Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Mark Munn, The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates Kathryn Morgan, Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato Mary Margaret McCabe, Plato and his Predecessors: The Dramatization of Reason Johannes M. van Ophuijsen (ed), Plato and Platonism(Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, volume 33). Nicholas D. Smith and Paul B. Woodruff (eds), Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy Andrew Gregory, Plato's Philosophy of Science Hugh H. Benson, Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues Angela Hobbs, Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good Melissa Lane, Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates still Captivate the Modern Mind Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer (eds), Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages John Marenbon and Giovanni Orlandi (eds), Peter Abelard’s Collationes (Oxford Medieval Texts). Terence Penelhum, Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion Stephan R. Palmquist, Kant's Critical Religion John Lippitt, Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought David B. Allison, Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Morals Maurice Blondel, The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Heidegger's Concept of Truth Lawrence J. Hatab, Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy Michel Foucault, L’Herméneutique du sujet: Cours au Collège de France (1981–1982) W. W. Meissner, Freud and Psychoanalysis Scott Sturgeon, Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature David Jopling, Self–Knowledge and the Self Douglas C. Langston, Conscience and Other Virtues: From Bonaventure to MacIntyre Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness John Leslie, Infinite Minds. A Philosophical Cosmology Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (eds), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics Paul Kurtz, Embracing the Power of Humanism John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism Donald A. Hay and Alan Kreider (eds), Christianity and the Culture of Economics (Religion, Culture and Society). Marcia Bunge (ed), The Child in Christian Thought Dean Hoge, Willian Dinges, Mary Johnson and Juan Gonzales, Young Adult Catholics Stephan C. Barton, Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes and Murray A. Rae (eds), The Practice of Theology: A Reader David Jobling, Tina Pippin and Ronald Schleifer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader Thomas L. Martin (ed), Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis     

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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. By Howard Clark Kee et al. The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version: Revised and expanded edition. Edited by Robert J. Miller Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q. By Christopher M. Tuckett The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting 4). Edited by Richard Bauckham. Studies in Early Christology By Martin Hengel. St. Jerome's ’Hebrew Questions on Genesis‘ Translated with introduction and commentary by C. T. R. Hayward. Responses to 101 Questions on the Psalms and Other Writings. By Roland E. Murphy. Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. By Jas’ Elsner. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s ‘Life’ and the Late Antique City (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 25). By Derek Krueger. Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs By Denys Turner. Papal Primacy: From its Origins to the Present. By Klaus Schatz. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages. By André Vauchez. Scottish Theology from John Knox to John MacLeod Campbell. By Thomas F. Torrance. Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England 1540–1688. Edited by Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond 1540–1750. By Dauril Alden. Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses. Edited by John Breen and Mark Williams. Coleridge’s Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith. By Ronald C. Wendling. Hopkins Against History. By Eugene Hollahan. The Random Grim Forge: A Study of Social Ideas in the Work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. By Sjaak Zonneveld. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. By Michael A. Sells. Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America. James Randall Noblitt and Pamela Sue Perskin. Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment. Colin A. Ross. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. By Gerard Loughlin. Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis. Beyond its Authority? The Magisterium and Matters of Natural Law. By Frank Mobbs. Sex, Priests and Power. By A. W. Richard Sipe. God’s Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence, and the Rhetoric of Salvation. By Timothy Gorringe. Christ and the Spirit: Spirit-Christology in Trinitarian Perspective. By Ralph Del Colle. Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation. Edited by Jeff Astley, Leslie Francis and Colin Crowder. Christian Theology and Religious Education: Connections and Contradictions. Edited by Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis. Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives. Edited by G. Simon Love’s Virtues. By Mike W. Martin. Euthanasia: Death, Dying and the Medical Duty. Edited by G. R. Dunstan and P. J. Lachman. The Religion of Socrates. By Mark L. McPherran. Plato’s Ethics. By Terence Irwin. Stoic Studies. By A. A. Long. The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus. Edited by Lloyd P. Gerson.     

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Books reviewed: Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration Mark S. Smith, The Memoirs of God; History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel William M. Schneidewind, How the Bible Became a Book Tammi J. Schneider, Sarah: Mother of Nations John Eaton, The Psalms. A Historical and Spiritual Commentary with an Introduction and New Translation Richard A. Norris Jr, The Song of Songs Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators Mary E. Mills, Reading Ecclesiastes, A Literary and Cultural Exegesis Gary N. Knoppers, 1 Chronicles 1–9 Gary N. Knoppers, 1 Chronicles 10–29 Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity Seyoon Kim, Paul and the New Perspective: Second Thoughts on the Origin of Paul's Gospel Douglas Harink, Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology beyond Christendom and Modernity Margaret Barker, Temple Theology: An Introduction Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of John: A Commentary Carl B. Smith II, No Longer Jews: the Search for Gnostic Origins John Chryssavgis, John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain Kevin Corrigan and Elena Glazov‐Corrigan, Plato's Dialectic at Play: Argument, Structure, and Myth in the Symposium Peter Atkins, Memory and Liturgy: The Place of Memory in the Composition and Practice of Liturgy Paul P. J. Sheppy, Death Liturgy and Ritual, Vol. 1: A Pastoral and Liturgical Theology; Vol. II: A Commentary on Liturgical Texts Phillip Tovey, Inculturation of Christian Worship: Exploring the Eucharist David Foote, Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy: the Bishopric of Orvieto, 1100–1250 Lawrence S. Cunningham, Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life Sally Mayall Brasher, Women of the Humiliati: a Lay Religious Order in Medieval Civic Life Ralph McInerny, Aquinas Bernard Montagnes, The Doctrine of the Analogy of Being according to Thomas Aquinas Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology Joseph F. Conwell, A Brief and Exact Account: The Recollections of Simâo Rodrigues on the Origin and Progress of the Society of Jesus Thomas M. McCoog, S. J., The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture 1573–1580 Jennifer D. Selwyn, A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples Leszek Kolakowski, The Two Eyes of Spinoza, and Other Essays on Philosophers Michael J. Buckley, Denying and Disclosing God Douglas Hedley, Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion. ‘Aids to Reflection’ and the Mirror of the Spirit Gerard Mannion, Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality John P. O'Callaghan, Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence Donald M. Broom, The Evolution of Morality and Religion Brenda Almond and Michael Palmer, Ethical Issues in the New Genetics: Are Genes Us? William Shaw, Ethics at Work: Basic Readings in Business Ethics Eberhard Schockenhoff, Natural Law and Human Dignity: Universal Ethics in an Historical World Robert P. Kraynak and Glenn Tinder, In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for Our Times Donna Dickenson, Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics Frederick Aquino, Communities of Informed Judgment Matthew Grimley, Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England. Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars Robert Miner, Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy John Cottingham, The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value Paul D. Janz, God, The Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason, and Christian Thinking Richard Lennan, Risking the Church Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain, Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein Robert C. Croken and Robert M. Doran, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol. 17: Philosophical and Theological Papers 1965–1980 Frederick Crowe, Developing the Lonergan Legacy Donna Teevan, Lonergan, Hermeneutics, & Theological Method Kwasi Wiredu, A Companion to African Philosophy Alexandru Popescu, Petre ?u?ea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide K. K. Yeo, Chairman Mao Meets The Apostle Paul: Christianity, Communism, and The Hope of China Ian Linden, A New Map of the World Mark Knight, Chesterton and Evil     

