BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Great Themes from the Old Testament. By Norbert Lohfink. Pp.x, 267, Edinburgh, 1982, T. & T. Clark Ltd., £7.95. Interpreting the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honour of E.I.J. Rosenthal. Edited by J.A. Emerton and Stefan C. Reif. Pp.xv, 318, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £22.50. Wisdom in the Old Testament Traditions. By Donn F. Morgan. Pp.180, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £12.00 (hardback), £4.95 (paperback). Joseph Ibn Kaspi's Gevia 'Kesef. By Basil Herring. Pp.xii, 301, New York, Ktav, 1982, no price given. Klassiker der Theologie, I and II. Edited by Heinrich Fries and Georg Kretschmar. Pp.462 and 486, illustrated, Munich, Verlag C.H. Beck, 1981 and 1983, no price given. Tatian: ‘Oratio ad Graecos’ and Fragments. Edited and translated by Molly Whittaker. Pp.xxv, 92 (Oxford Early Christian Texts), Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1982, £11.50. La Salvatión par la Fe: La Noción ‘Fides’ en Hilario de Poitiers. By Antonio Peñamaria de Llano. Pp.287 (Publicaciones de la Facultad de Teologia del Norte de España 47), Burgos, Ediciones Aldecoa, 1981, 1000 Ptas. The Practical and Theological Chapters and the Three Theological Discourses by Symeon the New Theologian. Translated, with an introduction, by Paul McGuckin. Pp. 144 (Cistercian Studies 41), Kalamazoo, Cistercian Publications, 1982, no price given. Christian Antioch: A Study of Early Christian Thought in the East. By D.S. Wallace-Hadrill. Pp.viii, 218, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £17.50. Reformed Thought and Scholasticism: The Arguments for the Existence of God in Dutch Theology, 1575–1650. By John Platt. Pp.viii, 249 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought 29), Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1982, 98 guilders. The World to Come. By Don Cupitt. Pp.xvii, 171, London, SCM Press, 1982, £4.95. Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt. By Keith Ward. Pp.x, 166, London, SPCK, 1982, £4.95. God Has Many Names. By John Hick, Pp.140, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1982, $7.95. Prophetic Faith and the Secular Age. By Levi A. Olan. Pp.xiv, 162, New York, Ktav, 1982, $15.00. Process Theology as Political Theology. By John B. Cobb Jr. Pp.xvi, 168, Manchester University Press, and Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1982, £6.50 or $8.95. Non-Violence Central to Christian Spirituality: Perspectives from Scripture to the Present. Edited by Joseph T. Culliton. Pp.viii, 302 (Toronto Studies in Theology, Volume 8), New York and Toronto, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1982, $39.95. A Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Edited by Gordon S. Wakefield. Pp.xvi, 400, London, SCM Press, 1983, £15.00. Abba: Guides to Wholeness and Holiness East and West. Edited by John R. Sommer-feldt. Pp.xii, 416 (Cistercian Studies Series 38), Kalamazoo, Cistercian Publications, 1982, no price given. Liturgy Reshaped. Edited by Kenneth Stevenson. Pp.ix, 181, London, SPCK, 1982, £8.50. A History of the Anglican Liturgy. By G.J. Cuming. Pp.xv, 337, London, Macmillan, 1982, £20.00. Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Rites. By Kenneth Stevenson. Pp.ix, 258 (Alcuin Club Collection 64), London, SPCK, 1982, £10.50. Confession: Studies in deviance and religion. By Mike Hepworth and Bryan S. Turner. Pp.viii, 200, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £9.95. Through a Darkening Glass: Philosophy, Literature, and Cultural Change. By D.Z. Phillips. Pp.x, 196, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £10.00. Abortion: The Moral Issue. Edited by Edward Batchelor Jr. Pp.viii, 246. New York, The Pilgrim Press, 1982, £15.95 (hardback), £8.95 (paperback). Community, Anarchy and Liberty. By Michael Taylor. Pp.vii, 184. Cambridge University Press, 1982, £14.00 (hardback), £4.95 (paperback). Traditional and Analytical Philosophy: Lectures on the Philosophy of Language. By Ernst Tugendhat. Pp.xii, 438, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £29.50. Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method. By Paul K. Feyerabend. Pp.xiv, 353, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £22.50. Problems of Empiricism. By Paul K. Feyerabend. Pp.xii, 252, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £17.50. Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science. By Ernest Nagel. Pp.352, New York, Columbia University Press, 1982, $17.00. Philosophy of Education An Introduction. By T.W. Moore. Pp.xi, 142 (International Library of The Philosophy of Education), London, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1982, £3.95. Socrates: Philosophy in Plato's Early Dialogues. By G.X. Santas. Pp.xiii, 343, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £5.95. Plato. By R.M. Hare, Pp.viii, 82, Oxford University Press, 1982, £6.95 (hardback), £1.50 (paperback). Aristotle. By Jonathan Barnes. Pp.101, Oxford University Press, 1982, £6.95 (hardback), £1.50 (paperback). John Buridan on Self-Reference. By G.E. Hughes. Pp.xi, 233, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £20.00 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart. Pp.lxx, 343, London, Methuen, 1982, £6.95. The Tradition of Political Hedonism from Hobbes to J.S. Mill. By Frederick Vaughan. Pp.ix, 271, New York, Fordham University Press, 1982, $25.00 (hardback), $12.00 (paperback). Mill on Liberty: A Defence. By John Gray. Pp.xiii, 143, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, £8.95. Stolen Lightning. By Daniel O'Keefe. Pp.581, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1982, £17.00. Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung. By Richard Katz. Pp.xix, 329, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1982, £17.50. The Konds: Human Sacrifice and Religious Change. By Barbara M. Boal. Pp.xiv, 294, Warminster, Aris & Phillips, 1983, £16.00. Science and the Renewal of Belief. By Russell Stannard. Pp.213, London, SCM Press, 1982, £2.95. BOOK REVIEWS The Society for Psychical Research 1882–1982: A History. By Renée Haynes. Pp.xv, 240, London, Macdonald, 1982, £7.95.     

