Reviews of Texts for Classroom Use

Books reviewed: Dianne Oliver, Book and Resource Review Editor
University of Evansville Daoism: A Short Introduction. By James Miller. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003. xviii + 174 pages. ISBN 1‐85168‐315‐1. $17.95.
Reviewed by John M. Thompson
Christopher Newport University The Protestant Reformation: Beliefs and Practices. By Madeleine Gray. Portland, Ore.: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. 262 pages. ISBN: 1‐903900‐11‐5. $22.50.
Reviewed by Jason E. Vickers
Hood Theological Seminary True Religion. By Graham Ward. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 168 pages. ISBN 0‐63122174‐3. $20.95.
Reviewed by Debra Mubashshir Majeed
Beloit College Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture. Edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage. London and New York: T & T Clark, 2003. xv + 407 pages. ISBN 0‐567‐08867‐7. Cloth $115.00. ISBN 0‐567‐08807‐3. Paper $34.95.
Reviewed by Richard S. Ascough
Queen's Theological College     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility. By Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey‐Bass Publishers, 2003. xx + 332 pages. ISBN 0‐7879‐6515‐4. $30.00
Reviewed by Victor J. Klimoski
School of Theology, Saint John's University Engaging Large Classes: Strategies and Techniques for College Faculty. Edited by Christine A. Stanley and M. Erin Porter. Bolton, Mass.: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2002. xxiv + 353 pages. ISBN 1‐882982‐51‐7. $39.95.
Reviewed by Robert M. Royalty, Jr.
Wabash College Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Learning. By Harry Lee Poe. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2004. 208 pages. ISBN 0‐8010‐2723‐3. $19.99.
Reviewed by Roger P. Ebertz
University of Dubuque The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment. By Chris Morgan, Lee Dunn, Meg O’Reilly, and Sharon Parry. New York, N.Y.: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004. xiv + 305 pages. ISBN 0‐415‐33530‐2. $49.95.
Reviewed by Johannes Strobel
University of Missouri‐Columbia Faith and the Life of the Intellect. Edited by Curtis L. Hancock and Brenden Sweetman. Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xxii + 269 pages. ISBN 0‐8132‐1311‐8. $29.95.
Reviewed by John J. Carey
Agnes Scott College Learning and Teaching Where Worldviews Meet. Edited by Rosamund Sutherland, Guy Claxton, and Andrew Pollard. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling, Va.: Trentham Books Limited, 2003. vii + 285 pages. ISBN 1‐85856‐248‐1. $29.95.
Reviewed by S. Brian Stratton
Alma College Team‐Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups. Edited by Larry K. Michaelsen, Arletta Bauman Knight, and L. Dee Fink. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. xi + 288 pages. ISBN 0‐89789‐863‐X. Paper $24.95.
Reviewed by Steven C. Ibbotson
Prairie Bible College     

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     

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     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered by Leora Batnitzky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000) x + 281 pp.
Reviewed by Charles T. Mathewes
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904‐4126
SA Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition by Hans Boersma (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2004) + 288 pp.
Reviewed by Gladstone H. Stevens, S.S.
St. Mary's Seminary and University
5400 Roland Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21210
USA The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason by Oliver Davies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) xi + 210 pp.
Reviewed by Matthew Levering
Ave Maria University
1025 Commons Circle
Naples, Florida 34119
USA Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity by Larry W. Hurtado (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003) xxii + 745 pp.
Reviewed by Stephen Fowl
Department of Theology
Loyola College in Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
USA Culture and the Thomist Tradition after Vatican II by Tracey Rowland (London and New York: Routledge, 2003) xiv + 226 pp.
Reviewed by Joseph Wawrykow
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
46556
USA Spinoza's Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason by Nancy K. Levene (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) xxii + 256pp.
Reviewed by Martin Kavka
Department of Religion
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306‐1520
USA Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or How to Live in a Less than Perfect Nation by Russell T. McCutcheon (London: Equinox, 2005) xi + 123 pp.
Reviewed by Stefan Skrimshire
75 Rockdove Avenue
Hulme
Manchester
M15 5EH
UK Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture by Timothy Gorringe (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2004) vi + 283 pp.
Reviewed by J. Matthew Ashley
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Flannery O’Connor and the Christ‐Haunted South by Ralph C. Wood (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004) xii + 272 pp.
Reviewed by Frederick C. Bauerschmidt
Department of Theology
Loyola College
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
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     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: James E. Atwell. The Sources of the Old Testament – A Guide to the Religious Thought of the Hebrew Bible.
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury Craig A. Evans (ed.). Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture.
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton Lester L. Grabbe. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period – Volume 1. Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah.
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury Charles Matson Odahl. Constantine and the Christian Empire.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom G.R. Evans (ed.). The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom David Dunn‐Wilson. A Mirror for the Church: Preaching in the First Five Centuries.
Reviewed by Tarmo Toom Jim Fodor and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt (eds). Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the Twenty First Century.
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland Paul Helm. John Calvin's Ideas.
Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peter C. Hodgson. Hegel & Christian Theology: A Reading of the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion.
Reviewed by Owen Anderson Kenneth J. Collins. The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of an American Religion.
Reviewed by Bryan Bademan Robert K. Johnston. Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film.
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout Judith Plaskow. The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1973–2003.
Reviewed by Teresa J. Hornsby Rebecca J. Lester. Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent.
Reviewed by Marc Cortez Douglas A. Campbell (ed.). Gospel and Gender. A Trinitarian Engagement with Being Male and Female in Christ.
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel Rosemary Radford Ruether. The Goddess and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History.
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale David Brown. God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience.
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey William R. Miller and Harold D. Delaney (eds). Judeo‐Christian Perspectives on Psychology: Human Nature, Motivation, and Change.
Reviewed by Hung‐En Sung Richard Nelson‐Jones. Cognitive Humanistic Therapy: Buddhism, Christianity and Being Fully Human.
Reviewed by Ruth Walker Stuart Chandler. Establishing A Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization.
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris Nancy Tatom Ammerman. Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners.
Reviewed by Todd Breyfogle Russell Jeung. Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches.
Reviewed by Timothy S. Lee George L. Murphy. The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross.
Reviewed by Randall Otto Mikael Stenmark. How to Relate Science and Religion. A Multidimensional Model.
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra Philip Clayton. Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness.
Reviewed by Paul Voelker Joel B. Green and Stuart L. Palmer (eds). In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind–Body Problem.
Reviewed by Marc Cortez Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (eds). Reason and the Reasons of Faith.
Reviewed by Ronald Grant Nutter David F. Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Soskice (eds). Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty‐first Century.
Reviewed by Philip McCosker Richard Rorty, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala (eds). The Future of Religion.
Reviewed by Ruth Walker Robert Wuthnow. Saving America? Faith‐Based Services and the Future of Civil Society.
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten Linda Barnes and Susan Sered (eds). Religion and Healing in America.
Reviewed by Revd Canon Martyn Percy Ellen M. Umansky. From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews.
Reviewed by Michael A. Chester Daniel J. Price. Karl Barth's Anthropology in Light of Modern Thought.
Reviewed by Peter Kalve Eberhard Busch. The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology.
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Margaret Chatterjee. Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity: Religious Pluralism Revisited.
Reviewed by John Hick Suha Taji‐Farouki and Basheer M. Nafi (eds). Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, Yvonne Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds). Islam and the West Post 9/11.
Reviewed by Jeffry R. Halverson David Cook. Understanding Jihad.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Anthony O’Mahony, Wulstan Peterburs and Mohammad Ali Shomali (eds). Catholics and Shi’a in Dialogue: Studies in Theology and Spirituality.
Reviewed by Jason Walsh Matthew Grimley. Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars.
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten     

