Our Life in God's Light
Deedy, John
In brief Our Life in Gods Light, Essays by Hugh T. Kerr; edited by John M. Mul der; Westminster, 352pp.;$12.50cloth $7.95 paperback. When Theology Today was launchei in 1944, it was designed...
...Well, the doubters have long since faded into the New Jersey sunsets...
...For 3f years, from the precincts of Princeton Theological Seminary, Theology Today has charted with distinction the majoi movements in the churches and in theology, from neo:orthodoxy to Vatican II tc the theologies of revolution, hope and liberation...
...When Theology Today was launchei in 1944, it was designed to be a literar journal for the illumination of new idea in religion and theology...
...Anthologies do not always make for satisfactory books, but Our Life in God's Light is a happy exception...
...Much of the credit for this goes to Hugh T. Kerr, the Presbyterian theologian whose "Theological Table-Talk" and other writings have appeared in Theology Today from its inception...
...JOHN DEEDY Commonweal: 62...
...The viewpoints are progressive, ecumenical and remarkably catholic...
...Today Theology Today is the most widely circulated (8,000) and, some would say, most influential quarterly of theological thought in the United States...
...This is a collection of 35 Kerr pieces, and a graceful assembly it is of a writer's efforts to present to a fractured world a literate and coherent presentation of the Gospels...
...Not everyom was sanguine about its future...
...Ecosystems, language, movies, the treasures of Tutankhamun—Kerr is as much at home with these subjects as he is with Niebuhr, Tillich, Bultmann—and Aquinas...
...Certainly it is intelligent, open and readable...
...In 194^ Americans had a war on their minds Paper was in desperately short supply And the concept of a non-technica theological quarterly just didn't connec with the working proposition about whai a theological journal could or should be...
Vol. 107 • February 1980 • No. 2