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Books reviewed: Michael W. Myers, Brahman: A Comparative Theology Leo G. Perdue (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible W. Lee Humphreys, The Character of God in the Book of Genesis: A Narrative Appraisal Klaus Baltzer, Deutero‐Isaiah, Hermeneia — A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible Brevard S. Childs, Isaiah, The Old Testament Library Tina Beattie, The Last Supper According to Mary and Martha Jacob Neusner, The Halakhah and the Aggadah: Theological Perspectives J. Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement John Chrysostom, Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen, The Early Church Fathers Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets Phillip Cary, Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist Paul M. Collins, Trinitarian Theology West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period Donald K. McKim, Introducing the Reformed Faith: Biblical Revelation, Christian Tradition, Contemporary Significance Eric L. Santner, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship John Robinson, Honest to God Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation Vincent J. Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamin Valentin (eds), The Ties that Bind: African American and Hispanic American/ Latino/a Theologies in Dialogue Colin Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale‐Anne Brault and Michael Naas, The Work of Mourning Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh (eds), Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth‐Century Philosophy John Hick, Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion Janet Radcliffe Richards, Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction     

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Books reviewed: Lester L. Grabbe (ed), Can a History of Israel be Written? Michael Prior (ed), Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, The Bible and the Ancient Near East Tilde Binger, Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament Ben Witherington The Paul Quest: The Renewed Search for the Jew of Tarsus Robert Valantasis, The Gospel of Thomas (New Testament Readings) Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority William J. Abraham, Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism Roger Haight, Jesus: Symbol of God Raymund Schwager, translated by James G. Williams and Paul Haddon, Jesus in the Drama of Salvation: Towards a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption Raymund Schwager, translated by James G. Williams, Jesus of Nazareth: How He Understood His Life A. E. McGrath, Historical Theology. An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought C. Markschies, Between Two Worlds: Structures of Earliest Christianity Khaled Anatolios, Athanasius: The Coherence of his Thought Leonard P. Hindsley, The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery Kent Emery, Jr., and Joseph Wawrykow (eds), Christ among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ (Studies in Spirituality and Theology 5) Pat Collins, Spirituality for the 21st Century: Christian Living in a Secular Age Timothy O'Connell, Making Disciples Gordon Lathrop, Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology Stratford Caldecott (ed), Beyond the Prosaic: Renewing the Liturgical Movement Michael Hurley, Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Second Spring? John M. Riddle, Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West J. Davies, Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity Simon Price, Religions of the Ancient Greeks Karsten Friis Johansen, A History of Ancient Philosophy from the Beginnings to Augustine A. A. Long (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy C. C. W. Taylor, The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments Gail Fine (ed), Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Plato. Vol. 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Vol. 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul Noburu Notomi, The Unity of Plato's ‘Sophist’: Between the ‘Sophist’ and the ‘Philosopher’ Helen S. Lang, The Order of Nature in Aristotle's The Order of Nature in Aristotle's ‘Physics’ M. S. Kempshall, The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought Giordano Bruno. Edited and translated by Richard J. Blackwell and Robert de Lucca, Cause, Principle and Unity – And Essays on Magic     

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Books reviewed in this article: John Barton (ed.), The Biblical World Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Bernhard W. Anderson, Contours of Old Testament Theology James Barr, The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds.), Reclaiming the Bible for the Church Nancy L. deClaissè‐Walford, Reading from th eBeginning: The Shaping of the Hebrew Psalter Birger Gerhardsson, The Reliability of the Gospel Tradition Ben Witherington III, New Testament History: A Narrative Account Neil Richardson, God in the New Testament John S. Kloppenborg Verbin, Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of John Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer, Paul Between Damascus and Antioch. The Unknown Years F. Gerald Downing, Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches: Cynics and Christian Origins II Anthony C. Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians Kieran J. O'Mahony, Pauline Persuasion: A Sounding in 2 Corinthians 8‐9 C. K. Barrett, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volume I: Acts XV–XXVII April D. DeConick, Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature Manlio Simonetti (ed.), Ippolito. Contro Noeto Catherine Brown Tkacz, The Key to the Brescia Casket: Typology and the Early Christian Imagination Serge Lancel, St Augustine Patricia Cox Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion Thomas Head (ed.), Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology Allan Greer (ed.), The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth‐Century North America Stephen R. Holmes, God of Glory and God of Grace: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards Stephen Prickett, Narrative, Religion and Science. Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700–1999 Linda Woodhead (ed.), Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth‐Century Contexts Florent Gaboriau, The Conversion of Edith Stein Jeffrey S. Siker, Scripture and Ethics. Twentieth‐Century Portraits Richerd B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament. Community, Cross, New Creation John Kavanaugh, Who Counts as Persons: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing John Keown, Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument against Legalisation Stephen J. Pope and Charles Hefling (eds.), Sic et Non: Encountering ‘Dominus Iesus’ J'annine Jobling and Ian Markham (eds.), Theological Liberalism, Creative and Critical Hans Küng, Women in Christianity Lynne Broadbent and Alan Brown (eds.), Issues in Religious Education Jeremy Waldron, God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought Giles Fraser, Redeeming Nietzsche Alexander Garcia Düttman, The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer Michael Fuller, Making Sense of MacIntyre     

