CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY

The Will of God in the Life of a Christian

EUGENE F. KLUG

The Word of God in the Theology of Lutheran Orthodoxy ROBERT D. PREUS

Homiletics

Theological Observer Book Review

VOL.xxxm August 1962 No.8 BOOK REVIEW

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EVEN UNTO DEATH: THE HEROIC reading material for the smdent who is being WITNESS OF THE SIXTEENTH-CEN­ introduced to the history of the West. Cor­ TURY ANABAPTISTS. By John Chris­ nell's attempt to provide interestingly written tian Wenger. Richmond, Va.: John Knox monographs by authorities on given periods Press, 1961. 127 pages. Cloth. $2.50. has scored again. Heirs of the Roman Em· Wenger provides a good introduction to pire is excellent for the transition from Rome some 16th-century leaders of the "Left Wing to the Middle Ages no less than for its really Reformation" and their teachings. He has adequate treatment of the religion factors. examined the letters, tracts, books, court WALTER W . OETTING testimonies, and confessional writings of these "witnesses." Their attimdes toward the A HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH. Bible, their doctrine of the church and the By Hans Lietzmann. Translated by Ber­ sacraments, and their ethics are given special tram Lee Woolf. Cleveland: The World attention. The Complete Writings of Menno Publishing Company, 1961. Four volumes Simons are cited most frequently. There is in two. 1182 pages. Paper. $4.50 the set. only one reference to the volume edited by Lietzmann's standard four-volume smdy, G. H. Williams for the Library of Christian here reprinted, is a treatment that ranks with Classics. However, the frequent incorpora­ those of Harnack, Seeberg, and Duchesne tion of source materials by Wenger must be on the history of early Christian life and noted especially. The work lacks an index. thought. Admittedly it is a product of the CARL S. MEYER last generation, and much research has gone on since its first publication. Present-day HEIRS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By readers may therefore question some of his Richard E. Sullivan. Ithaca: Cornell Uni­ dogmatic assertions about primitive Christian versity Press, 1960. ix and 178 pages. developments and his understanding of cer­ Paper. $1.75. tain elements in the Nicene era. Neverthe­ Michigan State University's Sullivan de­ less, this smdy is easily equal to any other scribes the heirs of the Roman Empire as survey of the period available, and students Byzantium, Islam, and Western Frankish and pastors alike will find it a bargain. Europe. This idea certainly furnishes a pro­ WALTER W . OETTING vocative viewpoint for the period from A. D. 400 to 900. When all three areas of the GNOSTICISM. By Robert M. Grant. New old Roman Empire are treated equally, 678 York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. 254 in the East plays as important a role as 732 pages. Cloth. $4.00. in the West in stopping Islam. This broader Since the discoveries at Nag-Hammadi in view is one of the most important contri­ Egypt in 1945 early Gnosticism is being butions of our generation to the smdy of restudied just as late Judaism is being re­ Western civilization. evaluated as a result of the finds around the The present smdy is intended as basic Dead Sea. This makes it necessary for the 502 BOOK REVIEW 503 student to remain in contact with the very sophical level. History, he says, partakes of latest materials being translated from the the nature of science; a preoccupation with Coptic rather than rely on older treatments a philosophy of history does not vitiate the of the subject. It is this concern in part that nature of history as a science. Gianbattista produced this "source book of heretical Vico (d. 1744) to him occupies a decisive writings from the early Christian period" by place "in any true account of the philosophies the University of Chicago's Grant. It in­ of history." In his presentation D'Arcy must cludes the fragments that we have from early perforce discuss the question of Providence Christian writers, such as Irenaeus, Hip­ - he does so in one chapter - and of the polytus, and Tertullian, and also recent finds, Incarnation. "Three ideas," he says, "the such as the Apocryphon of John and the eschatalogical, the other-worldly and the Gospel of Truth. Some of the Hermetic providential . . . must enter into any Chris­ writings and the criticisms of Plotinus and tian theory" (p. 188). There are many by­ Porphyry are also included. paths into which the author wanders, e, g., Grant has noted that there are Oriental, his discussion of Teilhard de Chardin. In his Greek, Christian, and Jewish elements in theology he seems to approach modern Prot­ Gnosticism. He does not accept either the estantism rather closely at times; he likes early Christian view that Gnosticism was the dimensions of Paul Tillich's thought. merely a "Christian hereoy" or the view of D'Arcy's contribution will be counted as one Harnack that it is merely the "acute Hel­ of the more significant presentations among lenization" of Christianity. He feels that an a spate of attempts to set forth a "Christian offbeat apocalyptic Judaism which had lost philosophy" of history. CARL S. MEYER its confidence in Jahweh as a result of the destruction of Jerusalem certainly played an VARIETIES OF PROTESTANTISM. By important role. John B. Cobb, Jr. Philadelphia: The Since Gnosticism played such a significant Westminster Press [1960}. 