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

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Books reviewed:
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7308-5), xiv + 434 pp., pb $24.95
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 2: 1839–2004 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7309-3), xiv + 575 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Nirmal Singh Hindu University of America
Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion , Megan McKenna, Seabury Books 2004 (1-59627-006-3), xi + 211 pp., pb $16 Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong Baylor University
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion , Anthony C. Thiselton, Baker Academic 2005 (0-8010-3120-6), viii + 344 pp., pb $24.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University West
The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 , David F. Ford, Rachel Muers (eds), Blackwells 2005 (1-4051-0277-2), xxi + 819 pp., pb £19.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge     

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Books reviewed:
Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture – Past and Present , John M. Court (ed.), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (ISBN 0-8264-6658-3), pp. xii + 334, Pb £35 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Psalms in Israel's Worship , Sigmund Mowinckel, The Biblical Resource Series, translated by D.R. Ap-Thomas, with a new Foreword by James L. Crenshaw, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2816-7), pp. xliv + 303, Hb £19.99/$40 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7 , Will Deeming, Second Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-3989-4), pp. xxii + 271, Pb £19.99 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of Durham     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Man and his Salvation: Studies in Memory of S. G. F. Brandon. Edited by E ric J. S harpe and J ohn R. H innells .
Religion in Ancient History: Studies in Ideas, Men and Events. By S. G. F. B randon .
The Attractiveness of God. By R. P. C. H anson .
Christian Celebration: The Sacraments. By J. D. C richton .
La Confirmation: sens et conjoncture oecuménique hier et aujourd'hui. By L ouis L igier .
Christian Marriage in Africa: A Report , By A drian H astings .
The Priesthood of Man. By A nthony D. D uncan .
The Christian Priest: Elder and Prophet. By D avid N. P ower .
Les Dieux Rêvés. By H. D esroche .
Politics, Medicine, and Christian Ethics. By C harles E. C urran .
Essays on the Freedom of Action. Edited by T ed H onderich .
Problems of the Self. By B ernard W illiams .
The Nature of Things. By A nthony Q uinton .
The Existence of Cod. (Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Volume XLVI.) Edited by G eorge F. M aclean , o.m.i.
Analogy. By H umphrey P almer .
Modes of Thought. Essays on Thinking in Western and Non- Western Societies. Edited with an introduction by R obin H orton and R uth F innegan .
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Volume II. By S usanne K. L anger .
Psyche and Cerebrum. By J ohn N. F indlay .
Existential Guilt; a Phenomenological Study. By D onald V. M orano .
The Existential Experience. By R alph H arper .
Fractured Personalities. By G ary C ollins .
Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. By H. H. P rice .
Religions of the Ancient Near East. By H elmer R inggren .
History of Israelite Religion. By G eorg F ohrer .
Religion in Judah under the Assyrians. By J ohn M c K ay .
The Gentiles and the Gentile Mission in Luke-Acts. By S. G. W ilson .
By R. de V aux , o.p.
The Stones and the Scriptures. By E dwin Y amauchi .     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Nicholas de Lange, Judaism
Nicholas Lash, Believing Three Ways in One God
Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
W.H.C. Frend, The Early Church: From the Beginnings to 461
Marc H. Ellis, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
Daphne Hampson, After Christianity
Gerd Theissen, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion
John Macquarrie, Jesus Christ in Modern Thought
Karl Barth, God Here and Now     

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The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings , Third Edition, Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-515462-2), pp. xxxvi + 506, Pb £21.99
A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages , Walter Ullmann with a new introduction by George Garnett. Routledge 2003 (0-415-30227-7), pp. xix + 339, Pb $19.99
Showing of Love , Julian of Norwich, translated by Julia Bolton Holloway, DLT 2003 (0-232-52503-X), pp. xxxiv + 133, Pb £9.95
The Encyclopedia of Christianity , Volume 3 (J-O), Erwin Fahlbusch et al. , Eerdmans 2003 (0-8028-2415-3) / Brill 2003 (90-04-12654-6), pp. xxix + 918, Hb £65/$100
Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and its Legacy , Revised Edition, Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22353-2), pp. xi + 499, Pb $29.95     

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Books reviewed:
Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture , R.P.C. Hanson, with an introduction by Joseph W. Trigg, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22444-X), pp. xxv + 400, Pb £30
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity , M.J. Akbar, Routledge 2003 (0-415-32814-4), pp. xxv + 338, Pb £9.99
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society , Arthur A. Berger, Rowman and Littlefield 2004, Second Edition (0-7425-2724-7), pp. xviii + 174, Pb $21.95     

