas J. Rosser Francisco O. Garcia-Treto Laird H. Simons, Jr. C. Thomas Hilton Thomas K. Tewell David H. Hughes William P. Thompson Jane G. Irwin Jay Vawter F. Martin Johnson David B. Watermulder Justin M. Johnson George B. Wirth Thomas R. Johnson Charles Wright Henry Luce III Ralph M. Wyman TRUSTEES EMERITI/AE Clem E. Bininger J. Keith Louden Frederick E. Christian George T. Piercy Margaret W. Harmon William H. Scheide Bryant M. Kirkland John M. Templeton Harry G. Kuch Samuel G. Warr Raymond I. Lindquist Irving A. West 1 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XIII NUMBER 3 NEW SERIES 1992 Daniel L. Migliore, editor James F. Kay, book review editor CONTENTS Commencement 1992 Lions and Doors Peter J. Gomes 2 57 Our Obligation Thomas W. Gillespie 263 A Consuming Fire Karlfried Froehlich 266 Inaugural Address In Service to the Servants of the Word: Teaching Speech at Princeton Seminary Charles L. Bartow 274 Maladies of the Middle Class Robert Wuthnow 287 Theology and Science Wolfhart Pannenberg 299 Sermons The Anatomy of a Dream E. K. Bailey 3 1 Mary’s God—And Ours )ames F. Kay 320 Memorial: Hugh Thomson Kerr Thomas W. Gillespie 325 Book Reviews Heirs of Paul: Paul’s Legacy in the New Testament and in the Today, by Christiaan Beker Hendn/^us Boers Church J. 333 1 Jesus’ Jewishness: Exploring the Place of Jesus within Early Charlesworth Judaism, ed. James H. J. C. O'Neill 335 The Secularization of Sin: An Investigation of the Daedalus Complex, by Richard K. Fenn Anthony ]. Blast 337 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenges of Today, by Richard Shaull Alan Neely 33 8 God with Us: A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament, by Christoph Barth, ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley Dennis T. Olson 339 Let Justice Roll Down: The Old Testament, Ethics, and Christian Life, by Bruce C. Birch Patrick D. Miller 34 i Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth, by Danna Nolan Fewell and David Miller Gunn George M. Landes 34 2 The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, by John Dominic Crossan Pheme Perkins 344 | Jesus: God’s Emptiness, God’s Fullness: The Christology of St. Paul, by Jennings B. Reid Thomas G. Long 346 Strukturale Beobachtungen zum Neuen Testament, by Werner Stenger James W. Voelz 347 A History of Bible Translation and the North American OO Contribution, by Harry M. Orlinsky and Robert G. Bratcher Bruce M. Metzger OO A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. R. J. Coggins and J. L. Houlden Bruce M. Metzger 349 Theology of Peace, by Paul Tillich, ed. Ronald H. Stone Elisabeth Gerle 35° After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom, by David Walsh Charles C. West 35 2 The Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr, ed. Ronald F. Thiemann Charles C. West 354 Cross and Sword: An Eyewitness History of Christianity in Latin America, ed. H. McKennie Goodpasture Alan Neely 355 1 The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, by Harry S. Stout Edwin S. Gaustad 356 Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980 s, ed. Mark A. Noll Ronald C. White, Jr. 35 8 The Black Church in the African American Experience, by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya Harold Dean Trulear 359 Reformed and Feminist: A Challenge to the Church, by Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos Katharine Doob Sakpifeld 3 & 1 Voices of Experience: Lifestories of Clergywomen in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), ed. Alice Brasfield and Elisabeth Lunz Rosemary Catalano Mitchell 362 The Diversity of Discipleship: The Presbyterians and Twentieth- Century Christian Witness, ed. Milton J Coalter, John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks David W. A. Taylor 3 6 3 CONTENTS iii The Integrity of Biblical Narrative: Story in Theology and Proclamation, by Mark Ellingsen James F. Kay 36 5 The Four Codes ol Preaching: Rhetorical Strategies, by John S. McClure Thomas G. Long 366 Short-Term Pastoral Counseling: A Guide, by Brian H. Childs Robert Dykstra 368 Sex in the Parish, by Karen Lebacqz and Ronald G. Barton Donald Capps 3 69 Index Vol. XIII (1992) 373 The Princeton Seminary Bulletin is published three times annually by Princeton Theological Sem- inary, Princeton, New Jersey. Each issue is mailed free of charge to all alumni/ae and on an exchange basis with various insti- tutions. Back issues are not available. All correspondence should be addressed to Daniel L. Migliore, Editor, Princeton Seminary Bul- letin, CN 821, Princeton, NJ 08542. Because the policy of the Bulletin is to publish lectures and sermons by Princeton Seminary faculty and administration, and presentations by guests on the Seminary campus, we do not accept unsolicited material. Lions and Doors The speaker at the 180th commencement exercises of Princeton Theological Semi- by Peter J. Gomes nary was Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Profes- sor of Christian Morals and Minister of the Memorial Church at Harvard University. a door wor\ has to there are Text: . for wide for effective opened me, and many adversaries” (i Cor. 16:9). commencement address, as we all know, is a form of trial by ordeal. It A is a trial for the preacher to try to find something worth the saying, realizing that he and his address are all that stand between you and your long-awaited futures. And it is an ordeal for the audience who in some measure believe they have heard it all before, and what new cliche could this preacher possibly add to the homiletical compost heap? An added com- plication is, of course, to preach to preachers and would-be preachers and the teachers and benefactors of preachers on such an occasion. You may not have heard it all, but you do believe that you know it all. And so, perhaps the best thing I can do under these difficult circumstances is to assure you that I am aware of all of this, and thus, in the words of Henry VIII to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon: “I won’t keep you long.” But I must keep you awhile: You have contracted for a sermon, and I am to give it. On these occasions, your job is to listen and mine to preach. And should you finish your job before I finish mine: wait for me. Now I realize that I pose a further complication to some of you this morning. It is not often that a Baptist from Harvard gets to speak to Pres- byterians and their friends at Princeton: we should savor the moment. But this is not the first time I have found myself among the heirs of Calvin. Some years ago, I preached in St. Giles in Edinburgh, that mother church of decency and order, and the minister of the High Kirk warned me that the Edinburghers were unlikely to be friendly or cordial. “It’s not like your American churches,” he said, “they don’t say anything, but don’t take it personally.” So I preached as well as God enabled me, and after the service, at the door of St. Giles, he was right: not a word of greeting or welcome as these dour Presbyterians passed by, until one lady took my hand, and looked me straight in the eye and said: “Ah, it must have been a great honor for you to preach to us this morning.” So it was, then and there; so it is, here and now. But now, the text, an odd and enigmatic fragment of Pauline correspon- dence hardly worth noticing in the unedifying final verses of 1 Corinthians ! 258 THE PRINCETON S E MINA R Y BULLETIN 16, something about that contribution for the saints, a bit of unfinished and profoundly undogmatic business about money, travel, weather, and obsta- cles: . for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” This is the sort of text of which my predecessor. Dean Willard L. Sperry, used to say: “Take your text, depart from your text, never return to your text.” But here at Princeton one would never dare do that, for while you may or may not be the sons and daughters of the prophets, you certainly are the sons and daughters of the exegetes. And you will note here that the most interesting word in this text is the connective “and.” The natural reading of the text, particularly on Commencement day, might be: “For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, but there are many adversaries.” That makes sense: we face great opportunities out there, but there are a few prob- lems.