CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
The Crisis of Theological Historicism and How It May Be Overcome WILHELM MUNDLE
Bible Study in the Life of the Church OSCAR E. FEUCHT
The Devotional Use of the Bible '
JAMES G. MANZ
Homiletics Theological Observer Book Review
VOL. xxxm July 1962 No.7 BOOK REVIE\X/
All books 'reviewed in this periodical may be procured from 01' through Concordia Pub lishing House, 3558 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis 18, Missouri.
THE EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH OF preacher to whom I can take my personal NIGERIA, 1936-1961. By Paul M. problems." Most preachers will find a new Volz. Calabar, Nigeria: Hope Waddell perspective and inspiration for preaching in Press, 1961. Paper. 80 pages. Price not this volume. Some of Jackson's points will given. irritate the Lutheran pastor. All in all, how If is a pleasure to receive this honest and ever, it would be salutary for every preacher straightforward history of the Evangelical to meet the issues raised in this book. Lutheran Church of Nigeria from its be KENNETH H. BREIMEIER ginnings until the present. Full credit is given to the foundations laid by others, THE CARE AND FEEDING OF MINIS notably the Qua Iboe Mission, and the nat TERS. By Kathleen Neill Nyberg. New rad. _ poin.. Jut that the prime desire of York: 1 .. 19do ress, 1.961. 141 pages. the Ibesikpo people was for education and Cloth. $2.50. therefore a teaching church. This book, "from the wife's point of The churches in Nigeria and elsewhere view," is written with exceptional skill and are in Paul Volz's debt for this factual common sense. It will do the pastor, and account of the past 25 years, given over as sometimes his official board, as much good they were largely to an emphasis on edu as his wife. The place of Christ and His cation. Word in the nurture and refreshment of the It will be interesting to note how the pastor's wife and her husband could be church responds to the challenge of the next stated more explicitly, but what is said does quarter century when government can be not collide with it. expected to take over ever larger areas of RICHARD R. CAEMMERER education and the church's role in this field is likely to decrease. EFFECTIVE PUBLIC PRAYER. By Robert L. Williamson. Nashville: Broadman Press, WILLIAM J. DANKER 1960. vii and 152 pages. Cloth. $2.95. A PSYCHOLOGY FOR PREACHING. By The author, a Presbyterian minister, writes Edgar N. Jackson. New York: Channel for fellow pastors in the "Calvinian cult," Press, 1961. 191 pages. Cloth. $3.50. but his book will be both a comfort and The author applies the insights of pastoral an aid to those in the "Lutherian." Since care to the preaching task. His thesis is that the instruction is directed toward the com the pastor must preach to the real flesh-and position and delivery of the "pastoral prayer," blood problems of his people in order to the invocation, the offertory prayer, and the be effective. A pastor with a warmhearted prayer after the sermon, much of what is appreciation for the needs of his people will said is not directly pertinent to the conduct not be authoritarian or overly dogmatic. He of the Lutheran service. But in a time when will encourage people to grow from where voices question the value of the formal pat they are. People will feel that "this is a tern and prayers of our rite, it is a comfort 431 432 BOOK REVIEW
to read these reco=endations for prayers sions end with Augustine's conversion flood adequately prepared, written out, phrased in continues the story with excerpts from ser beauty, and oriented to the church year as mons, letters, and treatises. It is possible to well as to specific needs. The author favors tell the whole story this way simply because extempore delivery: "If the prayer is to be Augustine wrote so much. Each excerpt is memorized and recited, it might just as well carefully footnoted. be read. After all, it is a time of prayer. WALTER W. OETTING All eyes should be closed" (p. 108). He concedes that the delivery will possibly be DIE WELT DES HIND UISM US. By Arno less smooth, but "it will sound like prayer." Lehmann. Detmold, Germany: Tolle und For the pastor who has his eyes open and Co., 1961. Paper. 32 pages. n. p. can read well the author suggests the occa Keeping busily at work east of the new sional use of the ancient litanies of the barriers between the communist and the church. ("They are nearly always the best, nonco=unist worlds, Lehmann has man and the people should not be denied the aged to pack an admirable amount of in privilege of experiencing them.") The Lu formation and spirit into this very brief theran pastor who has his ears open and treatment of Hinduism. He finds room not can hear will draw some conclusions from only for the usual description of philosoph that suggestion about his customary nractice ical Hind'-'£~~, ",," also, becau-- _£ L!_ -nis of using the best prayers the church has sionary experience in India, for a realistic composed over the years. description of popular religion _.. __ ~._ -,",ety. The book's instruction for preparing ex WILLIAM J. DANKER tempore prayers should be an aid to pastors who tend to open or close meetings rather GOD'S WORD INTO ENGLISH. By than worship God in their free praying, or Dewey M. Beegle. New York: Harper & whose expressions are informational or in Brothers, 1960. x and 178 pages. Cloth. structive rather than aids to intercession, $3.50. petition, thanksgiving, confession, adoration, Few books state so simply and so con or dedication. It is not enough for ministers vincingly the case for the ongoing task of to preach about these things. "In public rendering the Bible into intelligible terms. prayer people may be helped to experience Still fewer present a really honest and fair them." (P.139) GEORGE W. HOYER appraisal of the relation of the King James Version to modern translations. For example, THE MIND AND HEART OF AUGUS critics of the Revised Standard Version have TiNE. Edited by ]. M. Flood. Introduc often observed that this version submits tion by Martin D'Arcy. Fresno: Academy a large proportion of conjectural readings of Guild Press, 1960. 