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Books reviewed: David Noel Freedman (ed.), Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Sara Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and its Place in Biblical Thought (Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Antiken Judentums 9). William Johnstone, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Volume 1: 1 Chronicles 1–2 Chronicles 9: Israel’s Place among the Nations (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 253). William Johnstone, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Volume 2: 2 Chronicles 10–36: Guilt and Atonement (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 254). Walter Brueggemann, Isaiah 1–39 (Westminster Bible Companion). Walter Brueggemann, Isaiah 40­66 (Westminster Bible Companion). Michael H. Floyd, Minor Prophets, Part 2. Louis H. Feldman, Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible (Hellenistic Culture and Society 27). William Horbury (ed.), Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben‐Yehuda. Jonathan L. Reed, Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re‐examination of the Evidence. James D. G. Dunn, The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: A Commentary on the Greek Text (The New International Greek Testament Commentary). John Ashton, The Religion of Paul the Apostle. Robert Alte, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture. Edward Yarnold, Cyril of Jerusalem. Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria (The Early Church Fathers). Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages. Mayeul de Dreuille, The Rule of Saint Benedict and the Ascetic Traditions from Asia to the West. Joel B. Green and Max Turner (eds.), Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology. Zachary Hayes, The Gift of Being: A Theology of Creation. Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology. Horst Althaus, Hegel: An Intellectual Biography. Cyril O’Regan, The Heterodox Hegel. John Skorupski, The Cambridge Companion to Mill. Steven Schroeder, The Metaphysics of Co‐operation: A Study of F. D. Maurice (Value Inquiry Book Series 84). Oliver F. Williams (ed.), Global Codes of Conduct: An Ideal whose Time has Come (The John W. Houck Notre Dame Series in Business Ethics). Kevin Wm Wildes, Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics. David L. Balch (ed.), Homosexuality, Science, and the ‘Plain Sense’ of Scripture. Kenneth Hylson‐Smith, Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation, I: From Roman Times to 1066. Kenneth Hylson‐Smith, Christianity in England from Roman Times to the Reformation, II: From 1066 to 1384. Y. Hen and M. Innes (eds.), The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. John Lowden, The Making of the ‘Bibles Moralisées’. Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 41). Odd Langholm, The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics). Jean Richard, The Crusades c.1071–c.1291 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). Cindy L. Carson and Angela Jane Weisl (eds.), Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages). James B. Atkinson and David Sices (eds.), Machiavelli and his Friends: Their Personal Correspondence. James V. Holleran, A Jesuit Challenge: Edmund Campion’s Debate at the Tower of London in 1581. Anthony Levi, Cardinal Richelieu and the Making of France. William H. Brackney, Paul S. Fiddes, and John H. Y. Briggs (eds.), Pilgrim Pathways: Essays in Honour of B. R. White. Philip C. Almond, Adam and Eve in Seventeenth‐Century Thought. Craig Harline and Eddy Put, A Bishop’s Tale: Matthias Hovius among his Flock in Seventeenth‐Century Flanders. Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore and Brian Young (eds.), History, Religion and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750–1950. Lawrence Barmann and C. J. T. Talar (eds.), Sanctity and Secularity during the Modernist Period. Roland Hill, Lord Acton. Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan (eds.), From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought.     

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Books reviewed: John Barton, Joel and Obadiah: A Commentary (Old Testament Library) John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew, Volume III: Companions and Competitors William E. Arnal, Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel Maurice Casey, Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way Christopher M. Tuckett, Christology and the New Testament: Jesus and His Earliest Followers Markus Bockmuehl, The Cambridge Companion to Jesus Shelly Matthews, First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity Stephen J. Davis, The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity J. Nimmo Smith, A Christian's Guide to Greek Culture. The Pseudo‐Nonnus Commentaries on Sermons 4, 5, 39 and 43 by Gregory of Nazianzus: Introduction, Translation and Notes (Translated Texts for Historians, 37). David Thomas, Early Moslem Polemic Against Christianity: Abu Isa al‐Warraq's ‘Against the Incarnation’ Thomas O'Loughlin, Celtic Theology: Humanity, World and God in Early Irish Writings Caroline M. Baron and Jenny Stratford, The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of R. B. Dobson (Harlaxton Medieval Studies XI) Owen Chadwick, The Early Reformation on the Continent (The Oxford History of the Christian Church) Benson Bobrick, The Making of the English Bible Peter Marhall and Alec Ryrie, The Beginnings of English Protestantism Robert Tittler, The Reformation and the Towns in England. Politics and Political Culture, c. 1540–1640 Peter Marshall, Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England Nicholas Tyacke, Aspects of English Protestantism, c.1530–1700 John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689 William Gibson, The Church of England 1688–1832: Unity and Accord Warwick Gould and Marjorie Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries James M. Byrne, God: Thoughts in an Age of Uncertainty (New Century Theology) Michael Palmer, The Question of God: An Introduction and Sourcebook Michel René Barnes, The Power of God: ΔYNAMIΣ in Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Virtue Stanley M. Hauerwas, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth‐Century Theology and Philosophy David Toole, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy, and Apocalypse John Sullivan, Catholic Education: Distinctive and Inclusive George Dennis O'Brien, The Idea of a Catholic University Gunnar Skirbekk and Nils Gilje, A History of Western Thought Ellen Wagner, Essays on Plato's Psychology Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being Jame Daly, Deals and Ideals: Two Concepts of Enlightenment Manfred Kuehn, Kant: A Biography P. Travis Kroeker and Bruce K. Ward, Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity Stephen Mulhall, Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard David Braybrooke, Natural Law Modernized María Pía Lara, Rethinking Evil W. W. Meisner, Freud and Psychoanalysis Jennifer Jackson, Truth, Trust and Medicine Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel P. Sulmasy, Methods in Medical Ethics H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Mark J. Cherry, Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives Maura A. Ryan, The Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing Michael Walsh, Dictionary of Christian Biography     

