REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission , Harvey Whitehouse, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0615‐0), pp. xiii + 191, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion , Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Sheila Greeve Davaney (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97066‐0), pp. iv + 236, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy , Robert Eisen, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐517153‐5), pp. xii + 324, Hb £30
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Abilene Christian University With Reverence for the Word, Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam , Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering (eds), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513727‐2), pp. xvii + 488, Hb £55
Reviewed by David Thomas
University of Birmingham Africa and the Bible , Edwin M. Yamauchi, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2686‐5), pp. 297, Hb $26.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac , Edward Kessler, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐83542‐9), pp. xii + 222, Hb £45
Reviewed by Mark Newby
Birmingham The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well‐Ordered Society , Paul Grimley Kuntz, Eerdmans 2004 (0 8028 2660 1), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £17.99/$24
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation , Mary Douglas, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926523‐2), pp. vi + 211, Hb £45
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Waiting for Josiah: The Judges , Philippe Guillaume, JSOTS Series 385, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6988‐4), pp. xiii +325, Hb £75
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , Jane Schaberg, Alice Bach, Esther Fuchs (eds), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐1582‐2), pp. x + 254, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Jesus and Gospel , Graham Stanton, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00802‐6), pp. xii + 239, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Philip Seddon
University of Birmingham The Byzantine Christ : Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor , Demetrios Bathrellos, Oxford University Press, 2004 (0‐19‐925864‐3), pp. xii + 228, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love : Divine Commands and Moral Obligations , C. Stephen Evans, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927217‐4), pp. x + 366 Hb £55
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield The Kingdom is Always but Coming : A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch , Christopher H. Evans, Library of Religious Autobiography Series, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4736‐6), pp. xxx + 348 Pb £19.99/$25
Reviewed by David True
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion : Michoacan, 1927–29 , Matthew Butler, A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2004 (0‐19‐72698‐8), pp. xx + 251, Hb £40
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York Karl Barth : Theologian of Christian Witness , Joseph L. Mangina, Great Theologians, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0458‐6), pp. xiv + 208, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit , Elizabeth Teresa Groppe, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516642‐6), pp. viii + 262, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melborne) Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation , Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Studies in Church History Volume 40, Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell and Brewer 2004 (0‐9529733‐9‐1), pp. xiv + 384, Hb £45/$75
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Queen's College, Birmingham Sienna, Civil Religion and the Sienese , Gerald Parsons, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐1516‐2), pp. xx + 197, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas , Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐514918‐1), pp. xiii + 338, Hb £45
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century , Mark Sedgwick, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐515297‐2), pp. xiv + 370, Hb £25
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham An Introduction to Third World Theologies , John Parratt (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐79739‐X), pp vii + 189, Pb £16.99/$ 25.99
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics , Samuel Wells, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐071‐1), pp. 236, Pb £14.99/$19.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective , David Burrell, Challenges in Contemporary Theology, Blackwell 2004 (Pb 1‐4051‐2171‐8, Hb 1‐4051‐2170‐X), pp. xxi + 266, Pb £19.99/Hb £60
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication , Rachel Muers, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1900‐4), pp. viii + 238, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Esther Reed
University of St Andrews Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith , Richard Lennan, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927146‐1), pp. 269, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post‐ Christian Culture , Paul Avis, T. & T. Clark 2003 (0‐567‐08968‐1), pp. xii + 227, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto , Ivan Petrella, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4051‐5), pp. ix + 186, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity , Paul J. Griffiths, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐086‐X), pp. 254, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture , T.J. Gorringe, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4032‐9), pp. vi + 283, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion , Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐30209‐9), pp. xii + 194, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Theological Aesthetics: A Reader , Gesa E. Thiessen (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02947‐3), pp. xvi + 400, Pb £25
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida , John Schad, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐020‐3), pp. vii + 177, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience , James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3354‐3), pp. 285, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin L. Barrett, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0667‐3), pp. ix + 140, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Is God a Scientist? A Dialogue between Science and Religion , Robert Crawford, Palgrave Macmillan 2005 (1‐4039‐1688‐8), pp. vii + 179, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective , Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2695‐4), pp. x + 339, Pb £19.99/$32
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Human Rights and the Image of God , Roger Ruston, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02959‐7), pp. vii + 312, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Parish – People, Place and Ministry: A Theological and Practical Exploration , Malcolm Torry (ed.), Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐586‐X), pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Country Vicar: Reshaping Rural Ministry , David Osborne, Darton Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52546‐3), pp. vii + 215, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist , Richard Giles, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐590‐8), pp. xiv + 258, Pb £20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Paganism Reader , Chas S. Clifton and Graham Harvey (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30353‐2), pp. xi + 387, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury Give Me That Online Religion , Brenda Brasher, Rutgers University Press 2004 (0‐8135‐3436‐4), pp. xiv + 203, Pb $21.95
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief , Richard C. Prust, Rodopi 2004 (90‐420‐1088‐6), pp. 130, Pb €30/$39
Reviewed by William Schweitzer
University of Edinburgh God, Evil, and Ethics. A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion , Eric v.d. Luft, Gegensatz Press 2004 (0‐9655179‐1‐8), pp. viii + 264, Pb $14.95
Reviewed by Russell Re Manning
University of Cambridge Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales. Essays in Honour of Gareth Lloyd Jones , Robert Pope (ed.), Gracewing 2003 2003 (0‐85244‐401‐X), pp. xviii + 278, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Dr. Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch , Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2679‐2), pp. x + 228, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel , William M. Schniedewind, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82946‐1), pp. xiii + 257, Hb £25/$28
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence , Martin Laird, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926799‐5), pp. xii + 240, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Martin Heale, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22, The Boydell Press 2004 (1‐84383‐054X), pp. xvii + pp. 378, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Carolyn Muessig
University of Bristol Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe , Liz Herbert McAvoy, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5, D.S. Brewer 2004 (1‐84384‐008‐1), pp. ix + 276, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Kevin Magill
University of Bristol Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein , Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (eds), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02923‐6), pp. xiv + 286, Pb £35
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology , Gareth Jones (ed.), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐20685‐X), pp. xx + 586, Hb £85/$134.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures , Grace Davie, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (eds), Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3010‐2), pp. xii + 253, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Hugh McLeod
University of Birmingham Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of the Saints , Elizabeth A. Johnson, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1473‐7) pp. xvii + 379, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical , John Haldane, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐20703‐7), pp. xv + 288, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute, Melbourne Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa , Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Hurst and Company 2004 (1‐85065‐734‐3), vii +263, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire , Michael Northcott, I.B. Tauris 2004 (1‐85043‐478‐6), pp. 200, Hb £19.50
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Volume One: Foundations of Violence , Grace M. Jantzen, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐29033‐3), pp. x + 390, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace , Simon Fisher, Quaker Books, 2004 (0‐85245‐357‐4), pp. 123, Pb £9.00
Reviewed by K. Alan Jung
Biola University Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens , Bernd Wannenwetsch, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925387‐0), pp. xiv + 402, Hb £75