108 pages. Cloth. the Old Testament text, but fail to note that $2.45. under the italics of the King James Version This lovely little biographical sketch, built lie buried many speculations as to the mean entirely around excerpts from Augustine's ing of the original and that in many cases writings, is almost devotional in its character. departures from the Masoretic Text are not The first part is taken from the Confessions even noted. In addition to the many illus except where other material fills in the story, trations of improved readings in modern such as his debt to Romanianus, his love versions, the author is certain to endear of Cicero, and an explanation of why he was himself to a large circle of readers who have for a time a Manichean. Since the Confes- been looking for a reprint of the PrefaCe BOOK RIlVIEW 433 to the King James Version, "The Translators lator has made a conjectural emendation in to the Reader." He thoughtfully appends it Titus 3: 5 or has inadvertently omitted ref along with the preface to William Tyndalc's erence to God's mercy (aX"-u. )mt 'to ul!'toii translation of Genesis in his Pentateuch, l£AEor;). "Tables" are imported into Mark printed in 1530. 7:4 (if the Textus Receptus was used, the FREDERICK W. DANKER word XALVWV should be rendered beds). And certainly it is not too much to ask that NORLIE'S SIMPLIFIED NEW TEST A a modern translator, with all the resources MENT: IN PLAIN ENGLISH -FOR of textual criticism at his command, should TODAY'S READER. Trans. by Olaf M. refrain from perpetuating a verse that cer Norlie. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub tainly was not a part of the "original Greek" lishing House, 1961. 762 pages. Cloth. text of the earliest church, namely, the $3.95. comma fohanneum in 1 John 5:7. The in Publication of the New English Bible: telligent young person for whom this version New Testament has put free-lance translators is intended will most certainly find himself at a disadvantage, and in the presence of so confused when he takes up other modern many excellent modern-speech versions any speech versions which reflect a more con claims to a fresh rendering of the original scientious textual-critical scholarship (see will I'leet with skep'ic3: cru·!. '-7care also the absence of DC ~3 ')n ;-,rark 10:9-20 not convinced that the English in this "sim and John 7 :53-8: 11). plified" version is any simpler than that in A more iiberal approach to textual critical Goodspeed's American Translation (note, problems is taken by R. K. Harrison in his e. g., Rom. 5: 16, 17, "acquittal" (G) vs. translation of the Psalms, which accompany "justification"; "uprightness" (G) vs. "sanc this volume. In Ps.20:9, e. g., he follows tification" ) . the LXX; in Ps.72:9 he adopts the con As for the claim of a "graceful eloquence jectural emendation "':l~, in place of MT's so often lacking in modern-speech versions," C":~. In Ps. 22 he resorts to conjectural it is distressing to note the choppy effect of paraphrase in an attempt to preserve the many of Norlie's phrasings in contrast with Masoretic reading. The translation of the Moffatt's forceful, yet easy and confident Hebrew is vigorous and in most cases emi rhythms, or the simple charm of The New nently readable also for a young person. Testament in Basic English (compare, e. g., Occasionally Norlie offers an explanatory the rendering of 1 Cor. 13). On the other note, as in connection with Matt. 2: 23. He hand, some of NorHe's paraphrases of the observes that the word Nazarene is derived text are a most happy combination of ca "from Neze1', Hebrew word for Branch." dence and sense; for example, "our word He might have observed that the word may to you was not of the 'yes-and-no' variety." equally be derived from '"Ill, "to dedicate (2 Cor.1:18) oneself." Better yet, omit the note. If the distinctive contribution of this Iiberal references are made in this version version does not lie in the simplicity of its to citations from the Old Testament, but renderings, it certainly cannot lay claim to no notice is taken of the important references advancing the cause of basic appreciation of to Ex.23:20 in Mark 1:2 and to 2 Sam. 5:2 the original text of the New Testament. in Matt. 2: 6 (see LXX). Indeed, it is difficult to determine just what Occasionally Norlie's renderings are more "original Greek" the translator has worked precise even than those in the standard ver from. We are not sure whether the trans- sions. "Sea monster" is the correct translation 434 BOOK REVIEW in Matt. 12:40, not "whale" as in RSV. And Irish conttibuted immeasurably to the ad "get possession" in Matt. 21 :38 expresses the vance of Christianity long before Gregory's aorist more precisely than RSV's "let us ... reluctant missionaries set out to establish have his inheritance." But in Luke 22: 31 Roman Christianity among the Saxons of the distinction in pronominal usage in the England. St. Columba's Altus prosator, which original is not at all reproduced, and in Dunleavy seems not to have remembered, is Matt. 15: 2 7, "masters'" should be read, not evidence of his devotional concern. Again, "master's" -lIlJQ10lv, not lIlJ(>(OlJ. Again, in the Celtic influence and intransigence con John 19:29, "cane" does not reflect the spine tinued long after Streaneshalch in 664. less quality of "hyssop." It is best to adopt A major portion of Dunleavy's book deals the reading of 476 (prima manu) in this with Celtic manuscripts and an elaborate passage. FREDERICK W. DANKER explanation of the Irish majuscule and mi THE REST IS COMMENTARY. By Nahum nuscule writing forms. The Great Gospel N. Glatzer. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961. of C!umciUe and the Lindisfarne Gospels xiv and 271 pages. Cloth. $6.00. come in for comment, of course, and among the illustrations is one from the Book of This book is highly recommended for Kells. PHILIP J. SCHROEDER those who wish to acquaint themselves with major issues of Jewish intertestamental RELIGION IN AMERICAN LIFE. Vol. I: thought in a relatively painless fashion. The The Shaping of American Religion. Edited book includes excerpts from the main types by James \~T ard Smith and A. Leland of literature, including the Apocrypha, the Jamison; 514 pages; $8.50. Vol. II: Re Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran community, ligious Perspectives in American Culture. Josephus, and the Talmudic masters. Intro Edited by James Ward Smith and A. Le ductory matter is kept to a minimum, but land Jamison; 427 pages; $7.50. Vol. IV: is always helpful. The price of $6.00 seems A Critical Bibliography of Religion in a little steep for a book of 271 pages which America. By Nelson R. Burr; two vols.; apparently presented no particular printing 1219 pages; $17.50. (Princeton, N.].: problems. HERBERT T. MAYER Princeton University Press, 1961). Cloth. COLUM'S OTHER ISLAND. By Gareth W. Vol. III of