271 pages. role in the development of Christian dogma Cloth. $4.50. and since many of these documents were Cobb is assistant professor of systematic being circulated at the same time that the theology at Southern California School of New Testament was being written, an appre­ Theology. His work is not arranged in ciation of these materials is important for chronological order, nor does it discuss the the student of church history. history of denominations. In chs. II-V he Two graduates of Concordia Seminary, takes up "Reformation Protestantism" (Lu­ St. Louis, W. R. Schoedel and W. W. Isen­ theranism and Calvinism), "Churchly Prot berg, translated some of the materials. estantism" (which he divides into "Authori­ WALTER W. OETTING tarian" and "Liturgical") , "Individualistic Protestantism" (Biblicism and Experiential­ THE MEANING AND MATTER OF HIS­ ism), and "Liberal Protestantism" (Mysti­ TORY: A CHRISTIAN VIEW. By M. C. cism, the "Quest for the Abundant Life," D'Arcy. New York: Farrar, Straus and and the social gospel). He then discusses Cudahy, 1959. 309 pages. Cloth. $5.50. popular and postscientific Protestantism, the After an investigation of the nature of his- scandal of eschatology - to adopt his own torical knowledge, D'Arcy discusses the terminology - and the ecumenical move­ growth of a philosophy of history and con­ ment. Helpful bibliographies are appended eludes that Christianity can contribute to a to each chapter. The author gives an over­ better understanding of history at the philo- view of the doctrines and beliefs under each 504 BOOK REVIEW of the catagories he delimits. He is quite occupied, he believes, with explanation and objective in his presentations. The work is giving pleasure to his readers, while he seeks a helpful presentation of the various systems to inform and to inspire them to action. The of thought among Protestants and within recurrent patterns or regularities give mean­ Protestant denominations. ing to the approach to history as investigation CARL S. MEYER of the culture of the past, for culture may be defined as "regularities in the behaviour, in­ AN INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY ternal and external, of the members of a so­ FOR THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE. By ciety, excluding those regularities which are George S. Glanzman and Joseph A. Fitz­ clearly hereditary in origin." The patterned myer. Westminster, Md.: The Newman or repetitive element in history is culture. Press, 1961. Paper. xix and 135 pages. Civilizations are the larger, more complex $1.50. cultures. Bagby distinguishes nine major This is a fine annotated bibliography of civilizations and an undetermined number of basic resources for the study of Sacred Scrip­ secondary civilizations. Comparative study of tures. Designed for the beginning student, it these civilizations is needed, involving an ex­ is of course not comprehensive. Each entry amination both of their consistent differences is briefly characterized. Aside from asterisk­ as well as of their consistent similarities. It ing works by Roman Catholic authors, no is a stimulating and well-reasoned plea that denominational bias could be discerned. Bagby makes. But he rules out God. Very few genuinely basic tools were CARL S. MEYER omitted. Those that came to my attention were R. Morgenthaler, Statistik des neutesta­ THE SOCIAL CREED OF THE METHOD­ mentlichen Wortschatzes (add on p. 52) , IST CHURCH: A LIVING DOCUMENT. Daremberg-Saglio's large French dictionary New York: Abingdon Press, c. 1961. 176 of classical antiquities, Rostovtzeff's Social pages. Paper. $1.50. and Economic History of the Roman World The 1908 Social Creed of the Methodist (add on p. 101), and my colleague Frederick Episcopal Church, taken over almost wholly Danker's Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study by the Federal Council of Churches upon its (add to p. 125). For the price this is an ex- organization that same year, provided Amer­ tremely useful work. EDGAR KRENTZ ican Protestantism with "its first ringing CULTURE AND HISTORY: PROLEGOM­ declaration on social concerns" (p. 23). ENA TO THE COMPARATIVE STUDY With few exceptions it has since become part OF CIVILIZATIONS. By Philip Bagby. of the structure of our national economic Berkeley: University of California Press, life either through legislation or through 1959. ix and 244 pages. Cloth. $5.00. voluntary practices. The Social Creed was The late Philip Bagby, in his own words, revised in 1932, adopted by The Methodist presents "an