CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY

Christian Persons in the Making WILLIAM EDWARD HULME

Cosmology, Ontology, and the Travail of Biblical Language LANGDON B. GILKEY

Homiletics

Theological Observer

Book Review

IVOL. XXXIII March 1962 No.3 BOOK REVIEW

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ADVENTURING IN THE CHURCH: Drew, founded the first "Moorish Science A CONFIRMATION GUIDEBOOK. By Temple" in Newark, N. J. In 1920, in New William Backus, Paul Malte, and Wayne York City, Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey pre­ Saffen. Medford, Oreg.: Morse Press, sided over the first international convention 1960. 194 pages, plus work sheets and of the Universal Negro Improvement Asso­ teacher's guide. Loose leaf in binder. ciation, of which George Alexander Mc­ $3.75. Guire's African Orthodox Church was the There are many things to say about this religious wing. Still other movements have manual for confirmation instruction for chil­ been all but forgotten by history, among dren - and they are all good. them the National Movement for the Estab­ The teacher's guide emphasizes the guide­ lishment of a Forty-Ninth State, the National book character of Adventuring in the Union of People of African Descent, the Church, stressing its supplementary role in Peace Movement of Ethiopia, and the United the confirmation process. The approach is African Nationalist Movement. In 1930 a Christ-oriented, not primarily catechism or mysterious peddler in Detroit calling himself Bible-centered. Nevertheless the catechism is Wallace D. Fard called into being a new extensively appealed to, there is heavy stress movement which was ultimately to become on opportunity for family Bible study, and vastly more effective than any of its prede­ the use of the RSV in the course is properly cessors. Under his successor, a 64-year-old inductive. Georgia Negro Baptist preacher's son known A primary recommendation of this manual originally as Elijah Poole and subsequently is its multitude of "hooks" - illustrations and as Gulam Bogans, Muhammad Rassouli, Eli­ interest catchers for children of pre-confirma­ jah Muck Muhd, Elijah Kerriem, and Elijah tion age. The symbolism and artwork by Muhammad, the "Black Muslims" have Richard R. Caemmerer, Jr., are modern and achieved a membership in excess of 100,000 relevant. The format is quite workable­ in 69 temples and missions across the coun­ snap binder with red plastic cover. There is try. They have their own business projects, plenty of room for including assigned papers. their own schools, and their own trained All in all, at this writing, this is the best military force, the "Fruit of Islam." They confirmation guidebook for our youth avail­ subscribe to a set of sub-Muslim religious able in our circles. It is especially suited for principles; in spite of their deviations from the first year of confirmation instruction. conventional Islamic orthodoxy, however, DONALD 1. DEFFNER Elijah Muhammad was permitted to make the hajj to Mecca. In the present work THE BLACK MUSLIMS IN AMERICA. By a skilled sociologist sets forth the rise and the C. Eric Lincoln. Boston: Beacon Press, present status of this movement in graphic and c. 1961. xi and 276 pages. Cloth. $4.95. highly readable detail; Gordon Allport calls Negro nationalism is nothing new in it one of the best technical case studies in America. During the teens of the present the whole literature of social science (p. ix). century "Noble Drew Ali," ne Timothy This reviewer is reluctant to describe any 176 BOOK REVIEW 177 book as must reading for anyone. The Black either been by classical scholars or are old Muslims in America, however, is in his view ( e. g., Whiston's notes), the notes to this must reading for every Lutheran pastor. edition have one eye on the New Testament Whatever the reader's opinion of integration and the other on the Dead Sea Scrolls. For may be, Lincoln's book will prove a shatter­ that reason, New Testament scholars may ing disclosure of the way in which our so­ find this an unusually valuable edition of ciety's treatment of the American Negro is Josephus. making it quite literally impossible for in­ In general, positions are carefully thought creasing numbers of our Negro fellow Amer­ out. It was surprising therefore to read icans to believe in our Lord and Savior Jesus (p. xxix) that the Bellum is more carefully Christ. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN written than any other works of Josephus. Most students of Josephus (including this DAS EVANGELIUM NACH MARKUS. By reviewer) would give the palm to his Contra Walter Grundmann. Second edition. Ber­ Apionem in that respect. In summary, the lin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1959. text provides little advance; the notes and xiv and 330 pages. Cloth. DM 14.80. introduction are valuable and worthy of Recent developments in synoptic studies, study. EDGAR KRENTZ including especially the work of Hans Con­ zelmann and Willi Marxsen, prompted a BIBLE KEY WORDS: Volume III. Trans­ complete reviSlOn of Friedrich Hauck's com­ lated and edited by Dorothea M. Barton, mentary in the series Theologischer Hand­ P. R. Ackroyd, and A. E. Harvey. New kommetltar zum Neuen Testamerzt. Grund­ York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, mann blends a profound and sympathetic 1961. xiv and 119 pages. Cloth. Price, understanding of Mark's theological perspec­ $4.00. tive with an informed application of Rab­ Two especially significant treatments by binic materials and intertestamentalliterature. Rudolf Bultmann and Arthur Weiser are in­ The result is a work remarkably rich and cluded in this third volume of translation suggestive especially for the earnest preacher. from the massive German "Kittel." The The advanced student will find in the excur­ research student should note that the editors suses and footnotes ample stimulus for fur­ have abridged the originals. ther investigation. FREDERICK W. DANKER FREDERICK W. DANKER NEUTESTAMENTLlCHE APOKRYPHEN FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS DE BELLO JU­ IN DEUTSCHER UEBERSETZUNG. By DAICO - DER ]t)DISCHE KRIEG. Edgar Hennecke. Third ed. by Wilhelm Vol. 1. Edited by Otto Michel and Otto Schneemelcher. Vol. I: Evangelien. Tii­ Bauernfeind. Bad Homburg: Herman bingen: J. c. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Gentner Verlag, 1960. xxxvi and 464 1959. viii and 377 pages. Cloth, DM pages. Cloth. Price not given. 24.00; paper, DM 19.60. Josephus' most important work receives The name of Hennecke has been respected a good introduction, an eclectic Greek text in German scholarship since the first edition (which does not replace Niese's), an ade­ established this as the standard translation quate German translation, and selected notes of New Testament apocrypha. The third by two German New Testament scholars. edition brings it even greater prominence, The major value of this new edition lies in for it now supersedes even the English the notes. Whereas most commentaries have Apocryphal New Testament of M. R. James. 178 BOOK REVIEW