this set has not as yet appeared Dunleavy. Madison: The University of in print. When it does, it will be sold with Wisconsin Press, 1960. x and 149 pages. the volumes listed above for $32.50 for the Cloth. $4.50. set. Even separately any of these volumes Colum's other island is Lindisfarne. is well worth its price. Whether or not Columba founded the lona Unstinted praise belongs to Burr for his community has not been established, but he comprehensive two-volume bibliography; the did much to make it an important center publishers can call it without reserve "a crit of Celtic Christianity, and it was from lona ical and descriptive bibliography of religion that St. Aidan went to develop the mission in American life that is unequaled in any ary center at Lindisfarne. other source." This is a first-rate contribution Dunleavy presents documentary evidence and will be an indispensable tool for the in manuscripts, artifacts, and cultural mate church historian dealing with the religious rial to demonstrate the influence of Celtic scene in America. It deserves to be on the monasticism. It is a careful and significant reference shelves of every public and church effort to awaken interest in a subject not library in this country. too prominently known in our age, for the Volume I is a series of nine essays by nine BOOK REVIEW 435 contributors. The editors have contributed Not all the essays of the second volume a meaningful introduction. They point out reach the standard set by those of the first. that a study of the role of religion in the It may be that the contemporary rather than sociopolitical institutions and traditions of the historical perspectives invoke this judg our country must be combined with a study ment; it may be because of the diversity of of the body of speculative theory which had topics. Education, law, political attitudes, its impact on the institutional life of the techniques of political action, the religious churches. H. Richard Niebuhr looks at Prot novel, religious poetry, religious music, and estantism both as movement and as order be architecture are topics covered in these essays. fore he takes up Protestantism in relation to Will Herberg, Willard Thorp, Donald Eg democracy. He notes the increase of Protestant bert, and the editors are am'Jng the dozen disorder and dependency as well as the in contributors to this volume They aim at crease of Protestant unity and dynamic. Amer making the readers aware of "the wide va ican freedom has allowed a diversity of faiths riety of ways in which religion engages the to flourish. It has also fostered "a kind of total life of the nation." This the volume 'core Protestantism'" which tends toward an accomplishes. Americanization of the religious beliefs of Among the contributions made to the reo many. Roman Catholicism, as Henry J. Brown cording of America's religions this series brings out, too, has developed some character will long rank c...J a major one. And after istically American traits; he speaks of the Volumes I and II are neglected, which will American Roman Catholic as "something not be soon, Volume IV will be used by unique in the history of Christianity." The research students. CARL S. MEYER third major division in America's religions is Judaism, ably sketched by Oscar Handlin in THEOLOGY OF SEVENTH-DAY AD an essay that might well come to be regarded VENTISM. By Herbert S. Bird. Grand as the best short treatment (40 pages) of Ju Rapids, Mich.: W m. B. Eerdmans Pub daism in the United States. Jamison, one of lishing Co., c. 1961. 137 pages. Cloth. the editors, contributes an information-packed $3.00. chapter on the sects and cults, "Religions on Bird is an Orthodox Presbyterian mission the Christian Perimeter." Volume I, how ary in Eritrea. His book discusses the his ever, is concerned not only with religious torical roots of Seventh-day Adventism and institutions. The chapter on "Theology in that movement's doctrine of the Word of America: A Historical Survey," by Yale's God, man, Christ's person, the Sabbath, and Sydney Ahlstrom surveys the theological dietary practice; a final chapter relates Sev climate in this country from Puritanism to enth-day Adventism to the author's con ecumemClsm. Space forbids bringing out servative neo-Calvinist theological position. some of the first-rate contributions of this Within these limits his work is compre chapter; long since has such a treatment hensive; his attitude is that of a person been needed. Chapters by Perry Miller, Stow striving conscientiously to be fair, but it is Persons, James Ward Smith, and Daniel Day polemical nevertheless, both against Seventh Williams complete the volume. Reviewers day Adventism and against its Protestant of collections usually point out that "the defenders. He charges that the position essays, of course, are of uneven quality." It accorded to the writings of Ellen G. White is difficult to say that of this volume; rather by Seventh-day Adventists is ultimately in one must say that the essays are of unusually consistent with their teaching that the Bib high quality. lical canon is closed. Seventh-day Adventist 436 BOOK REVIEW
teaching on the nature of man, conditional QUESTIONS YOUTH ASK. By Donald E. immortality, and the punishment of the Damaray. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker wicked do not, Bird holds, do full justice Book House, 1961. 98 pages. Paper. to the Biblical data. The Seventh-day Ad $1.00. ventist commitment to justification through An interesting little book for group dis faith, Bird declares, is compromised by the cussions of problems in Christian living. relentless thrust of the group's doctrine of The author points up the thinking and con a kind of "justification by character." The cerns of young people about marriage and Seventh-day Adventist view of the Sabbath love, choice of vocation, Bible study and he finds wholly untenable. When the Sev Bible versions, communism, suffering, un enth-day Adventists make not eating "un christian cults, and others. Without guar clean meats" a condition of membership, anteeing every word we feel that the author they flagrantly oppose, says Bird, the Bible. has given youth leaders a fine manual for Summarizing, he declares that the Seventh group study and discussion on 24 problems day Adventist view of the "Spirit of proph in Christian living. To each chapter there ecy" and the "sanctuary position" disqualify is appended a series of penetrating dis- Seventh-day Adventists from being "a true cussion questions. OTTO E. SOHN church of Christ."