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice , Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐3156‐7, Pb 0‐7546‐3157‐5), pp. 201 + xii, Hb £47.50/Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course, Durham Free Time: Towards a Theology of Leisure , Graham Neville, University of Birmingham Press 2004 (1‐902459‐21‐0), pp. viii + 162, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking , Paul D. Janz, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82241‐6), pp. xi + 232, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Grassroots Spirituality: What It Is, Why It Is Here, Where It Is Going , Robert Forman, Imprint Academic 2004 (0‐907845‐681), pp. vii + 231, Pb £14.95?$29.90
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Biblical and Near Eastern Essays – Studies in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart , Carmel McCarthy and John F. Healey (eds.), JSOTS Series 375, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6690‐7), pp. xix + 376, Hb £75
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation , Gerrit Scott Dawson, T&T Clark, 2004 (0‐567‐08221‐0), pp. xiii + 255, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church , Edward Adams and David G. Horrell (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0‐664‐22478‐4), pp. xvi + 332, Pb $39.95
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism , James F. Keenan, SJ, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 (ISBN 0‐7425‐3220‐8), pp. 118, pb $55.00
Reviewed by Bernadette McNary‐Zak
Rhodes College The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Post‐modern Faith In Honor of James H. Olthuis , James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, editors, Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, 2004, 272 pp. $34.99
Reviewed by Christopher Daniel‐Smith
Loyola Marymount University Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies: A Reader , Edited by William K. Kay and Anne Dyer, SCM Press 2004 (ISBN 0‐334‐02940‐6), pp. xxxiii + 332, Pb £25.00
Reviewed by Robert Cornwall
Santa Barbara, CA Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality , Andrew W. Hass, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0868‐9), pp. xii + 184, Hb £47.50/$94.95
Reviewed by Brannon Hancock
University of Glasgow Modern Judaism. An Oxford Guide , Edited by Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud‐Kandel, Oxford University Press 2005 (ISBN 0‐19‐926287‐X), pp. ix + 459, Pb £22.95
Reviewed by Silviu Bunta
Marquette University An Introduction to Christianity , Linda Woodhead, Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐45445‐X, Pb 0‐521‐78655‐X,), pp. viii + 439, Hb £45, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael A. Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians , Frederick J. Long, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 131, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐84233‐6), pp. xix + 291, Hb £50/$80
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Mystery of Mary , Paul Haffner, Gracewing/Hillenbrand Books 2004 (UK 0‐85244‐650‐0; US 1‐59525‐008‐5), pp. xiv + 285, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life , Shirley du Boulay, DLT 2004 (0‐232‐52589‐7), pp. xi + 292, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire A Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans : Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350–1440 , James A. Clark, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, ISBN 0‐19‐927595‐5, pp. xi + 316, Hb £55.00
Reviewed by David Lohr
Hickory, North Carolina The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin , Donald McKim (ed), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐01672‐X), pp. xvii + 352, Pb £17.99/$24.99
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, Michigan In Search of the Catholic Spirit: Methodists and Roman Catholics in dialogue , David M. Chapman, Epworth Press 2004 (0‐7162‐0588‐2), pp. xviii + 312, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester le Street, County Durham King, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement , Robert Sherman, Theology for the Twenty‐first Century, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐02560‐8) xi + 291, Pb £22
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity , Carl Raschke, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2751‐9), pp. 215, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Borden Painter
Trinity College (Connecticut) A.J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist , Religion in America Series, R.G. Robins, New York, Oxford University P 2004 (0‐19‐516591‐8), pp. x + 316, Hb £27.50/$45.00
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills Jr.
Florida State University Emerging Evangelism , John Finney, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004 (0‐232‐52496‐3), pp. 178, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California Tractarians and the ‘Condition of England’: The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement , S.A. Skinner, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927323‐5), pp. x + 330, Hb £55
Reviewed by Denis Paz
University of North Texas A Different World Is Possible , Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino, and Felix Wilfred, eds., London: SCM Press, 2004 (0‐334‐03081‐1), pp. 140, Pb £10.50
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant , Edwin Bryant and Maria Ekstrand (eds), Columbia UP 2004 (0 231 12256 X), pp. 448, Pb. $49.50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers Association Rethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction , Will Deming, Oxford University Press, 2005, (ISBN 0‐19‐516981‐6), pp. xi + 157, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Jane Compson
University of Central Florida Church, State and Civil Society , David Fergusson, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐82239‐4, Pb 0‐521‐52959‐X), pp. vii + 213, Hb £40/$70, Pb £16.99/ $24.99
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality , Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐1958‐6, Pb 1‐4051‐12959‐4), pp. xii + 204, Hb £50, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Transformative Imagination: Rethinking Intercultural Theology , George Newlands, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3827‐8), pp. ix + 195, Hb £45
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire , Brian Stanley (ed), Studies in the History of Christian Missions, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2116‐2), pp. 313, Hb £32.99/$45
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School Food for the Soul , Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro (eds.), Seabury Books 2004 (ISBN 1‐59627‐001‐2), pp. xxv + 242, Pb $18.00
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University Gay Unions In the Light of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason , Gray Temple, Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐457‐4), pp. 174, Pb $20.00
Reviewed by Randall Woodard
Silver Spring, MD A Brief History of Death , Douglas J. Davies, Blackwell 2005 (Pb 1‐4051‐0183‐0, Hb 1‐4051‐0182‐2), pp. xi + 184, Pb £12.99, Hb £40
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham A Fitting End: Making the Most of a Funeral , Hugh James, Canterbury Press Norwich 2004 (ISBN 1‐85311‐602‐5), pp. xi + 179, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago My Life and My Death: A Priest Confronts His Cancer , Jeffrey T. Simmons, New York: Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐445‐0), pp. 17 + 140, pb $14.00
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason , Kim Paffenroth, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1603‐9), pp. xvi + 160, Hb £22
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland. New Zealand Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics , S. Brent Plate, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐96992‐1), pp. xv + 171, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Gaye Ortiz
Augusta State University Science and Theology since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding , Peter Barrett, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08970‐3), pp. 208, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience , Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐13204‐2), pp. vii + 138, Hb £22.50/$34.50
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , William James, Centenary Edition, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27809‐0), pp. lxiii + 415, Hb £16.99/$18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Discovering Girard , Michael Kirwan, Darton, Longman, and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52526‐9), pp. 137, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Theory For Religious Studies , William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96639‐6), pp. xv + 168, Pb £10.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury René Girard: Violence and Mimesis , Chris Fleming, Key Contemporary Thinkers, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2948‐2), pp. xii + 211, Pb £15.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought , Margaret R. Miles, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐0845‐2, Pb 1‐4051‐0846‐0), pp. xxiv + 435, Hb £60/Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire , Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐5215‐6090‐X, Pb 0‐5215‐6822‐6), pp. xviii + 312, Hb £50/Pb £19.95
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris , Barbara B. Diefendorf, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐509582‐0), pp. ix + 340, Hb £36.50
Reviewed by Stephen Morris
New York Calvin's Christology , Stephen Edmondson, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54154‐9), pp. xiv + 248, Hb $70/Pb $25.99
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH Honest to God: 40 Years On , Colin Slee (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02939‐2), pp. xiv + 160, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions , George Sumner, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2498‐6), pp. vi + 219, Hb £17.95/$26
Reviewed by Revd Barry Linney
Cherry Hinton St. Andrew, Cambridge Bound to Be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism Reinhard Hütter, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2750‐0), pp. x + 313, Pb £18.99/$28
Reviewed by Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition , Christopher J. Ellis, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02967‐8), pp. viii + 327, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, County Durham Mission Implausible: Restoring Credibility to the Church , Duncan McLaren, Paternoster Press 2004 (1‐8422‐7295‐0), pp. 214, Hb £15.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet , Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97022‐9), pp. vii + 279, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury The Way it Was: The Narrative of the Birth of Jesus , Matthew Byrne, Columba Press 2004 (1‐85607‐463‐3), pp. 178, Pb £7.99/€11.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium , Peter Coleman, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02956‐2), pp. xii + 234, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Randall Jay Woodard
Silver Spring, Maryland Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalization , Mary C. Grey, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02928‐7), pp. xii + 260, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life , William Schweiker and Charles T. Mathewes (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐24846), pp. ix + 242, Pb £25.99/ $36
