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UBR&M 0NLNf FOR uSE IN OF PRIN cngjs. APR 5 1991 J^fOLOGlCAl ^ PER BV 4070 . P712 N.S. v.ll c.2 Princeton Theological Seminary. The Princeton Seminary illetin v—n — FOR USE IN LIBRARY ONLY. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library https://archive.org/details/princetonsemina1111prin_0 HE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XI, NUMBER I NEW SERIES 1990 Always in Need of Reform EDITOR What is “Reformed Theology”? JANE DEMPSEY DOUGLASS The End of the Modern World: A New Openness for Faith DIOGENES ALLEN Josef Hromadka and the Witness of the Church in East and West Today CHARLES C. WEST ' A Understanding J. Gresham Machen GEORGE MARSDEN The Gospel is Not for Sale: Mission Parameters and Dynamics RAYMUND FUNG Sermons So, We Are Called? EUGENE G. TURNER Freed to Follow YVONNE V. DELK On Doing Something Beautiful DANIEL L. MIGLIORE PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Thomas W. Gillespie, President James I. McCord, President Emeritus BOARD OF TRUSTEES David B. Watermulder, Chair Johannes R. Krahmer, Vice-Chair Robert M. Adams, Secretary Frederick F. Lansill, Treasurer Clarence B. Ammons Henry Luce III Eve S. Bogle Karen Turner McClellan Robert W. Bohl M. Scott McClure Stuart Cummings-Bond David M. Mace John H. Donelik Donald C. McFerren James G. Emerson, Jr. Earl F. Palmer Peter E. B. Erdman George T. Piercy Rosemary Hall Evans Jean M. Rech Sarah B. Gambrell Thomas J. Rosser Francisco O. Garcia-Treto Laird H. Simons, Jr. Helen H. Gemmill Frederick B. Speakman C. Thomas Hilton William P. Thompson David H. Hughes Jay Vawter Jane G. Irwin Samuel G. Warr F. Martin Johnson George B. Wirth Louis Upchurch Lawson Charles Wright James H. Logan, Jr. Ralph M. Wyman TRUSTEES EMERITI/AE Clem E. Bininger Raymond I. Lindquist Frederick E. Christian J. Keith Louden Margaret W. Harmon William H. Scheide Bryant M. Kirkland John M. Templeton Harry G. Kuch Irving A. West 1 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XI NUMBER I NEW SERIES 1990 Daniel L. Migliore, editor Jane Dempsey Douglass, book review editor CONTENTS Always in Need of Reform Editor I What is “Reformed Theology”? Jane Dempsey Douglass 3 The End of the Modern World: A New Openness for Faith Diogenes Allen 1 Josef Hromadka and the Witness of the Church in East and West Today Charles C. West 3 2 Understanding J. Gresham Machen George Marsden 46 The Gospel is Not for Sale: Mission Parameters and Dynamics Raymund Fung 61 Sermons So, We Are Called? Eugene G. Turner 7 1 Freed to Follow Yvonne V. Del\ 77 On Doing Something Beautiful Daniel L. Migliore OO c/1 Book Reviews Weaving the Sermon: Preaching In A Feminist Perspective, by Christine M. Smith Don M. Wardlaw 90 Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer, by Paul M. Minus James H. Moorhead 9 2 American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History from the Early Republic to Vatican II, by Gerald P. Fogarty James H. Moorhead 94 An Evolutionary Approach to Jesus of Nazareth, vol. 5 of Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today, by Juan Luis Segundo Mark, Kline Taylor 95 11 The Wrath of Jonah, by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether Nicholas Wolterstoiff 98 The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism, by Kathleen C. Boone Stephen L. Stell 100 Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, ed. Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ Christine M. Smith 101 Understanding the Christian Faith, vol. 1 of Cod Encountered: A Contemporary Systematic Theology, by Frans Joseph van Beeck, S.J. Byron David Stuhlman 103 Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation, by William C. Placher Jeffrey C. Eaton 105 Christian Ethics in the Protestant Tradition, by Waldo Beach Charles C. West 106 Family Intervention: Hope for Families Struggling With Alcohol and Drugs, by Joe Vaughn Christie Cozad Neuger 107 Suffering: Its Meaning and Ministry, by James G. Emerson James N. Lapsley 108 Ministry Through Word and Sacrament, by Thomas C. Oden Donald Capps 109 The “I” of the Sermon, by Richard L. Thulin Donald Macleod in If I Had One More Sermon to Preach, by Ansley Gerard Van Dyke Thomas G. Long "3 Educating in Faith: Maps and Vision, by Mary C. Boys Freda A. Gardner "4 The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, vol. 5 of Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700), by Jaroslav Pelikan David Dawson "5 Realism and Hope in a Nuclear Age, by Kermit D. Johnson Ronald Cole-Turner 117 The Princeton Seminary Bulletin is published three times annually by the Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church at 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 anil administration, and