AItTI-IUR CARL PI~~",)Rl'·J ONE GREAT GROUND OF HOPE. By Henry P. Van Dusen. Philadelphia: The THE CHURCH LT-.J COUNCIL. By Ed,::::rd Westminster Press, 1961< 205 pages. Ingram Watkin. New York: Sheed and Cloth. $3.95. Ward, c. 1960. 227 pages. Cloth. $3.95. Any statement by Van Dusen on the Of all the books about the ecumenical ecumenical movement commands respectful councils of the past that John XXIII's an attention. As president of Union Theological nouncement of the 21st Roman Catholic Seminary, New York, he resides at a favor "ecumenical" council has evoked, this study able spot for ecumenical discussion. In ad by Watkin, a historian and a lay convert of dition he has been a delegate at every major years ago, is one of the very best available ecumenical conference since 1937, and since in English. Loyal to his adopted denomina 1954 has been chairman of the Joint Com tion, he nevertheless writes with admirable mittee of the W orId Council of Churches candor; by way of example, he sees the and the International Missionary Council. Reformation begin with a protest "against He has been active in the plan for integrat the unquestionable abuses of an indulgence ing these two bodies. particularly scandalous for its commercial The question is frequently asked: What is ization and the preachers' unwarranted affir the ultimate goal of the ecumenical move mations" (p. 201). His narrative bridges the ment? To this question the answers vary periods between councils effectively, no mean with the people giving them. Some are not achievement. The theological and historical sure. But there is no doubt in the author's difficulties inherent in the idea of an "ecu mind. He hopes for nothing less than total menical council" find ample illustration. If organizational union. at times his English style lapses into syn Van Dusen summarizes the history of tactical errors which violate the rules taught a century and a half of efforts at Christian in the fourth grade, this is a small defect unity, expresses the concerns of today's beside the book's many virtues. younger churches regarding it, and hopefully ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN projects its future. Barbara Griffis, librarian BOOK REVIEW 437 of the William Adams Brown Ecumenical THE HOLY GR.AIL: THE G.1.LAH.1.D Library at Union Theological Seminary, with QUEST IN THE ARTHURIAN LIT the help of James W. Bergland, research ERATURE. By Arthur Edward Waite. assistant to Van Dusen, prepared the ap New Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books, pended "Chronology of Christian Unity: c. 1961. xxiii and 612 pages. Cloth. 1795--1960." Also appended is a draft ,$ 1 0.00. plan for the integration of the World Coun cil of Churches and the International Mis THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC: sionary Council. THE SECRET TRADITION IN GOETIA, INCLUDING THE RITES AND MYS -With a critical glance at denominational TERIES OF GOETIC THEURGY, SOR ism in America Van Dusen says: "Those CERY AND INFERNAL NECRO [disunited} churches cannot bring an effec MANCY. By Arthur Edward Waite. tive impact upon anyone of the great prob New Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books, lem areas or pioneering tasks - the halting c. 1961. xliv and 336 pages. Cloth. of secularism, the confrontation of govern $10.00. ment, the reclamation of education, the Ro man Catholic problem, outreach and occu THE HOLY KABBALAH: A STUDY OF pation, the social order - unless they act THE SECRET TRADITION IN ISRAEL unit .' wi' very ;OUf( t th, pooled /1S UNFOLDED BY SONS OF THE command." Here, as elsewhere in the book, DOCTRINE FOR THE BENEFIT AND one misses a statement of the church's chief CONSOLATION OF THE ELECT DIS task: to preach repentance and the forgive PERSED THROUGH THE LANDS AND ness of sins. In view of Christ"s great com AGES OF THE GREATER EXILE. By mission to make disciples of all nations, Arthur Edward Waite. New Hyde Park, baptizing them in the name of the Triune N. Y.: University Books, 1960. xxxv and God and teaching them to observe all that 636 pages. Cloth. $10.00. Christ has commanded His disciples, one These three books are all handsomely put should expect a greater emphasis on this out photolithoprinted reissues, supplied with task, particularly in a book which is so new introductions by John Wilson in the deeply concerned about Christian missions. case of the first two titles and Kenneth Not till the ecumenical movement gives this Rexroth in the case of the third. The Holy task priority can it ask for the blessing of Grail first came out in 1933, The Book 0/ Him who has promised His people: "La, Ceremonial Magic in 1911, The Holy Kab I am with you alway." L W. SPITZ balah in 1929. What unites the three super ficially disparate subjects is the common A SURVEY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. authorship of the books. Waite (1867 to By W. W. Sloan. New York: Philosoph 1940) was a thoroughly unorthodox eccen ical Library, 1961. 302 pages. Cloth. tric who called himself a Christian mystic, $4.75. but, as both Wilson and Rexroth are at Laymen and college undergraduates will pains to point out, who was much more find this book useful in promoting a unified a Kabbalist, that is, a Gnostic. The Ar appreciation of New Testament history and thurian legends, medieval magic (even in its the messages of the individual books. Dis degraded form), and the Kabbalistic litera cussion questions and supplementary readings ture are for Waite only variant aspects of add to its discussion potential. the great multiform secret mystical tradition FREDERICK W. DANKER that attests the "Christ nature" which is 438 BOOK REVIEW