Reviewed by Richard Nagle
Heythrop College, London A Time of Waiting: Images and Insights , Anne Thurston, Columba 2004 (1‐85607‐471‐4), pp. 93, Pb £6.99/€ 9.99 The Rosary in Space and Time , Ruth Rees, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐610‐1), pp. xiv + 140, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Understanding Religious Sacrifice: A Reader , Jeffrey Carter (ed), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐4880‐1), pp. xi + 467, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Simon J. Taylor
Bristol Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World , Beverley Milton‐Edwards, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2712‐9), pp. viii + 240, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Jorgen Nielsen
University of Birmingham The Jewish‐Christian Schism Revisited , John Howard Yoder, Michael G. Cartwright and Peter Ochs (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02904‐X), pp. vii + 290, Pb £25
Reviewed by Brett Dewey
Baylor University, Texas Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture – Past and Present , John M. Court (ed.), T & T Clark International 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6968‐X), pp. xii + 334, Hb £75
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Judges and Ruth , Victor H. Matthews, The New Cambridge Bible Commentary, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00066‐1), pp. xxi + 270, Pb, £13.99, Hb £40
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham The Ancient Synagogue From Its Origins until 200 C.E.: Papers Presented at an International Conference at Lund University, October 14–17, 2001 , Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm (eds), Almqvist & Wiksell International 2003 (91‐22‐02028‐4), pp. xviii + 574, Pb
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities , Bruce W. Winter, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4971‐7), pp. xvii + 236, Pb £18.99/$26
Reviewed by Bernadette McNary‐Zak
Rhodes College, Memphis Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and his Letters , Michael J. Gorman, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐3934‐7), pp. xiii + 610, Pb £27.99
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Hull John , Mark Edwards, Blackwell Bible Commentaries, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 0‐631‐22906‐X, Pb 0‐631‐22907‐8), pp. xiv + 242, Hb £60/Pb £15.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries , Peter Lampe, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8050‐1), pp. xvii + 525, Hb £40
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Jesus in the Manichaean Writings , Majella Franzmann, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8964‐9), pp. xiv + 168, Hb £60
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham A Mind Intent on God. The Prayers and Spiritual Writings of Alcuin: An Anthology , Douglas Dales, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐570‐3), pp. xx + 102, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life , Lawrence S. Cunningham, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2762‐4), pp. xii + 160, Pb £9.99/$14
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand A Companion to the Reformation World , R. Po‐chia Hsia (ed.), Blackwell Publishing 2004 (0‐661‐22017‐8), pp. xix + 572, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola , Michael Ivens SJ, Translator, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐404‐4), pp. xii + 112, Hb £7.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association Shrines of Our Lady in England , Anne Vail, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐603‐9), pp. ix + 246, Hb £9.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham The Evolution of the English Churches 1500–2000 , Doreen Rosman, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐521‐64205‐1, Pb 0‐521‐64556‐5), pp. xiv + 399, Hb £50, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by J.N. Morris
Trinity Hall, Cambridge Public Faith? The State of Religious Belief and Practice in Britain , Paul Avis (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05531‐9), pp. xiii + 145, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Anthony Cane
Diocese of Chichester Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) , Marjorie Post Abbot, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion, John William Oliver Jr., Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements, No. 44, Scarecrow Press 2003 (0‐8108‐4483‐4‐354‐X), pp. xxxii + 432, Hb $80.00,
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Bethel University, Minnesota The Shepherding Movement: Controversy and Charismatic Ecclesiology , S. David Moore, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 27, T & T Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐7160‐9), pp. x + 230, Pb £12.99/$19.95
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University Theology: The Basics , Alister E. McGrath, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1425‐8), pp. xxv + 162, Pb £12.99/$17.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners , Marguerite Shuster, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0994‐4), pp. xii + 280, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI The Ecumenical Future , Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), Eerdmans 2004 90‐8028‐2671‐7), pp. viii + 237, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life , Douglas J. Schuurman, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0137‐4), pp. xiv + 190, Pb £16.99/$20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Memory and Liturgy: The Place of Memory in the Composition and Practice of Liturgy , Peter Atkins, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0870‐0), pp. xvii + 155, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham On Prayer , Marcel Mauss, edited and with an introduction by W.S.F. Pickering, translated Susan Leslie, Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books 2004 (1‐57181‐633‐X), pp. xi + 158, Pb £17/$25
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Discerning the Spirits: A Guide to Thinking about Christian Worship Today , Cornelius Plantinga Jr. and Sue A. Rozeboom, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐3999‐1), pp. xv + 170, Pb £12.99/$18
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham Whirlwind of Life: The Story of Emilia Fogelklou , Malin Bergman Andrews, Quaker Books 2004 (0‐85245‐354‐X), pp. 206, Pb £9.50
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Bethel University, Minnesota This Is Who I Am: Listening with Older Friends , Volume 9 of the Eldership and Oversight Handbooks, Quaker Books 2003 (0‐85245‐351‐5), pp. 57, Pb £4
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Contemporary Experiences of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting, Role Over? National Lottery Funding and the Quaker Testimony against Gambling , Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Quaker Books 2004 (0‐85245‐358‐2), pp. vi + 107, Pb £6
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association The God You Have: Politics, Religion and the First Commandment , Patrick D. Miller, Fortress Press 2004 (0‐8006‐3662‐7), pp. x + 81, Pb $6
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association Urban Ministry and the Kingdom of God , Laurie Green, SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05530‐0), pp. ix + 182, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Facing the City : Urban Mission in the 21^st Century , Rod Garner, Epworth 2004 (0‐7162‐0580‐7), pp. xv + 203, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Ethics of Nature , Celia E. Deane‐Drummond, Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐22938‐8), pp. xiv + 256, Pb £19.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand The Myths of Time : From Saint Augustine to American Beauty , Hugh Rayment‐Pickard, Dartman, Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52493‐9) pp. xv + 144, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Representing Religion in World Cinema : Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making , S. Brent Plate (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (1‐4039‐6051‐8), pp. 272, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward , T.W. Bartel (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05474‐6), pp. xv +208, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris
University of Birmingham One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological and Philosophical Perspectives , Christine Helmer and Christof Landmesser (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925863‐5), pp. xi + 249, Hb £50
Reviewed by Walter Moberly
University of Durham A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic , Kenneth Cragg, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐012‐2), pp. xv + 145, Pb £12.95
Reviewed by Douglas Pratt
University of Waikato, New Zealand Fifty Key Christian Thinkers , Peter McEnhill and George Newlands, Routledge Key Guides, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐17050‐8), pp. xi + 297, £12.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham Athanasius , Khaled Anatolios, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐0202‐7), pp. viii + 293, Hb £50 Tertullian , Geoffrey D. Dunn, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐8231‐4), pp. viii + 200, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century , Beth Kreitzer, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516654‐X), pp. xi + 229, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 , Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf (eds), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐81493‐6) pp. ix + 234, Hb £40
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century , Alan P.F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Paternoster Press 2003 (1‐84227‐221‐7) pp. x + 398, Pb £24.99/$39.99
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture , Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Religion and American Culture Series, Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐12640‐9), pp. xxiv + 326, Hb £24.50/$35
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar , Edward T. Oakes SJ and David Moss (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐89147‐7), pp. xviii + 282, Pb £16.99/$25.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Paths to Unity: Explorations in Ecumenical Method , Paul Avis (ed.), Church House Publishing 2004 (0‐7151‐5768‐X), pp. viii + 152, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham In the End – the Beginning: The Life of Hope , Jürgen Moltmann, SCM / Fortress 2004 (0‐8006‐3656‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £14.99/$17
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh From Cells to Souls – and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature , Malcolm Jeeves (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0985‐5), pp. xiv + 252, Pb $29
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago Seeking God In All Things: Theology and Spiritual Direction , William Reiser, Liturgical Press 2004 (0‐8146‐5166‐6), xii + 172, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by Revd Barry J. Linney
Cherry Hinton, St. Andrew’s, Cambridge Sounding the Silence , John Skinner, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐589‐X), pp. xiv + 120, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham     

