Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library 4 https://archive.org/details/princetonseminar1921prin THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XIX NUMBER 2 NEW SERIES 1998 Inaugural Lecture Empathy and Evaluation in Medieval Church History and Pastoral Ministry: A Lutheran Reading of Pseudo-Dionysius PAUL ROREM Dead Sea Scrolls Symposium The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years of Discovery and Controversy JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH Qumran and Supersessionism — and the Road Not Taken KRISTER STENDAHL Allen Conference Theology and Spirituality: Or, Why Religion Is Not Critical Reflection on Religious Experience ERIC O. SPRINGSTED Kuyper Conference Some Reflections on Sphere Sovereignty RICHARD J. MOUW Opening Communion The Protection of God’s Darkness JANET L. WEATHERS Faculty Publications 1997 Book Reviews PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Thomas W. Gillespie, President BOARD OF TRUSTEES Robert M. Adams, Chair Ralph M. Wyman, Vice Louise Upchurch Lawson, Secretary Clarence B. Ammons Justin M. Johnson Fred R. Anderson Thomas R. Johnson M. Craig Barnes Curtis A. Jones Robert W. Bohl Todd B. Jones William G. Carter Johannes R. Krahmer Warren D. Chinn Henry Luce III Stewart B. Clifford David M. Mace Gary O. Dennis Kari Turner McClellan John H. Donelik Julie E. Neraas Peter E. B. Erdman Young Pai Thomas A. Erickson Earl F. Palmer Rosemary Hall Evans Thomas J. Rosser Mary Lee Fitzgerald Arthur F. Sueltz John T. Galloway, Jr. Thomas K. Tewell Francisco O. Garcia-Treto Virginia J. Thornburgh C. Thomas Hilton Jay Vawter David H. Hughes George B. Wirth Jane G. Irwin Jane C. Wright F. Martin Johnson TRUSTEES EMERITI /AE Frederick E. Christian William H. Scheide Sarah B. Gambrell Laird H. Simons, Jr. Margaret W. Harmon John M. Templeton Bryant M. Kirkland William P. Thompson Raymond I. Lindquist Samuel G. Warr George T. Piercy David B. Watermulder 6 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XIX NUMBER 2 NEW SERIES 1998 James F. Kay, EDITOR Daniel L. Migliore, BOOK review editor Brent A. Strawn, ASSOCIATE EDITOR CONTENTS Inaugural Lecture Empathy and Evaluation in Medieval Church History and Pastoral Ministry: A Lutheran Reading of Pseudo-Dionysius Paul Rorem 99 Dead Sea Scrolls Symposium The Dead Sea Scrolls: Fifty Years of Discovery and Controversy James H. Charleswonb 1 1 Qumran and Supersessionism — and the Road Not Taken Krister Stendabl 134 Allen Conference Theology and Spirituality: Or, Why Religion Is Not Critical Reflection on Religious Experience Eric 0 . Springsted 143 Kuyper Conference Some Reflections on Sphere Sovereignty RichardJ. Motew 160 Opening Communion The Protection of God’s Darkness Janet L. Weathers 183 Faculty Publications 1997 190 11 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN Book Reviews Covenant and Commitments: Faith, Family, and Economic Life, by Max L. Stackhouse William Johnson Everett 201 Religion, Feminism, and the Family, eds. Anne Carr and Mary Stewart van Leeuwen Christie Cozad Neuger 2°3 From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition, by John Witte, Jr. Bryan D. Spinks 204 Coming Out as Parents: You and Your Homosexual Child, by David K. Switzer Joretta L. Marshall 206 Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays, by Larry Kent Graham Peggy Way 208 The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible, by Gail Corrington Streete Christine Roy Yoder 210 Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy, by Walter Brueggemann Michael S. Moore 212 Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Ernst Jenni and Claus Westermann, trans. Mark E. Biddle Brent A. Strawn 215 The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics, by Richard B. Hays Robin Scroggs 217 Matthew, by Thomas G. Long A. K. M. Adam 219 The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modem Thinking About God Went Wrong, by William C. Placher Gregory S. Cootsona 220 Jesus Christ: Savior and Lord, by Donald G. Bloesch Gabriel Fackre 222 Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi 224 Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East, ed. R. Scott Appleby Benjamin M. Weir 22 5 CONTENTS iii The Lawyer’s Calling: Christian Faith and Legal Practice, by Joseph G. Allegretti Kelly D. Reese 227 Making Gospel Sense to a Troubled Church, by James W. McClendon, Jr. Sally A. Brown 229 Dancing with Disabilities: Opening the Church to All God’s Children, by Brett Webb-Mitchell RolfA. Jacobson 231 The Princeton Seminary Bulletin is published three times annually by Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Each issue is mailed free of charge to all alumni/ae and, by agreement, to various insti- tutions. Back issues are not available. All correspondence should be addressed to James F. Kay, Editor, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803; email: [email protected]. The Bulletin publishes lectures and sermons by Princeton Seminary faculty and adminis- tration, and presentations by guests on the Seminary campus. Therefore, we do not accept unsolicited