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Books reviewed Gail Corrington Streete, The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible Athalya Brenner (ed), Judges (A Feminist Companion to the Bible. Second Series 4) Athalya Brenner (ed), Ruth and Esther (The Feminist Companion to the Bible. Second Series 3) Wendy Cotter, Miracles in Greco‐Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook for the Study of New Testament Miracle Stories N. T. Wright and Marcus J. Borg, The Meaning of Jesus Daniel J. Harrington, Invitation to the Apocrypha François Bovon, Ann Graham Brock and Christopher R. Matthews (eds), The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (Harvard Divinity School Studies) A. J. M. Wedderburn, Beyond Resurrection Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy Lucy Gardener, David Moss, Ben Quash and Graham Ward, Balthasar at the End of Modernity John R. Quinn, The Reform of the Papacy André Corten, Pentecostalism in Brazil: Emotion of the Poor and Theological Romanticism John R. Tyson (ed), Invitation to Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Anthology Adrian Thatcher (ed), Spirituality and the Curriculum James Howard‐Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (eds), The Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown Georgia Frank, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 30) R. M. Grant, Early Christians and Animals Anthony Meredith, Gregory of Nyssa (The Early Church Fathers) Anna Silvas, Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources Christoph. T. Maier, Crusade Propaganda and Ideology: Model Sermons for the Preaching of the Cross Diana Norman, Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State David Dymond (ed), The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 1, 1482–1517 David Dymond (ed), The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 2, 1518–1540 Wilfrid McGreal, John of the Cross (Fount Christian Thinkers) Peta Dunstan, This Poor Sort: A History of the European Province of the Society of St Francis Yirmiyahu Yovel, Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche and the Jews Terence Irwin (ed), Classical Philosophy Christopher Bruell, On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues Gareth B. Matthews, Socratic Perplexity Ralph McInerny, Aquinas and Analogy Paul Vincent Spade (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham René Descartes, Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii: Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence (Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries) Robert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology Janna Thompson, Discourse and Knowledge: Defence of a Collectivist Ethics David Carr and Jan Steutel (eds), Virtue Ethics and Moral Education Daniel McInerny, The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education Gary Gutting, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (Modern European Philosophy) David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin, Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility: For and Against Peter H. Sedgwick, The Market Economy and Christian Ethics     

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Books reviewed: Erwin Fahlbusch, Jan Milic Lochman, John Mbiti, Jaroslav Pelikan and Lukas Vischer (eds), The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 1, A–D James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era John Barton (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation Henning Graf Reventlow (ed), Eschatology in the Bible and in Jewish and Christian Tradition Marti J. Steussy, David: Biblical Portraits of Power. John Day (ed), King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar Paolo Sacchi, Jewish Apocalyptic and its History (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 20) Steve Mason (ed), Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives Raymond E. Brown An Introduction to the New Testament D. Kries and C. Brown Tkacz (eds), Nova Doctrina Vetusque: Essays in Early Christianity in Honor of Fredric W. Schlatter S.J. J. Petruccione, Nova et Vetera: Patristic Studies in Honor of Thomas Patrick Halton Elisabeth van Houts, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900–1200 Jonathan Phillips (ed,) The First Crusade: Origins and Impact Diana Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews William J. Short, Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition Joanna Cannon and André Vauchez, Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany Gary M. Radke, Viterbo: Profile of a Thirteenth‐Century Papal Palace Maria Dowling, Fisher of Men: A Life of John Fisher, 1469–1535 P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart (ed), The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History Alison Shell, Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching Thomas Worcester, Seventeenth‐Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus P. M. Oliver, Donne's Religious Writing: A Discourse of Feigned Devotion Daniel C. Beaver, Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590–1690 Thomas M. Cohen, The Fire of Tongues: António Vieira and the Missionary Church in Brazil and Portugal Tony Claydon and Ian McBride (eds), Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c.1650–c.1850 Sue Zemka, Victorian Testaments: The Bible, Christology and Literary Authority in Early‐Nineteenth‐Century British Culture Joseph Pearce, Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief V. Alan McClelland and Michael Hodgetts (eds), From Without the Flaminian Gate: 150 Years of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales, 1850–2000 C. J. T. Talar, (Re)reading, Reception and Rhetoric: Approaches to Roman Catholic Modernism John F. Pollard, The Unknown Pope: Benedict XV (1914–1922) and the Pursuit of Peace Robert Hutchinson, When in Rome: An Unauthorised Guide to the Vatican Edward T. Gratsch, The Holy See and the United Nations, 1945–1995 Édouard Bonnefous, Jean Foyer and Joël‐Benoït d'Onorio (eds), La Papauté au XXe siècle: Colloque de la Fondation Singer‐Polignac Maureen Fiedler and Linda Rabben (eds), Rome Has Spoken: A Guide to Forgotten Papal Statements and How They Have Changed Through the Centuries     