SHORT NOTICES

Book reviewed: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD‐ROM , John J. Collins, Fortress Press, 2004, (0‐8006‐2991‐4), pp. ix + 6 13, Pb $49.00
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples , Ilan Pappe, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐55632‐5), pp. xxi + 333, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Vaughan S Roberts
Warwick Job's God , Ellen van Wolde (ed.), Concilium 2004/4, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐03080‐3), pp. 141, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Die Rezeption des Propheten Ezechiel in der Offenbarung des Johannes , B. Kowalski, Stuttgarter Biblische Beiträge 32, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk 2004 (3‐460‐00521‐1), pp. 529, c40.90
Reviewed by Steve Moyise
University College Chichester Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco‐Roman World , Judith M. Lieu, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926289‐6), pp. x + 370, Hb £55
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham Exploring New Testament Greek , Peter Kevern and Paula Gooder, SCM‐Canterbury Press, LTD 2004, London, 0‐334‐029422, pp. 236, £10.99
Reviewed by Doreen McFarlane
Hartford Seminary Communio Sanctorum: The Church as the Communion of Saints. Bilateral Working Group of the German National Bishops’ Conference and the Church Leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Translated by Mark W. Jeske, Michael Root, and Daniel R. Smith. Edited by Michael Root. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004. 0‐8146‐2566‐5 (pb.) xviii + 91. $14.95.
Reviewed by David M. Whitford
Claflin University Unwelcome Good News: Providence in Human Life , Andrew P. Porter, Wipf & Stock Publishers 2004 (ISBN 1‐59244‐938‐7), pp. viii + 149, pb $19.00
Reviewed by Sarah K. Pinnock
Trinity University, Town Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting , Heidi J. Hornik and Mikael C. Parsons, Trinity Press International 2004, A Continuum Imprint (1‐56338‐405‐1), pp. ix + 164, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Theology of Physics , Dr. George Richter, Richter – et al. 2004, (0‐9746720‐0‐9), pp. 184.
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy     