It does this because it appeared late enough and implied questions that his book has to include translations with introductions of raised. Noteworthy in this postscript, as the Gnostic Nag Hammadi documents, which Smith points out in a new preface, is Buber's occupy over 100 pages of this new edition. repetition of what he means by God ("[He} In order to make room for this, some ma­ who - whatever else he may be - enters terial (Apostolic Fathers) found in the into direct relation with us men in creative, earlier editions has been dropped. revealing and redeeming acts, and thus makes This volume includes the general intro­ it possible for us to enter into a direct rela­ duction and materials that approximate the tion with him") as a Person: "The concept New Testament Gospels. Schneemelcher has of personal being is indeed completely in­ marshaled an excellent team of collaborators capable of declaring what God's essential 0. Jeremias; O. Cullmann; Puech; Viel­ being is, but it is both permitted and neces­ hauer; W. Bauer, and others) that guarantees sary to say that God is also a Person" (p. the excellence of the work. The section en­ 13 5 ) . From this attribute of personal being, titled "Judenchristliche Evangelien" by P. Buber holds, stems each man's and all men's Vielhauer is a good example of the method being as spirit and being as nature. But of the work. After an excellent bibliographi­ while normally a person "is limited in its cal summary and general introduction on total being by the plurality of other inde­ Jewish-Christian Gospels, Vielhauer gives pendent entities," this is not true of God. translations, with introductions, of the re­ He is "the absolute Person, i. e., the Person mains of the Gospel of the Nazaraeans, the who cannot be limited. It is as the absolute Gospel of the Ebionites, and the Gospel of Person that God enters into direct relation the Hebrews. One who works carefully with us." While He makes us as persons be­ through this section will have a good under­ come capable of meeting with Him and with standing of Jewish-Christian attitudes toward one another, "no limitation can come upon Christ in the first two centuries. him as the absolute Person, either from us or A second volume will complete the set from our relations with one another." and provide the indexes to the whole. (P. 136) ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN EDGAR KRENTZ EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND GREEK I AND THOU (lch und Du). By Martin PAIDEIA. By Werner Jaeger. Cam­ Buber. Translated by Ronald Gregor bridge, Mass.: The Belknapp Press of Smith. Second edition. New York: Harvard University Press, 1961. iv and Charles Scribner's Sons, c. 1958. xii and 154 pages. Cloth. $3.25. 137 pages. Cloth. $1.75. Influential personalist philosopher Buber This turned out to be the last work in was 45 when the first German edition of a long and productive career of scholarship I and Thou came out in 1923. In the al­ by Werner Jaeger, the dean of American most 40 years since then, it has become classical scholars, who was born and edu­ far and away his best-known work. Much of cated in Germany. Jaeger exemplified the its popularity and influence in the English­ best of German scholarship, precision, at­ speaking world derives from the competent tention to detail, philological methodology, translation that Smith produced in 1937, and a broad spectrum of interests ranging here reproduced with only minor changes from Homer and pre-Socratic philosophy plus an illuminating 14-page explanatory to patristic theology. A mere listing of his postscript that Buber himself has added by books and articles would fill many columns way of a "public answer" to the explicit in this journal. BOOK REVIEW 179

Professor Jaeger was best known to theo­ METHODISTS LINKING TWO CONTI­ logians for three works, his 1936 Gifford lec­ NENTS: The Stories of Six German­ tures on The Theology of the Early Greek American Methodists. By Friedrich Wun­ Philosophers (Oxford, 1947), Paideia: The derlich. Nashville: The Methodist Ideals of Greek Culture (3 vols., Vol. 1 in Publishing House, 1960. 143 pages. 3d ed., 1946-47), and the edition of the Cloth. $3.00. complue works of the Cappadocian church William Nast, scholar, Louis S. Jacoby, father Gregory of Nyssa. He had projected missionary, Erhard and Frederick Wunder­ a fourth volume of Paideia on the reception lich, pioneers, Louis Nippert, evangelist and of Greek paideia in the early Christian educator, and John L. Nuelsen, Christian world as well as a major study of Gregory statesman - these are the men that German of Nyssa. Unless the 73-year-old scholar's Methodist Bishop Wunderlich first treated notes were advanced enough to enable some in a series of lectures and then depicted other scholars to edit these works, Jaeger's further in the chapters of this book. The death on Oct. 19, 1961, was unfortunate for crosscurrents between American and Ger­ all students of patristics. man Methodism, particularly in the 19th The present volume, lectures given at century, are brought out in a manner that Harvard University in 1960, at least indicates catches interest. Jacoby went back to Ger­ the I!'ain direction that Jaeger's thought many to bring Methodism to Bremen. There took. The work discusses I Clement, the sec­ he and Nippert conducted a Methodist theo- ond-century apologists, [he Alexandrians 10gic81 seminary for a while. Nuelsen (d. Clement and Origen, and the Cappadocian 1946), who went to Europe in 1912 and fathers, with emphasis on Gregory of Nyssa. in 1920 became Bishop of the Central He emphasizes the use of Stoic ideals of the European Conference, is one af the out­ state in the second century, the creation of standing Methodists of the first half of the 20th century. William Nast, the first man Christian theology by Clement and Origen treated, incidentally, was an opponent of through the instrumental use of Greek C. F. \V, Walther CARL S. MEYER philosophy, and the creation of Christian culture on the basis of Biblical revelation INNOZENZ DER DRITTE. By Reinhold and Greek thought by the Cappadocians. Schneider. Cologne: Jakob Hegner, 1960. This emphasis on Greek philosophy is a salu­ 232 pages. Cloth. DM 12.80. tary one. When the late poet-historian who wrote This is not to say that this very com­ Innozenz der Dritte completed his manu­ pressed volume is without flaws. Jaeger script - the product of a single month of places St. James late and views him as "Anti­ sustained effort - in July 1931, he deemed Pauline." James seems much more to be it unwise to publish it in view of the devel­ pre-Pauline to this reviewer. But this and oping political situation in Central Europe. similar minor points of disagreement do not The figure of the great medieval pope con­ lessen the value of the book, even though tinued to fascinate him, however, and in what should have been an appetizer is now 1952 he published his play Innozenz 1tnd the entire meal. The copious notes give Franziskus, although the publication of the sufficient indication as to how the interested present work was withheld until two years reader might pursue the path that Jaeger after Schneider's death in 1958. Innozenz did not live to traverse completely. der Dritte presupposes a familiarity with EDGAR KRENTZ the history of the 12th and 13th centuries; 180 BOOK REVIEW

