REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Case for Religion , Keith Ward, Oneworld 2004 (1‐85168‐337‐2), pp. viii + 246, Hb £16.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity , Jacob K. Olupona (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27320‐X), pp. xvi + 348, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Secular Judaism: Faith, Values, and Spirituality , Yaakov Malkin, Valentine Mitchell 2004 (0‐85303‐512‐1), pp. x + 150, Hb £42.50/$62.50, Pb £17.50/$26.50
Reviewed by Berel Dov Lerner
Western Galilee Academic College, Israel Truth and Scripture: Challenging Underlying Assumptions , Brenda Watson, Aureus Publishing Ltd 2004 (1‐899750‐27‐4), pp. xvi + 208, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism , Brian Malley, Alta Mira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0665‐7), pp. ix + 173, Pb £20.95
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham The Book of Esther in Modern Research , Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon (eds), JSOTS Series 380, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6663‐X), pp. xii + 266, Hb £70
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment , Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), Westminster John Knox 2002 (0‐664‐22277‐3), pp. vi + 253, Pb £20
Reviewed by Michael Barram
Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California Paul's Letter to the Romans : A Social‐Rhetorical Commentary , Ben Witherington III with Darlene Hyatt, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4504‐5), pp. xxxviii + 421, Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking , Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐826733‐9), pp. xiv + 459, Hb £ 70
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber
Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel The Suffering of the Impassible God : The Dialectics of Patristic Thought , Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐1992‐6982‐3), pp. xii + 210, £45
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Christology of Anselm of Canterbury , Dániel Deme, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3779‐4), pp. xii + 263, Hb £42.50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria , Daniel A. Keating, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926713‐8), pp. x + 315, Hb £55
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Reformed Theology and Visual Culture : The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards , William A. Dyrness, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54073‐9), pp. xv + 339, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Lord's Prayer : A Text in Tradition , Kenneth W. Stevenson, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02937‐6), pp. ix +290, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity , Gerald O’Collins and Mario Farrugia, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐925995‐X), pp. xiii + 409, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys , Mark A. Noll, InterVarsity Press 2003 (0‐8308‐2581‐9), pp. 330, Hb $23.00
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Baer
Wabash College, Indiana Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief , Adam Hood, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3135‐4), pp. x + 216, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ: In Dialogue with the Religions , Massimo Serretti (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2212‐6), translated by Teresa Talavera and David C. Schindler, pp. xi + 163, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy , Karen Kilby, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐25965‐7), pp. ix + 160, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Petre uea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide , Alexandru Popescu, Ashgate Press 2004 (0‐7546‐5006‐5), pp. xxviii + 366, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity , Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2752‐7), pp. xiv + 235, £14.99/$20
Reviewed by Stephen Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond , Regina Schwartz (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96704‐X), pp. xii + 260, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Death of God and the Meaning of Life , Julian Young, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30790‐2), pp. vii + 236, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Does God Exist: The Craig‐Flew Debate , Stan W. Wallace (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3190‐7; 0‐7546‐3189‐3), pp. x + 230, Pb £16.99/Hb £47.50
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Feminist Christian Encounters: The Methods and Strategies of Feminist Informed Christian Theologies , Angela Pears, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0990‐1), pp. vi + 198, 183, Hb £45
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Women's Faith Development: Patterns and Processes , Nicola Slee, Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0886‐7), pp. xii + 205, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Reconciliation in a World of Conflict , Luiz Carlos Susin and Maria Pilar Aquino (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03076‐5), Concilium 2003/5, pp. 134, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile , Fabio Petito and Pavlos Hatzopoulos (eds), Palgrave 2004 (1‐4039‐6207‐3), pp. x + 286, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership , Douglas A. Hicks, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐52960‐3), pp. vii + 222, Pb £16.99/$25
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion in America Since 1945: A History , Patrick Allitt, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12154‐7), pp. xv + 313, Hb £21/$30
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society , Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh, Columbia University Press 2003 (Pb 0‐231‐12733‐2, Hb 0‐231‐12732‐4, Cloth), pp. xx + 243, Pb £15.50/$22.50, Hb £41.50/$59.50
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
The College of Saint Rose, New York The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics , Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐23506‐X), pp. xiii + 510, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics in the Time of Many Worlds , William Schweiker, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1‐4051‐1344‐8, Pb 1‐4051‐1345‐6), pp. xxv + 239, Hb £55/$61.95, Pb £16.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present , Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4975‐X), pp. vi + 324, Pb £24.99/$35
Reviewed by Malcolm Brown
Cambridge Theological Federation The Character of Wisdom: Essays in Honour of Wesley Carr , Martyn Percy and Stephen Lowe (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3418‐3), pp. xii + 210, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Cathedral Science, Theology, and Ethics , Ted Peters, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0825‐5), pp. x + 347, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism , Terence L. Nichols, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐046‐0), p. 240, Pb $ 17.99
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago God and the Nature of Time , Garrett J. DeWeese, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3519‐8), pp. xii + 294, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon , Roy Willis and Patrick Curry, Berg 2004 (1‐8597‐3687‐4), pp. vi + 170, Pb £ 15.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy     

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     

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     

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     

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

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     

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     

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     

Post‐Analytic Tractatus

Books reviewed: Barry Stocker (ed.), Post‐Analytic Tractatus (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). viii + 244, price £47.50 hb.
Reviewed by Patrick Horn, Claremont Graduate University
School of Religion
831 N. Dartmouth
Claremont, CA 91711
USA     

