Reviews

Books reviewed: L. E. Keck et al. (eds), Numbers, Deuteronomy, Introduction to Narrative Literature, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1&2 Samuel S. E. Gillingham, One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies Michael D. Goulder, The Psalms of the Return (Book 5, Psalms 107–150): Studies in the Psalter IV James D. G. Dunn, T. & T. Clark, The Theology of Paul the Apostle D. Mendels, Identity, Religion and Historiography: Studies in Hellenistic History William Horbury, Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ James S. McLaren, Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE J. Neusner and B. Chilton, Jewish-Christian Debates: God, Kingdom, Messiah Ben Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn and Timothy Peat, Heaven on Earth: Quakers and the Second Coming Adnan Aslam, Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr W. Cantwell Smith, Believing: An Historical Perspective W. Cantwell Smith, Faith and Belief: The Difference Between Them Norman Doe, Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A Worldwide Perspective G. R. Evans, Discipline and Justice in the Church of England Alan Falconer (ed.), Faith and Order in Moshi: The 1996 Commission Meeting Lewis S. Mudge, The Church as Moral Community: Ecclesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate T. F. Best and D. Hellar (eds), Eucharistic Worship in Ecumenical Contexts: The Lima Liturgy – And Beyond Timothy Bradshaw ed, Grace and Truth in the Secular Age José Comblin, Called for Freedom: The Changing Context of Liberation Theology Karen Kilby, Karl Rahner Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women and Redemption: A Theological History Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology Johannes A. van der Ven, Formation of the Moral Self Robin Gill (ed.), Euthanasia and the Churches Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil John Polkinghorne, Science and Theology: An Introduction John P. Burgess (ed.), In Whose Image? Faith, Science and the New Genetics Stephen Platten (ed.), Seeing Ourselves: Interpreting Contemporary Society Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (eds), Religion Ursula King (ed.), Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed Terence L. Donaldson, Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle's Convictional World R. Alan Culpepper, The Gospel and Letters of John Stephen H. Webb, The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess Simon Coleman and John Elsner, Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions John Delli-Carpini, Prayer and Piety in the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Landscape of a Soul Joseph Pearce, Tolkien, Man and Myth: A Literary Life Shirley du Boulay, Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths Robert E. Daggy (ed), Dancing in the Water of Life: The Journals of Thomas Merton Vol. 5, 1963–1965 Patrick Hart (ed), The Other Side of the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton Vol. 7, 1967–1968 Maria Harris and Gabriel Moran, Reshaping Religious Education André Laks and Glenn W. Most (eds), Studies on the Derveni Papyrus R. J. Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought Voula Tsouna, The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School Karl R. Popper, The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment Cynthia A. Freeland (ed), Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle L. P. Gerson, God and Greek Philosophy: Studies in the Early History of Natural Theology Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price, Religions of Rome. Volume 1: A History; Volume 2: A Sourcebook Edwin Jones, The English Nation: The Great Myth J. C. Applebey and P. Dalton (eds), Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, 1100–1700 Heinrich Fichtenau, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1200 Daniel Weiss, Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis Edwin D. Craun, Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker James Muldoon (ed), Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages James Muldoon, Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe and World Order Norman Doe, Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A World-Wide Perspective John Shinners and William J. Dohar (eds), Pastors and the Care of Souls in Medieval England Chiara Frugoni, Francis of Assisi: A Life R. A. Houlbrooke, Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480–1750 Judith Maltby, Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England Stuart Carroll, Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy Bernard Heyberger, Les Chrétiens du Proche-Orient au temps de la Réforme Catholique (Syrie, Liban, Palestine, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles) Jeffrey Chamberlain, Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex, 1700–1745 Cliff Webb, The 1851 Religious Census: Surrey John Shelton Reed, Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism John Wolffe (ed), Religion in Victorian Britain, V: Culture and Empire Christopher Owen Lynch, Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television Gregory D. Black, The Catholic Crusade against the Movies, 1940–1975 Gerald L. Sittser, A Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War Manuel A. Vásquez, The Brazilian Popular Church     