BOOK REVIEWS

John Henry Newman: A Biography. By Ian Ker. Pp.xiii, 762, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988, £48.00. Cassirer: Symbolic Forms and History. By John Michael Krois. Pp.xvii, 262, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1987, £29.95. Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason. By Georgia Warnke. Pp.xii, 206, Oxford, Polity Press, 1987, £7.95. Licensed Insanities: Religions and Belief in God in the Contemporary World. By John Bowker. Pp.ix, 164, Darton Longman and Todd, 1987, £8.95. The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development and Significance. By Bruce M. Metzger. Pp.x, 326, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, £30.00. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions. By Bentley Layton. Pp.xlii, 526, London, SCM Press, 1987, £25.00. Women and Early Christianity: Are the Feminist Scholars Right? By Susanne Heine. Pp.vi, 182, London, SCM Press, 1987, £6.95. Eunomius, The Extant Works (Oxford Early Christian Texts). Text and translation by Richard Paul Vaggione. Pp.xvii, 209, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, £30. The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950–1250. By R.I. Moore. Pp.viii, 168, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, £19.50. Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 4). By Miri Rubin. Pp.xiv, 365, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £30. Representatives of the Lower Clergy in Parliament, 1295–1340 (Royal Historical Society. Studies in History 50). By Jeffrey H. Denton and John P. Dooley. Pp.142, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 1987, £25.00. From Ockham to Wyclif (Studies in Church History Subsidia 5). Edited by Anne Hudson and Michael Wilks. Pp.xv, 486, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, £35.00 Literary and Educational Writings (Collected Works of Erasmus 27 and 28). Edited by A.H.T. Levi. Pp.xxx, 638, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1986, £65.00. Paraphrase on Mark (Collected Works of Erasmus 49). Edited by Erika Rummel. Pp.xiv, 235, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1988, £28.00 The Dawn of the Reformation. Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought. By Heiko A. Oberman. Pp.x, 309, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1987. £14.95. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. By Alister McGrath. Pp.viii.223, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, £25.00. The English Reformation Revised. Edited by Christopher Haigh. Pp.x, 229, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £8.95. Das Papstamt im Disput zwischen Lutheranern und Katholiken: Schwerpunkte von der Reformation bis zur Geganwart (Innsbrucker Theologische Studien 20). By Wolfgang Klausnitzer. Pp.586, Innsbruck, Tyrolia Verlag, 1987, DM 112. The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren. Volume I. Translated and edited by the Hutterian Brethren. Pp.ixxv, 887, Rifton (N.Y.), Plough Publishing House, 1987, no price given. Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld: Leadership and Reform in the French Church. By Joseph Bergin. Pp.viii, 302, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987, £25.00 A Guide for Preachers on Composing and Delivering Sermons. The ‘Or ha-Darshanim’ of Jacob Zahalon. A Seventeenth-Century Italian Preacher's Manual (Moreshet Series, Studies in Jewish History, Literature and Thought XI). By Henry Adler Sosland. Pp.xiv, 194, 54*, New York, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987, $20.00. Jewish-Christian Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Studies and Documents (International Archives of the History of Ideas 119). Edited by J. van den Berg and Ernestine G.E. van der Wall. Pp.ix, 210, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, £46.95. The Life of James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, 1618–1679: A Political Biography. By Julia Buckroyd. Pp.ix, 150, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1987, £18.00 Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century. By Marjorie Reeves and Warwick Gould. Pp.x, 365, Oxford University Press, 1987, £35.00 Religion in England, 1688–1791 (Oxford History of the Christian Church). By Ernest Gordon Rupp. Pp.xiii, 584, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, £45.00. Liberal Anglican Politics: Whiggery, Religion and Reform, 1830–1841. By Richard Brent. Pp.xii, 340, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, £32.50. The Victorian Christian Socialists. By Edward Norman, Pp.201, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £17.50 Tradition Renewed: The Oxford Movement Conference Papers. Edited by Geoffrey Rowell. Pp.xvi, 237. London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1986, £12.95. A Circle of Friends: The Tennysons and the Lushingtons of Park House. By John O. Waller. Pp.xvi, 290, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1986, $29.50. Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875 (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics). By J.P. Parry. Pp.xiii, 504, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £37.50. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America (Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism). By Ann Taves. Pp.x, 197, Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, $17.95. The American Catholic Parish: A History from 1850 to the Present. Edited by Jay P. Dolan. 2 vols. Mahwah, New Jersey, Paulist Press, 1987, $24.95 each. Amigo.-Friend of the Poor, Bishop of Southwark, 1904–1949. By Michael Clifton. Pp.236, Leominster, Fowler Wright, 1987, £9.95. American Catholic Religious Thought: The Shaping of a Theological and Social Tradition. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. Pp.iv, 302, New York, Paulist Press, 1987. $10.95 Altered Landscapes: Christianity in America, 1935–1985: Essays in Honor of Robert T, Handy. Edited by David W. Lotz, Donald Shriver and John F. Wilson. Pp.xi, 387, Grand Rapids, W.B. Eerdmans, 1989, $27.50/$17.95. Doctrines of Religious Communities. A Philosophical Study. By William A. Christian, Sr. Pp.vii, 234, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1987, £22.50. Continental Philosophy and Modern Theology. By David Brown. Pp.xii, 250, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, £27.00. The Structure of Emotions. By Robert M. Gordon. Pp.xiv, 161, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £22.50. Philosophical Perspectives on Developmental Psychology. Edited by James Russell. Pp.ix, 262, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, £27.50. A Prospectus for the Triumph of Realism. By Thomas A. Russman. Pp.viii, 157, Macon GA, Mercer University Press, 1987, $24.95. Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's ‘Phaedrus’ (Cambridge Classical Studies). By G.R.F. Ferrari. Pp.xii, 293, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £22.50. Studies in Medieval Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 17). Edited by John F. Wippel. Pp.viii, 302, Washington DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1987, $36.95. Thomas Buckingham and the Contingency of Futures (University of Notre Dame, The Medieval Institute Publications in Medieval Studies 25). By Bartholomew R. De la Torre. Pp.xii, 394, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987, £35.95. Montesquieu (Past Masters). By Judith N. Shklar. Pp.vii, 136, Oxford University Press, 1987, £11.95/£3.50.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Understanding the Word: Essays in Honour of Bernhard W. Anderson. Edited by James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad and Ben C. Ollenburger. A Word in Season: Essays in Honour of William McKane. Edited by James D. Martin and Philip R. Davies. The Prophet Amos: A Translation and Commentary. By J. Alberto Soggin. Her Price is Beyond Rubies: The Jewish Woman in Graeco-Roman Palestine. By Léonie J. Archer. JSOT Supplement Series 60. The Gospel of Luke (Sacra Pagina 3). By Luke Timothy Johnson. The Acts of the Apostles (Sacra Pagina 5). By Luke Timothy Johnson. Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore. Jesus the Exorcist: A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Jesus (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/54). By Graham H. Twelftree. The Death of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. By Raymond E. Brown. Paul and rhe Popular Philosophers. By Abraham J. Malherbe. History of New Testament Research, Volume One: From Deism to Tubingen. By William Baird. Theological Ethics of the New Testament. By Eduard Lohse. Living a Christian Life: Vol. 2 of The Way of the Lord Jesus. By Germain Grisez. Moral Demands and Personal Obligations. By Josef Fuchs. Plurality and Chrisrian Ethics. By Ian Markham. The Nature of Moral Thinking. By Francis Snare. Ethics (Oxford Readers). Edited by Peter Singer. Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologiae’. By James F. Keenan. Divine Power: The Medieval Power Distinction up to its Adoption by Albert, Bonaventure and Aquinas. By Lawrence Moonan. Preserving the Creation: Environmental Theology and Ethics. Edited by Kevin W. Irwin and Edmund D. Pellegrino. Religion and the Making of Society. By Charles Davis. The Good Stewards: Practical Applications of the Papal Social Vision of Work. By Michael Naughton. Things Old and New: Catholic Social Teaching Revisited. Edited by Francis P. McHugh and Samuel Natale. The Church Faces the Modern World: ‘Rerum Novarum’ and its Impact. Edited by Paul Furlong and David Curtis. Catholic Social Thought and the New World Order: Building on One Hundred Years. Edited by Oliver F. Williams and John W. Houck. The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach. By Charles E. Curran. God, Truth and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick. Edited by Arvind Sharma. Christianity and Chinese Religions. By Hans Kiing and Julia Ching. The Catholic Church in Modern China: Perspectives. Edited by Edmond Tang and Jean-Paul Wiest. Education And Meaning: Philosophy in Practice. By Paddy Walsh. Detachment and Concern: Conversations in the Philosophy of Teaching and Teacher Education. By Margret Buchman and Robert Floden. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics and the Movies (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications). By Gregory D. Black. Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000–1300 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). By Janet Burton. The Early Reformation in Europe. Edited by Andrew Pettegree.     

