Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Gordon Graham, Evil and Christian Ethics J. C. Lester, Escape From Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare and Anarchy Reconciled Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner (ed.), The Origins of Left‐Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings; Left‐Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate James P. Sterba, Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives R. S. Downie and Jane MacNaughton, Clinical Judgement: Evidence in Practice John Hardwig, Is There a Duty to Die?: with other essays in Bioethics James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder (ed.), Is There a Duty to Die?     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Anne E. Monius, Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community In Tamil-Speaking South India
Joseph Dan, The Heart and the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences
Walter Dietrich and Ulrich Luz (eds), The Bible in a World Context: An Experiment in Contextual Hermeneutics
Roy A. Harrisville and Walter Sundberg, The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs , Second edition
John L. Berquist, Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
William C. Placher, Jesus the Saviour: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Christian Faith
R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History
Galia Sabar, Church, State and Society in Kenya: From Mediation to Opposition, 1963–1993
Charles T. Mathewes, Evil and the Augustinian Tradition
Norman Doe, The Law of the Church in Wales
Michael Barnes S.J., Theology and the Dialogue of Religions
Beverley Clack, Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality
Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady and Judith L. Poxon (eds), French Feminists on Religion: A Reader
Kay A. Read and Isabel L. Wollaston (eds), Suffer the Little Children: Urban Violence and Sacred Space
Erica Appelros, God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-realism
Conor Cunningham, Genealogy of Nihilism
Richard L. Fern, Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature
Kenneth Stevenson, Do This: The Shape, Style and Meaning of the Eucharist
Helen Orchard (ed.), Spirituality in Health Care Contexts
Christopher Cocksworth and Rosalind Brown, Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity
Nancy Lammers Gross, If You Cannot Preach Like Paul...     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: JCP Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth, Carsten Peter Thiede Europe without Priests?, Jan Kerkhofs (ed.) Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession, Robert Fuller Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil: Prolegomena to a Christian Theology of Evil, Richard Worsley The Times Book of Best Sermons, Ruth Gledhill (ed.) University of Birmingham God in the City: Essays and Reflections from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Urban Theology Group, Peter Sedgewick (ed.) The Philosophy of Religious Language: Sign Symbol and Story, Dan R. Stiver Yes to a Global Ethic, Hans Küng (ed) True to This Earth: Global Challenges and Transforming Faith, Alan Race and Roger Williamson (eds) Angel and Me, Sara Maitland Searching the Scriptures Volume 2: A Feminist Commentary, The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300, Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise, Anthony C. Thiselton, T. & T. Clark The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jiirgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas, Arne Rasmusson The Persistence of Purgatory, Richard K. Fenn     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Delbert Burkett, An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity Jenny Read‐Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text of Acts: A Contribution of Discourse Analysis to Textual Criticism Paula Fredriksen and Adele Reinhartz (eds), Jesus, Judaism and Christian Anti‐Judaism: Reading the New Testament after the Holocaust Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil (eds), Maximus the Confessor and his Companions: Documents from Exile Eric Plumer (ed.), Augustine's Commentary on Galatians: Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes Aidan Nichols OP, Darton, Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to his Life, Work and Influence Edward Howells, John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: Mystical Knowing and Selfhood Amanda Porterfield (ed.), American Religious History Jeanne Halgren Kilde, When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth‐Century America Dale P. Andrews, Practical Theology for Black Churches: Bridging Black Theology and African American Folk Religion Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Captain America and the Crusade against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism Paul Gifford (ed.), 2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity and the Common Era Clive Marsh, Christianity in A Post‐Atheist Age Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, SJ, and Gerald O’Collins, SJ (eds), The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming David Willis, Notes on the Holiness of God Tatha Wiley, Original Sin: Origins, Developments, Contemporary Meanings Natalie K. Watson, Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology John G. Stackhouse Jr, Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today Alister McGrath, A Scientific Theology: Reality Stephen Darwall, Virtue Ethics Stephen Darwall, Consequentialism Stephen Darwall, Contractarianism / Contractualism Stephen Darwall, Deontology Charles E. Curran (ed.), Change in Official Catholic Moral Teachings Noreen L. Herzfeld, In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit Werner G. Jeanrond and Lisa Sowle Cahill (eds), Religious Education for Boys and Girls     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Julian Baldick, Animal and Shaman: Ancient Religions of Central Asia David Noel Freedman, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible Tod Linafelt (ed.), Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust Michael Joseph Brown, What They Don't Tell You: A Survivor's Guide to Biblical Studies Esther Fuchs, Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman Karl Löning and Erich Zenger, To Begin with, God Created ≡: Biblical Theologies of Creation Gregory W. Dawes (ed.), The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History Kevin Ward and Brian Stanley (eds), The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799–1999 Leslie J. Francis and Yaacov J. Katz (eds), Joining and Leaving Religion: Research Perspectives Kimon Howland Sargeant, Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way J. Heywood Thomas, and Paul Tillich, Outstanding Christian Thinkers John Webster, and Karl Barth, Outstanding Christian Thinkers Samuel M. Powell, The Trinity in German Thought James Woodward and Stephen Pattison (eds), The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology Marc Gopin, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking John Hick, The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm Mark Larrimore (ed.), The Problem of Evil: A Reader Michael Taylor, Poverty and Christianity: Reflections at the Interface between Faith and Experience Patrick Riley, Civilizing Sex: On Chastity and the Common Good Brian S. Hook and R. R. Reno, Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence Douglas A. Hicks, Inequality and Christian Ethics Joseph Sittler, Evocations of Grace: Writings on Ecology, Theology and Ethics M. W. Sinnett, Restoring the Conversation: Socratic Dialectic in the Authorship of Søren Kierkegaard Eef Dekker, Middle Knowledge Pierre‐Marie Emonet, The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Being Pierre‐Marie Emonet, The Greatest Marvel of Nature. An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person Scott Cowdell, A God for this World Alister E. McGrath (ed.), Christian Literature: An Anthology Rowan Williams, Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Freda Matchett, Krsna: Lord or Avatāra? The Relationship Between Krsna and Visnu Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues Damien Keown (ed.), Contemporary Buddhist Ethics William G. Dever, What did the Biblical Writers Know and When did They Know it? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel John Dancy, The Divine Drama James C. VanderKam, An Introduction to Early Judaism Jacob Neusner, The Aggadic Role in Halakhic Discourse Stephen J. Davis, The Cult of Saint Thecla: A Tradition of Women’s Piety in Late Antiquity Siegmar Döpp and Wilhelm Geerlings, Dictionary of Early Christian Literature Ashley Null, Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love Avery Dulles, S.J. and Rabbi Leon Klenicki, The Holocaust, Never To Be Forgotten: Reflections on the Holy See’s Document, We Remember Christopher H. Evans (ed.), The Social Gospel Today Philip W. Butin, The Trinity Philip Endean, Karl Rahner and Ignatian Spirituality Ilse Bulhof and Laurens ten Kate (eds), Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Garth L. Hallett, A Middle Way to God Gordon Graham, Evil and Christian Ethics Frank G. Kirkpatrick, The Ethics of Community Stephen Pattison, Shame: Theory, Therapy, Theology Rosemary Radford Ruether, Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family John W. de Gruchy, Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice Stephen Conway (ed.), Living the Eucharist: Affirming Catholicism and the Liturgy Andrew Purves and Charles Partree, Encountering God – Christian Faith in Turbulent Times T. Richard Snyder, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Punishment     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
Daniel Chirot and Martin E. P. Seligman (eds.), Ethnopolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions
David Patrick Houghton, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis
Yoram Peri (ed.), The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Peter Suedfeld (ed.), Light from the Ashes: Social Science Careers of Young Holocaust Refugees and Survivors     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer
Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Maxwell E. Johnson (ed.), Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy
Roger S. Gottlieb (ed.), This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment     

