JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND RELIGION

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1 THE JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND RELIGION VOLUME 15, 1947

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3 THE JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND RELIGION CARL E. PURINTON, Editor JOHN W. FLIGHT, Associate Editor ISMAR J. PERITZ, Editor Emeritus VOLUME XV (1947) POBLISHBD BY THB NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BlBLICAL INSTRUCTORS TO FOSTER RELIGION IN EDUCATION Reprinted with the permission of the American Academy of Religion JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION JOHNSON REPRINT COMPANY LTD. 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y Berkeley Square House, London W1X6BA

4 By arrangement with the original publishers advertisements have been omitted from the reprint First reprinting 1970, Johnson Reprint Corporation Printed in the United States of America

5 THE JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND RELIGION Published by the National Association of Biblical Instructors to Foster Religion in Education VOLUME XV January, 1947 NUMBER I THE PRESENT STATUS OP RESEARCH IN RELIGION J. Paul Williams 3 NEO-MODERNISM: THEOLOGICAL PATTERN or TO-DAY AND TOMORROW Thomas S. Kepler 10 THE BIBLE FOR TO-DAY Leroy Waterman 19 TEACHING THE FOURTH GOSPEL Laura H. Wild 26 BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRACY John A. Hutchison 34 WHY PEOPLE ARE RELIGIOUS A STUDY IN RELIGIOUS MOTIVATION Charles S. Braden 38 SPENER AND THE THEOLOGY OF PIETISM William Cardwell Prout 46 A FRESHMAN COURSE IN RELIGION Dwight M. Beck 50 THE MOST STORIED RIVER IN THE WORLD (REVIEW-ARTICLE) W. C. Lowdermilk 53 BOOK REVIEWS: GIFFORD, WILLIAM ALVA, THE STORY OF THE FAITH 55 By Roland H. Bainton Scon, C. ANDERSON, ROMANISM AND THE GOSPEL 56 By Morton S. Enslin HEDLEY, GEORGE, THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IN AMERICA 57 By Dwight Marion Beck MINEAR, PAUL S., EYES OF FAITH 59 By John W. Flight AKHILANANDA, SWAMI, HINDU PSYCHOLOGY: ITS MEANING FOR THE WEST 60 By Paul E. Johnson FAUS, ARTHUR W., THE GENIUS OF THE PROPHETS 61 By John Gardner RIFE, JOHN MERLE, A BEGINNING GREEK BOOK 61 By P. W. Gingrich BROWN, WILLIAM ADAMS, TOWARD A UNITED CHURCH 62 By John Gardner VAN KIRK, WALTER W., A CHRISTIAN GLOBAL STRATEGY 62 By Henry P. VanDusen MACARTNEY, CLARENCE, PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES 63 LOWRIE, WALTER, MINISTERS OF CHRIST 64 MACCREGOR, W. M., THE MAKING OF A MINISTER 64 By John Gardner Notice to Subscribers The Journal will in the future be published in January, April, July, and October rather than in February, May, August, and November. The current issue is dated January, 1947, although the actual change to the new schedule will take effect with the April number. The Editor.

6 THE JOURNAL OF BIBLE AND RELIGION EDITOR: CARL E. PURINTON, Boston University ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JOHN W. FLIGHT, Haverford College RESEARCH EDITOR: J. PAUL WILLIAMS, Mount Holyoke College EDITOR EMERITUS: ISMAR J. PERITZ, Syracuse University MARY E. AVDBEWS, Goucher College JOHN W. BAILEY, Berkeley Baptist Divinity School EDNA M. BAXTER, Hartford Seminary Foundation JOHN W. BOWMAN, San Francisco Theological Seminary CHARLES S. BRADEN, Northwestern University EDITORIAL BOARD MURIEL S. CUBTIS, Wellesley College GEORGE DAHL, Yale University J. PHILIP HYATT, Vanderbilt University ALBION ROY KINO, Cornell College ELMER W. K. MOULD, Elmira College ROBERT H. PFEIFPER, Harvard University OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR 1947 President: ROLLAND E. WOLFE, Western Reserve University Vice-President: JOHN A. HUTCHISON, The College of Wooster Recording Secretary: MARY F. THELEN, Hollins College Treasurer: Louis W. NORRIS, DePauw University President: HORACE T. HOUP, Ohio University Vice-President: EDWARD P. BLAIR, Garrett Biblical Institute Secretary: WILLIAM E. HUNTER, 214 West 52d Street, Chicago, 111. MID-WESTERN BRANCH Associates in Council: MARY E. ANDREWS, Goucher College, 1947; AMOS N. WILDER, Chicago Theological Seminary, ; S. VERNON MCCASLAND, The University of Virginia, Corresponding Secretary and Program Chairman: JANNETTE E. NEWHALL, Andover Hall, Francis Avenue, Cambridge 38, Mass. Program Chairman: LOWELL B. HAZZARD, Illinois Wesleyan University Associates in Council: PAUL E. DAVIES, MC- Cormick Seminary, 1947; CHARLES F. KBAFT, DePauw University, ; NORMAN B. JOHNSON, Knox College,