it attempts neither to provide nor to supple­ in the United States, Part Two the story of ment such an acquaintance. It is epic the Evangelical Synod of North America, poetry clothed in prose and written with the Part Three the brief story of the merger of sensitivity of a novelist and a dramatist for the two bodies to the threshold of their that which lies under rather than upon the further union with the Congregational­ surface. One can quarrel legitimately with Christian denomination. The narrative is Schneider's somber, sometimes almost Mani­ interrupted by not a single footnote and by chaean, historical determinism, which sees only very few statistical tables. In lieu of the tragic conflicts that he records as an in­ documentation there is an eight-page bibli­ evitable datum of the premises. Yet as the ography. The thesis which the book pro­ kings, the emperors, the popes, the saints, poses to illustrate is that "the Evangelical the heretics, the crusaders, and the pseudo­ and Reformed tradition is such that this crusaders march across Europe and across church believes that any church taking that Schneider's pages, the reader catches the prayer [St. John In seriously must ever be authentic feel of the epoch of Henry VI at work striving to make real by making and Otto IV and Philip of Swabia and Fred­ visible to the world 'our oneness in Christ,' erick II, of Celestine III and Innocent III translating that oneness which is given of and the Little Poor Man of Assisi, of the God into that oneness of corporate life and Childrens' Crusade and the Fourth Lateran witness which only God's people, by their Council and the war against the Albigensian humble willing to do so, can bring about heretics, more profoundly than he could by (p. 337)." The pietas of the authors ror studying half a dozen volumes of medieval the denomination that they have been serv­ history. Josef Rast has appended an in­ ing is unconcealed, and their work makes structive postscript which serves as an ex­ no pretense at being a critical history. cellent introduction to Schneider's philosophy Within the limitations of the size and scope of history. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN of the volume, however, this is an important document for every student of American A HISTORY OF THE EVANGELICAL Christianity. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN AND REFORMED CHURCH. By David Dunn, Paul N. Crus ius, Josias Friedli, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SATAN: New Theophil W. Menzel, Carl E. Schneider, Testament Demonology and Its Con­ William Toth, and James E. Wagner. temporCfll'Y Relevance. By Trevor Ling. Philadelphia: The Christian Education London: SPCK, 1961. vi and 114 pages. Press, c. 1961. xvi and 369 pages; 11 full­ Paper. 12/6. page plates. Cloth. $5.95. In this monograph in Biblical theology In this illustrated symposium, designed as Ling takes the Bultmannian position that a companion volume to Elmer J. F. Arndt's particularly in connection with New Testa­ The Faith We Proclaim (Philadelphia: The ment "demonology" "we cannot dispense Christian Education Press, 1960), which altogether with mythology, but must learn treats the doctrinal position of the Evan­ to use mythological concepts ... with greater gelical and Reformed Church (in process awareness of their limitations and their of absorption since 1957 into the United special value" (p. 1). From this point of Church of Christ), seven Evangelical and view he outlines the Biblical perspective of Reformed authors chronicle the denomina­ New Testament demonology, shows Satan tional history of their body. Part One re­ to be the central demonological emphasis in counts the story of the Reformed Church each major section of the New Testament, BOOK REVIEW 181 isolates the chief features of "the symbol of For all that, it would be worth any pastor's Satan" passage by passage, discusses the re­ while to spend time with this work for lation of Satan and the angelic powers, a better acquaintance (pro and con) with analyzes the limitations and the special today's schools. CARL S. MEYER value of the New Testament "symbol of Satan," and describes the conquest of Satan HOLY WRIT OR HOLY CHURCH: THE - "the annulment of sin and the imparting CRISIS OF THE PROTESTANT REFOR­ of righteousness" (p. 93) - as the primary MATION. By George A. Tavard. New aspect of the divine work of salvation. York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. x and A careful critical study of the monograph 250 pages. Cloth. $5.00. will have the salutary effect of helping the In the 16th-century Scriptura sola was one reader eliminate unbiblical elements from of the watchwords of the Reformation. his image of Satan and to keep from depict­ Tavard, an Augustinian as Luther was, in­ ing Satan in the not uncommon dualistic vestigates the origins of this concept and fashion which makes the devil the all-but­ traces it through the first 16 centuries. He, omnipotent, all-but-omniscient, all-but-om­ of course, accepts the pronouncements of the nipresent evil counterpart of God. Although Council of Trent. As he interprets them, Ling takes cognizance of the description of Holy Scripture and tradition are "two sets Satan as "that ancient serpent" in Rev. 12: 9 of vessels" for the Gospel of Christ and and at least implicitly in Rev. 20: 2, for therefore, insofar as they convey this Gospel, reasons at which the reader can only guess he are entitled to "the same adhesion of faith" passes by completely the important reference (p. 208). The council, he says, "respects the in 2 Cor. 11: 3 and its significant linkage classical view: Scripture contains all revealed with Gen. 3 :4. Again, in the section on doctrine, and the Church's faith, which in­ "Satan as Destroyer" the reader looks in vain cludes apostolic tradition, interprets it" for even a mention of 1 Cor. 10:10. (p.210). Tavard begins with the patristic ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN view; he spends considerable time with the writers of the 15th century, with the hu­ THE SCHOOLS. By Martin Mayer. New manists, with Luther and Calvin. Of great York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. xviii and value is his section on "The Defence," on 446 pages. Cloth. $4.95. the views of men like Cardinal Cajetan, Jo­ A sizable segment of a parish pastor's flock hann Eck, Johann Cochlaus, Johann Driedo, is enrolled in the public schools, even where Albert Pigge ("among the most impressive the congregation has a Christian day school. champions of orthodoxy"), Nikolaus Ellen­ These schools have been under attack and borg, Kaspar Schatzgeyer, and others. The have been interpreted from a variety of reassertion of the Scripture principle by angles. Free-lance writer Mayer looks at the Roman Catholics like Ambrose Catharinus schools in this country and in Europe. He Politi and the Regensburg Colloquy also are asks a lot of questions, and even if he does included in Tavard's treatment. not always have the right answers, he pre­ This is a welcome book, a needed one, sents them in such a way that he stimulates and an authoritative one. Tavard is not en­ thought. What does make a good teacher tirely free from a tendency to bring out the and good teaching? His candid camera word "Scripture and tradition" principle, but he pictures from "in the classroom" help make presents without distortion or caricature the his book interesting, but even to this basic other point of view. The dust jacket of the question he cannot give a categorical answer. book carries a citation of Jaroslav Pelikan 182 BOOK REVIEW worth repeating: "Father Tavard marshals LES ORIGINES DE LA REFORME FRAN­ historical materials from both Protestant and CAISE: MEAUX, 1518-1546. By Rene­ [Roman) Catholic theology so skillfully and Jacques Lovy. Paris: Librairie Protestante, fairly that no treatment of the problem of 1959. 251 pages. Paper. Price not given. [Roman) Catholic-Protestant relations can In 12 information-packed chapters, count- afford to overlook his conclusions." ing the introduction, Lovy, a French his­ CARL S. MEYER torian and scholar, has conclusively shown the Lutheran antecedents of, and influence THE HIsTORIC REALITY OF CHRIS­ on, the Reformation movement in France. TIAN CULTURE: A WAY TO THE Lovy substantiates the remark of Charles, RENEWAL OF HUMAN LIFE. By Chris­ Cardinal of Lorraine, in 1559, that as many topher Dawson. Vol. I: Religious Perspec­ as two thirds of the population of France tives. Edited by Ruth N. Anshen. New were devenus lutheriens. Lovy tells about York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. 124 Meaux, its bishop, Guillaume Briconnet, the pages. Cloth. $3.00. first martyrs of l\1eaux, the successors of According to Editor Anshen's introductory Briconnet, the Evangelical Church of Meaux, chapter the general aims of the series Re­ the 14 martyrs of Meaux, and so on. His ligious Penpectives point to a rediscovery of thesis, however, of the Lutheran character of first principles. "Confronted with the ques­ the movement demands the closest attention. tion of !lleaning, he [modern man} is sum­ He gives, for instance, a list of Luther's moned to rediscover and scrutinize the im­ books which were translated into French, not mutable and the permanent which constitute least of all the Small Catechism. He cites, the dynamic, unifying aspect as well as the to give another instance, the royal decrees principle of differentiation; to reconcile which condemn the Lutheran heresies, and identity and diversity, immutability and un­ he quotes popular songs and ballads which rest" (p. 7). A rediscovery of man is to by their very phraseology make it evident point to the way to a rediscovery of God, that the populace was acquainted with Lu­ for "the human heart is able, even yearns, to theranism. go to the very length of God" (p. 9). (This Lovy's scholarship, although he refrains reviewer would ask: Without the Spirit of from using footnotes to any extent, is note­ God?) The meaning of God and the fallacy worthy. He has a seven-page bibliography of the apparent irrelevance of God in history of works in French; most of the titles are are to be brought out in this series. specialized studies on the Reformation period A Roman Catholic historian leads off this in France. His writing is lucid. The work series and from the historical perspective is deserving of translation and wide dissemi­ treats the "Six Ages of the Church." He nation. At least Lutherans ought to know speaks of Christian culture as a "culture of the details of early Lutheran influences in hope." With civilization in crisis he finds France. CARL S. MEYER that "the only remedy is religious education in the widest sense of the word" (p. 90). HEBREW UNION COLLEGE ANNUAL, The church, that is, the Roman Church, he Volume XXXII. Edited by Elias 1. Ep­ says (p. 119), is not bound up with any stein. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College­ nation or civilization and therefore "as a Jewish Institute of Religion, 1961. iv and divine society possesses an internal principle 350 and 46 pages. Cloth. Price not given. of life which is capable of assimilating the This issue of the Hebrew Union College most diverse materials and imprinting her Anmtal is especially rich in significant and own image on them." CARL S. MEYER varied content. Samuel Sandmel subjects BOOK REVIEW 183

