The Church in the World:

...Among the more impor- integrity of the former three com- evenhanded and balanced treatment of tant developments in this community is munities...

...Scarry develops...

...And there is the lingering memory of implications for social ethics comes as a apparently expects to have a wider influ- that fabulous treasure, buried in this welcome surprise...

...more historic Protestant churches, as a lowship, and the Lausanne Committee Historically, evangelicals have not result of their stand against slavery in the on World Evangelism give a common weighed the data of Christian history as nineteenth century or, coming out of an witness to certain key points of biblical heavily as particular interpretations (usuAnabaptist tradition, because of their social ethics...

...its ethnic va- basis, and includes exegetical appensimple maxim guiding so many char- riety (including the Pashtuns, who take dices on kosmos, ekklesia, stoicheia acters in the book, that each one does seriously their putative descent from the (principalities), and dunamis or exousia what he can, according to his situation...

...the influence of liberation theology...

...evangelical, over against Catholic and converge or contrast with the thesis of the Webber identifies secularism, scien- conciliar voices...

...Webber's last section on "Con- Oxford, $24.95, 385 pp...

...of experiences it is largely inexpressible...

...Pain is the basis for both The Body in Pain is divided into two careful treatment of the discussions in the making and unmaking the world...

...However, the vast majority of principles are so fresh, and the material speaks of itself as "evangelical," it will Protestants in this sector of American juxtaposed and evaluated so different, be apparent how significant these inChristianity - Pentecostals, Holiness, that it can serve as a ground-breaking sights are in determining Christian enand other evangelicals - while being effort leading to more critical studies...

...gagement in the political and economic strong on the authority of the Bible, do The author concludes• that the World order...

...not consider themselves fundamentalist...

...eschatological themes...

...evangelical audience, who may well This time Shah is writing as an Af- By the story's end, the reader has ef- have formed a social ethics in the past ghan, though one who has lived most of fortlessly absorbed an abundance of this without a great deal of attention to tradi, his life abroad, in England since the fif information, about Afghanistan's moun- tion...

...also assesses such figures as J. Richard gustine...

...The study then concludes by exroots of that community...

...church as the basis for action in the OPPOSITION, TENSION, OR TRANSFOR- This volume, by Wheaton professor world...

...However, the and original, brilliant but wild, and amining the structure of artifacts - or fact that there is so much common Chris- sometimes perverse in some of its more the potentially nondestructive exprestian ground should alert all of these sec- extreme assertions...

...He finds all of them want- acterized as the "Thirteenth, the Greatest Sojourners community representative of ing in the christocentric and evangelical of Centuries," there is a much more their diversity...

...However, this sort of THE MAKING AND UNMAKING thesis: Amnesty International documents synthetic study can advance ecumenical OF THE WORLD on torture, transcripts of personal injury mutual understanding, as well as point trials, the works of Sophocles, Shakenew directions of convergence in social Elaine Scarry speare, Defoe, Sartre, and Mann, Kisethics...

...lays out in some detail the contemporary The Bible and Marx receive extended challenges and the Catholic, World THIS book has a single subject, pain...

...Pluralism on public pol- evangelism from social action...

...Webber periods with particular emphasis on Auicy questions has also grown apace...

...His succinct but torical research in the line of the one can be introduced to such wide vari- careful treatment of these categories of methodology it uses...

...individualistic ethic growing out of a conservative Enlightenment pietism - where ecclesiology is almost reduced to A succinct & careful interpreter an optional substudy under pastoral practice...

...Webber oftheir evangelistic commitments, their Christ's victory over the world...

...ety so clearly and concisely...

...The book begins with a firm biblical ties...

...However, if one media focus on the religious right, the While the book is accessible to mature understands the centrality of the Evil One conservative evangelicals have been re- adult and student audiences as well as to and of the end time, in that half of the ceiving more attention, even in Catholic experts in social ethics, the interpretive Protestant world in the U.S...

...pear around 1750) into the whole length in the Afghan war, who wanted a good The book is clearly written for an of his very realistic narrative...

...which circles...

...This may account for the tion is understood in Jewish and Chrisreflection of evangelical scholars and urgency of tone that characterizes Ms...

...singer on foreign policy, Clausewitz on temporary Models of Church and military strategy, medical literature on World" will be of most interest, since it Edith Wyschogrod pain, not to speak of the Bible and Marx...

...While his treatmeant of the Not all the evangelicals are comfort- Neuhaus, Jerry Falwell, and the tenets of Middle Ages could hardly be charable with the Moral Majority, nor is the civil religion...

...the second takes up making or creato many evangelicals as well as to those scriptive, there is no mistaking its moral tion by analyzing, .first, the relation of outside the evangelical orbit...

...Innocent III and the Catholic contribu26 September 1986: 505 tion in the pre-Reformation era than is and action in the world - together...

...It is my hope that this book...

...its long history as frustrator (powers...

...The book is extraordinary Marx...