Book Reviews

Horst Dietrich Preuss, Old Testament Theology Rolf P. Knierim, The Task of Old Testament Theology: Essays, Substance, Method and Cases Daniel Patte, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: A Re-evaluation Brian D. Ingraffia, Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow John Barclay and John Sweet (Eds), Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall and Gerald O'Collins (Eds), The Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of Jesus Maureen A. Tilley, Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa Maureen A. Tilley, The Bible in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World L. G. Patterson, Methodius of Olympus: Divine Sovereignty, Human Freedom and Life in Christ J. H. D. Scourfield, Consoling Heliodorus: A Commentary on Jerome, Letter 60 C. Moreschini and D. A. Sykes (Eds), St Gregory of Nazianzus: Poemata Arcana Peter O'Dwyer, Towards a History of Irish Spirituality Uinseann Ó Maid'n, The Celtic Monk: Rules and Writings of Early Irish Monks DáibhíÓ Cróinín, Early Medieval Ireland 400–1200 Gerhard Ladner, God, Cosmos, Humankind: The World of Early Christian Symbolism Kevin Trainor, Relics, Ritual and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravãda Tradition Steven F. Ostrow, Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore David Morgan, Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images Colleen McDannell, Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America Sarah Coakley (Ed), Religion and the Body Paul F. Bradshaw and Lawrence A. Hoffman (Eds), Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian Worship Gordon P. Jeanes, The Day Has Come! Easter and Baptism in Zeno of Verona John Macquarrie, A Guide to the Sacraments Megan McKenna, Rites of Justice: The Sacraments and Liturgy as Ethical Imperatives Douglas J. Davies, Death, Ritual and Belief     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Christopher Partridge (ed.), Dictionary of Contemporary Religion in the Western World Nancy K. Frankenberry (ed.), Radical Interpretation in Religion Margaret Stutley (ed.), Shamanism: An Introduction Samuel Terrien, The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary Steve Delamarter, with a contribution by J.H. Charlesworth, A Scripture Index to Charlesworth's The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha James H, The Pesharim and the Qumran Community: Chaos or Consensus? Timothy H. Lim, Pesharim James M. Scott, Geography in Early Judaism and Christianity: The Book of Jubilees Thomas R. Hatina, In Search of a Context: The Function of Scripture in Mark's Narrative Anthony Phillips, Essays on Biblical Law Larry J. Kreitzer, Gospel Images in Fiction and Film David S. Cunningham, Reading is Believing: The Christian Faith through Literature and Film John Wijngaards, No Women in Holy Orders? The Women Deacons of the Early Church Owen Chadwick, The Early Reformation on the Continent Andrew Bradstock and Christopher Rowland (eds), Radical Christian Writings: A Reader Sarah K. Pinnock, Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust Coleen McDannell, Religions of the United States in Practice Douglas Pratt, Relational Deity: Hartshorne and Macquarrie on God John Habgood, Darton, The Concept of Nature Anthony C. Thiselton, A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion Joseph Runzo, Global Philosophy of Religion: A Short Introduction Max Charlesworth, Philosophy and Religion: From Plato to Postmodernism John Cottingham, On the Meaning of Life Charles R. Pinches, Theology and Action: After Theory in Christian Ethics Philip Goodchild, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety Pat Collins CM, The Broken Image: Reflections on Spirituality and Culture Gordon Lynch, After Religion: ‘Generation X’ and the Search for Meaning Alison Webster, Wellbeing Clifford Longley, Chosen People: The Big Idea that Shapes England and America     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Kenneth J. Howell, God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science Richard A. Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman, The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World J. Painter, 1, 2, and 3 John (Sacra Pagina 18) Sarah Coakley, Re‐thinking Gregory of Nyssa (Directions in Modern Theology) Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages Terryl N. Kinder, Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation M. G. Snape, English Episcopal Acta, 24: Durham 1153–1195 Gillian R. Knight, The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux: a Semantic and Structural Analysis Richard Rex, The Lollards Kathleen Kamerick, Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England, 1350–1500 Norman Housley, Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400–1536 Anthony Levi, Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis Anne T. Thayer, Penitence, Preaching and the Coming of the Reformation Marjo Kaartinen, Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation Anne Dillon, The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community Charles Libois SJ, Monumenta Proximi‐Orientis. V. Égypte (1591–1699) Charles Libois SJ, Monumenta Proximi‐Orientis. VI. Égypte (1700–1773) Michael Davies, Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan David Womersley, Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’. The Historian and his Reputation, 1776–1815 Anthony C. Thiselton, A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion David Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept Robert Kane, Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) Tamar Szabo Gendler and James Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility Simon Critchley, On Humour (Thinking in Action) Gerard J. Pendrick, Antiphon the Sophist: The Fragments A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life Victor Nuovo, John Locke: Writings on Religion Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760–1860: The Legacy of Idealism Brian Shanley, The Thomist Tradition Gianni Vattimo, Nietzsche: An Introduction Amy Laura Hall, Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love Peter V. Zima, Deconstruction and Critical Theory L. Gormally, Culture of Life – Culture of Death Mark E. Graham, Joseph Fuchs on Natural Law (Moral Traditions) Norman M. Ford, The Prenatal Person. Ethics from Conception to Birth Onora O'Neill, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D.Miller Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter?     