Gen. 4:26b to careful analysis and concludes the theology of St. Athanasius, Didymus the that it is unnecessary to emend the text. Blind, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Basil the James Muilenberg scrutinizes motivations Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, St. Gregory conveyed by the particle ~:l in an article of Nyssa, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Apollinaris which suggests that there are still untapped of Laodicaea, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and lodes in the hills of Hebrew grammar. Stu­ St. John Chrysostom. dents of liturgics, and those who ought to be, ARTHUR CARL PIBPKORN will do well to read the informative article by Sheldon Blank on Biblical prayer. Were CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INDUS­ the ancient Jews, especially in the early TRIAL CIVILIZATION. By John U. Nef. Christian era, opposed to visual art? Joseph New York: Harper & Brothers 1960. Gutmann replies with an emphatic no. But xv and 165 pages. Paper. $1.25. the piece de resistance in this meaty volume An outstanding authority on the 16th is another installment of Harry Orlinsky's century, John Nef, investigates the period "Studies in the Septuagint of the Book of from about 1570 to roughly 1660 and con­ Job." FREDERICK W. DANKER cludes that the separation of science from faith and from ethics and from art is "at the PATROLOGY. Volume III: THE GOL­ roots of the industrial world in which we DEN AGE OF GREEK PATRISTIC live" (p. 4). The passion for mathematical LITERATURE FROM THE COUNCIL precision and detailed investigations by ob­ OF NICAEA TO THE COUNCIL OF servation and experimentation characterized CHALCEDON. Westminster, Md.: The the scientific method. The beginnings of Newman Press (Utrecht: Spectrum Pub­ modern technology and the intellectual revo­ lishers), 1960. xxv and 605 pages. Cloth. lution coincided to make up a critical epoch $6.75. from which emerged modern civilization. Volume III of Quasten's Patrology main­ Aspirations toward charity and compassion, tains the high standard set by volumes I (see a readiness to put beauty into the service of this journal, XXIV [July 1953}, 542-543) those ideals, according to Nef, emerged. That and II (see this journal, XXVI [March Nef has fully gauged the impact of Prot­ 1955}, 225-226), with the impressively estant Biblical teachings in the shaping of comprehensive bibliographies, the precise and some of these ideals may be questioned. That impartial scholarship, the admirable balance, Nef has presented a most thought-provoking the carefully compiled indices, and the laud­ series of essays cannot be questioned. His able combination of historical and theolog­ contribution must be reckoned with by any­ ical insight that have made the work an one who would interpret any phase of mod­ indispensable vade mecum for every scholar ern history from the Renaissance to the who approaches the writings of the early present. CARL S. MEYER church. Successive chapters in the present volume treat the Egyptian authors from GREAT PERSONALITIES OF THE NEW Arius to St. Cyril of Alexandria, the founders TESTAMENT: THEIR LIVES AND of Egyptian monasticism from St. Anthony TIMES. By William Sanford Lasor. West­ to the irascible and able Shenoute, the writers wood, N. J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., of Asia Minor from Eusebius of Nicomedia c. 1961. 192 pages. Cloth. $3.00. to St. Asterius of Amasea, and the Syrians This book, for the most part, represents from St. Eustathius of Antioch to Theodoret lectures presented to a Bible class by a rec­ of Cyrus. Extended notes discuss in detail ognized Bible scholar of conservative theo- 184 BOOK REVIEW logical persuasion. In a unique way he tells being and work of Christ and the Holy the story of God's redemptive activity as Spirit; (5) the church as the community of recorded in the New Testament by presenting Jesus Christ; (6) the church as the com­ portraits of some of the key personalities, munity of the Spirit; (7) the church, wor­ both men and women, involved in this story. ship and sacraments; (8) Christ, the world These portraits are framed by the initial and the church; (9) the unity of the church. study of "The Fullness of Time" and the The report on the meaning of Baptism closing study of "The Triumphant Christ." reflects a renewed interest in that sacrament. Here and there one may question a view In view of the diversity of opinions among presented, but by and large it is a solid piece Christians regarding it, the authors did very of work presented in a popular and stimu­ well in ascribing to Baptism the importance lating manner. Preachers and Bible class which it deserves in God's plan of salvation. teachers may find it a useful book for their Significant is the emphasis on the fact that work. VICTOR BARTLING Baptism is something that God does to us, not something that we ourselves do. The ONE LORD ONE BAPTISM: WORLD commission stresses the fact that God through COUNCIL OF CHURCHES COMMIS­ Baptism makes us members in the body of SION ON FAITH AND ORDER RE­ Christ. If now the commission keeps in mind PORT ON THE DIVINE TRINITY that we are members in the body of Christ AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH through faith in Him, it will accord to AND REPORT ON THE MEANING OF Baptism its proper place in soteriology as BAPTISM PRESENTED TO THE COM­ a means of grace. Faith is indeed the "re­ MISSION 1960. Minneapolis: Augsburg sponse to the redemption made known in the Publishing House, 1960. 79 pages. gospel," as the commission puts it, but it Paper. $1.25. should be added that the Holy Spirit works Particularly two aspects of these reports this faith through the Gospel, in which the are significant, though there are others which redemption is made known, and that this are also important. The commission recog­ includes the Gospel which is connected with nizes doctrine as of primary importance in the water in Baptism. striving for the external unity of the church. These reports of the commission deserve Furthermore, it demonstrates that Scripture, to be studied by pastoral conferences. The the Old Testament as well as the New, must Spirit is at work in the churches. be the only source of Christian doctrine. LEWIS W. SPITZ, SR. With these facts in mind, the commission defined the areas which deserve priority in THE PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM. By a discussion of church unity. C. H. Dodd. New York: Charles Scrib­ The commission's method was not "that ner's Sons, 1961. xi and 176 pages. Cloth. of trying to find an average Christian view, $3.50. or a minimum to which all can agree, by This is the work of the man who, as comparing the views of the different confes­ A. M. Hunter declared, has "put the parables sions," but to proceed "to a maximum which back into their true setting, which is the holds all together." As issues faced by it, ministry of Jesus seen as the great eschato­ the commission discusses the following: (1) logical act of God in which He visited and the inseparability of Christ and the Church; redeemed His people" (Interpretation, XIV (2) the church and the Triune God; (3) [Jan. 1960],83). Adolf Jiilicher, at the end Israel, the church and the nations; (4) the of the 19th century, gave Archbishop Trench, BOOK REVIEW 185 with all his allegorizing of the parables, back sert that the "seven" mentioned in Acts 6: 1 to the Middle Ages. Dodd has done what were "deacons," Corswant correctly observes Jiilicher failed to do, namely, to outline the that "they are by no means called 'deacons' theological context in which the parables either in this chapter or - in contrast to must be understood. No one should preach what certain translations state - in the rest on parables without reading critically this of the Acts of the Apostles; moreover, their revision of a classic. activity did not remain limited to tasks of FREDERICK W. DANKER a material nature: Stephen and Philip, in particular, were fervent evangelists." Church A DICTIONARY OF LIFE IN BIBLE librarians should order this book at once. TIMES. By W. Corswant. Translated by Pastors and lay Bible students will find it Arthur Heathcote. New York: Oxford a delightful and authoritative resource to University Press, 1960. xix and 308 pages. enrich their understanding of the Biblical Cloth. $6.50. message. FREDERICK W. DANKER It is a common lament that many Bible dic­ tionaries repel with their fine print and bulky DICTIONARY OF LITURGICAL LATIN. appearance. No pains are here spared to By Wilfrid Diamond. Milwaukee: The show consideration to the reader. In addition Bruce Publishing Co., 1961. 156 pages. to the attractive layout and the many clear Paper. $2.50. and helpful illustrations, a systematic classi­ The Latin of the liturgy and of medieval fication of the principal articles included in and modern liturgical books often defies this handsome volume prefaces the diction­ translation on the basis of a lexicon of clas­ ary proper. With this aid the student can sical Latin alone. This businesslike, efficient see at a glance that this dictionary does not compilation provides English equivalents for treat proper names, geographical locations, and theological subjects, but discusses the life between 11,000 and 12,000 Latin words, and environment of man in Bible times, in­ rare and common, occurring in the Latin rite, cluding his secular life, his religious life, and including the extensive passages from the the animals, plants, and minerals with which Sacred Scriptures found in it. Obviously it he came in contact. Thus if one wishes to cannot include every single word (thus, for make a special study of holy places, specifi­ instance, it is weak on musical terms, lacking, cally ancient sanctuaries, he is directed on among others, /lexa, 1Zeztma - although it has p. x, under II, A, 1, to consult the following neumatizo - penultimus and semiditonus). articles: Altar, Asherah, Sanctuary, Ark, Nor will it indicate every nuance of mean­ Tabernacle, Sacred Trees, Pillar, Dolmen, ing (thus, for instance, the meaning "be Ephod, Images, Teraphim, Urim, and Thum­ found worthy," which mereor demands in mim. The dictionary includes not only gen­ the collect for the Second Sunday in Advent, eral articles, such as "Weights and Measures," is not listed). At the same time the occa­ but also separate entries devoted to the sub­ sions when the user will be compelled to divisions, with appropriate Scripture refer­ turn to a more elaborate lexicon will be ences cited at the end of each article employ­ rare. A very useful feature is the accentua­ ing the Scriptural term. The discussion of tion of all words of more than two syllables. the term deacon suggests the scholarly in­ This reviewer cordially recommends the pres­ tegrity that has gone into this volume. ent work to all those who have to work with Whereas many Bible dictionaries and hand­ liturgical Latin. books designed for popular consumption as- ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN 186 BOOK REVIEW