Book reviews

John Christian Laursen (ed.). Religious Toleration: ‘The Variety of Rites’ from Cyrus to Defoe. New York, St Martin's Press, 1999. xx + 252 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–312–22233–5.

Daniel Garber. Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, £40.00 hb; £14.95 pb. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0–521–00337–7 pb. 0–521–80279–2 hb.

Olli Koistinen and John Biro (eds). Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 255 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–512815‐X.

Paul Abela. Kant's Empirical Realism. Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press, 2002. vii + 303 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–924274–7.

Bruce L. Kinzer. England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question. Toronto, Buffalo, and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001. 292 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8020–4862–5.

Maria Dimova‐Cookson. T. H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Perspective. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001. £40.00. xiii + 175 pp. ISBN 0–333–9144–7.

Stephen Mulhall. Inheritance &; Originality. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001. £40.00. xii + 448 pp. ISBN 0–19–924390–5.

Paul Gorner. Twentieth‐Century German Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. iii + 225 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0–19–289309–2.

Karen Green. Dummett: Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. xi + 236 pp. £55.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0–7456–2294–1 (hb) 0–7456–2295‐X (pb).     

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Books reviewed: The Paganism Reader , Chas S. Clifton and Graham Harvey (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30353‐2), pp. xi + 387, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury Give Me That Online Religion , Brenda Brasher, Rutgers University Press 2004 (0‐8135‐3436‐4), pp. xiv + 203, Pb $21.95
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief , Richard C. Prust, Rodopi 2004 (90‐420‐1088‐6), pp. 130, Pb €30/$39
Reviewed by William Schweitzer
University of Edinburgh God, Evil, and Ethics. A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion , Eric v.d. Luft, Gegensatz Press 2004 (0‐9655179‐1‐8), pp. viii + 264, Pb $14.95
Reviewed by Russell Re Manning
University of Cambridge Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales. Essays in Honour of Gareth Lloyd Jones , Robert Pope (ed.), Gracewing 2003 2003 (0‐85244‐401‐X), pp. xviii + 278, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Dr. Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch , Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2679‐2), pp. x + 228, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel , William M. Schniedewind, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82946‐1), pp. xiii + 257, Hb £25/$28
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence , Martin Laird, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926799‐5), pp. xii + 240, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Martin Heale, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22, The Boydell Press 2004 (1‐84383‐054X), pp. xvii + pp. 378, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Carolyn Muessig
University of Bristol Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe , Liz Herbert McAvoy, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5, D.S. Brewer 2004 (1‐84384‐008‐1), pp. ix + 276, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Kevin Magill
University of Bristol Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein , Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (eds), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02923‐6), pp. xiv + 286, Pb £35
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology , Gareth Jones (ed.), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐20685‐X), pp. xx + 586, Hb £85/$134.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures , Grace Davie, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (eds), Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3010‐2), pp. xii + 253, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Hugh McLeod
University of Birmingham Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of the Saints , Elizabeth A. Johnson, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1473‐7) pp. xvii + 379, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical , John Haldane, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐20703‐7), pp. xv + 288, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute, Melbourne Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa , Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Hurst and Company 2004 (1‐85065‐734‐3), vii +263, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire , Michael Northcott, I.B. Tauris 2004 (1‐85043‐478‐6), pp. 200, Hb £19.50
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Volume One: Foundations of Violence , Grace M. Jantzen, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐29033‐3), pp. x + 390, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace , Simon Fisher, Quaker Books, 2004 (0‐85245‐357‐4), pp. 123, Pb £9.00
Reviewed by K. Alan Jung
Biola University Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens , Bernd Wannenwetsch, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925387‐0), pp. xiv + 402, Hb £75
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice , Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐3156‐7, Pb 0‐7546‐3157‐5), pp. 201 + xii, Hb £47.50/Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course, Durham Free Time: Towards a Theology of Leisure , Graham Neville, University of Birmingham Press 2004 (1‐902459‐21‐0), pp. viii + 162, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking , Paul D. Janz, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82241‐6), pp. xi + 232, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Grassroots Spirituality: What It Is, Why It Is Here, Where It Is Going , Robert Forman, Imprint Academic 2004 (0‐907845‐681), pp. vii + 231, Pb £14.95?$29.90
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association     