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Faith and Understanding, Paul Helm, Edinburgh University Press 1997 God, Reason and Theistic Proofs, Stephen T. Davis, Edinburgh University Press 1997 An Introduction to Pastoral Care, Charles V. Gerkin, Abingdon Press 1997 A Preserving Grace. Protestants, Catholics and Natural Law, Michael Cromartie (ed), Ethics and Public Policy Center and Eerdmans 1997 Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion, Ingvild S. Gilhus, Routledge 1997 Visions and Longings. Medieval Women Mystics, Monica Furlong, Mowbray/Cassell 1996 Women Confronting the Holocaust In Spite of the Horror, Jutta T. Bendremer, Edwin Mellen Press 1997 Political Christianity: A Reader, David McLellan (ed), SPCK 1997 Freedom of Religion and Belief. A world report, Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen (eds) Religion Without Transcendence?, D.Z. Phillips and Timothy Tessin (eds) Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Charles Taliaferro A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief Jewish Perspectives on Christianity, Fritz A. Rothschild (ed) Allah in the West. Islamic Movements in America and Europe, Gilles Kepel Qur'ān, Liberation and Pluralism: an Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression, Farid Esack Ambrose, Boniface Ramsey OP (The Early Church Fathers ed Carol Harrison) The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John and the Origins of the Gospel Genre, Lawrence M. Wills The Gospel of Luke, Joel B. Green (ed), (The New International Commentary on the New Testament) Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age, Robin Gill, T.&T. Clark 1997 Ethics and the Old Testament, John Barton, SCM Press 1998     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Phillip B. Munoa III, Four Powers in Heaven: The Interpretation of Daniel 7 in the Testament of Abraham Kenneth Ballhatchet, Caste, Class and Catholicism in India 1789–1914 Richard J. Coggins, Sirach S. Jones and S. Pearce (eds), Jewish Local Patriotism and Self-Identification in the Graeco-Roman World Gerd Ludemann and Martina Janssen, Suppressed Prayers: Gnostic Spirituality in Early Christianity Richard Cross, The Physics of Duns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision Columba Stewart, Prayer and the Community: The Benedictine Tradition Richard Woods, Mysticism and Prophecy: The Dominican Tradition Saskia Murk-Jansen, Brides in the Desert: The Spirituality of the Beguines Gordon S. Wakefield, An Outline of Christian Worship Stratford Caldecott (ed.), Beyond the Prosaic Movement: Renewing the Liturgical Movement Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy Horace T. Allen & Joseph Russell, On Common Ground: The Story of the Common Lectionary John Blakesley, A Garland of Faith: Sequences, Prayers and Poems of the Medieval Church arranged for the Three Year Lectionary David J. Schlafer, What Makes this Day Different? Preaching Grace on Special Occasions Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide Alan Wilkinson, Christian Socialism: Scott Holland to Tony Blair Michael Budde, The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity & Global Culture Industries T. W. Boxx and G. M. Quinlivan (eds), Toward the Renewal of Civilization: Political Order and Culture Philip Sheldrake, Spirituality and Theology: Christian Living and the Doctrine of God J. Ian H. McDonald, The Crucible of Christian Morality James F. Sennett (ed.), The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Martin Jan Mulder, Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity Jan‐Wim Wesselius, The Origin of the History of Israel: Herodotus' Histories as Blueprint for the First Books of the Bible Philippe Guillaume, Waiting for Josiah: The Judges (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement 385) Joseph Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 40–55: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible 19A) Joseph Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 56–66: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible 19B) Edgar Conrad, Reading the Latter Prophets: Towards a New Canonical Criticism (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement 376) Benedikt Otzen, Tobit and Judith. Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Christopher Owczarek, Sons of the Most High: Love of Enemies in Luke‐Acts: Teaching and Practice Darrell L. Bock, Jesus according to the Scriptures: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels Scot McKnight, Turning to Jesus: The Sociology of Conversion in the Gospels Mark D. Nanos, The Galatians Debate. Contemporary issues in Rhetorical and Historical Interpretation Donald A. Hagner, Encountering the Book of Hebrews. An Exposition Raymund Schwager, James G. Williams and Paul Haddon, Jesus in the Drama of Salvation: Toward a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, The Last Things. Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Eschatology David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek, Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Religion, Marriage, and Family) Birger A. Pearson, Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity) G. R. Evans, The First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation John Behr, The Nicene Faith: Formation of Christian Theology Aage Rydstrøm‐Poulsen, The Gracious God: Gratia in Augustine and the Twelfth Century Harold Samuel Stone, St Augustine's Bones: A Microhistory Alister E. McGrath, A Scientific Theology. Volume 2: Reality Adam Hood, Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief Stanley Hauerwas, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence Patrick Burke, Reinterpreting Rahner: A Critical Study of His Major Themes John Hick, John Hick: An Autobiography Douglas Hicks, Religion and the Workplace Francisco Gil Hellín, Constitutio Pastoralis de Ecclesia in Mundo Huius Temporis: Gaudium et Spes (Concilii Vaticani II Synopsis in ordinem redigens schemata cum relationibus necnon Patrum orationes atque animadversiones, no. 4) James K. A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post‐Secular Theology Clarence Gallagher, Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: A Comparative Study Nick Havely, Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the Commedia Elizabeth Vandiver, Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther. Translated and annotated John Witte, Jr., Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation John Christian Laursen and Richard H. Popkin, Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Anne Stott, Hannah More. The First Victorian Michael Giffin, Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England Harvey Hill, The Politics of Modernism: Alfred Loisy and the Scientific Study of Religion David Fergusson, Church, State and Civil Society Anthony O'Mahony and Michael Kirwan, World Christianity: Politics, Theology, Dialogues Sharon Anderson‐Gold, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Anthony Pagden, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union J. S. Lawrence and R. Jewett, The Myth of the American Superhero Christopher Insole, The Politics of Human Frailty Terence Cuneo, Religion in the Liberal Polity Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free? Values and Scientific Understanding Lisa Sowle Cahill, Bioethics and the Common Good (The Père Marquette Lecture in Theology 2004) Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz, Questions About God: Today's Philosophers Ponder the Divine Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality Julian Young, The Death of God and the Meaning of Life Nicholas Everitt, The Non‐Existence of God Simon Francis Gaine OP, Will there be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude Christopher S. Hill, Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) Gábor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation Max Charlesworth, Philosophy and Religion from Plato to Postmodernism James Warren, Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia Allan Silverman, The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics Richard Kraut, Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought) Noel Malcolm, Aspects of Hobbes William Lad Sessions, Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion George Pattison, Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Crisis of Culture A. W. Moore, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy Robert C. Miner, Vico, Genealogist of Modernity Russell B. Goodman, Wittgenstein and William James     