HOW WE GOT THE BOOK OF lvWR­ in 1492. He reproduces sections of books MON. By E. Cecil McGavin. Salt Lake and newspapers of the period to show that City: Deseret Book Company, c. 1960. Smith could have known from other sources ix and 128 pages. Cloth. $1.50. many of the "facts" that he claimed to know only through the revelation of the Book of MORMON CLAIMS EXAMINED. By Larry Mormon and that his two most frequently Jonas. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book cited "prophecies" were based on newspaper House,1961. 81 pages. Paper. $1.00. reports; he gives part of the record of a trial McGavin, a Mormon elder, taught for in 1826 in which Smith was found guilty of many years in his denomination's seminary being an impostor; and he offers pages from system before joining the staff of the de­ Mormon publications impeaching the char­ nominational historian. Obviously writing acter of the witnesses who are supposed per­ for the instruction of his fellow Mormons, sonally to have seen the golden plates upon he summarizes the official account of the which the Book of Mormon was engraved. origin of the various parts of the Book of He also considers a number of Bible passages Mormon-Ether's story of the Jaredites, who which Mormons and members of the Re­ are supposed to have left Mesopotamia be­ organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter­ fore Babel; the chronicle of the Nephites, Day Saints use to confirm the truth of their who left Palestine for the New World in the doctrine. Jonas' denominational affiliation is days of Jeremiah, whose descendants were not specified, but his approach and language instructed by the risen Christ and whose is that of a Southern Baptist. records were abridged by the aged Mormon; ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN the literary efforts of Moroni; the resurrected Moroni's "revealment" of the hiding place THE BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGIST READ­ of the records 1,400 years later to 18-year-old ER. Edited by G. Ernest Wright. New Joseph Smith; and Smith's translation of the York: Doubleday and Co., 1961. xvi and plates by means of Urim and Thummim 342 pages. Paper. $1.45. from "Reformed Egyptian" into English. This commendable volume consists of a Two apologetic chapters attempt to establish selection of articles from the Biblical Llrche­ the credibility of the account by showing ologist. They cover a wide variety of subjects that metal plates were widely used in the related to Biblical research, from the arche­ ancient world for record keeping and that ological evidence for the existence of the American aborigines used metal and had Flood to the eschatological feast upon the developed the art of writing. "steaks" of Leviathan. Of particular signifi­ Jonas' somewhat vehemently written tract cance is a group of related studies concern­ takes the opposite tack and endeavors to show ing the Babylonian, Egyptian, Palestinian, the falsity of the Mormon account. He offers, and Israelite temples, studies which stress among other things, correspondence with the the role of the temple in the total life and Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American faith of the community and the relationship Ethnology to the effect that today no repu­ of the temple and its worship to that of the table ethnologists or archaeologists believe synagog and the early Christian church. This in the Jewish origin of American Indians; publication is a fine tribute to the editors of that there is no linguistic link between them; Biblical Archeologist, which has done much that pre-Columbian Indians apparently did to bridge the gap between the world of ar­ not know how to smelt iron; and that ele­ cheological scholarship and the public. An phants, horses, and the common domesticated index would make this volume even more animals were unknown in the N ew World valuable. NORMAN C. HABEL BOOK REVIEW 187