fulfilled m all "those who have obeyed the to the previous life an individual lived, this last precept 'to be lost in God'" (The Book baptism being in view of the fact that sins of Ceremonial Magic, p. xxxvi). He felt the are put away" (Mark 1 :4,5). Because of same way, it should be remarked, about the the critical background required to assess secret tradition underlying Freemasonry, the validity of the translations offered, the Rosicrucianism, alchemy, and the tarot cards book is not to be recommended to laymen - about which he also wrote formidable in the first stages of Bible study. volumes. Nevertheless, just as one need not FREDERICK W. DANXER admire Waite's often pretentious prose style so little need one share either his syncretistic OPERA MINORA. By Rafael Taubenschlag. assumptions or his enthusiastic inferences to Warsaw, Poland: Panstwowe Wydaw appreciate his vast erudition, whatever ad nictwo Naukowe (Paris: Mouton & Cie.) , vances the more recent decades of scholar 1959. 2 volumes; xiv, 844, vii and 844 ship in these areas can record. pages. Cloth. $6.45 each volume. In The Holy Grail Waite attempted to Rafael Taubenschlag (1881-1958) dis· summarize the various great cycles of Grail tinguished himself as professor of law in stories, the past theories about the intention Cracow, Poland, from 1913 to 1939 and in of the authors of these legends, and the 1942 accepted a chair at Columbia Univer mysti<.._: "~de th __ .. as Waite's chief interest. sity. In various journals, i!lc~udinL - ~ !ish, The Book of Ceremonial Magic includes English, German, French, and Italian, he Waite's analytical and critical account of the made his mark as an expert ill Roman and chief magical rituals from the 14th through Greek law. These two volumes contain a the 16th centuries known to him, followed selection of monographs and articles written by a "complete grimoire" based upon a sys by Taubenschlag on the subject of Roman tematic combination of the various texts. and Greek law with special reference to the The Holy Kabbalah proposes to give a com documentation of the papyri. Included among prehensive expository and historical account the articles, many of which even the research of the alleged "Secret Tradition" of Israel student would find only remotely accessible, which nevertheless seeks to establish its con are lists of the papyri including all Greek nections with other forms of the mystical papyri through November 1951. Of special tradition. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN interest, in view of Gal. 4, are discussions of the relationship between guardians and their THE NEW TESTAMENT: An Expanded wards. In his discussion of the trial of Paul Translation. By Kenneth S. Wuest. Grand in the light of the papyri, Taubenschlag Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing attests Luke's historical veracity in matters Company, 1961. xvii and 624 pages. of legal detail. From the evidence cited for Cloth. $5.95. the word dn(((lx1], it is possible that readers This is not a translation but a paraphtase of Rom.8:23 might well have interpreted which weaves the writer's commentary on Paul as saying that the Holy Spirit is the the text into the text itself. A sample: Christian's "identification card." This ap "There came upon the human scene, John pears to be the meaning in P Tebt II 316,10, the Baptizer, in the uninhabited region, ftl1 dnOT(lL<;t Wc(((lxn ftYJ6E 0ft0WJ.tLq. %EX(lfj()"'\}m, making a public proclamation with that for which Moulton-Milligan, Vocabulary of formality, gravity, and authority which must the Greek Testament, s. V'J cite the editors' be heeded and obeyed, of a baptism which understanding of Wc(((lx1] as "entrance-fee." had to do with a change of mind relative FREDERICK W. DANKER BOOK REVIEW 439
TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS. By statistics, and other items of information that James M. Gustafson. New York: Harper simply are not available elsewhere, requires & Brothers, 1961. xi and 141 pages. no endorsement. The 1962 edition will prove Cloth. $3.50. particularly useful to owners of the fourth Most books in the broad area of the edition of the late Frederick E. Mayer's The sociology of religion have been knowledge Religious Bodies of America (St. Louis: able and sophisticated, either from the so Concordia Publishing House, 1961), which ciological or the religious viewpoint. This incorporated the material from the edition has been their deficiency. The churchman for 1961. Here this reviewer will content could not recognize the reality of the church himself with calling attention to changes that described by the sociologist; the sociologist have occurred between the two editions. The found little of value in the exclusively theo monophysite, non-Eastern-Orthodox Arme logical approach of the churchman. By fo nian Apostolic Orthodox Church in America cusing upon the church as an "historical, is now listed simply as the Armenian Church. human community" - but writing from a The Bethel Assembly incorporated itself in theological viewpoint as well- Gustafson 1960 as Bethel Baptist Assembly, Inc. Mar has made a significant contribution to our Eshai Shimoun XXIII, Catholicos-Patriarch understanding of the Christian community. of the venerable Church of the East and of He posits the church as arising from God the Ass), ~,.s, tral..,,~ •.:d his ".... from .L u.lock but goes on to interpret the processes and