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: V. Philips Long, David W. Baker and Gordon J. Wenham, Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of ‘Biblical Israel’ J. Cheryl Exum and H. G. M. Williamson, Reading from Right to Left. Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honour of David J. A. Clines Martin Hengel, The Septuagint as Christian Scripture. Its Prehistory and the Problem of its Canon Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Theologies in the Old Testament Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher, A Biblical Theology of Exile P. M. Michéle Daviau, John W. Wevers and Michael Weigl, The World of the Aramaeans: Biblical Studies in Honour of Paul‐Eugéne Dion Carole R. Fontaine, Smooth Words. Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom Volkmar Fritz, 1 and 2 Kings: A Continental Commentary Adele Berlin, Lamentations. A Commentary Vicky Balabanski, Eschatology in the Making. Mark, Matthew and the Didache A. Andrew Das, Paul and the Jews Steve Mason, Josephus and the New Testament John L.Thompson, Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament among Biblical Commentators from Philo through the Reformation Kim Paffenroth, Judas: Images of the Lost Disciple David R. Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott, Art and the Christian Apocrypha Charles A. Robertz and David Brakke, Reading in Christian Communities. Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church Michael Fishbane, The Exegetical Imagination. On Jewish Thought and Theology Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton, Jewish‐Christian Debates. God, Kingdom, Messiah Paul Rhodes Eddy, John Hick's Pluralist Philosophy of World Religions Carl Starkloff, A Theology of the In‐Between: The Value of Syncretic Process B. Jakim, The Bride of the Lamb Nicolas Stebbing, Bearers of the Spirit: Spiritual Fatherhood in Romanian Orthodoxy Noel Dermot O'Donoghue, The Angels keep their Ancient Places. Reflections on Celtic Spirituality Mark Atherton, Celts and Christians: New Approaches to the Religious Traditions of Britain and Ireland. Graydon F. Snyder, Irish Jesus, Roman Jesus: The Formation of Early Irish Christianity. Brendan Bradshaw and Dáire Keogh, Christianity in Ireland: Revisiting the Story. Caterina Bruschi and Peter Biller, Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy Werner O.Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple, Radical Reformation Studies. Essays presented to James M. Stayer. Geoffrey Dipple, Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation. Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and the Campaign against the Friars. Philip B, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism Rocco Pezzimenti, The Political Thought of Lord Acton: the English Catholics in the Nineteenth Century. Una Agnew, The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh: A Buttonhole in Heaven? Edward R. Wierenga, The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason Naomi Reshotko, Desire, Identity and Existence: Essays in Honour of T.M. Penner Peter Kingsley, Reality Brian Jacobs and Patrick Kain, Essays on Kant's Anthropology. Smith, John Searle. Ruth Abbey, Charles Taylor Kees van Kooten Niekerk and Hans Buhl, The Significance of Complexity: Approaching a Complex World Through Science, Theology and the Humanities. Larry A. Witham, Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America. Ian Barbour, Nature, Human Nature, and God.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: David C. Mitchell, The Message of the Psalter: An Eschatological Programme in the Book of Psalms Anthony R. Ceresko, Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom: A Spirituality for Liberation Roland E. Murphy, Proverbs (Word Biblical Commentary 22) Richard J. Coggins, Sirach (Guides to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha) Alastair Hamilton, The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Gabriele Boccaccini, Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism Gerd Theissen, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion Maurice Wiles, Reason to Believe Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas’ Natural Theology in ‘Summa Contra Gentiles’ II. John Bowlin, Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas’s Ethics Philip Lyndon Reynolds, Food and the Body: Some Peculiar Questions in High Medieval Theology John Booty, Reflections on the Theology of Richard Hooker: An Elizabethan Addresses Modern Anglicanism Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context F. LeRon Shults, The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology: Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality. Charles Miller, The Gift of the World: An Introduction to the Theology of Dumitru St?niloae Emil Bartos, Deification in Eastern Orthodox Theology: An Evaluation and Critique of the Theology of Dumitru St?niloae Paul McPartlan, Sacrament of Salvation: An Introduction to Eucharistic Ecclesiology Sarah Curtis, Educating the Faithful Jolyon Mitchell, Visually Speaking: Radio and the Renaissance of Preaching T. G. Plante.(ed.), Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned: Perspectives on Sexual Abuse Committed by Roman Catholic Priests John Skorupski, Ethical Explorations Anne Thomson, Critical Reasoning in Ethics: A Practical Introduction Richard C. Bayer, Capitalism and Christianity: The Possibility of Christian Personalism John Douglas Bishop.(ed.), Ethics and Capitalism David E. Jenkins, Market Whys and Human Wherefores: Thinking Again about Markets, Politics and People Ilham Dilman, Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction Mark Joyal, The Platonic ‘Theages’: An Introduction, Commentary and Critical Edition     