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Books reviewed:
Till the Heart Sings: A Biblical Theology of Manhood and Womanhood , Samuel Terrien, Eerdmans & Dove 2004 (0-8028-2237-1), pp. xxiv + 260, Pb £16.99 Reviewed by Walter Moberly University of Durham
Sex and Love in the Home: A Theology of the Household , David Matzko McCarthy, Second Edition, SCM Press 2004 (0-334-02946-5), pp. xiv + 297, Pb £18.99 Reviewed by Gavin D'Costa University of Bristol
The Divine Milieu , Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, translated by Siôn Cowell, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1-902210-29-8), pp. xxxi + 12, Hb £29.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon Chester-le-Street, Co Durham     

REVIEWS

Aristotele. La Metafisica. Traduzione, introduzione, commento a cura di Giovanni Reale . Vol. I God and the Empiricists. By Harry R. Klocker . The Elusive Mind. By H. D. Lewis . Absolute Value. A study in Christian Theism. By Dom Illtyd Trethowan . Human Values and Christian Morality. By Josef Fuchs , s.j. Three Issues in Ethics. By John Macquarrie . Conflict of Ideals: Changing Values in Western Society. By Luther J. Binkley . The Philosophy of Martin Buber. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp and Maurice Friedman . Augustine the Theologian. By Eugene Te Selle . Stephanus de Lingua-tonante: Studies in the Sermons of Stephen Langton. By Phyllis Barzillay Roberts . The Monastic Theology of Aelred of Rievaulx. By Amédée Hallier . The Great Schism 1378: The Disintegration of the Papacy. By John Holland Smith . Alexander III and the Twelfth Century. By Marshall W. Baldwin . A Social and Religious History of the Jews. Volumes XIII, XIV: Late Middle Ages and Era of European Expansion. By Salo Wittmayer Baron . The Yahwist. The Bible's First Theologian. By Peter Ellis , c.ss.r. A Study of the Psalms of Ascents. By Cuthbert C. Keet . Death and Immortality. By Joseph Pieper . The Nature and Destiny of Man. By J. R. Surcher . The Trinity. By Karl Rahner . Translated by Joseph Donceel . Christ and Church. By M. J. Le Guillou . New Testament Questions of Today. By Ernst Kasemann .     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Catholic Study Bible Early Israel: A New Horizon. By R. B. Coote Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity. By Thomas W. Overholt The École Biblique and the New Testament: A Century of Scholarship (1890–1990) (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 13). By Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Woman, Cult and Miracle Recital: A Redactional Critical Investigation on Mark 5:24–34. By Marla J. Selvidge The Son of Man Tradition. By Douglas R. A. Hare A Tribute to Geza Vermes: Essays on Jewish and Christian Literature and History. Edited by Philip R. Davies and Richard T. White A Separate God. By S. Pétrement Hellenism in Late Antiquity (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures). By G. W. Bowersock Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and‘The Lives of the Eastern Saints’. By Susan Ashbrook Harvey Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800 (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 3). By Patrick Sims-Williams The Venerable Bede (Outstanding Christian Thinkers). By Benedicta Ward St Symeon The New Theologian and Spiritual Fatherhood (Byzantina Neerlandica 11). By H. J. M. Turner The Jews in Christian Europe 1400–1700. By John Edwards Das Bild vom Juden im Deutschland des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts dargestellt an den Schriften Johannes Pfefferkorns (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modem Judaism 3). By Hans-Martin Kim Pico della Mirandola 's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism. By Chaim Wirszubski The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 4). By Elizabeth Rapley Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement, 1625–1641. By Allan I. Macinnes Handel. By Hamish Swanston. Pp. xi, 161, London, Geoffrey Chapman Black Christians and White Missionaries. By Richard Gray Newman and his Age. By Sheridan Gilley Newman after a Hundred Years. Edited by Ian Ker and Alan G. Hill Newman: A Man for Our Time. Edited by David Brown The Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel: French Catholic and Realist Novelists. 1850–1970. By Malcolm Scott The Varieties of Protestantism in Nazi Germany: Five Theopolitical Positions (Toronto Studies in Theology 50). By Franz G. M. Feige Modem Catholicism: Vatican II and After. Edited by Adrian Hastings The Vatican, the Law and the Human Embryo. By Michael J. Coughlan IVF and Justice: Moral, Social and Legal Issues Related to Human‘in vitro’Fertilisation. By Teresa Iglesias Prenatal Diagnosis: Confronting the Ethical Issues. By Agneta Sutton Organ Transplants and Ethics By David Lamb The Foundurions of Christian Ethics. By Michael Keeling Christian Ethics: Options and Issues. By Norman L. Geisler La Christ de la philosophie. By Xavier Tilliette Thomistic Papers V. Edited by Thomas A. Russmann The Idea of the Miraculous: The Challenge to Science and Religion. By T. C. Williams Probability and Theistic Explanation (Oxford Theological Monographs). By Robert Prevost     