to San Francisco, Calif. The Krimmer Men patterns in terms of their social function. nonite Bt'etht'en Conference merged in 1960 He thus examines the church as a human, with the Mennonite Brethren Church of natural, political community, a community NOt'th America. The North American Cath of language, interpretation, memory, belief, olic Church (still credited with the 71,521 and action. The churchman should be grate members reported in 1959) is listed as a ful for having someone suggest the impli separate organization from, and no longer cations of the sociology of Weber and of merely as an alternative designation for, the Mannheim and the social psychologies of North American Old Roman Catholic Mead and Cooley for an understanding of Church, which is listed with a reported mem the church. The final synthesis in particular bership of 84,565 under the Most Rev. Cyrus should force a reexamination on the part A. Starkey, Moorestown, N. J., as Metropol of the empirical social scientist who has fre itan-Primate; there may be some statistical quently dealt with the data of religious overlapping between these two bodies. Other phenomena as a purely social product. new listings are the Old Catholic Episcopal DAVID S. SCHULLER Synod of the Free Catholic Church, headed by the Most Rev. Michael 1. Augustine Itkin YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN CHURCHES: of New York, as Primate-Metropolitan INFORMATION ON ALL FAITHS IN Archbishop, with a reported membership of THE U. S. A. Thirtieth issue (edition for 2,570, and the Pentecostal Evangelical 1962). Edited by Benson Y. Landis. New Church of God, National and International, York: Office of Publication and Distribu Incorporated, founded in 1960, at Riddle tion, National Council of the Churches of and Salem, Oreg., with a reported member Christ in the U. S. A., c. 1961. v and 314 ship of 213. The 1962 Yearbook does not pages. Cloth. $5.95. record the change of the name of the Bible This invaluable annual (since 1951) on Presbyterian Church to the Evangelical Pres American institutional religion, with rosters, byterial~ Synod, nor does it list the Collings- 440 BOOK REVIEW wood Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church, stage, represented in the word llo~6.tro and the Church of the Lutheran Confession, the its nominal cognate. The glorification of Orthodox Lutheran Conference, and the Con Jesus becomes reality as the Spirit, the Para· cordia Lutheran Conference. Most of the clete, proclaims through the disciples the statistics in the volume have been extracted life-giving power of the crucified Lord. Thus and widely, if inconclusively, discussed else there is a close relation between the work of where: an overall growth of 1.9% (down Jesus and that of the disciples. The word from 2.4%) in religious affiliation compared (LVa~aLvro marks the entry of Jesus on this with a 1.8 % population increase; a smaller life-giving work. "Protestant" gain both in percentage (1.9 %, Thiising's analysis of the formal structure up from 1.7%) and in absolute numbers of John's theology helps clarify several knotty than the 3.2% (down 0.2% from the pre passages in the Gospel. His citation of Luke vious year) Roman Catholic gain. It is 22:27 as a parallel to the thought expressed greatly to be regretted that Editor Landis in John 14:28 is certainly illuminating and continues to preface his book with the un helps confirm Thiising's explanation that the authorized "Calendar of the Christian Year," passage does not affirm a metaphysical rela followed by practically no one, in prefer tionship between Jesus and the Father, but ence to the informative and useful descriptive rather accents Jesus' acceptance of His role of
"Christian Calendar of D~ys ~nd Seasons Ob obedience (p. 210) The distin<:ciofl between served in Various Protestant and Eastern broUQa.VLU and EJdYELU. in John 3: 12 ff. ap Or,:.0':_ .. Chufc:._o ::'__ lated te the National pears hazy i Illy con.ries. T'" .cng, Council of Churches of the U S. A.," which however, convincingly attaches the former the Department on Worship and the Arts expression to the words of the ascended Jesus of Landis' own National Council ordered uttered through the Paraclete and interprets prepared and (on Nov. 18,1960) approved. Jesus' earthly revelatory work as the EJtLYELa. It is to be hoped that the next edition of '1)17 e are not convinced, however, that the the Yearbook will incorporate the latter fruit described in John 15:2,4,8, 16 is the calendar. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN Christian himself. Of supporting passages DIE ERHOHUNG UND VERHERRLI· cited, Rom. 1: 13 is not of the same order as CHUNG JESU 1M JOHANNESEVAN Phil. 1 :22, and neither passage confirms the GELIUM. By Wilhelm Thiising. Miinster view set forth for the Johannine passage; in-Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlags moreover, the context of John 15, especially buchhandlung, 1960. Cloth. DM 26.50. vv. 10 and 12, speaks of the Christian's moral productivity. In connection with How does the Fourth Evangelist relate the work of the ascended Lord and the historical Thiising's discussion of John 19:34 (pp.165 Jesus? This is the basic problem to which to 1 74), would the mention of ui!