BOOK REVIEWS

Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context. By Brevard S. Childs. Pp.xvi, 255, London, S.C.M. Press, 1985, £10.00. The Cult of Molek: A Reassessment. By George C. Heider. Pp.xvii, 446, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1985, £18.50 (hardback), £8.50 (paperback). A History of Israel from Alexander the Great to Bar Kochba. By H. Jagersma, translated by John Bowden. Pp. xiv, 224, London, SCM Press, 1985, £9.50. Naissance d'une Ex?èse: Daniel dans l'Eglise ancienne des trpis premiers siècles (Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese 28). By Reinhard Bodenmann. Pp.xviii, 442, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1986, 98 DM. The Son of Man (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 38). By Chrys C. Caragounis. Pp.ix, 310, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1986, DM 118. Paul, His Letters and His Theology: An Introduction to Paul's Epistles. By Stanley B. Marrow. Pp.vii, 278, Mahwah NJ, Paulist Press, 1986, $9.95. Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 22). By Lewis R. Donelson. Pp.viii, 222, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1986, 78 DM. The Second and Third Epistles of John (Studies of the New Testament and Its World). By Judith Lieu, PP.x, 264, Edinburgh T & T Clark, 1986, £12.95 Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach. By Francis Watson. Pp.xii, 246, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £22.50. Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World. By Alan F. Segal. Pp.viii 207, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1986, £16.95. The Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity, 1). Edited by Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring. Pp.xxx 319. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1986, no price given. Saint Augustine on Slavery. By Gervase Corcoran. Pp.102, Rome, Institutum Patristicum ‘Augustinianum’, 1985, no price given. An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy. By Oliver Leaman. Pp.xii, 208, Cambridge University Press, 1985, £20 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Anselm's Argument: The Logic of Divine Existence. (Avebury Series in Philosophy). By Robert Brecher. Pp.viii, 138, Aldershot, Gower Publishing, 1985, £16.00. Wyclif In His Times. Edited by Anthony Kenny. Pp.viii, 174, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, £19.50. Calvin's Old Testament Commentaries. By T.H.L. Parker. Pp.239, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1986, £14.95. Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London. By Andrew Pettegree. Pp.ix, 329, Oxford University Press, 1986, £22.50. Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524–1821 (Cambridge Latin American Studies). By Adriaan C. van Oss. Pp.xx, 248, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £27.50. Immodest Acts. By Judith C. Brown. Pp.viii, 214, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986, $14.95. English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman. By C.O. Brink. Pp.x, 243, Cambridge, James Clarke; New York, Oxford University Press, 1986, £11.95. Neither Angel nor Beast: The Life and Works of Blaise Pascal. By Francis X. J. Coleman, Pp.xii, 227, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, £17.95. La Soppressione Napoleonica delle Corporazioni Religiose: Contributo alla Storia Religiosa del Primo Ottocento Italiano, 1808–1814. By Carmelo Amedeo Naselli. Pp.309, Rome, Università Gregoriana Editrice, 1986, no price given. The Irish Catholic Experience. A Historical Survey. By Patrick J. Corish, Pp.ix, 283, Dublin, Gill and MacMillan, 1986, £25.00. The Priesthoods and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly. By D.G. Paz. Pp.xxiii, 422, Lewiston (NY), The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986, $59.95. Catholic Boston: Studies in Religion and Community, 1870–1970. Edited by Robert E. Sullivan and James M. O'Toole. Pp.ix, 280, Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, 1985, $8.00. Modern American Religion: Volume I: The Irony of It All, 1893–1919. By Martin E. Marty. Pp.xi, 386, Chicago University Press, 1986, £22.25. “Sufficiently Radical’ Catholicism, Progressivism and the Bishops” Program of 1919. By Joseph M. McShane, Pp.x, 307, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1986, $38.95. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton. By Michael Mott. Pp.xxvi, 690, London, Sheldon Press, 1986, £19.50. Relics and Shrines. By David Sox. Pp. xvi, 237, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985, $12.95. Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today: Why? Where? How? By J.G. Davies. Pp. xiv, 274, London, SCM Press, 1988, $14.95. The Bleeding Mind. By Ian Wilson, Pp. ix, 164, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988, $12.95. ‘I ENCOUNTERED GOD!’ The Spiritual Exercises with the Gospel of Saint John. By David M. Stanley. Pp. xvi, 328, St. Louis, The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1986, $14.00 (hardback) $11.00 (paperback). Hymns and the Christian Myth By Lionel Adey. Pp. xiii, 269, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1986, £17.45. Eucharist and Offering. By Kenneth Stevenson. Pp. xiii, 327, New York, Pueblo Publishing, 1986, no price given. The Methods of Modern Theology: The Dream of Reason (Contemporary Christian Studies). By Paul Avis. Pp. 240, Basingstoke, Hants, Marshall Pickering, 1986, £13.95. Being and Truth: Essays in Honour of John Macquarrie. Edited by Alistair Kee. and Eugene Thomas Long. Pp. xviii, 462, London, SCM Press, 1986, £25.00. Die Herrschaft des Gekreuzigten: Ernst Käsemanns Frage nach der Mitte der Schrift (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 46). By Bernhard Ehler. Pp. xiii, 365 Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1986, DM 146. Eberhard Jüngel, An Introduction to his Theology. By J.B. Webster. Pp.182, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £20.00. Dieu, le Temps et l'Etre. By G. Lafont. Pp.373, Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1986, 176F. God's Action in the World. By Maurice Wiles. Pp.viii, 118, London, SCM Press, 1986, £5.95. Faith and the Future. By Walter Kasper. Pp.viii, 140, Tunbridge Wells, Burns and Oates, 1985, £8.95. God in Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation: The Gifford Lectures 1984–1985. By Jürgen Moltmann, translated by Margaret Köhl. Pp.xvi, 365, London, SCM Press, 1985, £10.50. Process Theology and the Christian Doctrine of God (Word and Spirit 8) Edited by Santiago Sia. Pp.viii, 110, Leominster, Fowler and Wright, 1986, £7.00. Process Theology and the Christian Tradition (Studies in Historical Theology V). By Illtyd Trethowan. Pp.xii, 124, Still River, MA, St Bede's Publications, 1986, £10.75. Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology. By James L. Cone. Pp.viii, 167, Paternoster Press, 1986, £7.95. A Place in the Sun. By Theo Witvliet. Pp.182, SCM, London 1986, £5.95. Divine Impassibility: An Essay in Philosophical Theology. By Richard E. Creel, Pp.xi, 238, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £25.00. Being and Predication: Thomistic Interpretations (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 16). By Ralph McInerny. Pp.xii, 323, Washington DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1986, no price given. Circles of God: Theology and Science from the Greeks to Copernicus. By H.P. Nebelsick. Pp.xxviii, 284, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1986, £16.00. One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology. By John Polkinghorne. Pp.xiii, 114, London SPCK, 1986, £4.50. Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. By Amos Funkenstein. Pp.xii, 421, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1986, £31.70. Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall. Edited by Margaret J. Osier and Paul Lawrence Farber. Pp.xiv, 350, Cambridge University Press, 1985, £32.50.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: Benito Arias Montano (1572-1598) By B. Rekers . Pp. xi, 199 (Studies of the Warburg Institute 33), London, Warburg Institute; Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972, £5.00 Edmund of Abingdon's ‘Speculum Religiosorum’ and ‘Speculum Ecclesie’. Edited by Helen P. Forshaw . Pp. vii, 125 (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi 3), London Oxford University Press, 1973, £5.00. English Schools in the Middle Ages. By Nicholas Orme . Pp. xiv, 370, London, Methuen, 1973, £7.25. Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy: Cardinal Pole and the Counter-Reformation. By Dermot Fenlon . Pp. xiii, 300, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1972, £5.80. The Churches Militant: The War of 1812 and American Religion. By William Gribbin . Pp. viii, 210, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973, £3.75. English Roman Catholics and Higher Education 1830-1903. By Vincent Alan Mc Clelland . Pp. x, 453, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973, £7.00. Lord Acton on Papal Power. By H. A. Mac Dougall . Pp. ix, 241, London, Sheed & Ward, 1973, £4.00. The English Bishops and the First Vatican Council., By Frederick J. Cwiekowski . Pp. xxvii, 341, (Bibliothèque de la Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 52) Louvain, Publications Universitaires de Louvain, 1971, 500 Belg. Frs. Genesis 1-11. By R. Davidson . Pp. x, 118, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £1.90. The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, 1-39. By A. S. Herbert . Pp. xiii, 219, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £3.50. The First and Second Books of the Maccabees. By John R. Bartlett . Pp. xiv, 358, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £5.20. Deuteronomy. By A. Phillips . Pp. xiv, 237, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £3.80 (hardback), £1.50 (paperback). The Wisdom of Solomon. By E. G. Clarke Pp. xii, 136, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £2.20 (hardback), £1.10 (paperback). I and II chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah. By P. R. Ackroyd . Pp. 320 (Torch Bible Commentaries), London, SCM Press, 1973, £1.40. La Verdad Os Hará Libres: Jn 8, 32. By José O. Tunñi Vancells . Pp. 230, Barcelona, Herder, 1973, no price given. Martyria. Traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zum Zeugnisthema bei Johannes. By Johannes Beutler , S. J. Pp. 398 (Frankfurter theologische Studien 10), Frankfurt, Josef Knecht, 1972, 48 DM. The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays. Edited by James M. Efird . Pp. xv, 332, Durham, N. C., Duke University Press, 1972, $14.75. Pre-Existence, Wisdom and the Son of Man: A Study of the Idea of Pre-Existence in the New Testament. By R. G. Hamerton -Kelly . Pp. xii, 310, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £7.90. The Easter Jesus. By Gerald O'Collins . Pp. xiv, 142, London, Darton, Longman And Todd, 1973, £1.50. Four Martyrdoms from the Pierpoint Morgan Coptic Codices. Edited by E. A. E. Reymond and J. W. Barns . Pp. xii, 278, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973, £7.50. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. Volume I. By Harry Austryn Wolfson , edited by Isadore Twersky and George H. Williams . Pp. xvii, 626, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1973, £8.00. Complete Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 6: Christian Doctorine. Edited with an introduction by Maurice Kelley , translated by John Carey . Pp. xxiv, 863 Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973, £10.50. Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper. By Alison G. Sulloway . Pp. xiv, 245, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, £3.75. Kierkegaard: A Biographical Introduction. By Ronald Grimsley . Pp. 127 (Leaders of Modern Thought), London, Studio Vista, 1973, £0.95. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Letters to C. K. Ogden. Edited by G. H. von Wright . Pp. ix, 90, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, and London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, £2.00. The Central Questions of Philosophy. By A. J. Ayer . Pp. 243, London, Nicolson, 1973, £3.50. Elements of Analytic Philosophy. By Arthur Pap . Pp. xvi, 542, New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1972, £6.20. An Introduction to Confirmation Theory. By Richard Swinburne . Pp. 218, London, Methuen, 1973, £3.90. Models for Divine Activity. By Ian T. Ramsey . Pp. 78, London, SCM Press, 1973, £1.95. Ian Ramsey, Bishop of Durham—a Memoir. By David L. Edwards . Pp. 101, London, Oxford University Press, 1973, £2.00. Change in Focus: A Study of Doctorinal Change and Continuity. By Nicholas Lash . Pp. ix, 198 (Library of Contemporary Theology), London, Sheed and Ward, 1973, £3.00. Basic Questions in Theology (Volume Three). By Wolfhart Pannenberg . Pp. ix, 213, London, SCM Press, 1973, £3.75. Wolfhart Pannenberg. By Allan D. Galloway . Pp. 143 (Contemporary Religious Thinkers Series), London, George Allen and Unwin, 1973, £3.25. Das Wesen Des Christentums. Eine bergriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. By Hans Wagenhammer . Pp. 262 (Tübinger theologische Studien 2), Mainz, Matthias Grünewald Verlag, 1973, 38 DM. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Edited by F. L. Cross , second edition by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone . Pp. xxxi, 1518, London, Oxford University Press, 1974, £13.50.     