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Short notices of reissued books:
Paul F. Bradshaw, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy , Second Edition
Paul D. Hanson, The People Called: The Growth of Community in the Bible
Walter Brueggemann, The Bible Makes Sense , Revised Edition with a New Introduction
Richard N. Soulen and R. Kendall Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism , Third Edition
Douglas Stuart, Old Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors , Third Edition
Stanley Hauerwas, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth–Century Theology and Philosophy
David Weiss Halivni, Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses
Sallie McFague, Speaking in Parables
Frances Young, The Making of the Creeds
Karl Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Its Background and History , New Edition
John Macquarrie, Twentieth–Century Religious Thought , Fifth Edition
Patrick Sherry, Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological Aesthetics , Second Edition
Douglas J. Davies, Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites , Second Edition     

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Short notices of reissued books:
Jacques Waardenburg (ed.), Muslim Perceptions of other Religions: A Historical Survey
Nicholas Awde (ed.), Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qurãn and Hadiths
Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green (eds), Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic. The Politics of Biblical Studies
Yairah Amit, History and Ideology: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible
David R. Slavitt (translator), The Book of the Twelve Prophets
Anthony R. Ceresko OSFS, Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom: A Spirituality for Liberation
Martin Abegg Jr., Peter Flint, Eugene Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Most Ancient Versions of the Books of the Bible
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus
Calvin Roetzel, Paul, the Man and the Myth
Robert Dodaro & George Lawless (eds), Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner
Allan D. Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia
Bernhard Lohse, Translated by Ray A. Harrisville, Martin Luther's Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development
Robert Pope, Seeking God's Kingdom: The Nonconformist Social Gospel in Wales 1906–1939
Anton Wessels, 'A Kind of Bible': Vincent van Gogh as Evangelist
Daniel E. Albrecht, Rites in the Spirit: A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality,
David G. Kamitsuka, Theology and Contemporary Culture: Liberation, Postliberal and Revisionary Perspectives
Lynn Japinga, Feminism and Christianity: An Essential Guide
Michael Howard, God in the Depths – Images of the Sea in the Development of Faith
Pat Lyne OCDS, Edith Stein Rediscovered: A Personal Portrait     

Reviews

Books reviewed Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Arthur Levine and Jeanette Cureton, When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student Peter Sacks, Generation X goes to college: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America Nancey C. Murphy, Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion Anna Neumann and Penelope L. Peterson (eds), Learning From Our Lives: Women, Research, and Aitobiography in Education Barbara J. Millis and Philip G. Cottell, Jr, Cooperatibe Learning for Higher Education Faculty Timothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau Jr (eds), African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings Martin S. Jaffee, Early Judaism     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Ecology and Liberation. A New Paradigm, Leonardo Boff
Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World, Malcolm Bull (ed.)
A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna, A. Brenner (ed.)
Arguments against Secular Culture, Robert Miller
Books and Readers in the Early Church. A History of Early Christian Texts, Harry Y. Gamble
Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust, Karl A. Plank, Westminster/John Knox
Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief, Alan P. Sell
Time and Place in Deuteronomy, J.G. McConville and J. G. Millar
University of Exeter
City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima, Rachelle Linner
Studies in Early Christology, Martin Hengel, T. & T. Clark
The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Denys Turner, CUP
Theological Essays II, Eberhard Jiingel, John Webster (ed.), T. & T. Clark
Paul's Narrative Thought World: The Tapestry of Tragedy and Triumph, Ben Witherington III, Westminster/John Knox
The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era, Judith Perkins
Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, R. Laurence Moore
Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra, Anne Feldhaus
The God's at Play: Lila in South Asia, William S. Sax (ed.)     

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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     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
John Webster, Barth's Moral Theology: Human Action in Barth's Thought
William T. Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist
W. D. Davies, Christian Engagements with Judaism
Paul M. van Buren, According to the Scriptures: The Origins of the Gospels and the Church's Old Testament
Scott Bader-Saye, Church and Israel after Christendom: The Politics of Election
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science
John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor, Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion
Joel James Shuman, The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine, and the Church
Frederick Christian, Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women and Redemption: A Theological History     