Neurolinguistics and neuroimaging: forward to the future,or is it back?

Books reviewed in this article:
Michael Gazzaniga (ed.), Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader
Alec Marantz, Yasushi Miyashita, and Wayne O'Neil (ed.), Image, Language, Brain: Papers From the First Mind Articulation Project Symposium
Colin Brown and Peter Hagoort, The Neurocognition of Language     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Michael Loughlin, Ethics, Management and Mythology
Al Cooper (ed.), Sex and the Internet: a Guidebook for Clinicians
J. Mark Halstead & Michael J. Reiss, Values in Sex Education: From Principles to Practice
John Portman, Sex and Heaven: Catholics in Bed and Prayer
Alan Soble (ed.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings
Tim Lebon, Wise Therapy: Philosophy for Counsellors
Lou Marinoff, Philosophical Practice
Michael Davis, Profession, Code and Ethics
Michael Davis & Andrew Stark (Eds.), Conflict of Interest in the Professions     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Rae Langton, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Cynthia A. Freeland (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
Christopher Williams, A Cultivated Reason: an Essay on Hume and Humeanism
John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics
Peter Smith, Explaining Chaos
Sahotra Sarkar, Genetics and Reductionism
Antony Duff (ed.), Philosophy and the Criminal Law: Principle and Critique
Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (ed.), Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality
Peter French and Howard Wettstein (eds), Philosophy of the Emotions     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Allen Richard and Malcolm Turvey (eds.), Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
Brady Emily and Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley
Rob Van Gerwen (ed.), Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting: Art as Expression and Representation
Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox & Power in Art History
James J. Sheehan, Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Theodore Gracyk, I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity
Renée Cox Lorraine, Music, Tendencies, and Inhibitions: Reflections on a Theory of Leonard Meyer
Naomi Cumming, The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification
Krystyna Wilkoszewska (ed.), Aesthetics of the Four Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
Robert A. Segal, Theorizing about Myth
Gavin Flood, Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion
Harold Coward (ed.), Experiencing Scripture in World Religions
John H. Hayes (ed.), Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation
Dale Patrick, The Rhetoric of Revelation in the Hebrew Bible
Deborah W. Rooke, Zadok's Heirs: The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel
Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law
Alec Gilmore, A Dictionary of the English Bible and its Origins
Jerome D. Quinn and William C. Wacker, The First and Second Letters to Timothy: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary
John M. Court, The Book of Revelation and the Johannine Apocalyptic Tradition
J. A. K. Leslie, Students' Aid to Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies
Merry E. Weisner-Hanks, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Performing Practice
Catherine M. Soussloff (ed.), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History
Adrian Thatcher, Marriage after Modernity: Christian Marriage in Postmodern Times
J. Andrew Kirk and Kevin J. Vanhoozer (eds), To Stake a Claim: Mission and the Western Crisis of Knowledge
Margaret A. Farley and Serene Jones (eds), Liberating Eschatology: Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell
Una Kroll, Forgive and Live
Bryan S. Turner (ed.), The Talcott Parsons Reader
John H. Berthrong, The Divine Deli: Religious Identity in the North American Cultural Mosaic     