attempt to formulate, by precise Church in 1939, hotly attacked in the Gen­ definition and logical argument, the con­ eral Conferences of 1948 and 1952, once ceptual background for a general theory of more updated in 1960. Ward's book is a cultural forms and of culture-change and to combined history and analysis of this latest show that many of the problems of historical version, designed either for private reading regularity (or historical 'causation') can be or for group discussion. Introductory chap· formulated and possibly resolved in these ters on the historical, Biblical, and theo­ terms" (p. 10). Accurate empirical research logical foundations of the Social Creed are is needed, he says. The historian is too much followed by analyses of its pronouncements BOOK REVIEW 505 on family relationships, economic life, rural­ a treasure, and this series helps to hand it on. town-urban problems, intoxicants and nar­ This volume reprints 20 sermons, although cotics, crime and delinquency, race relations, without dates of their original preaching or international affairs and world peace, civil publication. In these sermons Spurgeon falls liberties, church-and-state relations, and poli­ into the trap that awaits many an evangelical tics, with a final chapter on "What to Do preacher as he speaks to his Christian coo'­ About It Now?" Changes in the world, the gregation about soul-winning. He speaks church, and the Social Creed are likely to the Gospel of the atoning work of Jesus, but evoke a greater, and in some ways possibly usually as that which the hearer is to speak more sympathetic, Lutheran interest in the on to the next man. He does not sufficiently Methodist document of 1960 than in that direct it as power for overcoming the lassi~ tude in the hearer, takes its work there for of 1908. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN granted, or replaces it with "prayer." For ex­ SOURCES AND RESOURCES: THE LIT­ ample: "You will speak, for you will feel ERARY TRADITION OF CHRISTIAN that you are sent! . . . If we are in a right HUMANISM. By Barry Ulanov. West­ state of heart, we shall always feel like minster, Md. : The Newman Press, 1960. that. . .. Pray for the power to win the souls xv and 286 pages. Cloth. $4.50. of those dear children for Christ. . . . First "Without a sense of the past [modern tarry at Jerusalem till you are endued with man] sacrifices dimension and thus gives up power from on high." (P. 15) any clear understanding of the present mo­ RICHARD R. CAEMMERER ment as well" (p. 271) . Christian human­ LUTHER'S WORKS. Volume 37 : Word ism, Ulanov is certain, belongs to the past and Sacrament III. Edited by Robert Har­ which unclaimed is a great loss to the Chris­ ley Fischer. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg tian - a much greater loss than mere igno­ Press, c. 1961. xxi and 406 pages. Cloth. rance of a few books. To help in a measure $5.00. to regain some of the loss, he writes about St. Augustine and Boethius and St. Gregory LUTHER'S WORKS. Volume 3: Lectures the Great, St. Bernard and Dante, Shake­ on GeneJiJ, Chapters 15-20. Translated speare and Pascal, Newman and Dostoevsky, by George V. Schick, edited by Jaroslav plus others. His interpretation of Shake­ Jan Pelikan. St. Louis : Concordia Pub­ speare is not convincing; the last chapter on lisping House, c. 1961. x and 394 pages. the modern assimilation is worth a great Cloth. $6.00. deal. All of us, Ulanov reminds us from "As far as the various imaginary reason's Dante's observation, must leave some legacy and irrelevant counterarguments of the Sac­ to posterity. The transmissive process rightly ramentarians on the basis of the essential must hand on the best of the past. Chris­ and natural properties of a human body, the tian humanism has values that deserve trans- ascension of Christ, His departure from the mission. CARL S. MEYER World, and so on, are concerned," says paragrapb 91 of Article VII of the Solid SERMONS ON SOUL- WINNING. By Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Charles H. Spurgeon. Grand Rapids, "these have all been thoroughly and com­ Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, prehensively refuted by Dr. Luther in his 1961. 256 pages. Cloth. $2.95. polemic tracts - Wider die himmliJchen Spurgeon's witness to the centrality of the Propheten, together with Dan diese Wort, Cross and the preaching of the Gospel is DaJ ist mein Leib, etc., noch jeJtJtehen, as 506 BOOK REVIEW well as his large and small Confessi.on Con­ This is not a how-to-do-it book. For this cerning the Holy Communion - and in reason it is more valuable. Counseling can other writings of his. Inasmuch as the sec­ never be a matter of gimmicks. Although taries have not produced anything new since \'Villiams' theology is frequently unaccept­ his death, we desire for the sake of brevity able to the Lutheran pastor, the contents of to have referred the Christian reader to these this book are meaty and challenging. Many works and to have made our appeal to them." excellent