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Books reviewed: The Case for Religion , Keith Ward, Oneworld 2004 (1‐85168‐337‐2), pp. viii + 246, Hb £16.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity , Jacob K. Olupona (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27320‐X), pp. xvi + 348, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Secular Judaism: Faith, Values, and Spirituality , Yaakov Malkin, Valentine Mitchell 2004 (0‐85303‐512‐1), pp. x + 150, Hb £42.50/$62.50, Pb £17.50/$26.50
Reviewed by Berel Dov Lerner
Western Galilee Academic College, Israel Truth and Scripture: Challenging Underlying Assumptions , Brenda Watson, Aureus Publishing Ltd 2004 (1‐899750‐27‐4), pp. xvi + 208, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism , Brian Malley, Alta Mira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0665‐7), pp. ix + 173, Pb £20.95
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham The Book of Esther in Modern Research , Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon (eds), JSOTS Series 380, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6663‐X), pp. xii + 266, Hb £70
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment , Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), Westminster John Knox 2002 (0‐664‐22277‐3), pp. vi + 253, Pb £20
Reviewed by Michael Barram
Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California Paul's Letter to the Romans : A Social‐Rhetorical Commentary , Ben Witherington III with Darlene Hyatt, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4504‐5), pp. xxxviii + 421, Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking , Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐826733‐9), pp. xiv + 459, Hb £ 70
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber
Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel The Suffering of the Impassible God : The Dialectics of Patristic Thought , Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐1992‐6982‐3), pp. xii + 210, £45
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Christology of Anselm of Canterbury , Dániel Deme, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3779‐4), pp. xii + 263, Hb £42.50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria , Daniel A. Keating, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926713‐8), pp. x + 315, Hb £55
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Reformed Theology and Visual Culture : The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards , William A. Dyrness, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54073‐9), pp. xv + 339, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Lord's Prayer : A Text in Tradition , Kenneth W. Stevenson, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02937‐6), pp. ix +290, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity , Gerald O’Collins and Mario Farrugia, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐925995‐X), pp. xiii + 409, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys , Mark A. Noll, InterVarsity Press 2003 (0‐8308‐2581‐9), pp. 330, Hb $23.00
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Baer
Wabash College, Indiana Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief , Adam Hood, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3135‐4), pp. x + 216, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ: In Dialogue with the Religions , Massimo Serretti (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2212‐6), translated by Teresa Talavera and David C. Schindler, pp. xi + 163, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy , Karen Kilby, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐25965‐7), pp. ix + 160, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Petre uea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide , Alexandru Popescu, Ashgate Press 2004 (0‐7546‐5006‐5), pp. xxviii + 366, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity , Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2752‐7), pp. xiv + 235, £14.99/$20
Reviewed by Stephen Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond , Regina Schwartz (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96704‐X), pp. xii + 260, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Death of God and the Meaning of Life , Julian Young, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30790‐2), pp. vii + 236, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Does God Exist: The Craig‐Flew Debate , Stan W. Wallace (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3190‐7; 0‐7546‐3189‐3), pp. x + 230, Pb £16.99/Hb £47.50
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Feminist Christian Encounters: The Methods and Strategies of Feminist Informed Christian Theologies , Angela Pears, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0990‐1), pp. vi + 198, 183, Hb £45
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Women's Faith Development: Patterns and Processes , Nicola Slee, Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0886‐7), pp. xii + 205, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Reconciliation in a World of Conflict , Luiz Carlos Susin and Maria Pilar Aquino (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03076‐5), Concilium 2003/5, pp. 134, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile , Fabio Petito and Pavlos Hatzopoulos (eds), Palgrave 2004 (1‐4039‐6207‐3), pp. x + 286, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership , Douglas A. Hicks, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐52960‐3), pp. vii + 222, Pb £16.99/$25
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion in America Since 1945: A History , Patrick Allitt, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12154‐7), pp. xv + 313, Hb £21/$30
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society , Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh, Columbia University Press 2003 (Pb 0‐231‐12733‐2, Hb 0‐231‐12732‐4, Cloth), pp. xx + 243, Pb £15.50/$22.50, Hb £41.50/$59.50
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
The College of Saint Rose, New York The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics , Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐23506‐X), pp. xiii + 510, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics in the Time of Many Worlds , William Schweiker, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1‐4051‐1344‐8, Pb 1‐4051‐1345‐6), pp. xxv + 239, Hb £55/$61.95, Pb £16.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present , Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4975‐X), pp. vi + 324, Pb £24.99/$35
Reviewed by Malcolm Brown
Cambridge Theological Federation The Character of Wisdom: Essays in Honour of Wesley Carr , Martyn Percy and Stephen Lowe (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3418‐3), pp. xii + 210, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Cathedral Science, Theology, and Ethics , Ted Peters, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0825‐5), pp. x + 347, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism , Terence L. Nichols, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐046‐0), p. 240, Pb $ 17.99
