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Concordia Theological Monthly CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY Preludes to Praise-Devotional Reflection ARTHUR CARL pmPKORN The Natural Knowledge of God RALPH A. BOHLMAN T Homiletics Theological Observer Book Review VOL. XXXIV December 1963 No. 12 BOOK REVIEW All books reviewed in this periodical may be procured from or through Concordia Pub­ lishing House, 3558 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63118. ON BEING THE CHURCH IN THE With painstaking research, careful recon­ WORLD. By John A. T. Robinson. Phil­ struction, and a pleasing style he recreates adelphia: Westminster Press, 1960. 160 the ideas on church and state in their rela­ pages. Cloth. $3.50. tion to ecclesiastical and religious events in This series of papers by the Bishop of this country in the 18th century. The Society Woolwich, formerly dean of Clare College at for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Arch­ Cambridge, has a number of contributions to bishops of Canterbury, the Episcopalians in the understanding of the church and to the this country who wanted a bishop, the Dis­ technique of its preaching which are of last­ senting Deputies in England, the Dissenters ing value. Massive competence in skills of in this country, the anticlerical elements in Biblical interpretation combines with shrewd the Middle Colonies, and the propagandists and patient insights 1i1l0 practical affairs on both S.;rlICS were deeply involved in this within the church. Robinson argues for struggle. The question was not simply the understanding a world that will be renewed, question of appointing a bishop, or perhaps rather than scrapped, at the end of this age. three, on this side of the Atlantic. It was A recurrent theme in the papers is the signif­ a question of a state church, which the icance and the place of Holy Communion in colonists in the period between 1689 and the life of the church - intercommunion in 1775 agreed that they did not want. Re­ denominations, communion in the house, ligion became one of the factors which communion and episcopacy. In many of his brought about the American Revolution. concerns for the concept of the after-life and "Bishops and Stamps, 1764-1766" is the the Second Coming, the author is primarily arresting title of one of the chapters which anxious that the relation with Christ in the clearly show the connection between the present time be close. Some of the applica­ Revolution and Religion. tions of Biblical material seem unexpected Charles Chauncy, Thomas Bradley, Samuel and strange; but the book is a good exercise Johnson, Jonathan Mayhew, William Smith, in applying the affirmations of Scripture to Thomas Seeker (Archbishop of Canterbury), the life of the church now. Ezra Stiles, Samuel Auchmuty, and particu­ RICHARD R. CAEMMERER larly William Livingstone are some of the personalities involved in this conflict of ideas. MITRE AND SCEPTRE: TRANSATLAN­ Their writings are uncovered from neglected TIC FAITHS, IDEAS, PERSONALITIES, manuscripts, newspapers, and reports. The AND POLITICS, 1689-1775. By Carl legend of the founding fathers grows, Bridenbaugh. New York: Oxford Univer­ nationalism emerges, patriotism demands sity Press, 1962. xiv and 354 pages. pluralism. Slowly the resistance increases Cloth. $7.50. and the antagonists are etched in bolder re­ "No understanding of the eighteenth cen­ lief. John Adams sees the revolution which tury is possible if we unconsciously omit, or leads to the Revolution and the Declaration consciously jam out, the religious theme just of Independence. "The issue of mitre and because our own milieu is secular," is the sceptre had been a constant, to use a mathe­ supposition with which Bridenbaugh begins. matical term, in Anglo-American relations 756 BOOK REVIEW 757 ever since 1630." The dominance which the The difference between the two reveals the Anglican missionaries wished to exercise divergence between a revelation of grace and brought on organized dissent, which knew a religion of ritual and regulation. how to use the power of the press. Out of MARTIN H. SCHARLEMANN the conflict comes the conviction that in REASON AND FAITH IN MODERN SO­ America there should be no union of church CIETY. By Eduard Heimann. Middle­ and state. Bridenbaugh, past president of town, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, the American Historical Association, does 1961. x and 340 pages. Cloth. $6.50. not ask the question of church-state relations in 1963. His authoritative study of America The author describes both extreme capital- two to three centuries ago leaves no doubt ism and Marxist Communism as distorted of the preciousness of that era's heritage. outgrowths of the rational idealism of the Enlightenment. These two dynamic forces, CARL S. MEYER he holds, cannot coexist indefinitely without WE DISSENT. Edited by Hoke Norris. a head-on collision. The way out is to be New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. xii found neither in universal capitalism nor in and 211 pages. Cloth. $4.95. universal Communism but in a third force, All the writers pICsented in this book are of which the Common Market is one mani- Southern-born, Southern-raised, white Prot­ festation. MARTIN H. SCHARLEMANN estants, dissenting from some of the methods THE SOUTH AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS. being used in bringing integration to the By James Sellers. New York: Association South. Their burden is that the cures applied Press, 1962. 