Reviews

Book Reviews in this article:
The Psychology of Religion . by J oseph F. B yrnes
L'Oeuvre Scientifique (Scientific Writings) . By P ierre T eilhard de C hardin . Edited by N icole and K arl S chmitz -M oormann
One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology . by J ohn P olkinghorne
Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature . by J ohn C ar -M ody .
God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God . by J urgen M oltmann .     

Unity,ontology, and the divine mind

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - In his landmark book on philosophical theology, Saving God: Religion After Idolatry, Mark Johnston develops a panentheistic metaphysic of the...     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Science and Theology: An Introduction, by JohnPolkinghorne Genesis, Genes, and God: Values and Their Origins in Naturaland Human History, by Holmes Rolston, III Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom, by Ted Peters Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science, by Connie Barlow Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion , by John Brooke and GeoffreyCantor Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits ofHuman Nature, Edited by Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy, and H.Newton Malony The Turn of the Millennium: An Agenda for Christian Religion in an Age of Science, by Jeffrey G. Sobosan God without the Supernatural: A Defense of Scientific Theism, by Peter Forrest Religion and Creation, by Keith Ward     

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Rottschaefer, William A. The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
Mccutcheon, Russell T. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Drengson, Alan The Practice of Technology: Exploring Technology,Ecophilosophy, and Spiritual Disciplines for Vital Links
Burrell, David B. and Mcginn, Bernard (eds.) God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium     

Recent Books on ≡ Theology, Science and Religion

Books reviewed in this article:
Keith Ward, God, Faith & the New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science.
Fraser Watts ed, Science Meets Faith: Theology and Science in Conversation.
Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues.
Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science.     

REVIEWS

Models for Scripture , John Goldingay, Paternoster Critical Theology , Gareth Jones Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture , William C. Placher, Westminster/John Knox The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman's God in Us , Richard Harries One Faith? Non-realism and the World of Faiths , David A. Hart European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 , Hugh McLeod (ed.) Religion in Industrial Society: Oldham and Saddleworth 1740–1865 , Mark Smith Hear Our Voice: Women Rabbis Tell Their Stories , Sybil Sheridan (ed.) Rethinking Islam , Mohammed Arkoun Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology , Stephen Pattison Theology, Ideology and Liberation , Peter Scott A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles , Stanley K. Stowers, God in Christian Perspective , George Newlands, T. & T. Clark Learning to Speak: The Church's Voice in Public Affairs , Keith Clements, T. & T. Clark The Ethics of IVF , Anthony Dyson, Mowbray The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS , Simon Garfield Sophie's World , Jostein Gaarder The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief , George M. Marsden The Last Philosophy , Don Cupitt The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God , Clark Pinnock and others, Paternoster Christianity without Absolutes , Reinhold Bernhardt     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Saving and Secular Faith: An Invitation to Systematic Theology , by B. A. Gerrish.
Jesus is My Uncle , by Luis G. Pedraja.
The Human Person in Science and Theology , edited by Niels HenrikGregersen, Willem B. Drees and Ulf Görman.
Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology , by Dwight N. Hopkins.
Religion and Popular Culture in America , edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan.
God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion , by Christopher Southgate.     

God’s omnipresence in the world: on possible meanings of ‘en’ in panentheism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Panenetheism is the claim that God and the cosmos are intimately inter-related, with the cosmos being in God and God being in the cosmos. What...     

Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Within contemporary philosophy of religion there are three main ways in which God is conceptualised in relation to personhood: The first two of...     

THE WILD AND CROOKED TREE: BARTH, FISH, AND INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES

God the Spirit by Michael Welker
Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936 by Bruce L. McCormack
God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism by Leszek Kolakowski
The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida, trans. David Wills
Desiring Theology by Charles E. Winquist
Postmodern Theologies. The Challenge of Religious Diversity by Terrence W. Tilley, with others     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Keith Ward, God: A Guide for the Perplexed
A. James Reimer, Paul Tillich: Theologian of Nature, Culture, and Politics
Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts and the End of Slavery
Kenneth N. Stevenson, Abba Father: Understanding and Using the Lord's Prayer
Kenneth N. Stevenson, The Lord's Prayer: A Text Tradition
Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers: The Religious Right in American Politics
Michael Corbett and Julia Mitchell Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Faith, Will and Grammar by Heikki Kirjavainen, Risto Saarinen and Reijo Työrinoja,
The Logic of God Incarnate by Thomas V. Morris,
The Mysteries of Religion by Stephen R. L. Clark,
Reason and Religion: Essays in Philosophical Theology by Anthony Kenny,
Religions Imagination edited by James P. Mackey,
God and the New Biology by Arthur Peacocke, J. M. Dent & Sons,
Science and Creation by John Polkinghorne, SPCK,     

Evil and divine sovereignty

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Since at least the tenth century, some theists have argued that God’s sovereignty as creator exempts God from moral evaluation, and so any...     

Fluctuating maximal God

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not...     

The incoherence of divine possibility constructivism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Before God created did God have ideas in mind for particular things, kinds of things, properties of things, particular events, and laws of nature?...     

Beliefs About God and Mental Health Among American Adults

This study examines the association between beliefs about God and psychiatric symptoms in the context of Evolutionary Threat Assessment System Theory, using data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey of US Adults (N = 1,426). Three beliefs about God were tested separately in ordinary least squares regression models to predict five classes of psychiatric symptoms: general anxiety, social anxiety, paranoia, obsession, and compulsion. Belief in a punitive God was positively associated with four psychiatric symptoms, while belief in a benevolent God was negatively associated with four psychiatric symptoms, controlling for demographic characteristics, religiousness, and strength of belief in God. Belief in a deistic God and one’s overall belief in God were not significantly related to any psychiatric symptoms.     

How to prove the existence of God: an argument for conjoined panentheism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - This article offers an argument for a form of panentheism in which the divine is conceived as both ‘God the World’ and ‘God the...     

Are the psychophysical laws fine-tuned?

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Neil Sinhababu (Am Philos Q 54(1):89–98, 2017) has recently argued against the fine-tuning argument for God. They claim that the question of...     

Book Reviews

Books reviwed:
Steve Bruce, God is Dead: Secularization in the West
Sarah Coakley, Powers And Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender
Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas and David Martin, Peter Berger and the Study Of Religion
Ted Gerard Jelen and Clyde Wilcox, Religion And Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Biblical Interpretation, by Robert Morgan with John Barton
Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical Method, by Charles Creegan
The Possibility of an All-knowing God, by Jonathan Kvanvig, Macmillan
The Myth of Christian Uniqueness, Edited by John Hick and Paul F. Knitter