-ta alone this Roman Catholic scholar addresses him suffice to suggest the Eucharist to the readers self. The Gospel contains three key words: of 1 John 5: 8, especially in view of the em· mvow, /)o1;a.tw, dva~a(vw. The first of these phasis on aa.Q~ in John 6 in a sacramental is used to express the enthronement of Jesus context? Thiising's further assertion that on the Cross as the Revealer of God's love John does not use the word at!tCl. except in for mankind. This enthronement is the cul a Eucharistic sense (p.173), must be modi· mination of a life of obedience to the fied in view of John 1: 13. Father's purpose. The entire obedience cycle In general a strong philological conscience forms the first stage in our Lord's redemp dominates this careful investigation of John's tive work and acts as the basis for the second theology. The caution against sacramentarian BOOK REVIEW 44l interpretations of the footwashing (p.135, lisbeci mB.rriage bond. ..A.re there, or are there n. 51) is well taken, but a consideration of not, valid and Scripturally sanctioned grounds John 18:32 and 21:19 might have modified for dissolving a marriage? Is the Matthaean Thiising's view of JL01CP "'av6:tcp (John 12:33, exception (Matt. 19:9) authentic and deter d. p. 24), in the sense "of what redemptive minative, or is it an arbitrary interpolation significance His death would be." Only occa of an unknown ancient scribe? Are the state sionally do the writer's special dogmatic in ments of Jesus with respect to marriage and terests mar his presentation. Thus he sug divorce binding upon men, or do they simply gests that John restrained himself in his treat set forth a high ideal to which men should ment of Mary, but anticipates in his manner strive to attain? These questions and others of expression future expansions of the Mary are carefully explored and in the author's theme. It is not sufficient to observe, as findings lies the value of the book also for Thiising does, that the evangelist elsewhere the non-Anglican teacher or pastor. expresses himself on simultaneous thought OTTO E. SOID'\!" levels. Indeed, an unscientific observation THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By Edward like this may well backfire, and much charity \'\Tilliam Watson. Third edition. New is required to refrain from replying that the York: Oxford University Press, 1961. summary treatment given to the Mother of 192 pages. Cloth. $1.40. God may be eX!Jre5s1y designed by the evan gelist to lay roadblocks in the way of a de Watson's work needs no praise. It has all veloping :t,iary cultus (d. p. 95, n.74). The the virtues that one would cxptll of an Ox word "church" is introduced ambiguously, ford professor of ecclesiastical history writ pp. 185-186; it is not clear whether the ing a handbook for the Home University term is used in an organizational sense or not. Library of Modern Knowledge series: a pro If the former, this would introduce a concept found historical sense, learning, insight, foreign to Johannine thought. simplicity of style, freedom from footnotes, With these few strictures we commend this exemplary succinctness, excellent organiza warm and sympathetic appreciation of John's tion. The thoroughly competent epilog by theology. Thiising has brought into focus Bishop Alwyn Williams of Winchester brings what many writers on the same subject have Watson's account - which originally ended left blurred. FREDERICK W. DANKER in 1914 - down to date. The one defect that one must regret is that the work stops at the DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE IN AN Channel's edge in two ways. First, the over GLICANISM. By Arthur R. Winnett. seas expansion of the Church of England is New York: St. Martin's Press (London: barely hinted at; for example, we find Bishop Macmillan and Company), 1958. 284 Colenso in Natal and Bishop Gray in Cape pages. Cloth. n. p. town with no indication of why they were Although this volume is an intradenomi there. Second, Watson is not as sure of his national study of the divorce-and-remarriage information when he talks about the Conti question within the Anglican Church from nent as when he talks about England. Thus Reformation days until 1957, it will prove his confident generalizations about Martin interesting and valuable to every teacher Luther's doctrine of the church are at the working in this area and to pastors who con very least debatable, and how the blooper front the problem in their parishes. Of which speaks of "Luther's protest, the burn necessity the book forms an intensive study ing of the Papal bull on October 31, 1517," of the indissolubilist and non-indissolubilist could perpetuate itself into a third edition is position with respect to the divinely estab- sheer mystery. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN 442 BOOK REVIEW
THE LOSS OF UNITY. By Hoffman Nick fresh recognition of Aton as creator and giver erson. Garden City, New York: Double of life prompted a strong humanistic em day & Co., Inc., 1961. viii and 360 pages. phasis, and therewith a plastic realism en Cloth. $4.95. tered Egyptian art. Ancient Egypt features Luther is the "Miner's Son"; John Calvin from this new era reliefs depicting everyday is the "Devil-worshipping Genius"; Henry scenes and busts of royal personages, includ VIII is the "Royal Theologian." These are ing that of the celebrated Nefertiti. consistent labels that Nickerson uses for The volume on Classical Greece offers these men. He says, e. g., in a passage that breathtaking closeups of figures on the friezes is characterstic of his readiness to attach of the Parthenon. Here, in the product of other labels (p. 27 4): "Remembering how Phidias' presiding genius, we see art as an drunken Lutheran princes and their foul essentially religious activity that aimed at mouthed preachers had so often insulted pleasing