insights will help the pastor in fur­ Three of these perennially important works thering his counseling ministry. are now available in the American edition KENNETH H. BREIMEIER of Luther's Works: "Against the Heavenly Prophets" in Volume 40, and, in the first of LECTURES ON REVlVALS OF RELI­ the two volumes before us, "That These GION. By Charles Grandison Finney. Words of Christ, 'This Is My Body; etc., Edited by William G. McLoughlin. Cam­ bridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press (Har­ Still Stac' Against t' ~ lades" (1527) and the 50-called "Great Confession vard University Press), 1960. lix and 470 Concerning Christ's Supper" (1528). The pages; 2 full-page plates. Cloth. $5.95. translator of both is Chicago Theological As author of Billy Smuiay Was His Red Seminary's capable Robert Harley Fischer, Name (1955), Mod8f"n Revivalism: Charles who also furnishes the brief historical intro­ Grandison Fimzey to Billy Graham (1959), duction. (In this reviewer's copy pages and Billy Graham: Revivalist i1~ a Secular 379-394 have been bound between pages Age (1960), Brown University's McLough­ 362 and 363.) lin qualifies as something of a specialist in revivalism, and his 53 pages of perceptive In the second volume before us Concordia introduction add greatly to this careful repro­ Seminary's George V. Schick continues his competent translation of Veit Dietrich's com­ duction of the 1835 (first) edition of Fin­ pilation of the Great Reformer's LectuI'eJ on ney's influential 22-lecture ril.anual on re­ Genesis from chapter 15 through chapter 20, vivals and how to conduct them. The work dating from the general vicinity of 1538 is important not only as a church historical to 1539. In tracking down allusions, quota­ document which helps to explain many fea­ tions, and borrowings General Editor Jaro­ tures of 19th- and 20th-century American slav Pelikan has demonstrated great detective Protestant church life - "the single most im­ ability. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN portant work in understanding the nature of modern revivalism" (p. lix) - but also as THE MINISTER AND THE CARE OF a primary source for many aspects of Amer­ SOULS. By Daniel Day Williams. New ican political and social history. McLough­ York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. 153 lin's footnoting of the lectures themselves is pages. Cloth. $3.50. very discreet. An index would have in­ \'V'illiams looks at the theology of the care creased the value of the book. From the of souls from a particular viewpoint, that is, Lectures and from McLoughlin's capable the contribution made by the psychology of appraisal Finney emerges as an anti-Calvinist, interpersonal relationships. He treats such anticreedal, antiecclesiastical, antislavery, lati­ subjects as the relation of salvation to physi­ tudinarian, segregationist, optimistic, moral­ cal and mental healing, the authority of the Ist1C, individualistic, pietistic evangelical minister, the value and nature of the coun­ whose theology corresponded to a felt need seling relationship, and the importance of in the contemporary American Protestant the pastor's own self-understanding. church-related middle-class public of the vast BOOK REVIEW 507 territory west of the Appalachians. As time THE BELLS OF ROME (Klockorna i Rom). went on, his doctrine of progressive sanctifi· By Goran Stenius. Translated by Isabel cation would evolve into the teaching des· and Florence McHugh. New York: P. J tined to become known as "Oberlin Perfec· Kenedy and Sons, c. 1961. 358 pages. tionism," he would become less optimistic, Cloth. n. p. and in 1845-46 he would even write "Let· THE WAY OF THE ASCETICS (Askete1"­ ters on Revivals" that sound like retracta· nas Vag) . By Tito Colliander. Translated tiones (although they did not lead to any by Katherine Ferre. Edited by R. M. substantive doctrinal changes in the 1868 French. New York: Harper & Brothers, edition of the Lectures), but he kept his c. 1960. 123 pages. Cloth. $2.50. buoyant faith in progress and in revivals down to his end. These are two works by distinguished ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN Finnish authors, both of whom wrote in Swedish and neither of whom, strangely GESAMMELTE SCHRIFTEN. By Dietrich enough, is a Lutheran. Bonhoeffer. Band I: 6kumene-Brie/e, Stenius, journalist, diplomat, and convert Au/satze, Dokumente - 1928-1942. to the Roman Catholic Church, gives his Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1958. 