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/     

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’s On Certainty: There – Like our Life – Rush RheesThe Third Wittgenstein: The Post‐Investigations Works – Danièle Moyal‐SharrockUnderstanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty – Edited by Danièle Moyal‐Sharrock

Books reviewed: Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: There – Like our Life, D. Z. Phillips (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 195 pp. incl. Index; $29.95; referred to in the text as Rhees. Danièle Moyal‐Sharrock, The Third Wittgenstein: The Post‐Investigations Works (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 225 pp. incl. Index; $99.95; referred to in the text as Third Witt. Danièle Moyal‐Sharrock (ed.), Understanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004), 250 pp. incl. Index; $75.00; referred to in the text as M‐S.
Reviewed by Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Louisiana 70803
USA     

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     

Reviews

Books reviewed Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama by Michael S. Horton (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), + 351 pp.
reviewed by Ben Quash
Peterhouse
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1RD
UK Feminist Theology: Voices from the Past by Ann Loades (Cambridge: Polity, 2001), vi + 216 pp.
reviewed by Susan Abraham
Department of Theology
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778
USA Divine Action & Modern Science by Nicholas Saunders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), xviii + 234 pp.
reviewed by
Larry Chapp
DeSales University
2755 Station Avenue
Center Valley, PA 18036
USA Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac, by Jerome I. Gellman (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003), + 125 pp.
reviewed by
Claire Elise Katz
Department of Philosophy
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice by Timothy P. Jackson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), xix + 229 pp.
reviewed by
Joel James Shuman
Department of Theology
King's College
133 North River Street
Wilkes‐Barre, PA 18711
USA Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism by Alain Badiou, translated by Ray Brassier (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003), x + 111 pp.
reviewed by
Douglas Harink
The King's University College
9125—50^th Street
Edmonton, Alberta
T6B 2H3
Canada After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism by Fergus Kerr (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002), viii + 254.
reviewed by
D. Stephen Long
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
2121 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60201
USA Heidegger's Atheism: The Refusal of a Theological Voice by Laurence Paul Hemming (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), x1 + 327 pp.
reviewed by
Cyril O’Regan
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), x + 212 pp.
reviewed by
Herwi Rikhof
Katholieke Theologische Universiteit te Utrecht/Thomas Instituut Utrecht
Postbus 80101 3508 TC
Utrecht
THE NETHERLANDS Jesus the Pharisee by Hyam Maccoby (London: SCM Press, 2003), x + 228 pp.
reviewed by
Kristen H. Lindbeck
469 East Olmos Drive
San Antonio, TX 78212
USA     

Teaching Freud

Books reviewed: Jonte‐Pace, Diane, Teaching Freud
Reviewed by William McDonough
College of St. Catherine     

A Companion to the Reformation World

Books reviewed: Hsia, R. Po‐chia, ed., A Companion to the Reformation World
Reviewed by Arun Jones
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Shulman, Lee S., Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education
Reviewed by Raymond Brady Williams Wolterstorff, Nicholas P., Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning
Reviewed by William C. Placher Talvacchia, Kathleen T., Critical Minds and Discerning Hearts: A Spirituality of Multicultural Teaching
Reviewed by Patricia Zimmerman Beckman Haynes, Carolyn, ed., Innovations in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Reviewed by Carol Hepokoski Mirochnik, Elijah and Sherman, Debora C., eds., Passion and Pedagogy: Relation, Creation, and Transformation in Teaching
Reviewed by Jaime Clark‐Soles Bain, Ken, What the Best College Teachers Do
Reviewed by Russell Haitch Hargreaves, Andy, Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity
Reviewed by William McDonough     

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     

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: 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

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: 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