190 pages. Cloth. $3.75. to complex problems of society, government, Sellers is associate professor of Christian and the human soul are always long and Ethics and Theology at the Vanderbilt Uni­ hard. This volume is an invitation to con­ versity Divinity School. Here he discusses duct a searching and honest appraisal of the the next frontier: life after integration, when situation and to regard with firm suspicion the church's concern will need to be less with anyone who comes up with a single, easy justice and more with fellowship. Here, to answeL MARTIN H. SCHARLEMANN quote the author, "it will have to face the THE SCROLL OF THE WAR OF THE enemy without the protective convoy of the SONS OF LIGHT AGAINST THE SONS courts and other dreadnaughts that have OF DARKNESS. By Yigael Yadin. New borne so much of the brunt of the struggle York: Oxford University Press, 1962. so far." (P. 175) xx and 387 pages. Cloth. $10.00. MARTIN H. SCHARLEMANN The standard authority on this important IFAS HEISST SCHRIFTGEMASS? By Her­ scroll from Cave One is Yadin's Hebrew mann Diem. Neukirchen Kreis Moers: commentary of 1957. The present book is Verlag der Buchhandlung des Erziehungs­ a translation of that edition by Batya and vereins, 1958. 75 pages. Paper. DM 7.50. Chaim Rabin. Here the author discusses the The burden of this volume is that the in- terminology and contents of the scroll in re­ terpretation of any Scripture passage must lation to weapons, army formations, mobili­ be undertaken in the light of the description zation and tactics, as well as to the theology of God's eudokia which the Scriptures them­ of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is interesting to selves provide. This means that the central reflect on Ephesians 6, with its description of principle of interpretation is righteousness the Christian soldier, in the light of the propter Christum sola fide. A strong Lu­ weapons described by the Qumran author. theran breeze blows through this very com- 758 BOOK REVIEW pact volume. Its analysis of the various Theology at Union Seminary in New York, Tridentine formulations makes for helpful sets out to demonstrate the value of a knowl­ reading during this period of the Second edge of Roman Hellenism for one who reads Vatican Council. the New Testament. He first describes the MARTIN H. SCHARLEMANN Hellenistic heritage in religion, education, and philosophy. His discussion here is sober SALVATION HISTORY. By Eric C. Rust. and valuable, though at times a bit repeti­ Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1963. tious. He firmly lays to rest the concept of 312 pages and indices. Cloth. $6.00. a "mystery theology," the specter that Rust, an Englishman by birth, is presently frightens so many away from a positive orofessor of Christian philosophy at South­ evaluation of the Graeco-Roman background. ;rn Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, He also demonstrates the relation of this Ky. The influence of T. W. Manson and H. world to New Testament ethics. There could, Wheeler Robinson, under whom he studied, for example, be no interest in governmental is very pronounced. The value of such a reform in the New Testament for very volume as this consists in its ability to gather practical reasons. up into one volume the theological position Grant then sketches the impression that of the individuals who write the books cur­ the Greek Old Testament would make on rently in use among Biblical scholars; for the a sensitive pagan mind, showing how the subject matter of the book is broad enough to Septuagint served as part of the praeparatio include almost all of them. evangelii. He then concludes that "the New The theme of this book and its spirit are Testament student ought to know Greek revealed in sentences like the following literature - all of it - and he should (p. 28): "The Word of God is thus a de­ 'steep his mind' in it, year in, year out" scription of the divine self-disclosure in and (p. 116). Grant refers to ideas as well as through history, which at the same time re­ grammar. creates history. The divine meaning of After an interesting, but somewhat un­ history is both disclosed and made effective necessary digression on the relation of in history through the special stream of systematic and Biblical theology, Grant ap­ events in which God has chosen to visit and plies his survey to the early church.
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