550 readers a capably crafted novel about a thor· pages. Paper, DM 19.00; cloth, DM 21.50. oughly believable Finnish art historian who Bonhoeffer's stature will increase as are· comes to Rome in 1939 and in the mythical sult of the publication of his collected works church of San Lino on the equally mythical in four volumes. The Chr. Kaiser Verlag of Piazza delle Pecore is attracted to the Roman Munich is to be congratulated in making Catholic Church; is received into that de· these works available. The first volume is nomination; discovers on a visit to Finland of interest to America because of Bonhoeffer's that his home community has been destroyed stay in this country in 1930-31 and again by communists; returns to Rome; is ordained in 1939. An essay on the separation of to the priesthood; becomes a monsignor, church and state in this country may be a doctor of sacred theology, and a minor mentioned particularly because of its keen Curia bureaucrat in a war sufferers' relief analysis. As secretary of the Youth Comis· program; renounces his position to become sion of the Wodd Alliance for Promot· parish priest of San Lino's; and finally dies ing International Friendship Through the on Easter morning in 1954 in part as the Churches, Bonhoeffer was in an important result of an attack on him by the communist position in the ecumenical movement. The husband of a parishioner to whom he had present volume by its very title emphasizes brought the Blessed Sacrament. From start these concerns. There are documents here, to finish the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist too, dealing with the political and religious is both a fascinating enigma and the focal situation in Germany under Hitler; they point of his concern. Since the novel has constitute significant source material. That, obviously autobiographical overtones, it is in the final analysis, is one of the values of a significant contribution to contemporary the collected work of a leader - they provide "Roman convert" literature. the "raw materials" which the historian and Colliander is an Eastern Orthodox layman. student of a period or movement needs. That The present slender - and from the physical Bonhoeffer's works already are being col· point of view, overpriced - work, strongly lected and published is one measure, too, of reminiscent in its style of the Imitatio Christi, the man's worth. CARL S. MEYER reflects his denominational bias both in it~ :;08 BOOK REVIEW assumptions and in its use of Sacred Scrip­ these four men were responsible in whole ture. Admittedly this places some limitations or in part for a dozen outstanding works of on the work for a Lutheran reader. At the the seventeenth century. Is John Milton one san'le time anyone who is seriously concerned who should be counted among the "makers about developing a greater measure of self­ of religious freedom in the seventeenth cen­ discipline will find this unaffected distillation tury"? Perhaps SD. The four whom the of "~isdom on the inner life drawn from the Anglican Bishop Coadjutor in the Diocese tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church" of Sidney chose are able representatives. To useful. Lutherans will appreciate its in­ learn to know them better according to sistence upon the monergism of divine grace Loane's well-told sketches will be the reward as the source of enabling power, upon the for specialist and general reader alike. fact that every vocation and status affords CARL S. MEYER the opportunity for growth in holiness, and upon the role of the Sacred Scripture and SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA: LETTERS the Sacraments in the new obedience, as well 'TO WOMEN. By Hugo Rahner. Trans­ as its rejection of the meritorious character lated from the German by Kathleen Pond and S. A. H. \"l{leetman. New York: of false my . . 0, and immoderate aSI c practices. Herder and Herder, 1960. xxiii and 565 p:,-" ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN <.=loth, .$11,50. There are some 7,000 of Loyola's letters MAKERS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN extant, published in 12 volumes. Rahner THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Hen­ translated about 150 of these letters, ad­ derson, Rutherford, Bunyan, Baxter. By dressed specifically to women, into German. Marcus L. Loane. Grand Rapids, Mich.: These have now been translated into English. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1961. Rahner organized these letters with careful 240 pages. Cloth. $4.00. historical scholarship and supplied them with Alexander Henderson (1583-1646 ) , a valuable commentary. The letters at times noted for piety and learning and prudence, speak of the unimportant and the trivial; was the leader of the Convenanters and prom­ nevertheless, they are of worth in giving inent in the Westminster Assembly. Samuel a rounded portrait of the founder of the Rutherford (1600-1661), "the saint of Society of Jesus. They also serve to illus­ the Covenant," was also among the five trate some relationships between the Renais­ sance and the Reformation as well as some Scottish divines in that gathering; the author aspects of the Roman Catholic Reform move- of Lex Rex, an able writer, and a lover of ment. CARL S. MEYER books, he ranks high in the Presbyterian tradition. John Bunyan (1628-1688), THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF JOHN best-known of the four figures treated by FOSTER DULLES: SELECTIONS FROM Loane, though little read today, played no HIS ARTICLES AND ADDRESSES. Edi­ such role in politics and theological gather­ ted by Henry P. Van Dusen. Philadelphia: ings as did Henderson and Rutherford. The The Westminster Press [1960}. xxii and maker of many books was Richard Baxter 232 pages. Goth. $3.95. (1615-1691), "a mere non-Conformist." The moraL sease which the Secretary of What with Henderson's contributions to the State in the Eisenhower administration (died Westmir:s,:er Confession and Catechism, in 1959) exhibited W3.S respected and de­ Rutherford's letters and sermons, Bunyan's rided alike. The universality of the Moral aHegorles, and Baxter's devotional writings, I . !drock conviction of BOOK REVIEW 509

