ONCE MORE . . .

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

Books Reviewed in this article:
THE WEIGHT OF GLORY — A Vision and Practice for Christian Faith: The Future of Liberal Theology, Essays for Peter Baelz edited by D.W. Hardy and P.H. Sedgwick
THE MORALS OF JESUS, by Nicholas Peter Harvey.
A SEPARATE GOD: THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF GNOSTICISM by Simone Pétrement.
GOD—HIS AND HERS, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel & Jürgen Moltmann
READING IN COMMUNION: Scripture and ethics In Christian Life, by Stephen E. Fowl and L. Gregory Jones.
SACRIFICE AND REDEMPTION Durham Essays in Theology, edited by S.W. Sykes
THE BIBLE'S AUTHORITY; A PORTRAIT GALLERY OF THINKERS FROM LESSING TO BULTMANN by J.C O'Neill     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward , T.W. Bartel (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05474‐6), pp. xv +208, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris
University of Birmingham One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological and Philosophical Perspectives , Christine Helmer and Christof Landmesser (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925863‐5), pp. xi + 249, Hb £50
Reviewed by Walter Moberly
University of Durham A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic , Kenneth Cragg, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐012‐2), pp. xv + 145, Pb £12.95
Reviewed by Douglas Pratt
University of Waikato, New Zealand Fifty Key Christian Thinkers , Peter McEnhill and George Newlands, Routledge Key Guides, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐17050‐8), pp. xi + 297, £12.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham Athanasius , Khaled Anatolios, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐0202‐7), pp. viii + 293, Hb £50 Tertullian , Geoffrey D. Dunn, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐8231‐4), pp. viii + 200, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century , Beth Kreitzer, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516654‐X), pp. xi + 229, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 , Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf (eds), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐81493‐6) pp. ix + 234, Hb £40
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century , Alan P.F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Paternoster Press 2003 (1‐84227‐221‐7) pp. x + 398, Pb £24.99/$39.99
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture , Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Religion and American Culture Series, Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐12640‐9), pp. xxiv + 326, Hb £24.50/$35
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar , Edward T. Oakes SJ and David Moss (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐89147‐7), pp. xviii + 282, Pb £16.99/$25.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Paths to Unity: Explorations in Ecumenical Method , Paul Avis (ed.), Church House Publishing 2004 (0‐7151‐5768‐X), pp. viii + 152, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham In the End – the Beginning: The Life of Hope , Jürgen Moltmann, SCM / Fortress 2004 (0‐8006‐3656‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £14.99/$17
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh From Cells to Souls – and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature , Malcolm Jeeves (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0985‐5), pp. xiv + 252, Pb $29
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago Seeking God In All Things: Theology and Spiritual Direction , William Reiser, Liturgical Press 2004 (0‐8146‐5166‐6), xii + 172, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by Revd Barry J. Linney
Cherry Hinton, St. Andrew’s, Cambridge Sounding the Silence , John Skinner, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐589‐X), pp. xiv + 120, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Christ and Spirit. Spirit-Christology in Trinitaraian Perspective by Ralph Delcolle
Winds of the Spriti: A constructive Christian Theology, Peter C. Hodgson
The Eucharist Makes the Church: Henri de Lubac and john Zizioulas in Dialogue by Paul McParthan
Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology by Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Plurality and Christian Ethics, by Lan S. Markham
Ther fall to Voilence: Original sin in Relational Theology by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religion by Keith Ward
Power & Christian Ethics by James P. Mackey
Mystical Language of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells
Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture by William C. Placher     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints by Elizabeth A. Johnson (London and New York: Continuum, 2003), xviii + 379 pp.