Once More ≡

Short notices of reissued books:
Gwilym Beckerlegge (ed.), The World Religions Reader
Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow
W. Y. Evans-Wentz (ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Andrew Rippin, Muslims, their Religious Beliefs and Practices
Robert L. Short, The Gospel According to Peanuts
Sharon D. Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk,
Brian Martin, John Henry Newman: His Life and Work     

Defeating Dr. Evil with Self-Locating Belief

Dr. Evil learns that a duplicate of Dr. Evil has been created. Upon learning this, how seriously should he take the hypothesis that he himself is that duplicate? I answer: very seriously. I defend a principle of indifference for self‐locating belief which entails that after Dr. Evil learns that a duplicate has been created, he ought to have exactly the same degree of belief that he is Dr. Evil as that he is the duplicate. More generally, the principle shows that there is a sharp distinction between ordinary skeptical hypotheses, and self‐locating skeptical hypotheses.     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
Davila, James R., Liturgical Works (Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls)
Goshen-Gottstein, Alon The Sinner and the Amnesiac. The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach
Walsh, P. G. (ed.), St Augustine, De Bono Coniugali and De Sancta Virginitate
McKim, Donald K. (ed.), Calvin's Institutes
Funkschmidt, Kai, Earthing the Vision. Strukturreformen in der Mission untersucht am Beispiel von CEVAA (Paris), CWM (London) und UEM (Wuppertal)
Anthony Bradney and Fiona Cownie, Living without Law – An Ethnography of Quaker Decision-Making, Dispute Avoidance and Dispute Resolution
VanElderen, Marlin, Finding a Voice: Communicating the Ecumenical Movement
Fiddes, Paul S.(ed.), The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture: Eight Novelists Write about their Craft and their Context
La'Porte, Victoria, An Introduction to Theology
Leech, Kenneth (ed.), Setting the Church of England Free: The Case for Disestablishment
Atkins, Peter, Ascension Now: Implications of Christ's Ascension for Today's Church
O'Brien, Glen, Praying from the Margins: Gospel Reflections of a Gay Man
Alison, James, Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay
Frankforter, A. Daniel, Stones for Bread: A Critique of Contemporary Worship
Swinton, John, Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems
Atkins, Peter, Soul Care: Facing Life with God
Forrester, Duncan, On Human Worth: A Christian Vindication of Equality
Polkinghorne, John and Welker, Michael, Faith in the Living God: A Dialogue     

Perception of mind and dehumanization: Human,animal, or machine?

Dehumanization is reached through several approaches, including the attribute‐based model of mind perception and the metaphor‐based model of dehumanization. We performed two studies to find different (de)humanized images for three targets: Professional people, Evil people, and Lowest of the low. In Study 1, we examined dimensions of mind, expecting the last two categories to be dehumanized through denial of agency (Lowest of the low) or experience (Evil people), compared with humanized targets (Professional people). Study 2 aimed to distinguish these targets using metaphors. We predicted that Evil and Lowest of the low targets would suffer mechanistic and animalistic dehumanization, respectively; our predictions were confirmed, but the metaphor‐based model nuanced these results: animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization were shown as overlapping rather than independent. Evil persons were perceived as “killing machines” and “predators.” Finally, Lowest of the low were not animalized but considered human beings. We discuss possible interpretations.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Benjamin Morison, On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place
James G. Lennox (ed.), Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals
Bryan W. van Norden (ed.), Confucius and the Analects: New Essays
Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist
John Perry, Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness
Michael Tye, Consciousness, Color and Content
Peter Goldie, The Emotions: a Philosophical Exploration
Christopher Cordner, Ethical Encounter: the Depth of Moral Meaning
Mary Warnock, Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children?
David Braybrooke, Natural Law Modernized
Gordon Graham Universities: the Recovery of an Idea     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
E. Jones and E. Asen, Systemic Couple Therapy and Depression
Alan Carr, Family Therapy. Concepts, Process and Practice
Torben Marner, Letters to Children in Family Therapy: A Narrative Approach
David Campbell, The Socially Constructed Organization
Gitte Haslebo and Kit Nielsen, Systems and Meaning – Consulting in Organizations
Christopher Clulow (ed.), Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy, The 'Secure Base' in Practice and Research
C. Everett Bailey (ed.), Children in Therapy – Using the Family as a Resource