Secretary Dulles and shaped his political and Dissent. It is an interesting, even excitIng personal dealings with men and the policies account, in which Wyclif and the Puritans and actions he advocated. Dulles was a man and Wesley and Dissenters of today play of action. His articles and addresses articu­ the role of a kind of "loyal opposition." lated his convictions and his religious com­ Roudey says that he is sure that he is omit­ mitment. They help us not only to under­ ting some things that some of his readers stand the man better but also give us basic will be looking for. So be it. This reviewer presuppositions which shaped his character relished the synthesis the author achieved, and deeds. CARL S. MEYER even when he did not always agree with his judgments. What has Dissent to say? "Dis­ LORENZO AND FLORENCE. By Warman sent in the form of grievance is now dead," w/elliver. Indianapolis: Clio Press, 1961. the author says in answer to his own ques­ viii and 88 pages. Paper. Price not given. tion. "But Dissent against obscurantism and Admittedly an adaptation of a much spiritual tyranny is a force for which there longer work which Welliver wrote, L'Impero was never so great need as there is today. Fiorentino (published in Florence in 1957), For that, Dissenters have always stood" Lorenzo and Florence presents aspects of (p. 195 ). An English institution it is, and Florentine political, artistic, and theological for his sparkling portrayal of Dissent we (oncerns between 1469 and 1492. Lorenzo thank the author. CARL S. MEYER de' Medici wished to enhance the greatness of his city and the greatness of his house. THE SOCIAL PATTERN OF CHRISTIAN One means by which the latter might be GROUPS IN THE FIRST CENTURY. By accomplished would be through the eleva­ E. A. Judge. London: The Tyndale Press, tion of his son to the cardinalate. Welliver 1960. v and 77 pages. Paper. 5/-. gives the reports of Landredini's negotiations The author, senior lecturer in history in in Rome to secure this honor for the twelve­ the University of Sydney, feels that the prin­ year-old Giovanni, who later became Pope ciples of social obligation held by early Chris­ Leo X. In a chapter headed "Florentine tians need reexamination. The function of Theology" he tells about Palmieri, Pieino, this monograph is "to illustrate the basic and Pico della Mirandola. Savonarola, too, social institutions of Hellenistic communities receives his due in the chapter headed "The from the New Testament documents." His Preacher's Challenge." The work gives in­ suggestion that the antagonism toward Chris­ teresting insights into aspects of the Renais­ tians was at least as much popular as legal sance, among others an indication that poetry and that it was in part carried over from and painting were intertwined with politics hostility toward the Jew is well taken, but his 00 less than ecclesiastical affairs. discussion of "unofficial associations" is less CARL S. MEYER persuasive. The old theory that Christians BNGLISH RELIGIOUS DISSENT. By Erik were persecuted merely because they belonged Roudey. New York: Cambridge Uni­ to an illegal "unofficial association," based versity Press, 1960. viii aZld 224 pages. in part on evidence from Pliny, must be Cloth, $3.75. weighed against evidence assembled by Duff, Sir George Barnes is general ediror of the as well as against epigraphic evidence which English lnstitzttions SerieJ to which

BOOKS RECEIVED (The mention of a book in this list acknowledges its receipt and does not preclude further discussion of its contents in the Book Review section) Luther-Jahrbuch 1962. Edited by Franz $6.00. In this translation, which includes Lau. Hamburg: Friedrich Wittig Verlag, John Calvin's interpretation of Romans, the c. 1962. 160 pages. Cloth. DM 14.00. In strict application of the reformer's dogmatical addition to 18 pages of reviews of books presuppositions can, despite occasional heavy about Luther and the Reformation and 26 phrasing, be clearly viewed. pages of bibliographical data (657 items), A Pair of Gloves: Twelve Religious Plays. this annual of the Luther-Gesellschaft offers By Esther Gabriel Sando. Philadelphia: The nine essays: Hayo Gerdes, "Luther und Au­ Christian Education Press, c. 1962. 