Kant,the Third Antinomy and Transcendental Arguments

In this paper, I consider whether a reading of Kant's solution to the Third Antinomy can offer material for devising a new model of transcendental argument. The problem that this form of argument is meant to address is an antinomy between two apparently contradictory claims, q and ¬q, where we seem equally justified in holding both. The model has the following form: p; q is a necessary condition of p; the only justification we have for q is that it is a necessary condition of p; p is justified only in domain X (where X is a domain of objects of cognition); therefore, q is justified only in domain X. Because the argument shows that our justification for q is valid only in X, it also establishes that there is conceptual space to hold ¬q outside of X.     

The PIG in sPrInG: Evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried words

We introduce a novel procedure for investigating factors that determine selective attention to letters in words. Participants were presented with words (in Experiments 1 and 3) and nonwords (in Experiment 2) that contained a buried word whose letters differed in color relative to the other letters present (e.g.,pig, in spring). The strings were presented in single case or mixed case, keeping the letters of the buried words in one case (SpRiNg). The time in which the whole stimulus was named was shorter for same-case than for mixed-case strings (forspring: spring < SpRiNg). In contrast, the time in which buried words were named was shorter in mixed- than in same-case strings (forpig: spring > SpRiNg). Across items, the effects of case mixing were negatively correlated across the two tasks. The positive effect of case mixing for buried words also occurred irrespective of whether the whole string was a word or a nonword, and there were contributions from similarity of both letter size and case. The results suggest that case mixing can facilitate selective attention to letters, which is otherwise disrupted by size- and case-based grouping across letter strings. The study provides evidence for letter grouping using size and case information.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Christopher Bobonich, Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics John Capreolus, On The Virtues Miguel A. Badia Cabrera, Hume's Reflection on Religion Catherine Chalier, What Ought I to Do?: Morality in Kant and Levinas Keith Ansell‐Pearson and John Mullarkey, Henri Bergson: Key Writings Andrew Brook and Don Ross, Daniel Dennett Nancey Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg, and Mark Thiessen Nation, Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre William Lane Craig, God, Time, and Eternity Paul Copan and Paul K. Moser, The Rationality of Theism W. Norris Clarke, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics Richard A. Cohen, Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas D. D. Raphael, Concepts of Justice Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions David Herbert, Religion and Social Transformations Robert H. Nelson, Economics as Religion; from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond Edmondo F. Lupieri, The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics Antonía Tripolitis, Religions of the Hellenistic‐Roman Age James M. Scott, Geography in Early Judaism and Christianity: The Book of Jubilees David Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept Dianne Kirby, Religion and the Cold War Colin E. Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine Paul Williams, The Unexpected Way: On Converting from Buddhism to Catholicism Alan P. F. Sell, Confessing and Commending the Faith Thomas M. Kelly, Theology at the Void John David Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity Daniel Kendall and Stephen T. Davis, The Convergence of Theology: A Festschrift Honoring Gerald O'Collins, S.J. Bernard Hoose, Authority in the Roman Catholic Church Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe‐Estrella, Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in US Catholicism Kenneth J. Howell, God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter? Ron Geaves, Continuum Glossary of Religious Terms     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Alice Laffey, The Pentateuch: A Liberation-Critical Reading O. Keel and C. Uehlinger, Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel J. J. McDermott, What are They Saying About the Formation of Israel? M. E. Mills, Historical Israel: Biblical Israel – Studying Joshua to 2 Kings N. P. Lemche, The Israelites in Israel and Tradition Gerbern S. Oegema, The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabees to Bar Kochba M. Forward, Jesus: A Short Biography Jeffrey T. Tucker, Example Stories: Perspectives on Four Parables in the Gospel of Luke J. A. Darr, Herod the Fox: Audience Criticism and Lukan Characterization Alison Jasper, The Shining Garment