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A Century of Biblical Archaeology. By Roger Moorey. The Bible. By Stephen Prickett and Robert Barnes. Jewish Lawfrom Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies. By E. P. Sanders. Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church. By Stuart G. Hall. Meisrer Eckhart: Mystical Theologian. By Oliver Davies. Bossuet: Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture. Translated and edited by Patrick Riley (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). T. S. Eliotand Mysticism: The Secret History of ‘Four Quartets’. By Paul Murray. The Identily of Anglican Worship. Edited by Kenneth Stevenson and Bryan Spinks. Born Before All Time: The Dispute over Christ's Origin. By Karl-Josef Kuschel, translated by John Bowden. Christ, Ethics and Tragedy. Essays in Honour of Donald MacKinnon. Edited by Kenneth Surin. Karl Rahner. By William V. Dych. Hans Urs von Bultharar. By John O'Donnell. A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity. By Keith Ward. From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianiry. By Anne Primavesi. Imagination and Authority: Theological Authorship in the Modern Tradition. By John E. Thiel. What is a Story? By Don Cupitt. Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (Sather Classical Lectures). By Averil Cameron. Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain. By Dorothy Watts. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Regents Studies in Medieval Culture). By Seth Lerer. Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion III). Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England. By Eamon Duffy. The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods. By James M. Stayer. Carholic Religious Poetsfrom Southwell to Crushaw. By Anthony D. Cousins. Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble. By Keith P. Luria. Unresting Transformation: The Theology and Spirituality of Maude Petre. By Ellen Leonard. Tradition and the Critical Spirit: Catholic Modernist Writings (Fortress Texts in Modern Theology). Writings of George Tyrrell, selected and introduced by James C. Livingston. Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. By Richard Brown. Ernst Troeltsch: Religion in History. Essays translated by James Luther Adams and Walter F. Bense. Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth. By John Finnis. Morality and Modernity. By Ross Poole. Understanding War (Points of Conflict). By W.B. Gallie. Business Ethics: The State of the Art (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics). Edited by Edward R. Freeman. Conditionals. Edited by Frank Jackson. The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge. By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. William of Ockham and the Divine Freedom. By Harry Klocker. Freedom in the Modern World: Maritain, Simon, Adler. Edited by Michael D. Torre. The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762. By Maurice Cranston. Wittgenstein Centenary Essays (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 28). Edited by A. Phillips Griffiths.     