12 5 gustin iiber den Streit zwischen Petrus und pages. Paper. $1.60. Paulus zu Antiochien (Gal. 2,11 ff.) "; Alfred Saint Joseph (Teologla de San Jose). By Adam, "Die Herkunft des Lutherwortes vom Boniface Llamera; trans. by Sister Mary Eliza­ menschlichen W illen als Reittier Gottes"; beth. St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., c. 1962. Lennart Pinomaa, "Luthers W eg zur Verwer­ xii and 316 pages. Cloth. $ 5.50. fung des Heiligendienstes"; Franz Lau, "The­ Ten Years of Storm: The True Story 0/ ologie der Sch6pfung gleich Theologie iiber­ the Communist Regime in China. By Chow haupt? Zur Auseinandersetzung mit L6fgrens Ching-wen. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Luther-Buch" and "Bert Brecht und Luther: Winston, c. 1960. xxii and 323 pages. Cloth. Ein Versuch dec Interpretation des 'Guten $6.00. Menschen von Sezuan' "; Oskar Johannes Mehl, "Erasmus contra Luther" and "Luthers Armageddon Around the Corner: A Re­ Dbersetzung der Synonyma im Neuen Testa­ port on Jehovah's Witnesses. By William ment und Psalter"; Karl Brinkel, "Eine bisher J. Whalen. New York: The John Day Co., unbekannte Nachschrift von Luthers Ausle­ c. 1962. 249 pages. Cloth. $4.75. gung des Mattnaus-Evangeliums"; and Wal­ The Challenge of the Sects. By Horton ter Fellmann, "Irenik und Polemik bei Hans Davies. Philadelphia: The Westminster Denck." Press, c. 1961. 176 pages. Paper. $1.45. Passover: Its History and Traditions. By Communautes Protes/antes: La renaissance Theodore H. Gaster. Boston: Beacon Press, de la vie reguliere dans Ie Protestantisme 1962. 102 pages. Paper. $1.45. In this vol­ continental. By Fran~ois Biot. Paris: Editions ume, a paperback reprint of the original 1949 Fleurus, c. 1961. 238 pages. Paper. NF 7.75. edition by Henry Schumann, the author pur­ Current Issues in New Testament Interpre. poses "to paint a broad picture of Passover tation. Edited by William Klassen and Gray­ as interpreted especially in the light of an­ don F. Snyder. New York: Harper & Broth­ cient history and comparative religion and ers, c. 1962. xvi and 302 pages. Cloth. folklore," as his Foreword states. Disagree­ $5.00. ment with Gaster's treatment of much of the Ecclesia semper re/ormanda. By Gyula pertinent Biblical material as mere "legend" Barczay. Ziirich: EVZ-Verlag, 1961. 196 and "folklore" need not rule out grateful pages. Paper. DM 13.60. appreciation particularly of those chapters Evidence of Satan in the Modern W orid which give an orderly summary of traditional (Presence de Satan dans Ie monde moderne). Jewish Passover practices. By Leon Cristiani; trans. by Cynthia Row­ The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the land. New York: The Ma=illan Company, Romans and to the Thessalonians. By John c. 1961. 210 pages. Cloth. $3.95. Calvin; trans. by Ross Mackenzie; edited by Israel's Prophetic Heritage. Edited by David W. and Thomas F. Torrance. Grand Bernhard W. Anderson and Walter Harrel­ Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing son. New York: Harper & Brothers, c. 1962. Company, 1962. vi and 433 pages. Cloth. xiv and 242 pages. Cloth. $5.00. BOOK REVIEW S11

Law and G1"ace: Must a Christiar~ Keep War and the Christian Conscience. By the Law of Moses? By George A. F. Knight. Paul Ramsey. Durham, N. c.: Duke Univer­ Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, c. 1962. sity Press, c. 1961. xvi and 331 pages. Cloth. 128 pages. Cloth. $2.50. $6.00. The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Gestalt und Glaube: Festscbrift fur Oskar Newman. VoL XI: Littlemore to Rome. Sohngen zum 60. Geburtstag. Witten: Lu­ Edited by Charles Stephen Dessain. New ther-Verlag, c. 1960. 252 pages. Cloth. DM York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1961. 2l.80. xxviii and 363 pages. Cloth. $15.00. The Good Samarital~: The Life Story of The T1"easury of Religious Vel'se. Com­ Father Bodelschwingh. Edited and trans. piled by Donald T. Kaufmann. Westwood, from German sources by Margaret Bradfield. t'1. J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c. 1962. xii London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, c. 1960. and 371 pages. Cloth. $4.95. 224 pages. Cloth. 15/-. ZU1" ki1"chlichen Kftnst de1" Gegenwa1"t. By Tbe P1"otestant Search for Political Realism Otto Satzinger. Munich: Evangelischer Pres­ 1919-1941. By Donald B. Meyer. Berke­ severband fur Bayern, c. 1961. 116 pages. ley, Calif.: University of California Press, Cloth. DM 9.80. c. 1960. x and 482 pages. Cloth. $6.75. Christi{wtJ and the Crisis in Sex Morality. Feudal Society (La societe Nodale). By By Elizabeth and William Genne. New Marc Bloch; trans. by L. A. Manyon. Chi­ York: Association Press, c. 1962. 123 pages. cago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. xii Paper. 50 cents. and 498 pages. Cloth. $8.50. Antworten des Glaubens: GrU1'ldjragen du Duns Scotus: The Basic Principles of His Dogmatik. By Gotz Harbsmeier. Stuttgart: Philosophy (La Scuola). By Efrem Bettoni; Kreuz-Verlag, c. 1961. 