LAUDES REGIAE: A STUDY IN LITUR­ him off on an almost bewildering assortment GICAL ACCLAMATIONS AND ME­ of fascinating byways that are bound to tan~ DIAEVAL RULER WORSHIP. By Ernst talize the historian, the liturgiologist, and H. Kantorowicz. Berkeley: University of the theologian. Chapter IV, "The Laudes of California Press, 1958. xxi and 292 pages; the Hierarchy," is of particular interest to 15 full-page plates. Cloth. $6.50. the last-named, notably for the light it sheds This is the second edition of a work com­ on some neglected aspects of the developing pleted in 1941 and first published in 1946. doctrine of the sacred ministry and the role The learned historian who is its author de­ of the people in the election of pastors and scribes it modestly as a necessarily incom­ prelates. Church musicians and musicologists plete history of a single liturgical chant, the will find Appendix I, "The Music of the Laudes," by Manfred F. Bukofzer highly in­ Laudes regiae, in its Gallo-Frankish, Franco­ structive. Appendix III (there are five ap­ Roman, Dalmatian, Venetian, Norman, and pendixes altogether) discusses the "Norman Franco-Burgundian forms, from the 8th to finale" of the Exsultet of the Easter Vigil rite, the 13th century. "The seemingly insignifi­ which substitutes for the usual collect type of cant changes in the texts of the laudes ... doxology the concluding formula of Gloria reflect the various changes in theocratic con­ in excelsis. (In passing, it may be noted that cepts of secular and spiritual rulership" the laudes were sung at the coronation in (p. ix). The Laudes regiae are a litany type Bologna of Charles V in 1530, when "the of chant sung in honor of the emperor, the polite Medici pope apologized to the no less king, the duke, the pope, the bishop; in polite emperor for asking him to kiss the origin the chant is a survival in the litur­ pontiff's foot" [p.180}, explaining that lex gical services of the church of the acclama­ cel'emoniarum ita cogit.) tions once given to the Roman emperors. The bibliography, the superb illustrations, A prominent part of the laudes is the fa­ the index of manuscripts, and the general miliar medieval formula Cbristus vincit, index add greatly to the value of an exceed­ Christus regnat, Christus imperat. ingly useful study. Kantorowicz' impressive erudition leads ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN

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Josephus: Complete Works, trans. William It offers encyclopedic information about the Whiston. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Pub­ Bible, its text, and translations; suggests ap­ lications, 1960. xxi and 770 pages. Paper. proaches to Bible study; and discusses the $4.50. The complete works of Josephus are background and purpose of each of the 66 here available in an inexpensive format. books. William Whiston's translation, despite its The Epic of Revelation: An Essay in Bib­ flaws, still remains, as William S. La Sor lical Theology. By Mack B. Stokes. New observes in the Foreword, the best complete York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961. English translation of Josephus. viii and 240 pages. Cloth. $4.95. Leading Angus-Green Bible Handbook. Fleming Biblical themes are explored here in terms H. Revell Company, 1961. xvi and 837 of their relevance to modern man. The pages. Cloth. $6.95. This is a reprint of preacher who wishes to communicate mean­ an old but still useful guide to the Bible. ingfully to his generation will welcome the 188 BOOK REVIEW assistance and the stimulation these pages Frye. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, afford. c. 1961. 207 pages. Cloth. $4.50. Islam and the Integration of Society. By The Protestant Reformation (Une revolu­ W. Montgomery Watt. Evanston, Ill.: North­ tion religieuse: la Reforme protestante). By western University Press, c. 1961. x and Henri Daniel-Rops; trans. Audrey Butler. 293 pages. Cloth. $6.50. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Our Lady: Papal Teachings, ed. the Bene­ 1961. xii and 560 pages. Cloth. $10.00. dictine Monks of Solesmes; trans. the Daugh­ The Letters of James and Peter. By Wil­ ters of St. Paul. Boston, Mass.: Daughters of liam Barclay. Philadelphia: The Westminster St. Paul, 1961. 591 pages. Cloth. $5.00. Press, 1961. xviii and 416 pages. Cloth. Theodore of Mopsuestia: Exegete and $2.50. Theologian. By Rowan Greer. London: The Ancient Israel: Its Life and Imtitutions Faith Press, c. 1961. 173 pages. Cloth. (Les Imtitutions de L'Ancien Testament). 21/-. By Roland de Vaux; ttans. John McHugh. New York: McGraw-Hill, c. 1961. xxv and Pictttres from a Mediaeval Bible. Com­ pages. Cloth. mentary by James Strachan. Second edition. 592 $10.95. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, c. 1961. 128 The Bible, Religion, and the Public pages. Cloth. $3.50. Schools. By Donald E. Boles. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, c. 1961. x and Jesus the Lord: The Sovereign Authority 308 pages. Cloth. $4.95. of JeS1JS and God's Revelation in Christ (Jesus der Herr: Die Herrschervollmacht Jesu Certainties for Uncertain Times. By John ttnd die Gottexofjenbarlmg in Christus). By Sutherland Bonnell. New York: Harper & Karl Heim; trans. D. H. van Daalen. Phil­ Brothers, c. 1961. 160 pages. Cloth. $3.00. adelphia: Muhlenberg Press, c. 1959. x and Communist Totalitarianism: Keys to the 192 pages. Cloth. $3.50. Soviet System. By Bertram D. Wolfe. Bos­ Europe Emerges: Transition Toward an ton: Beacon Press, c. 1961. xx and 328 Industrial World-Wide Society 600-1750. pages. Cloth. $4.95. By Robert 1. Reynolds. Madison, Wis.: The Council of Constance: The Unification University of Wisconsin Press, c. 1961. XlV of the Church. Trans. Louise Ropes Loomis; and 529 pages. Cloth. $7.50. ed. John Hine Mundy and Kennerly M. Woody. New York: Columbia University The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485. By Press, 1961. xv and 562 pages. Cloth. Ernest F. Jacob. New York: Oxford Uni­ $10.00. versity Press, c. 1961. xviii and 775 pages David Brainerd: Beloved Yankee. By Da­ and maps. Cloth. $9.00. vid Wynbeek. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wil­ The Church in Crisis: A History of the liam B. Eerdmans, c. 1961. 256 pages. General Councils, 325-1870. By Philip Cloth. $3.75. Hughes. New York: Doubleday and Com­ Les Oeuvres de Philo d'Alexandrie. Vol. I: pany, 1961. 384 pages. Cloth. $4.95. c. De Opificio Mundi. Trans. Roger Arnaldez, The Improper Opinion: Mass Media Jean Pouilloux, and Claude Mondesert. and the Christian Faith. By Martin E. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1961. 257 pages. Marty. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, Paper. No price given. Co 1961. 144 pages. Cloth. $3.50. Divorce, the Church, and Remarriage. By Methodism and Society, Vol. 1: Method­ James G. Emerson, Jr. Philadelphia: The ism and Society in Historical Perspective. Westminster Press, c. 1961. 192 pages. By Richard M. Cameron. New York: Abing­ Cloth. $3.95. don Press, c. 1961. 349 pages. Cloth. $5.00. Everyday Life in Ancient Rome. By F. R. Perspective on Man: Literature and the Cowell. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Christian Tradition. By Roland Mushat c. 1961. 208 pages. Cloth. $3.50. BOOK REVIEW 189