Reviews

Myth and History in the Bible , Giovanni Garbini, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6260‐X), pp. viii + 149, Hb £60 Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity , Douglas Harink, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐041‐X), pp. 283, Pb $23.99 The Church in Antioch in the First Century CE: Communion and Conflict , Michelle T. Slee, JSNTS Series 244, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐826‐46683‐4), pp. xiii + 214, Hb £60 The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient Novel: Rewriting the Past , Christine M. Thomas, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐512507‐X), pp. xiii + 186, Hb £35 East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church. From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence , Henry Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐926457‐0), pp. x + 306, Hb £60 Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life , Nicholas M. Healy, Great Theologians Series, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐1471‐9, Pb 0‐7546‐1472‐7), pp. xiv + 168, Hb £47.50, Pb £16.99 Anglicans and Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 1559–1725 , Judith Pinnington, Forward by Rowan Williams, Introduction by Kallistos Ware, Gracewing 2003 (0‐8006‐3127‐7), pp. xxx +260, Pb £14.99 Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac , Jerome I. Gellman, Ashgate 2003 (0 7546 1679 7), pp. vii + 125, Pb £16.99 Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888–1945 , Daisy L. Machado, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐5152239), pp. xiii + 151, Hb £25/$39.95 Jews and Christians: People of God , Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0507‐8), pp. ix + 198, Pb £12.99/$18 John Hick: An Autobiography , John Hick, Oneworld Publications 2003 (1‐85168‐312‐7), pp. viii + 328, Hb £19.99/$29.95 Rowan Williams: An Introduction , Rupert Shortt, DLT 2003 (0‐232‐52490‐4), pp. x + 133, Pb £7.95 Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity , Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald and Jeremy Caddick (eds), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6699‐0), pp. xiii + 205, £14.99 Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 , Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia (eds), Duke University Press 2003 (0‐8223‐3221‐3), pp. viii + 226, Pb £16.95 Liturgy in a Postmodern World , Keith Pecklers SJ (ed.), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6412‐2). pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99 The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands on Hermeneutics , Jeffrey F. Keuss (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0767‐4), pp. vii + 142, Hb £40 Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments , Ted Peters, Robert John Russell and Michael Welker (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐0519‐1), pp. xvii + 326, Pb £27.99/$39 Faith and Philosophy: The Historical Impact , D.G. Leahy, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3120‐6), pp. xiii + 180, Pb £16.99 God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science , Neil A. Manson (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐26344‐1), pp. xvi + 376, Pb £15.99 Religious Education between Modernization and Globalization: New Perspectives on the United States and Germany , Richard R. Osmer and Friedrich Schweitzer, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1284‐8), pp. xix + 319, Pb £28.99/$40 Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology , Albert Borgmann, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐058‐4), pp. 144, Pb $14.99 Christian Microenterprise Development: An Introduction , David Bussau and Russell Mask, Regnum 2003 (1‐870345‐28‐2), pp. xiii + 142, Pb £9.99 Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader , Lorne L. Dawson (ed.), Blackwell 2003 (1‐4051‐0180‐6), pp. viii + 297, Pb £17.99/$29.95 Hb £55/$64.95     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics , John Rogerson, T&T Clark International 2004 (0‐567‐08259‐8), xii + 153 pp., pb £25
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Oasis of Wisdom: The Worlds of the Desert Fathers and Mothers , David G.R. Keller, Liturgical Press 2005 (0‐8146‐3034‐0), xxii + 181 pp., pb £9.24/$16.95
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom
The John Leland Center for Theological Studies The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600 , Colin Morris, Oxford University Press 2005 (0‐19‐826928‐5), xxii + 427 pp., hb £55/$99
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom
The John Leland Center for Theological Studies A Short Course in Christian Doctrine , George Pattison, SCM Press 2005 (0‐334‐02978‐3), 180 pp., pb $19
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University West The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: A Search for an Acceptable Notion of Sacrifice , Michael McGuckian, SJ, Gracewing 2005 (0‐85244‐634‐9), x + 134 pp., pb £7.99
Reviewed by Brannon Hancock
University of Glasgow The Art of God: The Making of Christians and the Meaning of Worship , Christopher Irvine, SPCK 2005 (0‐281‐05623‐3), xix + 151 pp., pb £14.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire One with God: Salvation as Deification and Justification , Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen, Liturgical Press 2004 (0‐8146‐2971‐7), xi + 144 pp., pb $14.95
Reviewed by David M. Whitford
United Theological Seminary The Captivation of the Will: Luther vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage , Gerhard O. Forde, Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2005 (0‐8028‐2906‐6), xviii + 118 pp., pb $20
Reviewed by Ben Dickerson
Veritas Preparatory Academy God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas , L. Gregory Jones, Reinhard Hütter, and C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell (eds), Brazos 2005 (1‐58743‐151‐3), 336 pp., hb $39.99
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
Selwyn College, Cambridge The Science of God. An Introduction to Scientific Theology , Alister McGrath, T&T Clark 2004 (0‐56708‐353‐5), xiv + 271 pp., pb $16.50
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One's Practices , Daniel Rynhold, Oxford University Press 2005 (0‐19‐927486‐X), 262 pp., hb £50
Reviewed by Chris Barrigar
Anglican Diocese of Montreal The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech , Catherine Madsen, The Davies Group 2005 (1888570849), 204 pp., pb $24
Reviewed by David R. Blumenthal
Emory University Islam and Liberty: The Historical Misunderstanding , Mohamed Charfi, Zed Books 2005 (1‐84277‐511‐1), 1 + 186 pp., pb $25
Reviewed by Jason Walsh
Phoenix, Arizona Sermons from Duke Chapel: Voices from ‘A Great Towering Church’ , William Willimon (ed), Duke University Press 2005 (0‐8223‐3483‐6), ix + 367 pp., hb $34.95
Reviewed by David Lohr
Hickory, NC The Priesthood of the Faithful: Key to a Living Church , Paul J. Philibert, Liturgical Press 2005 (10: 0‐8146‐3023‐5/13: 978‐0‐8146‐3023‐5), 173 pp., pb $15.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire, UK The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England , D. Bruce Hindmarsh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0‐19‐924575‐4), x + 384 pp., hb £60/$110
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Baer
Wabash College Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia , Nigel Biggar, The Pilgrim Press 2004 (0‐8298‐1503‐1), xvi + 220 pp., pb $20
Reviewed by Stephen E. Lammers
Lafayette College When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics , Deryn Guest, SCM Press 2005 (0‐334‐02958‐9), viii + 306 pp., pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sean D. Burke
Graduate Theological Union Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition , William Loader, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2005 (0‐8028‐2862‐0), vii + 288 pp., pb $30
Reviewed by Julie J. Kilmer
Olivet College, Michigan The Myth of Religious Superiority: A Multifaith Exploration , Paul Knitter (ed), Orbis Books 2005 (1‐57075‐627‐9), xi + 242 pp., pb $30
Reviewed by Christy Lohr
Hartford Seminary Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature , David M. Carr, Oxford University Press 2005 (0 19 5172973), xiv + 330 pp., hb £39.50
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature , Nicholas Boyle, DLT 2004 (0‐232‐52575‐7), xi + 299 pp., pb £14.95.
Reviewed by Walter Moberly
Durham University The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy , Christian Moevs, Oxford University Press 2005 (0‐19‐517461‐5), viii + 308 pp., hb £29.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church , Fredrica Harris Thompsett and Sheryl Kujawa‐Holbrook (eds.), Church Publishing 2005 (0‐89869‐479‐5), ix + 292 pp., pb $28
Reviewed by Barbara Brown Zikmund
Catholic University of America Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology , Pui‐lan Kwok, SCM 2005 (0‐664‐22883‐6), 252 pp., pb $16.50
Reviewed by Marcella Althaus‐Reid
University of Edinburgh Religion, Education and Adolescence: International Empirical Perspectives , Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins and Jeff Astley (eds), University of Wales Press 2005 (0‐7083‐1957‐2), xii + 272 pp., hb £45
Reviewed by Simon Oxley
World Council of Churches     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Interfaith Pilgrims: Living Truths and Truthful Living , Swarthmore Lecture, 2003, Eleanor Nesbitt, Quaker Books 2003 (0‐85245‐347‐7), pp. 124, Pb £8 Learning from Other Faiths , Hermann Häring, Janet Martin Soskice and Felix Wilfred (eds), Concilium 2003/4, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03075‐7), pp. 141, Pb £9.95 A New Introduction to Islam , Daniel Brown, Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐21604‐9), pp. xv + 269, Pb £14.99/$27.95 Islam in Context: Past, Present and Future , Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2627‐X), pp. 231, Pb $17.99 Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations , John Barton, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22596‐9), pp. xi + 212, Pb £17.99 Jesus Remembered , Volume I of Christianity in the Making , James D.G. Dunn, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐3931–2), pp. xvii + 1019, Hb £39.95 New Creation in Paul's Letters and Thought , Moyer V. Hubbard, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 119, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81485‐5), pp. xiii + 293, Hb £45/$60 Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles , Karl Olav Sandnes, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 120, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81535‐5), pp. xiv + 318, Hb £45/$60 Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark , Marvin Meyer, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐409‐4), pp. vii + 199, Pb £16.99/$23 Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative , Melanie J. Wright, AAR Cultural Criticism Series, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515226‐3), pp. 172, Hb £30 The Theology of St Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation , Thomas Weinandy and Daniel A. Keating (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8900‐2), pp. xv + 269, Hb £35 The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians , Ronald E. Heine, Oxford University Press 2002 (0‐1992‐24551‐7), pp. xii + 297, Hb £50 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–2000 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2001 (0‐664‐22354‐0), pp. xxvi + 494, Pb £30 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 2000–1950 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22355‐9), pp. xx + 666, Pb £30 Adventures in Orthodoxy: The Marvels of the Christian Creed and the Audacity of Belief , Dwight Longenecker, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐406‐0), pp. xx + 170, Pb £9.99 Essentials of Christian Theology , William C. Placher (ed.), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22395‐8), pp. x + 422, Pb $29.95 Postmodern Christianity , John W. Riggs, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐364‐0), pp. xi + 174, Pb $19 Gateways to Dogmatics: Reasoning Theologically for the Life of the Church , Gerhard Sauter, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4700‐5), pp. xx–310, Pb £12.99 A Theology of Engagement , Ian S. Markham, Blackwell 2003 (Hb 0‐631‐23601‐5, Pb 0‐631‐23602‐3), pp. x + 250, Hb £55/$64.95, Pb £16.99/29.95 Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight, Terry J. Tekippe, Paulist Press 2003 (0‐8091‐4150‐7), pp. xii + 110, Pb $16.95 The Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II's ‘Gospel of the Body’ , Christopher West, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐600‐4), pp. xix + 530, Pb £20 Impossible God: Derrida's Theology , Hugh Rayment‐Pickard, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0597‐3), pp. x + 185, Hb £40 Rationality and Religious Theism , Joshua L. Golding, Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1568‐5), pp. 142, Pb £15.99/$29.95 Does God Have a Future? A Debate on Divine Providence , Christopher A. Hall and John Sanders, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2604‐0), pp. 222, Pb $17.99 Infinitely Beloved: The Challenge of Divine Intimacy , Brian Thorne, Darton, Longman & Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52507‐2), pp. x + 92, Pb £8.95 Cosmic Grace and Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew , Father John Chryssavgis (ed.), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐2169‐3), pp. xii + 351, Hb £27.95 The New Anti‐Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice , Philip Jenkins, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515480‐0), pp. vii + 258, Hb £14.99 Politics and Religion , Steve Bruce, Polity Press 2003 (Hb 0‐7456‐2819‐2, Pb 0‐7456‐2820‐6), pp. xii + 292, Hb £50 / Pb £15.99 Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation , Douglas V. Henry, Bob R. Agee (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1398‐4), pp. xii + 175, Pb £12.99/$18 The Foundation of Hope: Turning Dreams into Reality , R. John Elford (ed.), Liverpool University Press 2003 (0‐85323‐519‐8), pp. xii + 228, Hb £22.50 God's Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature , R.J. Berry, T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08915‐0), pp. xvi + 286, Hb £17.99 The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age , Norman Wirzba, Oxford University Press (0‐19‐515716‐8), pp. xiv + 240, Hb £25 Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology , Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs (eds), Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐064‐9), pp. 256, Pb $19.99 The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle‐earth , Ralph C. Wood, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22610‐8), pp. xi + 169, Pb $14.95 Preaching Mark in Two Voices , Brian K. Blount and Gary W. Charles, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22393‐1), pp. xiii + 273, Pb £15.99 The Case for Humanism: An Introduction , Lewis Vaughn and Austin Dacey, Rowman and Littlefield 2003 (0‐7425‐1393‐9), pp. ix + 223, Pb £20.95     