presentations by guests on the Seminary campus, we cannot accept unsolicited material. — Always in Need of Reform re we witnessing a renewal of interest in Reformed theology in the A Presbyterian church today? There are at least a few signs that point in this direction. One could mention the new brief statement of faith that was commissioned by the General Assembly several years ago and that will soon come before the church for final discussion and action; the rising expecta- tions of many Presbyteries that candidates for ordination be well-versed in the Reformed theological tradition; and the growing awareness that as we enter the final decade of this century the social, cultural, and spiritual crises of our world are so formidable as to compel us all to take up the theological task with new seriousness. Preoccupation with a particular theological tradition can of course be more problematic than promising. It could signal retreat to a romanticized past; it could mean that the church is anxious, defensive, uncertain of itself and its future, and hence eager to find safety and security in what is familiar and provincial. But we venture to hope that the new interest in the Presby- terian church in what it means to be Reformed has a very different basis. Anxiety for a narrow denominational identity has never been what the Re- formed theological heritage has stood for at its best. Neither Calvin nor Edwards nor Barth, giants of the Reformed tradition, construed his theolog- ical responsibility in narrow terms. Their major writings Institutes of the Christian Religion, The End Which God Created the World and The for , Church Dogmatics—intended to serve the Word of God that gathers, nour- ishes, and commissions the whole church. For Reformed theology it is this Word of God decisively spoken in Jesus Christ that again and again sum- mons the church and theology to reform of faith and life. Willingness to let God begin anew with us, openness to God’s transforming and reordering judgment and grace— this is Reformed existence. As is well-known to readers of this journal, the spirit of the Reformed tradition is enshrined in the motto, Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda: the church reformed, always in need of reform. This motto covers every aspect of the life of the church, including and especially its theology. Sovereignty of God, elect people, salvation by grace alone, authority of Scripture, the sanctification of every dimension of life—these and other great motifs of the Reformed tradition are not slogans to be mechanically repeated but themes that require fresh interpretation in concrete situations. Reformed theology needs to be continually liberated from routinization and misuse for the 2 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN faithful proclamation and service of the living Word of God. Perhaps the astonishing movements of political and social reform sweeping Eastern Eu- rope today will help to remind us of the global importance of the witness of the Christian church to a w'ay of life that is always ready to be reformed. In different ways the articles in this issue display the vitality and promise, the diversity and tensions, of Reformed theology today. Describing what is distinctive about Reformed theology, Jane Dempsey Douglass underscores the point that it represents not a fossilized but a living and growing tradition of faith. Diogenes Allen explores the new openness to faith in our “post- modern” situation and calls the church to a new confidence in presenting the full wealth of Christian conviction. Charles West reexamines the life and legacy of the influential Reformed Czechoslovakian theologian, Joseph Hromadka, who taught theology and ethics at Princeton from 1939 to 1947. George Marsden reconsiders the work of a very different but no less contro- versial Princeton theologian, J. Gresham Machen. Finally, Raymond Fung contends that the world-wide Christian mission needs to show the spirit of continuing reform since it can no longer be carried out in a one-sided, im- perialistic manner but must be a mission in “waiting" as well as in “reaching out.” Daniel L. Migliore Editor Jane Dempsey Douglass is the Hazel What is Thompson McCord Professor of Historical “Reformed Theology”? Theology at Princeton Seminary. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, Radcliffe by Jane Dempsey Douglass College Graduate School, and Harvard University where she received her Ph.D. A Reformation scholar, her most recent boo\ is Women, Freedom, and Calvin. Last summer Dr. Douglass was elected Vice- President of the World Alliance of Re- formed Churches at its meeting in Seoul, Korea. The following lecture was pre- sented at a meeting of New Brunswick^ Presbytery in September, 1989.