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Short notices of reissued books:
J. Philip Wogaman, Christian Perspectives on Politics
J. Philip Wogaman, Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction
J. Philip Wogaman and Douglas M. Strong (eds), Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman with Gary A. Herion, David F. Graf, John David Pleins. The Gospel of Matthew (Sacra Pagina 1). By Daniel J. Harrington. Paul: An Introduction to his Thought (Outstanding Christian Thinkers). By C. K. Barrett. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identiy. By Daniel Boyarin. New Testament Theology. By G. B. Caird, completed and edited by L. D. Hurst. The Fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius (Oxford Theological Monographs). By Peter Widdicombe. Dieu et le Christ selon Grégoire de Nysse. By Bernard Pottier. Eucharistic Presence: A Study in the Theology of Disclosure. By Robert Sokolowski. Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance. By Werner Jeanrond. Theologie aus Efahrung der Gnade. Annäherungen an Karl Rahner: Edited by Mariano Delgado and Mathias-Lutz Bachmann. Bernhard Welte's Fundamental Theological Approach to Christology. (American University Studies 7/160). By Anthony J. Godzieba. Sacred Identity: Exploring a Theology of the Person. By Jane Kopas. A Salvation Audit. By Colin Grant. Medical Ezhics: Sources Of Catholic Teachings, Second Edition. Edited by Kevin O'Rourke and Philip Boyle. Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire. By Martin Goodman. Literacy and Power in the Ancient World. Edited by Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf. St Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy. Its History, Theology and Texts (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 23). By John A. McGuckin. Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital. By Neil B. McLynn. Basil of Cuesareu (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 20). By Philip Rousseau. Augustine (Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series). By Mary T. Clark. Irenaeus (Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series). By Dennis Minns. Divine Heiress: The Virgin Mary and the Creation of Christian Constantinople. By Vasiliki Limberis. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 6). By Charles D. Wright. Relics, Apocalypse and the Deceils of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989–1034. By Richard Landes. Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Centuy Jurist. By Wolfgang P. Müller. The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Volume II: The Growth of Mysticism. By Bernard McGinn. Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Series, 28). By Christoph T. Maier. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. By Henriette Peters. The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan. Edited by Thomas M. King and Mary Wood Gilbert. Pseudo-Marry: By John Donne. Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Anthony Raspa. Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England (Studies in the History of Christian Thought 61). By M. L. Brown. The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles 1 and the Remoulding of Anglicanism (Oxford Historical Monographs). By Julian Davies. Érudition et religion aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siécles. By Bruno Neveu. Cardinal Lavigerie: Churchman, Prophet and Missionary. By François Renault. Dom Columba Marmion: A Biography By Mark Tierney. Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century. By Timothy Yates. Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression. Edited by Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E. A. van Beek and Dennis Thomson.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Richard King, Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought D. Ryuken Williams and C. S. Queen (eds), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship Rita M. Gross, Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues Norbert M. Samuelson A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption Eugene B. Borowitz, Judaism after Modernity: Papers from a Decade of Fruition Louis Jacobs, Beyond Reasonable Doubt Phil Zuckerman, Strife in the Sanctuary: Religious Schism in a Jewish Community Roel Meijer (ed.), Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East Anthony B. Pinn, Varieties of African American Religious Experience Chris Arthur, The Globalization of Communications: Some Religious Implications N. Smart, World Philosophies M. D. Coogan (ed.), The Oxford History of the Biblical World James Barr,The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective Bernard W. Anderson, Contours of Old Testament Theology Mark Allan Powell, Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee David C. Sim, The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community Richard Bauckham, James: Wisdom of James, Disciple of Jesus the Sage, New Testament Readings Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, Types of Authority in Formative Christianity and Judaism Richard Kalmin, The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity A. Hastings (ed.), A World History of Christianity Robert M. Grant, Early Christians and Animals Jan Rohls, Reformed Confessions: Theology from Zurich to Barmen Christopher Elwood, The Body Broken. The Calvinist Doctrine of the Eucharist and the Symbolization of Power in Sixteenth‐century France Jane Shaw and Alan Kreider (eds), Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition M. Reeves (ed.), Christian Thinking and Social Order: Conviction Politics from the 1930s to the Present Day Russell T. McCutcheon (ed.), The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion: A Reader David F. Ford, Sin and Salvation: Being Transformed G. van den Brink and M. Sarot (eds), Understanding the Attributes of God Wolfgang Müller‐Lauter, Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and H. Newton Malony (eds), Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature Ilham Dilman, Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Clifford Green (ed.),Sanctorum Communio: a Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church S. C. Barton (ed.), Where Shall Wisdom be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World Martin D. Stringer, On the Perception of Worship Christopher Rowland (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology Gustavo Gutiérrez, The Density of the Present: Selected Writings S. B. Scharper, Redeeming the Time: a Political Theology of the Environment Jürgen Moltmann, God for a Secular Society – The Public Relevance of Theology Constance L. Benson, God and Caesar: Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation Jeffrey Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science and Cosmology