of the Text: Gendered Readings of John's Prologue Helen C. Orchard,Courting Betrayal: Jesus as Victim in the Gospel of John Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context T. M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity Bernard McGinn, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism. Vol. 3, The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism 1200–1350 Kathleen Powers Erickson, At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick SJ (eds), John Paul II and Moral Theology E. J. Harris, What Buddhists Believe G. Studdert-Kennedy, Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism Leon Roth, Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals Frank E. Eakin Jr., What Price Prejudice? Christian Antisemitism in America R. K. Wüstenberg, A Theology of Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity Douglas John Hall,Remembered Voices: Reclaiming the Legacy of ‘Neo-Orthodoxy’ T. Parfitt and E. Trevisan Semi (eds), The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on Ethiopian Jews C. Smith and J. Prokopy (eds), Latin American Religion in Motion K. B. Lyon & A. Smith, Jr. (eds), Tending the Flock: Congregations and Family Ministry Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis (ed.), Revolution of Spirit: Ecumenical Theology in Global Context John Macquarrie (ed. J. H. Morgan), On Being a Theologian: Reflections at Eighty     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Gerd Lüdemann The Unholy in Holy Scripture: The Dark Side of the Bible Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs Burton L. Visotzky Fathers of the World: Essays in Rabbinic and Patristic Literatures Dan Cohn-Sherbok The Jewish Messiah Michael Wise, Martin Abegg Jr and Edward Cook The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation Philip F. Esler (ed.) Modelling Early Christianity: Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context Halvor Moxnes (ed.) Constructing Early Christian Families: Family as Social Reality and Metaphor Gillian Clark (ed.) Augustine, Confessions, Books I–IV Elizabeth Clark (ed.) St Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality Roland J. Teske, S.J. Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine T. Kermit Scott Augustine: His Thought in Context Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten (eds) Eriugena Hilmar M. Pabel Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings James D. Tracy Erasmus of the Low Countries John C. Olin Erasmus, Utopia and the Jesuits Wolfgang Behringer Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe W. B. Patterson King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom Pamela Kirk Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Religion, Art and Feminism Nigel Aston (ed.) Religious Change in Europe 1650–1914: Essays for John McManners James H. Murphy Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland 1873–1922 R. L. Brett Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin Lawrence J. McCaffrey The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America Robert H. Craig Religion and Radical Politics: An Alternative Christian Tradition in the United States John P. Boyle Church Teaching Authority: Historical and Theological Studies Servais Pinckaers The Sources of Christian Ethics David J. Atkinson and David H. Field (eds) New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology André Bélanger The Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual Garth L. Hallett Greater Good: The Case for Proportionalism Ronald Cole-Turner (ed.) Human Cloning: Religious Responses Wesley Cragg The Practice of Punishment: Towards a Theory of Restorative Justice Stephen G. Post The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease David Lamb Organ Transplants and Ethics Jon Davies and Gerard Loughlin (eds) Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society Martha C. Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Kathleen Coyle Mary in the Christian Tradition: From a Contemporary Perspective Thomas S. Hibbs Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas: An Interpretation of the ‘Summa Contra Gentiles’ Eugene F. Rogers Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: Sacred Knowledge and the Natural Knowledge of God Robert Krieg Romano Guardini John Swindells (ed.) A Human Search: Bede Griffiths' Reflections on his Life Kjell Nordstokke Council and Context in Leonardo Boff's Ecclesiology: The Rebirth of the Church among the Poor Stephen Everson (ed.) Companions to Ancient Thought, Vol. 4: Ethics Mark L. McPherran (ed.) Wisdom, Ignorance and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies Nicholas D. Smith (ed.) Plato: Critical Assessments John Inglis Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy Athanasios Moulakis and Peter von Silvers (eds) The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, 19 and 20: History of Political Ideas,Volumes 1 and 2     