Glorious Heretic: The Story of Guido de Sharing His Suffering. By Peter H. Elders­ Bres. By Thea B. Van Halsema. Grand veld. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub­ Eerdmans Publishing Co., c. 1961. x and lishing Co., c. 1961. 38 pages. Paper. 99 pages. Cloth. $2.50. 75 cents. Teaching America's Children. By William Individualismus und Gemeinscha/t bei B. Ragan. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Kaspar von Schwenckfeld. By Gottfried Winston, c. 1961. viii and 344 pages. Cloth. Maron. Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, $4.50. 1961. 182 pages. Paper. DM 17.80. The Text of the New Testament: A Short John Wesley. By Ingvar Haddal; trans­ Introduction. By Vincent Taylor. New lated from the original Norwegian. New York: St. Martin's Press, c. 1961. xii and York: Abingdon Press, c. 1961. v and 175 113 pages. Cloth. $3.50. pages. Cloth. $3.50. Theories in Logic (Die Prinzipien der Kirche im Osten: Studien zttr Osteuropa­ Logik). By Wilhelm Windelband. New ischen Kirchengeschichte und Kirchenkunde. York: Philosophical Library, c. 1961. x and Vol. IV. Ed. Robert Stupperich. Stuttgart: 81 pages. Cloth. $2.75. Evangelisches Verlagswerk, c. 1961. 200 pages. Cloth. DM 15.80. H. D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal, ed. Laurence Stapleton. New York: Dover Pub­ Luther and Melanchthon in the History lications, c. 1960. xxxii and 234 pages. and Theology of the Reformation (Luther Paper. $1.55. und Melanchthon), ed. Vilmos vaJta. Phil­ adelphia: Muhlenberg Press, c. 1961. 198 The Use of Symbolism in Christian Edtl· pages. Cloth. $3.00. c"tio". By Dorothy B. Pri,LO. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, c. 1961. 64 pages. The jI,1ea17i17g of the Cross. By Martin J. Paper. $1.45. Heinecken. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, c. 1962. 122 pages. Paper. $1.50. Vom Sinn der Sakramente. By Otto Sem­ Modern Catholic Thinkers: An Anthology, melroth. Frankfurt-am-Main: Verlag Josef Knecht, c. 1960. 118 pages. Cloth. DM ed. A. Robert Caponigri. London: Burns and 6.50. Oates, c. 1960. xxvi and 636 pages. Cloth. 63/-. Man in Rapid Social Change. By Egbert The Old Testament in Christian Preaching. de Vries. New York: Doubleday and Com­ By Lawrence E. Toombs. Philadelphia: The pany, c. 1961. 240 pages. Cloth. $4.50. Westminster Press, c. 1961. 192 pages. The Old Testament: Its Formation and De­ Cloth. $3.95. velopment (Einleitung in das Alte Testa­ One Hundred Years of Music in America, ment). By Artur Weiser; trans. Dorothea ed. Paul Henry Lang. New York: G. Schir­ M. Barton. New York: Association Press, mer, c. 1961. 322 pages. Cloth. $6.95. c. 1961. xv and 492 pages. Cloth. $5.95. Paul and His Predecessors. By Archibald Ottr Christmas Challenge. By James A. M. Hunter. Philadelphia: The Westminster Pike. New York: Sterling Publishing Com­ Press, c. 1961. 154 pages. Cloth. $3.00. pany, c. 1961. 64 pages. Cloth. $1.50. The Psychology of Human Growth and Yearbook of American Churches, 1962: Development. By Warren R. Baller and Don Information on all Faiths in the U. S. A., ed. C. Charles. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Benson Y. Landis. New York: National Winston, c. 1961. xv and 432 pages. Cloth. Council of the Churches of Christ in the $5.50. U. S. A., c. 1961. iv and 314 pages. Cloth. The Semantics of Biblical Language. By $5.95. James Barr. New York: Oxford University Jesus Christ. By Leonce de Grandmaison. Press, c. 1961. x and 313 pages. Cloth. New York: Sheed and Ward, c. 1961. xv $6.00. and 266 pages. Cloth. $4.50. 190 BOOK REVIEW

A Greek Grammar of the New Testament burg Publishing House, c. 1961. xi and 109 and Other Early Christian Literature. By pages. Paper. $2.50. F. Blass and A. Debrunner, trans. and ed. The Art of Worship: A Guide in Corpo­ Robert W. Funk. Chicago: The University rate Worship Techniques. By Scott Francis of Chicago Press, c. 1961. xxxviii and 325 Brenner. New York: The Macmillan Com­ pages. Cloth. $10.00. pany, c. 1961. x and 95 pages. Cloth. $2.75. Logotherapy and the Christian Faith. By The Churches and Rapid Social Change. Donald F. Tweedie, Jr. Grand Rapids, Mich.: By Paul Abrecht. New York: Doubleday Baker Book House, c. 1961. 183 pages. and Company, c. 1961. 216 pages. Cloth. Cloth. $3.95. $3.95. The Lord's Prayer (Das Unservater: Eine Commelztary on the Metaphysics of Aris­ Auslegung). By Walter Luthi, trans. Kurt totle by St. Thomas Aqltinas; trans. John P. Schoenenberger. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Rowan. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, Press, c. 1961. vii and 103 pages. Cloth. c. 1961. xxiii and 955 pages. Cloth. Price $2.50. not given. Luther and the Bible (Luther en De Eastern Christendom. By Nicolas Zernov. Bijbel). By Willem Jan Kooiman, trans. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c. 1961. John Schmidt. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg 326 pages. Cloth. 42/-. Press, c. 1961. ix and 243 pages. Cloth. Luth&'l Jahrbuch 1961: Jahrbuch der $4.00. Luther-Gesellschaft, ed. Franz Lau. Berlin: St. Petel' and the Popes. By Michael M. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, c. 1961. vii and Winter. Baltimore: Helicon Press, c. 1960. 164 pages. Cloth. DM 14.00. viii and 236 pages. Cloth. $4.50. On the Eternal in Man (Vom Ewigen im The Jews of Ancient Rome. By Harry J. Menschen). By Max Scheler; trans. Bernard Leon. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Noble. New York: Harper & Brothers, Society of America, c. 1960. x and 378 c. 1960. 480 pages. Cloth. $10.00. pages. Cloth. $5.50. A Patristic Greek Lexicon, ed. G. W. H. The King Is Dead: Studies in the Near Lampe. Fascicle 1. New York: Oxford Uni­ Eastern Resistance to Hellenism, 334-31 versity Press, c. 1961. xlix and 288 pages. B. C. By Samuel K. Eddy. Lincoln, Nebr.: Paper. $13.45. University of Nebraska Press, c. 1961. x and Prophecy and Inspiration: A Commentary 390 pages. Cloth. $8.50. on the Summa Theologica (Traite de la The Meaning of Gl'ace (Entretiens sur la Prophetie). By Paul Synave and Pierre Be­ noit; trans. Avery R. Dulles and Thomas 1. Grace). By Charles Journet; trans. A. V. Sheridan. New York: DescIee Company, Littledale. New York: P. J. Kenedy and c. 1961. 185 pages. Cloth. $3.75. Sons, c. 1960. xii and 127 pages. Cloth. $3.50. A History of Antioch ill Syria: From Seleucus to the Arab Conquest. By Glanville Predestination and Other Papers (La Pre­ Downey. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Uni­ destination). By Pierre Maury; trans. Edwin versity Press, c. 1961. xx and 752 pages. Hudson. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, Cloth. $15.00. c. 1960. 109 pages. Cloth. $2.50. Del' kommende Christtts und die kirch­ The Origilz and Meaning of the Name lichen Traditionen. By Edmund Schlink. "Protestant Episcopal." By Robert W. Shoe­ Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, maker. New York: American Church Pub­ c. 1961. 276 pages. Paper. No price given. lications, c. 1959. xx and 338 pages. Cloth. Learn While You Sleep: Theory and $3.95. Practice of Sleep-Learning. By David Curtis. Accounting Methods for the Small Church. New York: Libra Publishers, c. 1960. 126 By Manfred Holck, Jr. Minneapolis: Augs- pages. Paper. $1.35. BOOK REVIEW 191

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