Short Notices

Shamanism: A Reader , Graham Harvey (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐25330‐6), pp. 461, Pb £17.99 Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology , edited and translated by Lawrence M. Wills, Oxford University Press 2002 (Hb 0‐19‐515141‐0; Pb 0‐19‐515142‐9), pp. x + 298, Hb £40.50, Pb £20 4QPesher Nahum: A Critical Commentary , Gregory L. Doudna, Sheffield Academic Press 2001, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 35, Copenhagen International Series 8 (1‐84127‐156‐X), pp. 813, Hb £95 Copper Scroll Studies , George J. Brooke and Philip R. Davies (eds), Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 40, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6055‐0), pp. xvi + 344, Hb £95 Jesus in his Jewish Context , Geza Vermes, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02915‐5), pp. x + 198, Pb £12.99 The New Testament: History, Literature, Religion , Gerd Theissen, T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐567‐08948‐7, Pb, 0‐567‐08949‐5), pp. xii + 206, Hb £40, Pb £12.99 Mary Magdalene: Beyond the Myth , Esther de Boer, Translated by John Bowden, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02690‐3) pp. xi + 147, Pb £12.99 Slave of All: The Paradox of Authority and Servanthood in the Gospel of Mark , Narry F. Santos, JSNTS Series 237, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐62251), pp. xii + 337, Hb £65 An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha , Fred Lapham, T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐8264‐6978‐7, Pb 0‐8264‐6979‐5), pp. ix + 193, Hb £70, Pb £14.99 The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. Robert Louis Wilken, Yale University Press 2003 (0‐300‐09708‐5), pp. xxii + 368, Pb £22.50 Communication and the Gospel , John Holdsworth, Darton, Longman & Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52488‐2), pp. xii + 119, Pb £8.95 From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural , Lynn Schofield Clark, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515609‐9), pp. xii + 292, Hb £20 Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture , Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08807‐3), pp. xv + 407, Pb £17.99 Introducing Christianity , Sally Bruyneel and Alan G. Padgett, Orbis Books 2003 (1‐57075‐395‐4), pp. xi + 164, Pb $18 Problems in Theology 1, Creation: A Reader , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08977‐0), pp. vii + 119, Pb £12.99 Problems in Theology 2, Evil: A Reader , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08975‐0), pp. viii + 112, Pb £12.99 The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology , Kevin Vanhoozer (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12733‐2), pp. xv + 295, Pb £15.95/$23 Apostolicity and Unity: Essays on the Porvoo Common Statement , Ola Tjørhom (ed.), Eerdmans 2003 (2‐8254‐1375‐5), pp. xii + 271, Pb £18.90/$30 Signs amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History , Lesslie Newbigin, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0989‐9), pp. xiv + 121, Pb £10.99/$15 The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation , John B. Thomson, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3394‐2), pp. x + 245, Hb £49.50 The Resurrection of God Incarnate , Richard Swinburne, Oxford University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐19‐925745‐0, Pb 0‐19‐925746‐9), pp. vi + 224, Hb £45, Pb £16.99 Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy , Robert Miner, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27698‐5), pp. xvi + 166, £17.99 A Political Theology of Nature , Peter Scott, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐521‐64165‐9, Pb 0‐521‐52717‐1), pp. xiii + 275, Hb £47.50, Pb £17.95 Re‐ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics , Celia Deane‐Drummond, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Robin Grove‐White (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐567‐08896‐0, Pb 0‐567‐08878‐2), pp. xiv + 368, Hb £50, Pb £17.99 Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy , Paul F. Knitter and Chandra Muzaffar (eds), Orbis Books 2002 (1‐57075‐446‐2), pp. xiv + 193, Pb $20 Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What To Do About It , Don S. Browning, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1112‐4), pp. xiv + 292, Pb £21.99/$30 Spiritual Caregiving as Secular Sacrament: A Practical Theology for Professional Caregivers , Ray S. Anderson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003 (1‐84310‐746‐5), pp. 192, Pb £15.95/$24.95 Growing Old in Christ , Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador, and David Cloutier (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4607‐6), pp. x + 310, Pb £17.99/$24 Psychotherapy and Spirituality , Agneta Schreurs, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2002 (1‐85302‐975‐0), pp. 313, Pb £17.95/$26.95 Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation? , Amin Saikal, Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (1‐4039‐0358‐1), pp. x + 171, Pb £13.99 Gender, Politics, and Islam , Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard (eds), University of Chicago Press 2002 (0‐226‐73428‐5), pp. 354, Hb $39 Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death , Hubert G. Locke, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐6084‐2), pp. x + 109, Pb £12.99/$18     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India , M.N. Srinivas, Oxford University Press 2003 [Clarendon Press 1952] (0‐19‐5659744), pp. 279, Hb £20 Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah , Peter Schäfer, Princeton University Press 2002 (0‐691‐09068‐8), pp. xviii + 306, Hb £19.95 Judaism When Christianity Began: A Survey of Belief and Practice , Jacob Neusner, Westminster John Knox Press 2002 (0‐664‐22527‐6), pp. vii + 202, Pb £17.99 Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism , Omid Safi (ed.), Oneworld 2003 (1‐85168‐316‐X), pp. xi + 351, Pb £16.99 Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel , S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐82646‐224‐3), pp. x + 188, Hb £50 The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible , David M. Carr, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515652‐8), pp. x + 212, Hb £17.99 In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future , Craig C. Hill, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6090‐7), pp. viii + 229, Pb £11.99 John for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1–10 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05302‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £8.99 John for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 11–21 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05520‐3), pp. xii + 188, Pb £8.99 Paul for Everyone, The Prison Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05303‐0), pp. xi + 227, Pb £8.99 Dimensions of Baptism: Biblical and Theological Studies , Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6203‐0), pp. xvi + 401, Hb £80 The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered , Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515808‐3), pp. x + 165, Hb £30 Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Crisis of Culture , George Pattison, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐01042‐X), pp. xiv + 257, Pb £17.95 Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love , Amy Laura Hall, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐89311‐9), pp. xi + 222, Pb £15.95 Literature and Religion in Mid‐Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot , Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (0‐333‐99337‐3), pp. ix + 221, Cloth £42.50 Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards , Douglas A. Sweeney, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515428‐2), pp. xi + 255, £35 Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States , Dan McKanan, Oxford University Press 2002 (019‐514‐5321), pp. viii + 294, Hb £40 Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II , Tracey Rowland, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐30527‐6), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £18.99 The Friend of the