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Books Reviewed: Richard J. Clifford, The Wisdom Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts) Dianne Bergant, Israel Wisdom Literature: A Liberation–Critical Reading (A Liberation–Critical Reading of the Old Testament) Mark W. Elliott, The Song of Songs and Christology in the Early Church 381–451 (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum) Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation Stephen C. Barton, Life Together: Family, Sexuality and Community in the New Testament and Today Malcolm Bull (ed), Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World Introduced and translated by Janice L. Schultz and Edward A. Synan, St Thomas Aquinas: An Exposition of the “On the Hebdomads” of Boethius John Anthony McGuckin, Standing in God’s Holy Fire: The Byzantine Tradition Joan M. Nuth, God’s Lovers in an Age of Anxiety: The Medieval English Mystics Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing Dorothee Soelle, The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition Charles E. Curran, The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States: Three Different Approaches Andrew Davey, Urban Christianity and Global Order: Theological Resources For An Urban Future Stephen R. L. Clark, Biology and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) Franklin H. Littell, Historical Atlas of Christianity George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig (eds), Medieval Monastic Education Paul Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation Michael A. Signer and John van Enghen (eds), Jews and Christians in Twelfth–Century Europe Philip Olleson (ed), The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence 1797–1837 S. M. Waddams, Sexual Slander in Nineteenth–Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815–1855 Pamela J. Walker, Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Hugh Rice, God and Goodness Nicholas Rescher, Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Method of Science Nigel Biggar and Rufus Black (eds), The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis–Grisez School     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: James D. G. Dunn and John W. Rogerson, Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible Yairah Amit, Reading Biblical Narratives. Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible Thomas L. Leclerc, Yahweh is Exalted in Justice: Solidarity and Conflict in Isaiah Nuria Calduch‐Benages, Joan Ferrer, and Jan Liesen, La sabiduría del Escriba/Wisdom of the Scribe: Diplomatic Edition of the Syriac Version of the Book of Ben Sira according to Codex Ambrosianus, with Translations in Spanish and English Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon, The Book of Esther in Modern Research Paolo Sacchi, The History of the Second Temple Period Mary E. Mills, Biblical Morality. Moral Perspectives in Old Testament Narratives Richard Swinburne, The Resurrection of God Incarnate H. Benedict Green, Matthew, Poet of the Beatitudes C. K. Barrett, On Paul. Essays on His Life, Work and Influence in the Early Church Michael D. Goulder, Paul and the Competing Mission in Corinth Byron R. McCane, Roll Back the Stone: Death and Burial in the World of Jesus Magnus Zetterholm, The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social‐Scientific Approach to the Separation between Judaism and Christianity Dale V. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement, Volume I: Earliest Christianity to 1453 Francis Clark, The ‘Gregorian’ Dialogues and the Origins of Benedictine Monasticism Michael Frassetto, The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium Patrick Nold, Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy Teresa P. Reed, Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts Michael D. Bailey, Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reforma in the Late Middle Ages Colm Lennon, An Irish Prisoner of Conscience of the Tudor Era: Archbishop Richard Creagh of Armagh, 1523–86 Judith S. Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall Crawford Gribben, The Puritan Millennium. Literature and Theology, 1550‐1682 M. Feingold, Jesuit Science And The Republic of Letters Robert Bireley, The Jesuits And The Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors Torkel Brekke, Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century P. Koslowski, The Concept of God, the Origin of the World, and the Image of the Human in the World Religions Peter Koslowski, The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions J. H. Laenen, Jewish Mysticism: An Introduction Barbara Bowe, Biblical Foundations of Spirituality: Touching a Finger to the Flame Thomas G. Weinandy and Daniel A. Keating, The Theology of St Cyril of Alexandria. A Critical Appreciation James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making, Volume 1 Daniel W. Hardy, Finding the Church: The Dynamic Truth of Anglicanism S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends John Webster, Word and Church. Essays in Christian Dogmatics Alister E. McGrath, A Scientific Theology. Volume 1: Nature James Alison, On Being Liked Michael J. Langford, A Liberal Theology for the Twenty‐First Century: A Passion for Reason Guy Mansini and James G. Hart, Ethics and Theological Disclosures:The Thought of Robert Sokolowski Mark A. Wrathall, Religion After Metaphysics Gerd Van Riel, Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists Nomy Arpaly, Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Moral Agency Gernot Böhme, Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions Erica Appelros, God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non‐Realism Mark C. Murphy, Natural Law and Practical Rationality Richard Brian Davis, The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality J. Brower and K. Guilfoy, The Cambridge Companion to Abelard Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives Stephen J. Pope, The Ethics of Aquinas Kevin White and Romanus Cessario, On The Virtues John Capreolus Steven Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God Susan M. Felch and Paul J. Contino, Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith Ruth Coates, Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author David Michael Levin, The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment Charles Guignon and David R. Hiley, Richard Rorty Celia E. Deane‐Drummond, Biology and Theology Today Oswaldo de Rivero, The Myth of Development: The Non‐Viable Economies of the 21^st Century     

Book reviews

Mary T. Malone, Women and Christianity, II: The Medieval Period AD 1000–1500 (Blackrock: Columba Press, 2001), ISBN 1–85607–339–4 (pbk), 198 pp.

Nicholas Sagovsky, Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ISBN 0–521–77269–9 (hbk), 221 pp.

John D. Zizioulas, Eucharist, Bishop, Church (trans. Elizabeth Theokritoff; Boston, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2001), ISBN 1–885652–43–7 (pbk).

Peter Matheson, The Imaginative World of the Reformation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), ISBN 0–8006–3291–5 (pbk), xiv + 153 pp. Illus.

Carol Rittner and John K. Roth (eds.), Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (London/NY: Leicester University Press/Continuum, 2002), ISBN 0–7185–0274–2 (pbk), 256 pp.

Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), ISBN 0–521–80041–2 (hbk), xiii + 344 pp.