Reviewed by Ann Loades
Department of Theology
Abbey House
Palace Green
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3RS
UK The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority by Theo Hobson (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002), + 217 pp.
Reviewed by Wes Avram
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Word and Supplement: Speech Acts, Biblical Texts, and the Sufficiency of Scripture by Timothy Ward (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), x + 332 pp.
Reviewed by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Yale University Divinity School
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06410
U.S.A. Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method by John Howard Yoder, edited by Alex Sider, Peter Dula, and Stanley Hauerwas (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002), + 431 pp.
Reviewed by Glen H. Stassen
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, CA 91182
USA Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude by Simon Francis Gaine (London: T&T Clark, 2003), xi + 137 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Barron
Mundelein Seminary
Mundelein, Ill 60060
USA Conversion In American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of Transformation by Roger A. Ward (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2004), xli + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Donald L. Gelpi, S. J.
The Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
1735 LeRoy Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
USA Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004), + 254 pp.
Reviewed by Oliver O’Donovan
Christ Church
Oxford OX1 1DP
UK Transcendence and Self‐Transcendence: On God and the Soul by Merold Westphal (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004), xiv + 235 pp.
Reviewed by Cyril O’Regan
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution by Jaroslav Pelikan (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), xiii + 216 pp.
Reviewed by H. Jefferson Powell
Duke Divinity School & Duke Law School
PO Box 90360
Durham NC 27708
USA Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology by Gerard Loughlin (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), xxx + 306 pp.
Reviewed by George Pattison
Christ Church
Oxford, OX1 1DP
UK     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Systematic Theology Volume 2by wolfhart Pannenberg, translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley
The Church and the Churches: Toward an Ecumenical Ecclesiology by G. R. Evans
The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical by John Howard Yoder
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority by John Patrick Diggins
Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology by Graham Ward     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Christ and the Spirit. Spirit Christology in Trinitarian Perspective by Ralph Del Colle
Winds of the Spirit: A Constructive Christian Theology , Peter C. Hodson
The Eucharist Makes the Church: Henri de Lubac and John Zizioulas in Dialogue by Paul McPartlan
Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology by Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Plurality and Christian Ethics , by Ian S. Markham
The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religions by Keith Ward
Power & Chrristian Ethics by James P. Mackey
Mystical Languages of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells
Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology, and Scripture by William C. Placher     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope, by David Tracy
Towards a Theology of Religions: by Glyn Richards
Story, Text and Scripture, by Wesley Kort
Christ Without Absolutes: A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch, by Sarah Coakley
Revelatory Positivism: Barth's Ealiest Theology and the Marburg School, by Simon Fisher
To Care of the Earth: A Call to a New Theology, by Sean Mcdonagh     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Adrian Hastings, The Theology of a Protestant Catholic Daphne Hampson, Theology and Feminism Peter Schüttke-Scherle, From Contextual to Ecumenical Theology? A Dialogue between Minjung Theology and “Theology after Auschwitz” Douglas John Hall, Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics by Jürgen Moltmann
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West Edited by Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry and Steven Katz
Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and Reformed Churches Edited by T. F. Torrance
A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone
Theology and Religious Pluralism: the Challenge of Other Religions by Gavin D'Costa
Theology and the Problem of Evil by Kenneth Surin     