...I suspect Karl Barth, Leslie Newbi- ceptual structure, this transformation, Ms...

...Scarry, can become the ficulties do not reflect quirks on the part the early years of the World Council foundation not only for human creation of the author, a professor of literature at would find it strange to discover an in- or "making" but also for an alienated the University of Pennsylvania, but reterpreter seeing a strong christological language of pain which is brought out in sult from the necessity of breaching the focus emerging at Uppsala (1968) and destroying or "deconstructing" both the disparate themes she is compelled to deepening at Nairobi (1975) as a result of bodies of human beings and the artifacts treat...

...Israelites...

...concluding with .evaluations of Roman so central to an evangelical identity...

...The book's difgin, and other theological voices shaping contends Ms...

...Compared to the usual Rather than put his vast collection of of empires...

...Indeed, it is the lack of Anabaptism, Lutheranism, and Cal- the evangelical world, which has not even-handed christocentrism and not the vinism, not only in their original time and produced this school of thought, one specific political positions of the reliplace, but also in their contemporary in- must expect it to sound alien and some- gious right which qualify it as nonterpretations, particularly where they times extreme...

...Like the message: it is imperative for human be- pain to imagining, second, the relation of Roman Catholic bishops' teaching on ings to find non-destructive expressions the body's sentience to voice as that relaeconomics and peace, the best biblical for pain...

...His gesture follows the deceptively tains, valleys, and deserts...

...While a brief book of this sort, tism, nationalism, political ideology, study will not only provide useful text surveying such widely divergent present and economic utopianism as the new de- and adult discussion material, but will communities and time periods is neces- mons facing the churches in the latter half also engender further theological and hissarily quite sketchy, it is remarkable how of the twentieth century...

...the real- fers a brief and clear recounting of the numbers have increased and their schol- ity of structural as well as personal evil in church's relationship to the world, highars have also grown in number and the world, and the inseparability of lighting the subapostolic and patristic sophistication...

...Catholic, World Council of Churches, Catholic and mainline Protestant Jeffrey Gros and World Evangelical Fellowship per- readers may be puzzled by the amount of spectives, and critical comments about time and energy devoted to Satan and I N RECENT years, largely because of the some other points of view on the subject...

...The implicit moral sions of pain...

...The of civilization...

...When pain is expressed in com- duced to support it, but also because of onstration of the convergences is master- municable form, when it acquires con- the dizzying number of subtheses that ful...

...Certainly Protestant re-evaluation of the pre-Reformation period will have to continue on deeper levels...

...Post- Wracking more than the imagination Reformation Catholicism, with the exception of Vatican II and beyond, is yet THE BODY IN PAIN materials included in developing its to be assimilated...

...For in the past, much ence through a narrative which, as he "land where legends live," reminding of evangelical ethics has been overtold a BBC interviewer, "a person would its people that extraordinary outcomes shadowed by a personalized and even read who was not particularly interested are possible...

...Council, the teachings of the Catholic Another element of the book which Furthermore, many of these churches church and decrees of the Second Vati- will be of interest to readers from whatexist because of class prejudice in the can Council, the World Evangelical Fel- ever tradition, is the treatment of history...

...And perhaps information...

...This is articulated in evangelical MATION Robert Webber, gives a history of the terms, honoring the high doctrine of Robert E. Webber relationship of the church to the world, Scripture, evangelism, and conversion Zondervan, $11.95 paper, 333 pp...

...The segment on the Reformation eration theology will find Webber's uate the present situation in the light of is helpful, because of its treatment of evaluation somewhat prejudicial, but to the Gospel...

...tian Scripture and in the writings of Karl leaders has yet to be received by the grass- Scarry's style...

...Recently, because of convergence are: the centrality of in dealing with social ethics...

...tors to the potential for common witness agenda may also explain the variety of Underlying the sections on war and Commonweal: 506...

...Of social evil invite not only the evangelical usual in Protestant works on social course Catholic scholars favorable to lib- reader, but any serious Christian to evalethics...

...In contrast, Webber strongly afthe clarification of points of view on the firms the sacramental reality of the THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD relation of the church to the world...

...its religious and moral herit- evangelical approach, the emphasis on firsthand reports and testimonials into a age animated by a non-fanatical spiritual- the biblical doctrine of the church and its scholarly or journalistic account, Shah ity...

...separate treatment...

...parts: the first considers the structure of World Evangelical Fellowship through While the book is phenomenological unmaking exemplified in torture and the 1970s and 1980s will be a revelation in method, descriptive rather than pre- war...

...Council, Evangelical, and New Right re- Because pain is itself the most private I warn the reader to keep the book's sponses...

...central thesis about the nature of pain in While Catholics and mainline Protes- For what language could correspond to constant view not only because of the tants will differ with particular evalua- its felt quality other than cries and eclectic character of the evidence adtions of their traditions, Webber's dem- groans...

...These points of remarkable ally nineteenth-century) of the Scripture peace position...