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A simplification of a result by zellini on the maximal rank of symmetric three-way arrays

Zellini (1979, Theorem 3.1) has shown how to decompose an arbitrary symmetric matrix of ordern ×n as a linear combination of 1/2n(n+1) fixed rank one matrices, thus constructing an explicit tensor basis for the set of symmetricn ×n matrices. Zellini's decomposition is based on properties of persymmetric matrices. In the present paper, a simplified tensor basis is given, by showing that a symmetric matrix can also be decomposed in terms of 1/2n(n+1) fixed binary matrices of rank one. The decomposition implies that ann ×n ×p array consisting ofp symmetricn ×n slabs has maximal rank 1/2n(n+1). Likewise, an unconstrained INDSCAL (symmetric CANDECOMP/PARAFAC) decomposition of such an array will yield a perfect fit in 1/2n(n+1) dimensions. When the fitting only pertains to the off-diagonal elements of the symmetric matrices, as is the case in a version of PARAFAC where communalities are involved, the maximal number of dimensions can be further reduced to 1/2n(n–1). However, when the saliences in INDSCAL are constrained to be nonnegative, the tensor basis result does not apply. In fact, it is shown that in this case the number of dimensions needed can be as large asp, the number of matrices analyzed.     

Knowledge despite falsehood

I examine the claim, made by some authors, that we sometimes acquire knowledge from falsehood. I focus on two representative cases in which a subject S infers a proposition q from a false proposition p. If S knows that q, I argue, S's false belief that p is not essential to S's cognition. S's knowledge is instead due to S's belief that p′, a proposition in the neighbourhood of p that S (dispositionally) believes (and knows). S thus knows despite her false belief. The widely accepted and plausible principle that inferential knowledge requires known premises is unscathed.     

Calculating Impact Factor: How Bibliographical Classification of Journal Items Affects the Impact Factor of Large and Small Journals

As bibliographical classification of published journal items affects the denominator in this equation, we investigated how the numerator and denominator of the impact factor (IF) equation were generated for representative journals in two categories of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). We performed a full text search of the 1st-ranked journal in 2004 JCR category “Medicine, General and Internal” (New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM, IF = 38.570) and 61st-ranked journal (Croatian Medical Journal, CMJ, IF = 0.690), 1st-ranked journal in category “Multidisciplinary Sciences” (Nature, IF = 32.182) and journal with a relative rank of CMJ (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, AABC, IF = 0.435). Large journals published more items categorized by Web of Science (WoS) as non-research items (editorial material, letters, news, book reviews, bibliographical items, or corrections): 63% out of total 5,193 items in Nature and 81% out of 3,540 items in NEJM, compared with 31% out of 283 items in CMJ and only 2 (2%) out of 126 items in AABC. Some items classified by WoS as non-original contained original research data (9.5% in Nature, 7.2% in NEJM, 13.7% in CMJ and none in AABC). These items received a significant number of citations: 6.9% of total citations in Nature, 14.7% in NEJM and 18.5% in CMJ. IF decreased for all journals when only items presenting original research and citations to them were used for IF calculation. Regardless of the journal’s size or discipline, publication of non-original research and its classification by the bibliographical database have an effect on both numerator and denominator of the IF equation. Preliminary results of the study were presented at the 2006 ORI Research Conference on Research Integrity, Tampa, FL, December 1–3, 2006.     

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