240 pages. Cloth. trans. by Bernadine Bonansea. Washington, DM 9.80. D. c.: The Catholic University of America Press, c. 1961. viii and 220 pages. Cloth. The Essential Wisdom of George Santa­ $4.75. yana. By Thomas N. Munson. New York: Columbia University Press, c. 1962. x and The Modern Reader's Guide to Acts. By 224 pages. Cloth. $4.50. Albert E Barnett. New York: Association Press, c. 1962. 125 pages. Paper. 50 cents. The Faith of John Knox. By James S. McEwen. Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, New Delhi Speaks About Christian Wit­ c. 1961. x and 116 pages. Cloth. $2.50. ness, Se1"vice, Unity. Edited by W. A. Visser Foundations for a Philosopby of Ch1'istian 't Hooft. New York: Association Press, c. 1962. 124 pages. Paper. 50 cents. Ed1tcation. By Lawrence C. Little. New York: Abingdon Press, c. 1962. 240 pages. Ove1"coming Christian Divisions. By Cloth. $4.00. ]. Robert Nelson. New York: Association German-English T beological Word List. Press, c. 1962. 126 pages. Paper. 50 cents. By Carl Bangs. Kansas City, Mo.: Saint Paul Protestant Thought Before Kant. By A. C. School of Theology, c. 1962. 16 pages. Paper. McGiffert. New York: Harper & Brothers, $1.00. c 1961. xvi and 262 pages. Paper. $l.50. English F1'ia1"s and Antiquity in the Early Religion from Tolstoy to Camus: Basic Fourteenth Century. By Beryl Smalley. New Writings on Religious Truth and Morals. York: Barnes & Noble, c. 1960. xvi and By Walter Kaufmann. New York: Harper 398 pages. Cloth. $9.00. & Brothers, c. 1961. xii and 450 pages. The Salvation 0/ the Nations. By Jean Cloth. $6.95. Danielou; trans. from the French by Angeline The Royal Psalms. By Keith R. Crim. Bouchard. Nortre Dame, Ind.: University of Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, c. 1962. Notre Dame Press, 1962. x and 118 pages. 127 pages. Cloth. $2.75. Paper. $1.95. 512 BOOK REVIEW

Selected Wi'itings of Saint Augustine. Das Erbe cles 19. Jahrh,,- .. ':_ .. s: Deutscher Edited by Roger Hazelton. Cleveland: The Evalzgelischer Theologentag. Edited by Wil­ World Publishing Co., c. 1962. 312 pages. helm Schneemelcher. Berlin: Verlag Alfred Paper. $1.65. Tiipelmann, 1960. 89 pages. Cloth. Price The United Natiom: Structm'e for Peace. not given. By Ernest A. Gross. New York: Harper & Ge11eV(! et les EgliseJ Refo Jes de France. Brothers, c. 1962. x and 132 pages. Paper. By Daniel Robert. Geneva: Libraitie E. Droz, $1.25. 1961. 183 pages. Paper. Price not given. The Voices of France: A Survey of Con­ The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays temporary Theology in France. By James M. in Neoclassical Metaphysics. By Charles Connolly, New York: The Macmillan Com­ Hartshorne. La Salle, Ill.: The Open Court pany, c. 1961. xviii and 231 pages. Cloth. Publishing Co., c. 1962. xvi and 335 pagtE $5.50. Cloth. $6.00. Your PulPit i1, Life: The Christian V oca­ Ordination zum heiligen Predigtamt und tion and Calling. By Waldo ]. Werning. apostolische Sukzession. By Cornelius Frhr. St. Louis: Church-Craft Pictures, Inc., c. 1962. von Heyl. Bleckmar tiber Soltau: Verlag 71 pages. Paper. $1.25. Lutherische Bliitter, 1962. 40 pages. Paper. A Whole Loaf: Stories from Israel. Edited Price not given. by Sholom J. Kahn. New York: The Van­ A History of EMope: From the Invasiom guard Press, c. 1957. 344 pages. Cloth. to the Sixteenth Centtl1'y. By Henri Pircnne; $4.50. trans. from the French by E~L'nard Miall. Proselytenwerbttng und Urchristentum. By New Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books. Ernst Lerle. Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsan­ 1955. xi and 625 pages. Cloth. $7.50. stalt, 1960. 156 pages. Cloth. DM 9.00. Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Saints and Scholars: Twenty-five Medieval Gnostics. By G. R. S. Mead. New Hyde Portraits. By David Knowles. New York: Park, N. Y.: University Books, c. 1960 Cambridge University Press, c. 1962. xi and lxviii and 633 pages. Cloth. $10.00. 208 pages. Cloth. $3.95. Gott 1~nd das Bose. By Kurt Liithi. Ziirich. Textes et docume17ts relatifs a l'histoi1'e des Zwingli-Verlag, c. 1961. 296 pages. Paper. Eglises Rejormees e17 France: Periode 1800 SFr. 23.00. a 1830. By Daniel Robert. Geneva: Librai­ The Heretics (Das Buch der Keezer). By fie E. Droz, 1962. 400 pages. Paper. Price Walter Nigg; trans. by Richard and Clara not given. \'lVinston. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Two Early Tudor Lives: The Life and c. 1962. viii and 423 pages. Cloth. $6.95. Death of Cardinal Wolsey and the Life of Sir Siddtt-r: The Traditional Prayer Book. Thomas More. Edited by Richard S. Sylvester Edited and trans. from the Hebrew by David and Davis P. Harding. New Haven, Conn.: de Sola Pool. New Hyde Park, N. Y.: Uni· Yale University Press, c. 1962. xxii and 260 versity Books, c. 1960. xvii and 829 pages. pages. Cloth. $6.00. Cloth. Price not given. Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Catholics in Colonial America. By John Future Life. By E. A. Wallis Budge. New Tracy Ellis. Washington, D. c.: Catholic York: University Books, c. 1959. 224 pages. University of America Press, 1962. 78 pages. Cloth. $5.00. Paper. Price not given.