Bridegroom: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner , Sergius Bulgakov, Translated by Boris Jakim, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4979‐2), pp. xi + 190, Pb £19.99/$28 Confessing and Commending the Faith: Historic Witness and Apologetic Method , Alan P.F. Sell, University of Wales Press 2002 (0‐7083‐1747‐2), pp. xi + 550, Hb £45 Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition , D. G. Hart, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2615‐6), pp. 261, Pb $24.99 In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminishing Christianity , R. R. Reno, Brazos 2002 (1‐58743‐033‐9), pp. 208, Pb $15.99 True Religion , Graham Ward, Blackwell Manifestos, Blackwell Publishing 2003 (0‐631‐22174‐3), pp. ix + 168, Pb £12.99 Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World , David Herbert, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1339‐9), pp. x + 322, Pb. £16.99 Faith‐Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik , Douglas Johnston (ed.), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐516089‐4), pp. xxi + 270, Hb £19.99 Holiness , John Webster, SCM 2003 (0‐334‐02895‐7), pp. 116, Pb £12.99 Creation , Hans Schwarz, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6066‐4), pp. xii+ 254, Pb £20 God and the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Eschatological Doctrine of God , Christiaan Mostert, T. & T. Clark 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08850‐2), pp. xv + 262, Pb £14.99 Divine Action and Modern Science , Nicholas Saunders, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐52416‐4), pp. xviii + 234, Pb £16.95 Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value , Willem B. Drees (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐29061‐9), pp. xv + 341, Pb £14.99/$24.95 Suffering, Death, and Identity , Robert N. Fisher, Daniel T. Primozic, Peter A. Day and Joel A. Thompson (eds), Value Inquiry Book Series , Vol. 135, Robert Ginsberg and Peter A. Redpath (eds), Rodopi 2002 (90‐420‐1173‐4), pp. 210, Pb $40 Identity , Vernon White, SCM Press 2002 (0‐334‐02890‐6), pp. x + 176, Pb £9.99 Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality , David Fontana, BPS and Blackwell 2003 (Hb 1‐40510‐805‐3, Pb 1‐40510‐806‐1), pp. ix + 260, Hb £50, Pb £15.99 Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity , Richard A. Cohen and James L. Marsh (eds), SUNY 2002 (0‐7914‐5190‐9), pp. xiv + 239, Pb £15 The Naked Parish Priest: What Priests Really Think They’re Doing , Stephen H. Louden and Leslie J. Francis, Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6798‐9), pp. viii + 232, Pb £14.99 Your Word Is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together , Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐0508‐6), pp. x + 168, Pb £14.99/$20 Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education. A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Developments in Evangelical Theological Education , Bernard Ott, Regnum Books International 2001 (1‐870345‐14‐2), pp. xxvii + 382, Pb £14.99 Key Texts in American Jewish Culture , Jack Kugelmass (ed.), Rutgers University Press 2003 (0‐8135‐3221‐3), pp. vii + 308, Pb $24 Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy: Through a Glass Darkly , Paul Coates, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1585‐5), pp. 217, Hb £47.50     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Divine Love in Islamic Mysticism: The Teachings of Al‐Ghazali and Al‐Dabbagh , Binyamin Abrahamov, RoutledgeCurzon Sufi Series, RoutledgeCurzon 2003 (0‐7007‐1607‐6), pp. 190, Hb £65 Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text , Ellen F. Davies (Translation and notes) and Margaret Adams Parker (woodcuts), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22374‐5), pp. xxiii + 123, Hb £12.99 A Woman’s Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and their Involvement in the House of David , Elna K. Solvang, JSOTS Series 349, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6213‐8), pp. xiii + 188, Hb £50 A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos , Karl Möller, JSOT Series 372, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6568‐4), pp. xiv + 352, Hb £65 Jesus the Pharisee , Hyam Maccoby, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02914‐7), pp. x + 228, Pb £16.99 Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel: A Study of Ancient Reading Techniques , Stan Harstine, JSNTS Series 229, London, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6026‐7), pp. viii + 194, Hb £50 A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Meaning and Function of the Old Testament in Revelation 21.1–22.5 , D. Mathewson, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint, JSNTS Series 238 (0 8264 6226 X), pp. xii + 282, Hb £60 From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and to the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 , Rachel Fulton, Columbia University Press 2002 (0‐231‐12550‐X), pp. 676, Hb £28/$40 The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social‐Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity , Magnus Zetterholm, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐29896‐2), pp. xiv + 272, Hb £50 Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary , B.R. Gaventa and C.L. Rigby (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2002 (0‐664‐22438‐5), pp. xii + 158, Pb £12.99 Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition , Jean‐Yves Leloup, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐537‐7), pp. viii + 141, Pb £9.99 Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078–1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours , Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12685‐9), pp. xi + 197, £13/$18.50 Ignatius: Sharing the Pilgrim Story. A Reading of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola , Peter Du Brul SJ, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐536‐9), pp. lxxii + 206, Pb £15.99 Religion and the Cold War , Dianne Kirby (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (0‐333‐99398‐5), pp. xiii + 245, Hb £45 Religion in Late Modernity , Robert Cummings Neville, State University of New York Press 2002 (0‐7914‐5424‐X), pp. xv + 284, Pb $22.95 The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture , Dee E. Andrews, Princeton University Press 2002, pp. xv + 367, Hb £15.95 Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion , Anthony B. Pinn, Fortress Press 2003 (0‐8006‐3601‐5), pp. xiv + 274, Pb $22 Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers , Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513376‐5), pp. x + 194, Hb £19.99 Thinking Through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives , Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), Routledge 2002 (0‐415‐25461‐2), pp. xi + 217, Pb £15.99 Belief Beyond Boundaries: Wicca, Celtic Spirituality and the New Age , Joanne Pearson (ed.), Ashgate, in association with The Open University, 2002 (0‐7546‐0820‐4), pp. ix + 339, Pb £13.99 Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Catholic Voices , Helen Bergin and Susan Smith (eds), Accent Publications 2002 (0‐9583454‐4‐9), pp. 277, Pb NZ$35 Believing in Nothing and Something: An Approach to Humanist Beliefs and Values , Geoff Heath, Bowland 2003 (0‐9544221‐0‐4), pp. 134, Pb £11.95 Who are the Christians in the Middle East? , Betty Jane Bailey and J. Martin Bailey, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1020‐9), pp. xiii + 215, Pb £14.99/$20 The Theology of Reconciliation: Essays in Biblical and Systematic Theology , Colin Gunton (ed.), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8889‐8), pp. vi + 177, Hb £25 Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought. Essays in Honor of John W. de Gruchy , Lyn Holness and Ralf K. Wüstenberg (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐3916‐9) / David Philip Publishers 2002 (0‐86486‐605‐4), pp. xxvi + 286, Pb £28.99/$40 Incarnation and Physics: Natural Science in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance , Tapio Luoma, Oxford University Press 2002 (0‐19‐515189‐5), pp. viii + 230, Hb £35 Shelter from the Storm: Caring for the Victims of Kosovo , Bruce D. Thompson, SCM Press 2003 (0‐7162‐0569‐6), pp. xvi + 121, Pb £9.99     