the divine rather than the human himself and his religion, Charles was glad and that ended in expression of humanity to make war." Nickerson finds the 16th cen seen at its finest. tury of particular significance because of the No view through a museum glass or from loss of unity to Christendom in that century. behind the guard rail can hope to capture He says he wants to judge the actors in that the detail provided in these plates, which are quarrel faidy. He ends ,he book with a hope the superb expressiofl of F. L. KeacLt's photo for Christian unity. History written with the graphic art and measure 11 Y2 by 14Y2 distortions that Nickerson manages and the inches. The introductory essays and the prejudices which he displays can hardly con legends accompanying the plates are more tribute to that unity any more than they do informative and authoritative than any tour to good writing of history. ist guides, and the price is remarkably low CARL S. MEYER for such quality merchandise. ANCIENT EGYPT: THE NEW KING FREDERICK W. DANKER DOM AND THE AMARNA PERIOD. WYCLIF AND THE OXFORD SCHOOLS: By Christiane Desroches Noblecourt. THE RELATION OF THE SUMMA DE Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic ENTE TO SCHOLASTIC DEBATES AT Society, 1960. xv pages; 32 plates. Cloth. OXFORD IN THE LATER FOUR $6.95. TEENTH CENTURY. Vol. VIII of the CLASSICAL GREECE: THE ELGIN MAR New Series of Cambridge Studies in BLES OF THE PARTHENON. By Nicho Medieval Life and Thought edited by Dom las Yalouris. Greenwich, Conn.: New David Knowles. By]. A. Robson. Cam York Graphic Society, 1960. xv pages; bridge: University Press, 1961. xiii and 32 plates. Cloth. $6.95. 268 pages. Cloth. $6.50. Unique in the history of religion is the Knowles has performed valuable services determined effort of Amenhophis IV, better to historical scholarship by his own writings known under his self-chosen name Akhnaton, and by stimulating the research and writings to establish his political authority through a of others. Among these the contribution of revolution in artistic production. In open Robson to an understanding of Wyclif's defiance of Theban theology he impressed his philosophical writings in the Summa de Ente sculptors to document the broad breadth of must be counted as significant. In the first his reign by depicting him and his consort part of his treatise Robson examines "The as '->ermediaries of the sun-god Aton. The Precursors of Wyclif." In varying degrees BOOK REVIEW 443
Thomas Buckingham, Thomas Bradwardine, authoritatively about the origin, progress, and Richard FitzRalph, as well as the 13th significance, and use of the authorized for cenmry Robert Grosseteste, influenced Wyc mularies of his denomination. His introduc lifo In his Summa de Ente, a compilation of tory overview is followed by an account of 13 tracts made by Wyclif himself (so Rob "the Liturgy Committee at work"; an illumi son says, very likely quite correctly), Wyclif nating discussion of the Church of South sets forth his metaphysical and theological India's Eucharistic limrgy, which is, alas, no,t views, held before 1374 or so. Wyclif was likely altogether to allay Lutheran concerns a schoolman, a leading figure in one of about the level of Eucharistic conviction Europe's leading universities. His philosoph achieved to date in the Church of South ical speculations attracted followers and op India; descriptive analyses of the rites of ponents. They influenced his theology, e. g., "Christian initiation:' Holy Baptism, and his doctrine of predestination and grace. Holy Confirmation; and an outline of the Robson carefully details these aspects of progress made in creating a Church of South Wyclif's thought with a scholar's skill, based India prayer book. An appendix brings the on an at-homeness in the manuscripts of the report down to date as of January 1958. late 14th cenmry. His presentation of Wyc Moule's little book - reverent and schol IiI's concept of time, to cite only one further arly at once - is an exemplary pulling to cletc is v' :ble. n lden af the Engli . ge ._ of L_ >vort __ ,at has been done in the church in the 14th century owe much to field of Christian worship origins discover Robson (and his mentor Knowles). able in the New Testament. With great lexi CARL S. MEYER cographical and exegetical insight, a degree of commendable caution rare in writers in WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH OF SOUTH this field, and only the gentlest of Reformed INDIA. By T. S. Garrett. Richmond, Va.: dogmatic presuppositions (for which the John Knox Press, C. 1958. 62 pages. alert reader can make full allowance very Paper. $1.75. easily), Maule comprehensively outlines the necessarily tentative conclusions to which the WORSHIP IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. evidence points. This survey - covering J ew By C. F. D. Maule. Richmond, Va.: John ish influences on Christian worship, the fel Knox Press, Co 1961. 87 pages. Paper. lowship meal and its developments, Holy $1.75. Baptism, other types of worship, and the lan These two titles are welcome additions guage of worship - would provide a splen Nos. 2 and 9 respectively - to the series did basis for an exciting Bible class course Ecumenical Studies in Worship. on Biblical bases for worship. An index of Garrett's background as a member of the Bible passages would enhance the value of Liturgy Committee of the Synod of the fumre editions. Church of South India enables him to speak ARTIIUR CARL PIEPKORN
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