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago God and the Nature of Time , Garrett J. DeWeese, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3519‐8), pp. xii + 294, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon , Roy Willis and Patrick Curry, Berg 2004 (1‐8597‐3687‐4), pp. vi + 170, Pb £ 15.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in honour of Peter R. Ackroyd. Edited by Richard Coggins, Anthony Phillips and Michael Knibb, Pp.xxi, 272. Cambridge University Press, 1982, £21.00 (paperback, 1984, £9.95). Essays on John. By C.K. Barrett. Pp.viii, 167, London, SPCK, 1982, £10.50. The Letter to the Colossians. By Eduard Schweizer, translated by Andrew Chester. Pp.319, London, SPCK, 1982, £12.50. Foundational Theology: Jesus and the Church. By Francis Schüssler Fiorenza. Pp.xix, 326, New York Crossroad, 1984, $22.50. The Darkness of God: Theology after Hiroshima. By Jim Garrison. Pp.x, 238, London, SCM Press, 1982, £5.95. Discerning the Mystery, An Essay on the Nature of neology. By Andrew Louth. Pp.xiv, 150, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, £12.50. The Tao and the Daimon: Segments of a Religious Inquiry. By Robert C. Neville. Pp.xv, 281, Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1982, $34.50 (hardback)), $11.95 (paperback). Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World. By James Clifford. Pp.xi, 270, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982, £21.50. Transcendence and the Sacred. Edited by A.M. Olson and L.S. Rouner. Pp.xv, 230 (Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 2), University of Notre Dame Press, 1981, £10.75. A History of Religious Ideas. Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity. By Mircea Eliade. Translated by William R. Trask. Pp.xi, 565, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982, £17.50. Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Racquet. By Mircea Eliade. Translated by Derek Coltman. Pp.ix, 225, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982, £12.55. Religious Philosophy of Prince-Bishop Njegosh of Montenegro. By Zika Rad. Prvulovich. Pp.xviii, 273, Birmingham, The Author (26 Wheeler's Lane, King's Heath, B13 OSA), 1984, £12.50 (hardback), £10.50 (paperback). The Home of Meaning: The Hermeneutics of the Subject of Paul Ricoeur. By John W. Van Dengel. Pp.xxi, 333, Washington, D.C., University Press of America, 1982, $24.50 (hardback), $13.25 (paperback). Life Forms and Meaning Stucture. By Alfred Schutz, translated, introduced and annotated by Helmut Wagner. Pp.vi, 217 (The International Library of Phenomenology and Moral Sciences), London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, £11.95. The Shaping of Man: Philosophical Aspects of Sociobiology. By Roger Trigg. Pp.xx, 186. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £12.50 (hardback), £5.95 (paperback). Marx and Marxisms: Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, 14. Edited by G.H.R. Parkinson. Pp.vi, 268, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £9.95. Marx and Justice: The Radical Critique of Liberalism. By Allen E. Buchanan. Pp.xiv, 206, London, Methuen, 1982, £12.95. Israel Satanter: Text, Structure, Idea. By Hillel Goldberg. Pp.xvii, 358, New York, Ktav, 1981, $17.50. Freud on Femininity and Faith. By Judith Van Herik. Pp.xiii, 216, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982, £17.50. Women, Reason and Nature. By Carol McMillan. Pp.x, 165, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £12.50. Supererogation: Its Status in Ethical Theory. By David Heyd. Pp.vii, 191, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £14.00. The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Edited by Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny and Jan Finborg. Pp.xi, 1035, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £40.00. St Thomas Aquinas. By Ralph McInerny. Pp.197, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1982, £4.50. Yves de Vallone: The Making of an Esprit-Fort. By James O'Higgins, S.J. Pp.viii, 248, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982, $35.00. Religion and National Identity. Edited by Stuart Mews. Pp.xvi, 618 (Studies in Church History 18), Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £19.50. Mortmain Legislation and the English Church, 1279–1500. By Sandra Raban. Pp.xii, 215, (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third series 17), Cambridge University Press, 1982, £25.00. John XXIII, Pope of the Council. By Peter Hebblethwaite. Pp.viii, 550, London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1984, £14.95. i Compiled by J.F. Púglisi and S.J. Voicu. Pp.260, Rome, Centro Pro Unione, 1984, $20.00. Ireland: A Bibliography of Material held at St Deiniol's Library. Compiled by Helen C. Price. Pp.iv, 136, Hawarden, St Deiniol's, 1984, £2.50. The Later Poems, 1972–1982. By R.S. Thomas. Pp.224, London, Macmillan, 1984, £4.95.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis. By Arthur Gibson. Pp.xii, 244, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £12.00. The Great Code. By Northrop Frye. Pp.xxiii, 261, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £9.95. The Critical Meaning of the Bible. By Raymond E. Brown. Pp.x, 150, New York/Ramsey, Paulist Press, 1981, $3.95. The Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture. By William J. Abraham. Pp.126, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, £9.50. Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension. By D.A. Carson. Pp.xii, 271, London, Marshal, Morgan and Scott, 1981, £10.95. Presented to Lou H. Silberman. Edited by J.L. Crenshaw and Samuel Sandmel. Pp.xviii, 273, New York, Ktav, 1980, $20.00. New Testament Textual Criticism: its Significance for Exegesis. Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger. Edited by E.J. Epp and G.D. Fee. Pp.xxviii, 410, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981, £40.00. To Advance the Gospel: New Testament Studies. By Joseph A. Fitzmyer. Pp.xiii, 265, New York, Crossroad, 1981, $19.50. The Gospel According to Matthew. By Francis Wright Beare. Pp.x, 550, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £25.00. Jesus als Lehrer. By Rainer Riesner. Pp.xi, 614 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2 Reihe, 7), Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1981, 59 DM. Paradise Now and Not Yet. By A.T. Lincoln. Pp.xiii, 277 (Society for New Testament Studies. Monograph Series 43), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £ 15.00. Blessing in Paul. By Joseph Thuruthumaly. Pp.vii, 328, Alwaye (India), Pontifical Institute of Theology and Philosophy, 1981, no price given. God Incarnate: Story and Belief. Edited by A.E. Harvey. Pp.viii, 104, London, SPCK, 1981, £3.95. Christ in a Changing World: Towards an Ethical Christology. By Tom F. Driver. Pp.xi, 183, London, SCM, 1981, £5.95. To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism. By Rosemary Radford Ruether. Pp.85, London, SCM, 1981, £2.95. The Spirit as Lord: The Pneumatology of Karl Barth. By Philip J. Rosato. Pp.x, 228, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1981, £8.95. Providence. By Michael J. Langford. Pp.183, London, SCM, 1981, £5.50. Faith and Reason. By Richard Swinburne. Pp.206, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £16.00. Knowing God. By Jerry H. Gill. Pp.173, Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1981, $9.95. Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to the Sacraments in the Christian Church By Joseph Martos. Pp.530, London, SCM Press, 1981, £8.50. The Dynamic of Tradition. By A.M. Allchin. Pp.vni, 151, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £4.50. Peter and the Single Church. By John de Satgé. Pp.x, 182, London, SPCK, 1981, £4.95. L'Homme et ses Probèmes dans la Lumière du Christ. By René Latourelle. Pp.386, Montréal, Bellarmin: Tournai, Desclée, 1981, $12.00. God and Man in African Religion: A Case Study of the Igbo of Nigeria. By E.I. Metuh. Pp.xiv, 181, London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1981, £3.95. A Fifth Gospel: In Search of Black Christian Values. By J.G. Healy. Pp.xvi, 204, London, SCM Press, 1981, £4.95. Prophecy and Revolution. By Nathaniel I. Ndiokwere. Pp.xvi, 319, London, SPCK, 1981, £8.50. A Technique for Loving: Non-Violence in the Indian and Christian Traditions. By P.D. Bishop. Pp.viii, 184, London, SCM Press, 1981, £5.50. Living Theology in Asia. Edited by John C. England. Pp.x, 242, London, SCM Press Limited, 1981, £4.95. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Pp.xiii, 217, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981, £15.75. Religious Change in Zambia: Exploratory Studies. By Wim M.J. van Binsbergen. Pp.xii, 423, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, £18.00. A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change. By Bernice Martin. Pp.272, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £12.50. The Orthodox Church in Russia. Edited by Archbishop Pitirim. Pp.254, London, Thames and Hudson, 1982, £30.00. Daily Prayer in the Early Church. By Paul F. Bradshaw. Pp.x, 191 (Alcuin Club Collections 63), London, SPCK, 1981, £6.95. Records of the Trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real, Volume III, The Trials of 1512–1527 in Toledo. Edited by Haim Beinart. Pp.x, 768, Jerusalem, The Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1981, £31.20. The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536–7. By Scott Michael Harrison. Pp.viii, 158, London, Royal Historical Society, 1981, £17.52. Pascal: Adversary and Advocate. By Robert J. Nelson. Pp.vi, 286, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1981, £15.75. Challoner and His Church: A Catholic Bishop in Georgian England. Edited by Eamon Duffy. Pp.xiv, 203, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £9.95. The French Prophets. The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England. By Hillel Schwartz. Pp.xvi, 382, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980, £15.00. Religion and Imagination ‘in aid of a grammar of assent’. By John Coulson. Pp.x, 193, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £12.50. Ethical Responsibility: Bonhoeffer's Legacy, to the Churches. Edited by John D. Godsey and Geffrey B. Kelly. Pp.x, 340, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1981, $39.95. Struggle and Submission: R.C. Zaehner on Mysticisms. By W.L. Newell. Pp.xvii, 383, Washington, University Press of America, 1981, $21.75 (hardback), $12.75 (paperback). Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. Edited by M.R. Wright. Pp.vii, 364, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1981, £28.00. A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. VI: Aristotle: an Encounter. By W.K.G. Guthrie. Pp.xvi + 456. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £30.00. Aristotle the Philosopher. By J.L. Ackrill. Pp.160, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, £6.95. The Beginning of Christian Philosophy. By Eric Osborn. Pp.xiv, 321, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £24.00.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: Transforming Bible Study. By Walter Wink. Pp.175, London, SCM Press, 1981, £3.50. Isaiah 1–39. By R.E. Clements. Pp.xvi. 301 (New Century Bible Commentary), London, Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1980, £3.95. Isaiah 40–66. By R.N. Whybray. Pp.301 (New Century Bible Commentary), London, Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1975, Reprinted 1981, £3.95. Die Gestalt Jesu in den synoptischen Evangelien. By Heinrich Kahlefeld. Pp.264, Frankfurt, Verlag Josef Knecht, 1981, no price given. Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark. By Ernest Best. Pp.283 (Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement Series 4), Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1981, £15.00 (hardback), £5.95 (paperback). The Origin of Paul's Gospel. By Seyoon Kim. Pp.xii, 391 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2 Reihe, 4), Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1981, 78 DM. An die Römer. By Ernst Käsemann. Pp.xvi, 411 (Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 8a), Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1980, 48 DM. Les Récits de Resurrection des Morts dans le Nouveau Testament. By Gerard Rochais. Pp.xv, 252 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 40), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £15.00. Prêtres Anciens, Prétre Nouveau selon le Nouveau Testament. By Albert Vanhoye. Pp.366 (Parole de Dieu, 20), Paris Editions du Seuil, 1980, no price given. Woman in the World of Jesus. By Evelyn and Frank Stagg. Pp.292, Edinburgh, The St Andrew Press, 1981, no price given. Jesus, Man and the Church. By Karl Rahner. Pp.260 (Theological Investigations 17), London, Darton Longman & Todd, 1981, £14.50. Jesus Lord and Savior: A Theopathic Christology and Soteriology. By William M. Thompson. Pp.ix, 287, Leominster, Fowler Wright, 1981, £7.45. God and World in Schleiermacher's ‘Dialektik’ and ‘Glaubenslehre’. Criticism and the Methodology of Dogmatics. By John E. Thiel. Pp.xiv, 239, Bern, Frankfurt and Las Vegas, Peter Lang, 1981, SF 49.50. Ministry: A Case for Change. By Edward Schillebeeckx. Pp.ix, 165, London, SCM Press, 1981, £4.95. The Sacraments: Readings in Contemporary Sacramental Theology. Edited by Michael J. Taylor. Pp.274, New York, Alba House, 1981, $7.95. Believing in the Church: The Corporate Nature of Faith. A Report by the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England. Pp.ix, 310, London, SPCK, 1981, £8.50. Confessing the Faith in the Church of England Today. By R.T. Beckwith. Pp.36, Oxford, La timer House, 1981, £1.00. A Kind of Noah's Ark? The Anglican Commitment to Comprehensiveness. By J.I. Packer. Pp.39, Oxford, Latimer House, 1981, £1.00. Reasonable Belief: A Survey of the Christian Faith. By Anthony Hanson and Richard Hanson. Pp.xii, 283, Oxford University Press, 1981, £8.50. Doctrine in the Church of England. The 1938 Report with a new introduction by G.W.H. Lampe. Pp.lx, 242, London, SPCK, 1982, £8.50. The Divine Right of the Papacy in Recent Ecumenical Theology. By J. Michael Miller. Pp.xvi, 322, Rome, Università Gregoriana Editrice, 1980, 18,000 Lire. Der heilige Geist in der Theologie von Heribert Mühlen: Versucheiner Darstellung und Würdigung. By John B. Banawiratma. Pp.ix, 310, Frankfurt and Bern: Peter D. Lang, 1981, SFr. 60.00. Standing Before God: Studies on Prayer in Scriptures and Tradition with Essays in Honor of John M. Oesterreicher. Edited by Asher Frinkel and Lawrence Frizzell. Pp.410, New York, Ktav Publishing House, 1981, $29.50. Judaism and Healing. By J. David Bleich. Pp.xiii, 199, New York, Ktav, 1981, $15.00. The Diversity of Moral Thinking. By Neil Cooper. Pp.x, 303, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £15.00. L'Homme: Sujet ou Objet? By Jacques Croteau. Pp.260, Montreal, Bellarmin: Tournai, Desclée et Cie, 1981, $15.00. The Texture of Knowledge: An Essay on Religion and Science. By James W. Jones. Pp.97, Washington, University Press of America, 1981, no price given. Cosmos and Creator. By Stanley L. Jaki. Pp.xii, 168, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1980, £6.75. Dante, Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos. By Patrick Boyde. Pp.vii, 408, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £30.00. Dissidence et Philosophie au Mayen Âge. By E.L. Fortin. Pp.201 (Cahiers d'Études Médiévales), Montreal, Bellarmin, 1981, $12.00. The Philosophy of John Norris of Bemerton. By Richard Acworth. Pp.x, 388, Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1979, 74 DM. Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought. By David Miller. Pp.xii, 218, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £15.00. Hegelianism. By John Edward Toews. Pp.x, 450, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980, £25.00. One Hundred Years of Thomism. Edited by V.B. Brezik. Pp.210, Houston, Centre for Thomistic Studies, 1981, no price given. Gramsci's Political Thought: Hegemony, Consciousness and the Revolutionary Process. By J.V. Femia. Pp.xiii, 303, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £17.50. Greek and Roman Slavery. By Thomas Wiedemann. Pp.xvi, 284, London, Croom Helm, 1981, £10.95 (hardback), £5.95 (paperback). Prophecy and Millenarianism. Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves. Edited by Ann Williams. Pp.x, 355, London, Longman, 1980, £25.00. Of Prelates and Princes: A Study of the Economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate. By Felicity Heal. Pp.xv, 353, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980, £17.50. Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe. By Michael Mullett. Pp.xxiv, 193, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1980, £10.50. The Jesuits. By J.C.H. Aveling. Pp.390, London, Blond and Briggs, 1981, £16.95. The Beginnings of Ideology. By Donald R. Kelley. Pp.xv, 351, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £24.00. Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516–1700. By J.C. Davis. Pp.x, 427, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £25.00. Eastern Politics of the Vatican 1917–1979. By Hansjakob Stehle. Pp.466, Athens (Ohio), Ohio University Press, 1981, £16.20 (hardback), £8.10 (paperback). Structuralism or Criticism? By Geoffrey Strickland. Pp.viii, 209, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £17.50. The Call of God: The Theme of Vocation in the Poetry of Donne and Herbert. By Robert B. Shaw. Pp.xiii, 123, Cambridge, Mass., Cowley Publications, 1981, $5.00. John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters and Treatises. Edited by Frank Whaling. Pp.xx, 412 (The Classics of Western Spirituality), London, SPCK, 1981, £8.95. The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight. By Robert D. Pelton. Pp.312, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980, £15.00.     

