GOD January * March 1997 Volume 6 No.1

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON GOD

The Peculiar Invitation in the..........Rebecca S. Chopp...........4
Doctrine of God
To speak of God is to give testimony

God as Other: A Contemporary Call.......David Tracy................6
to Luther's Great Challenge David Tracy 6 God is hidden; God is love

A God for Evangelicals Stuffed..........Cornelius Plantinga, Jr....8
With God
We need to be jarred away from our tendency to domesticate God.

Reflections on God......................Felicia Y. Thomas..........9
God is real and God is close to us

The Taste of God: A Mystical............Margaret Dorgan, DCM......10
Experience
Although mystical qualities occur in varying degrees, the gift is always precious

God: An Orthodox View...................Thomas Hopko..............12
The true and living God is known by the Word, personally incarnate in Jesus

God is Still on the Throne..............Gardner C. Taylor.........13
God's love is with us despite sorrow and pain

God's Tough Love........................William Muehl.............14
The conjunction of human freedom and divine purpose makes God's love necessary

God's Intimacy..........................Dietrich Ritschl..........16
Our inner dialogue requires both thinking about and experiencing God

God's Faith in Us.......................John W. Wimberly, Jr......18
God is sovereign, not omnipotent

Speaking About G*d..................... Elizabeth Fiorenza.........20 Finding language about a God that transcends all language

The Mystery of God......................John Macquarrie............22
Our words and thoughts cannot begin to encompass the reality of God

God and The Scandal of Christianity......Craig Barry Anderson......24
The relationship between the one and the many in our experience of God

Power Outage: A Reflection on God........Tom F. Driver.............26
To follow Jesus is to cast our lot with those who hunger and thirst

Can We Still Believe in the Sovereignty..Shirley Guthrie........28
of God?
God is love and God's freedom is freedom to love

QUOTATIONS ON GOD

In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures	[31]
Leaders, Scientists & Psychologists [32|
Theologians, Scholars & Philosophers [33]
Poets, Writers & Artists [34]
Saints and Mystics [35]

BOOKS ON GOD

God in Action by Karl Barth [36]
Karl Rahner, Theologian of the Graced Search for Meaning [37]
Theology of Hope by Jürgen Moltmann [38]
Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer [39]
Between God and Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel [40]
Commentary (Aug. 1996): Article by Joshua O. Haberman [41]
She Who Is by Elizabeth A. Johnson [41]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON GOD

The Cusp of the Earth....................Kirianne Weaver...........42
The Mystery of Hope......................Martin E. Marty...........43
The Holy One in Your Midst...............Walter Brueggemann........44
Turning to God's Purity..................Elizabeth Achtemeier......46
From Perfection, Good Lord, Deliver Us...Mary Z. Gray..............48
God in The Hebrew Bible..................George M. Landes..........50
Reflections on Talking About God........ Keith A. Russell..........52
Preaching the Lectionary: Where..........Judith Hoch Wray..........53
Shall We Find God?

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