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     

The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God

Books reviewed: D. Z. Phillips, The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God (London: SCM Press, 2004). xxiii + 280 , price £19.99 pb.
Reviewed by Patrick Sherry, Lancaster University
Religious Studies Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG     

Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

Books reviewed: Max Kölbel and Bernard Weiss (eds.), Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance (London: Routledge, 2004). x + 308, price £60.00 hb, ISBN 0‐415‐30517‐9.
Reviewed by Constantine Sandis, Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University
Harcourt Hill Campus
Oxford
OX2 9AT
csandis@brookes.ac.uk     

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/     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Ben Rogers (ed.), Is Nothing Sacred (Routledge, 2004). x + 148, price £9.99 pb.
Reviewed by Walford Gealy, University of Wales, Aberystwyth James K. Wright, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle (Peter Lang, 2005). 191, price £27.00 pb.
Reviewed by R. A. Sharpe, University of Wales, Lampeter     

REVIEW

Book reviewed: Crispin Wright, Saving the Differences – Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivity (Cambridge MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2003). ix+549pp. £35.95
Review by Julia Tanney
Department of Philosophy
University of Kent
Canterbury CT2 7NF
J.Tanney@kent.ac.uk     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Silence and the Word, edited by Oliver Davies and Denys Turner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) xii + 227 pp.
Reviewed by Jeffrey McCurry
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
USA Augustine and Modernity by Michael Hanby (London and New York: Routledge, 2003) xii + 292 pp.
Reviewed by John Cavadini
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Levinas, Judaism and the Feminine: the silent footsteps of Rebecca by Claire Elise Katz (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004) xvi + 199 pp.
Reviewed by Randi Rashkover
Religious Studies
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17405‐7199
USA Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation, by Richard J. Bernstein (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002) xi + 289 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Hoelzl
Department of Religions and Theology
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, M13 9PL
UK Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology by Conor Cunningham (London: Routledge, 2002) xviii + 303 pp.
Reviewed by John R. Betz
Department of Theology
Loyola College in Maryland
Baltimore, MD 21210
USA Wie Machbar ist der Mensch? Eine philosophische und theologische Orientierung, edited by Holger Zaborowski (Mainz: Matthias‐Grünewald‐Verlag, 2003) + 228 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Mack
Department of Germanic Studies
The University of Sydney
A‐17 Mungo MacCullum Building
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA The Ark of Speech by Jean‐Louis Chrétien (London and New York: Routledge, 2004) v + 170 pp.
Reviewed by Mary‐Jane Rubenstein
Columbia University
Department of Religion
80 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027
USA Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present by Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004) vi + 324 pp.
Reviewed by Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
Columbia, SC 29203
USA Edward Schillebeeckx: A Theologian in His History. Volume I: A Catholic Theology of Culture (1914–1965) by Erik Borgman, translated by John Bowden (London and New York: Continuum, 2003) xii + 468 pp.
Reviewed by Lieven Boeve
Faculty of Theology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Sint‐Michielsstraat 6
3000 Leuven
BELGIUM Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences by Richard H. Roberts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) xiv + 334 pp.
Reviewed by John C. McDowell
New College
Mound Place
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, EH1 2LX
SCOTLAND     

The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher

Books reviewed: John Cook, The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher, Humanity Books, 2005, 437, price $55 hb.
Reviewed by Ronald E. Hustwit Sr., The College of Wooster,
Lt. Ronald E. Hustwit Jr., USAF
Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
Philosophy Department
The College of Wooster
Scovel Hall
944 College Mall
Wooster, OH 44691
Lt. Ronald E. Hustwit Jr.
Air Combat Command
Beale Air Force Base     

Book reviews

D. E. M. Gardner: Susan Isaacs: A First Biography. Methuen Educational Ltd., 1972. Price £1.50.

Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., London, 1971. Price 90p

Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins: Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children, with a foreword by Benjamin Britten. Victor Gollancz, London, 1971. Price £1.80.

The Mental Health Book Review Index: an Annual Bibliography of Books and Book Reviews in the Behavioural Sciences, Vol. 17, 1972, XXVI. Price $10.00. Published by the Council on Research in Bibliography, Inc., c/o Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, New York, N.Y. 10003. (Address orders to: Mental Health Book Review Index, c/o Paul Klapper Library, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, U.S.A.)     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. Dee Fink. Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses.
Reviewed by David C. Ratke
Lenoir‐Rhyne College Peter Jarvis, John Holford, and Colin Griffin. The Theory & Practice of Learning.
Reviewed by Philip L. Tite
McGill University, Montreal, Canada Katie Geneva Cannon. Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric.
Reviewed by Gregory Heille, O.P.
Aquinas Institute of Theology Heather Fry, Steve Ketteridge, and Stephanie Marshall. A Handbook for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice.
Reviewed by Jacob W. Elias
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary William M. Timpson, Silvia Sara Canetto, Evelinn Borrayo, and Raymond Yang. Teaching Diversity: Challenges and Complexities, Identities and Integrity.
Reviewed by Michael N. Jagessar
Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education UK Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy. Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics.
Reviewed by Carol Hepokoski
Meadville Lombard Theological School Annie Howell and Frank Tuitt. Race and Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse College Classrooms.
Reviewed by David Esterline
McCormick Theological Seminary Julie Kailin. Antiracist Education: From Theory to Practice.
Reviewed by Laura Stivers
Pfeiffer University