material. Empathy and Paul Rorem is the Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of Medieval Church Histoiy at Evaluation in Medieval Princeton Theological Seminary. He gave this inaugural address in Miller Chapel on Church History and March 25, 1998. Among his many works are Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary Pastoral Ministry: A on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence (1993) and John of Lutheran Reading of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Pseudo-Dionysius Annotating the Areopagite (forthcom- ing. co-authored with C. , 1998), John by Paul Rorem Lamoreaux. enjamin Breckinridge Warfield maintains a noteworthy place on our B campus, not only because of the annual lecture series that he endowed as a lasting expression of his profound devotion to his wife, and not only because of the imposing portrait dominating our Main Lounge, with its stern face and yet twinkling eyes. Warfield also holds a place in our midst because of his penetrating studies in the history of doctrine, particularly of St. Augustine and of John Calvin. Many have cited his observation that “the Reformation, inwardly considered, was just the ultimate triumph of Augustine’s doctrine of grace over Augustine’s doctrine of the church.” 1 Warfield identified August- ine’s soteriology as profound and true, and he evaluated Augustinian ecclesiol- ogy as inherited and secondary, even to Augustine himself. Regarding previous Warfield professors, I have had the privilege of being a student in the classrooms of both of them, namely, Hugh T. Kerr and Karlfried Froehlich. 2 From Professor Kerr I learned how to look, rather boldly, for an author’s overall theological system, how to enjoy and benefit from the arts within the seminary curriculum, and even how to help students meet and appreciate each other. I also found out that seminary professors can have fun at their work and even be funny, although few will ever match Tim Kerr on that score. From Professor Froehlich, I learned about most of church history, including Lutheran “polity” as we say at Princeton, meaning the 1 For insights into Warfield himself, I am indebted to William O. Harris, Seminary Librarian for Archives, especially for his transcription of Hugh Kerr’s first Warfield lecture, “Warfield: The Person Behind the Theology” (March 1, 1982; Seminary Archives). Warfield’s epigram in Calvin and Augustine (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1956), 322, is used by J. Pelikan, Reformation of Church and Dogma ( 1300-1700 ) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 9 and elsewhere, and is discussed in Pelikan’s “An Augustinian Dilemma: Augustine’s Doctrine of Grace vs. Augustine’s Doctrine of the Church?” Augustinian Studies 18 (1987), 1-29. 2 On Kerr, see Our in God's Light ed. M. Mulder (Philadelphia: Life , John Westminster, 1979); on Froehlich, see Biblical Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective, cd. Mark S. Burrows and Paul Rorem (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991). IOO THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN Lutheran Confessions, about Pseudo-Dionysian studies and the necessary background material, and thus about some of the basic methodological perspectives that I intend to explore in this essay. As my Doktorvater, he directed my dissertation, has helped to guide my work ever since, and remains a cherished adviser and family friend. I. Medieval Church History Medieval church history, the study of the entire millennium before the Western Latin Church subdivided into the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches, has much to teach us about both content and method, the latter of which is my primary emphasis. In particular, I want to relate certain methodological questions in medieval church history to the context of parish ministry. The mission of this seminary is, obviously and officially, to prepare women and men for ministries in congregations and in the larger church. My correlation of methods in church history to ministry in the church will emphasize congregational life, the face-to-face communities of weekly worship, witness, and work. More specifically still, I will speak of what I know, namely, medieval church history and the solo pastorate, for I have found these two sides of my own vocation to employ a similar method, the interplay of what I am here calling empathy and evaluation. To study church history, in general, means to investigate widely rather than narrowly. We may have favorite authors or cherished doctrines; we may prefer certain eras or areas, but to do church history is to take a broad perspective, a holistic approach to the whole of the church, as we are able, far beyond our own likes and dislikes, just as pastors need a holistic view of the entire congregation. One could even choose materials for special investiga- tion that are not naturally congenial, indeed even alien or opposed to one’s own inclinations and convictions. For some, the whole subject of medieval church history might fall under this category of the alien and the strange.