Once More. . .

Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction (3rd edition)
Alister E. McGrath, The Christian Theology Reader (2nd edition)     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Eberhard Jüngel: an Introduction to his Theology by J. B. Webster
Annette Baier Postures of the Mind , xxii+314 pp Methuen, London 1985.
Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay towards a Trinitarian Tkeology by Colin E. Gunton, Marshall, Morgan and Scott
Brian Hebblethwaite The Christian Hope , ii+244pp. Basingstoke, Hants. Marshall Morgan & Scott.
Kwesi A. Dickson: Theology in Africa (Darton, Longman and Todd
Diogenes Allen, Philosophy For Understanding Theology     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
In Face Of Mystery:A constructive Theology, by Gorden D. Kaufman
Seeking the Humanity of God.Practices, Doctrines and Catholics Theology, by James J.Buckley
Augustine and the Limits of Virtue, by James Wetzel
Biblical Faith and Natural Theology: The Gifford Lectures for 1991, by James Barr
The Sense of a People: Toward a Church for the Human Future, by Lewis S. Mudge
Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue, by Grady Scott Davis
Limits and Renewals, by Stephen R.L Clark
For the Soul of the People:Protestant Protest Against Hitler, by Victoria Barnett     

Langdon Gilkey: In Memoriam

Abstract:  Langdon Gilkey died on November 19, 2004. This "Theology Update" reviews his career and examines elements in his systematic theology such as: (1) fallenness in human nature; (2) the transcendence and graciousness of God: (3) the Neo‐Orthodox agenda; (4) creation and the dialogue with science; and (4) inter‐religious dialogue. Gilkey's theological method of responding to human experience with the Christian message through a process of interpreting symbols is critically evaluated. This article is published simultaneously in Dialog and Theology and Science .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Origins of Satan, Elaine Pagels Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist History of Early Christianity, Luise Schottroff LAKierkegaard as Religious Thinker, David J. Gouwens LAThe Consecrated Life: Crossroads and Directions, Marcello Azevedo SJ LATertullian and the Church, David Rankin Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner The Image of God: A Theology for Pastoral Care and Counseling, Leroy T. Howe Systematic Theology Volume 2: Doctrine, James W. McClendon Jr Journey into Truth: Spiritual Direction in the Anglican Tradition, Peter Ball Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, Letty M. Russell and J. Shannon Clarkson Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom - Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop, J.N.D. Keily The Kingdom of God: The Message of Jesus for Today, John Fuellenbach University of Birmingham The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion c. 1750–1900, David Hempton Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire, David Hempton Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Propect, D.G. Paz Old Testament Theology Volume 1, Horst Dietrich Preuss Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity, Stephen N. Williams Jesus Framed: Biblical Limits, George Aichele Women in the Presence: Constructing and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism, Jody Shapiro Davie In Search of a Calling: The College's Role in Shaping Identity, Thomas O. Buford University of Birmingham Judges 1–5: A New Translation and Commentary, Barnabas Lindars SSF, edited by A.D.H. Mayes Escape from Paradise: Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology, Kathleen M. Sands Worship in Transition: The Twentieth-Century Liturgical Movement, John Fenwick and Bryan Spinks Encountering Illness: Voices in Pastoral and Theological Perspective, James Woodward Divine Meaning: Studies in Patristic Hermeneutics, Thomas F. Torrance Christian-Jewish Dialogue: A Reader, Helen P. Fry University of Birmingham From Women's Experience to Feminist Theology, Linda Hogan Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized, John Rist     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions. Edited by Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin, Jay B. McDaniel The God of Life, by Gustavo Gutierrez; translated by Matthew J.o'Connell Systematic Theology Vol.1, by Wolfhart Pannenberg Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, by Daniel L. Migliore A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited by Geffery B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson Spouse of the Word, Explorations in Theology, Vol. II, by Hans Urs von Balthasar Stony the Road we Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, ed. Cain Hope Felder Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the latter day saints in american religion, by philip L. Barlow Starley hauerwas, after christendom? how the church is to behave if freedom justice, and a christion nation are bad ideas The moral virtues and theological ethics, by Romanus cessario     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: 60 YEARS OF ESCHATOLOGY-STUDIES: Jesus and the Kingdom : the Eschatology of Biblical Realism , by George Eldon Ladd. CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM: 1) Studies in Christian Existentialism , by John Macquarrie CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM: 2) Principles of Christian Theology , by John Macquarrie THEOLOGY OF THE EUCHARIST: The Eucharistic Words of Jesus , by Joachim Jeremias CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY: Contemporary Continental Theologians , by S. Paul Schilling CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY: The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann , edited by Charles W. Kegley DEVELOPMENT: War , Poverty , Freedom : The Christian Response. Concilium     

Reviews

Book Reviews in this article:
The Psychology of Religion . by J oseph F. B yrnes
L'Oeuvre Scientifique (Scientific Writings) . By P ierre T eilhard de C hardin . Edited by N icole and K arl S chmitz -M oormann
One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology . by J ohn P olkinghorne
Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature . by J ohn C ar -M ody .
God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God . by J urgen M oltmann .     

“And Let Us Make Us a Name”: Reflections on the Future of the Religion and Health Field

After years of marginality, research on religion and health is entering the academic mainstream. Scholarship on this topic has evolved into a large, productive field. As in any emerging field, there are competing visions for what the field should be about and what research questions should be pursued. Different opinions exist as to which constructs should be researched. Words like religion, spirituality, faith, and prayer, and health, healing, medicine, and healthcare, imply different things. The study of their various interconnections can thus take myriad forms. This article argues for a welcoming approach open to the widest range of research subjects. An earlier version of this article was presented as a Visiting Scholar Seminar, Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, March 6, 2008.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher. A Biblical Theology of Exile.
Raymond Plant. Politics, Theology and History.
Jacques Derrida. Acts of Religion.
James Arthur Diamond. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment.
Sarah Coakley. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender.
James K. A. Smith. Speech and Theology: Language and the logic of incarnation.
Amy Laura Hall. Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love.
Michael Barnes. Theology and the Dialogue of Religions.
Mark Julian Edwards. Origen Against Plato.
Andrew Moore. Realism and Christian Faith: God, Grammar, and Meaning.