Short Notices

Books reviewed: Legitimating New Religions , James R. Lewis, Rutgers University Press 2003 (0‐8135‐3324‐4), pp. viii + 272, Pb $21.95 Dictionary of Buddhism , Damien Keown with contributions from Stephen Hodge, Charles Jones and Paola Tinti, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐860560‐9), pp. x + 357, Hb £20/$35 The Bible: The New Revised Standard Version Cross‐Reference Edition, with Apocrypha; Anglicized Text , Managing Editor Martin H. Manser, with John Barton (for the Old Testament) and Bruce Metzger (for the Apocrypha and New Testament), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐100016‐7), pp. xxii +1,520, Hb £35 When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah's Flood , J. David Pleins, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515608‐0), pp. xi + 242, Hb £20 Exploring the Old Testament, Volume 3: The Psalms and Wisdom Literature , Ernest Lucas, SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05431‐2), pp. xvi + 207, Pb £16.99 Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? , William G. Dever, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0975‐8), pp. xi + 268, Pb £17.95 Paul, Luke and the Graeco‐Roman World: Essays in Honour of Alexander J. M. Wedderburn , Alf Christophersen, Carsten Claussen, Jörg Frey and Bruce Longenecker (eds), Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 217, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (1‐84127‐259‐0), pp. xvi + 290, Hb £65 God and History in the Book of Revelation: New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and Moltmann , Michael Gilbertson, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐82466‐4), Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 124, pp. xiii + 235 Hb £47.50/$65 From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed , William H. C. Frend, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02908‐2), pp. vii + 212, Pb £12.99 Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology: A Study of Reason, Will, and Grace , Nigel Voak, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐926039‐7), pp. xviii + 348, Hb £50/$85 Nice and Hot Disputes: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Seventeenth Century , Philip Dixon, Continuum 2003 (0‐5670‐8816‐2), pp. xi– 236, Hb £40 Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages , Ursula King, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐32652‐4), pp. v + 270, Pb £13.99 The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology , Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐22342‐8), pp. x + 566, Hb £85 Progressive Christians Speak: A Different Voice on Faith and Politics , John Cobb Jr (ed.), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0‐664‐22589‐6), pp. xvi + 341, Pb £20 War and Peace: A Selection of Key Readings. Problems in Theology 3 , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08973‐8), pp. viii + 111, Pb £12.99 Invitation to the Sociology of Religion , Phil Zuckerman, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐94126‐1), pp. ix + 156, Pb £15.99 Faith and Feminism: An Introduction to Christian Feminist Theology , Nicola Slee, Darton, Longman and Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52486‐6), Exploring Faith: Theology for Life, pp. xi + 131, Pb £8.95 Introducing Feminist Perspectives on Pastoral Theology , Zoë Bennett Moore, Introductions in Feminist Theology 11, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6261‐8), pp. 157, Pb £15.99/$11.90 Teaching Freud Diane Jonte‐Pace (ed.), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐5157680), AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series, pp. xi + 276, Pb £48 Blessed are the Cynical: How Original Sin Can Make America a Better Place , Mark Ellingsen, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐042‐8), pp. 208, Hb $23.99 Worship , Keith F. Pecklers, Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6856‐X), pp vi + 234, Pb, £14.99 Worship Seeking Understanding: Windows into Christian Practice , John D. Witvliet, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2623‐7), pp. 319, Pb $26.99 Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition , Jeremy Driscoll, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐469‐9), pp. 251, Pb, £17.99 Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in a Postmodern World , David J. Lose, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4983‐0), pp. viii + 264, Pb £19.99 Charis and Charisma: David Yonggi Cho and the Growth of Yoido Full Gospel Church , Sung‐Hoon Myung and Young‐Gi Hong (eds), Regnum 2003 (1‐870345‐45‐2), pp. xi + 217, Pb £19.99     

Recent Books in Barth Studies

Books reviewed:
Barth on the Descent into Hell: God, Atonement and the Christian Life , David Lauber, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3341-1), pp. vii + 186, Hb £40
Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth , John Yocum, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3322-5), pp. vii + 200, Hb £45
For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial Theology , George Hunsinger (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2699-7), pp. vi + 214, Pb £24.99
The Ascension in Karl Barth , Andrew Burgess, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3874-X), pp. viii + 209, Hb £47.50     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
The Major World Religions : An Introduction with Texts , T. Patrick Burke, Second Edition, Blackwell 2004 (1-4051-1049-X), pp. xix + 380, Pb £17.99/$34.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Biblical World , two volumes, John Barton (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0-415-34954-0), Hb £45 Reviewed by Deryn Guest University of Birmingham
Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 1 : The Christbook (Matthew 1–12) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-1118-3), pp. xlviii + 604, Hb £34.95/$45 Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 2 : The Churchbook (Matthew 13–18) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2670-9), pp. xxxii + 854, Hb £34.95/$45 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Religion in the Medieval World , Bernard Hamilton, Second Edition, Arnold Publishers 2003 (0-340-80839-X), pp. ix + 196, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Stephen Morris New York
A History of the Popes 1830–1914 , Owen Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0-19-926286-1), pp. x + 614, Pb £25 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
Religion and American Culture : A Reader , David G. Hackett (ed.), Second Edition, Routledge 2003 (0-415-94273-X), pp. xvi + 550, Pb £22.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett The College of Saint Rose, New York
Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue : Black Theology in the Slave Narrative , Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings (eds), Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22521-7), pp. xvi + 205, Pb $24.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham     

Wittgenstein,Aesthetics and Philosophy

Books reviewed: Peter B. Lewis (ed.), Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). 255 pp., price £49.50.
Reviewed by Ole Martin Skilleås, University of Bergen, Norway
Department of Philosophy
University of Bergen
Sydnesplassen 7
NO‐5007 Bergen
Ole.skilleas@fil.uib.no     

Quine and Davidson on Language,Thought and Reality

Books reviewed: Hans‐Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality. Cambridge University Press, 2003; xi + 311 pp. £45.00, $60.00 (hardcover).
Reviewed by Dale Jacquette, The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Philosophy
The Pennsylvania State University
246 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802 / USA
dlj4@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/dlj4/     

Religious Dissenters, J.S. Mill, and the Importance of Starting Points for Apologetics

Book reviewed:
Mill on God: The Pervasiveness and Elusiveness of Mill's Religious Thought , Alan P.F. Sell, Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-1666-5), pp. viii + 202, Pb £15.99
Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity 1689–1920 , Alan P.F. Sell, James Clarke & Co 2004 (0-227-67977-6), pp. 296, Hb £50     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints by Elizabeth A. Johnson (London and New York: Continuum, 2003), xviii + 379 pp.
Reviewed by Ann Loades
Department of Theology
Abbey House
Palace Green
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3RS
UK The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority by Theo Hobson (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002), + 217 pp.
Reviewed by Wes Avram
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Word and Supplement: Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture by Timothy Ward (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), x + 332 pp.
Reviewed by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method by John Howard Yoder, edited by Alex Sider, Peter Dula, and Stanley Hauerwas (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002), + 431 pp.
Reviewed by Glen H. Stassen
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, CA 91182
USA Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude by Simon Francis Gaine (London: T&T Clark, 2003), xi + 137 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Barron
Mundelein Seminary
Mundelein, Ill 60060
USA Conversion In American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of Transformation by Roger A. Ward (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2004), xli + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Donald L. Gelpi, S. J.
The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
1735 LeRoy Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
USA Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004), + 254 pp.
Reviewed by Oliver O’Donovan
Christ Church
Oxford OX1 1DP
UK Transcendence and Self‐Transcendence: On God and the Soul by Merold Westphal (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004), xiv + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Cyril O’Regan
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution by Jaroslav Pelikan (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), xiii + 216 pp.
Reviewed by H. Jefferson Powell
Duke Divinity School & Duke Law School
PO Box 90360
Durham NC 27708
USA Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology by Gerard Loughlin (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), xxx + 306 pp.
Reviewed by George Pattison
Christ Church
Oxford, OX1 1DP
UK