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Books reviewed: Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission , Harvey Whitehouse, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0615‐0), pp. xiii + 191, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion , Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Sheila Greeve Davaney (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97066‐0), pp. iv + 236, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy , Robert Eisen, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐517153‐5), pp. xii + 324, Hb £30
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Abilene Christian University With Reverence for the Word, Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam , Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering (eds), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513727‐2), pp. xvii + 488, Hb £55
Reviewed by David Thomas
University of Birmingham Africa and the Bible , Edwin M. Yamauchi, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2686‐5), pp. 297, Hb $26.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac , Edward Kessler, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐83542‐9), pp. xii + 222, Hb £45
Reviewed by Mark Newby
Birmingham The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well‐Ordered Society , Paul Grimley Kuntz, Eerdmans 2004 (0 8028 2660 1), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £17.99/$24
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation , Mary Douglas, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926523‐2), pp. vi + 211, Hb £45
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Waiting for Josiah: The Judges , Philippe Guillaume, JSOTS Series 385, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6988‐4), pp. xiii +325, Hb £75
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , Jane Schaberg, Alice Bach, Esther Fuchs (eds), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐1582‐2), pp. x + 254, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Jesus and Gospel , Graham Stanton, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00802‐6), pp. xii + 239, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Philip Seddon
University of Birmingham The Byzantine Christ : Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor , Demetrios Bathrellos, Oxford University Press, 2004 (0‐19‐925864‐3), pp. xii + 228, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love : Divine Commands and Moral Obligations , C. Stephen Evans, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927217‐4), pp. x + 366 Hb £55
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield The Kingdom is Always but Coming : A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch , Christopher H. Evans, Library of Religious Autobiography Series, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4736‐6), pp. xxx + 348 Pb £19.99/$25
Reviewed by David True
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion : Michoacan, 1927–29 , Matthew Butler, A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2004 (0‐19‐72698‐8), pp. xx + 251, Hb £40
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York Karl Barth : Theologian of Christian Witness , Joseph L. Mangina, Great Theologians, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0458‐6), pp. xiv + 208, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit , Elizabeth Teresa Groppe, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516642‐6), pp. viii + 262, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melborne) Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation , Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Studies in Church History Volume 40, Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell and Brewer 2004 (0‐9529733‐9‐1), pp. xiv + 384, Hb £45/$75
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Queen's College, Birmingham Sienna, Civil Religion and the Sienese , Gerald Parsons, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐1516‐2), pp. xx + 197, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas , Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐514918‐1), pp. xiii + 338, Hb £45
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century , Mark Sedgwick, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐515297‐2), pp. xiv + 370, Hb £25
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham An Introduction to Third World Theologies , John Parratt (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐79739‐X), pp vii + 189, Pb £16.99/$ 25.99
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics , Samuel Wells, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐071‐1), pp. 236, Pb £14.99/$19.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective , David Burrell, Challenges in Contemporary Theology, Blackwell 2004 (Pb 1‐4051‐2171‐8, Hb 1‐4051‐2170‐X), pp. xxi + 266, Pb £19.99/Hb £60
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication , Rachel Muers, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1900‐4), pp. viii + 238, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Esther Reed
University of St Andrews Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith , Richard Lennan, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927146‐1), pp. 269, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post‐ Christian Culture , Paul Avis, T. & T. Clark 2003 (0‐567‐08968‐1), pp. xii + 227, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto , Ivan Petrella, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4051‐5), pp. ix + 186, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity , Paul J. Griffiths, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐086‐X), pp. 254, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture , T.J. Gorringe, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4032‐9), pp. vi + 283, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion , Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐30209‐9), pp. xii + 194, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Theological Aesthetics: A Reader , Gesa E. Thiessen (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02947‐3), pp. xvi + 400, Pb £25
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida , John Schad, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐020‐3), pp. vii + 177, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience , James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3354‐3), pp. 285, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin L. Barrett, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0667‐3), pp. ix + 140, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Is God a Scientist? A Dialogue between Science and Religion , Robert Crawford, Palgrave Macmillan 2005 (1‐4039‐1688‐8), pp. vii + 179, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective , Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2695‐4), pp. x + 339, Pb £19.99/$32
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Human Rights and the Image of God , Roger Ruston, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02959‐7), pp. vii + 312, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Parish – People, Place and Ministry: A Theological and Practical Exploration , Malcolm Torry (ed.), Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐586‐X), pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Country Vicar: Reshaping Rural Ministry , David Osborne, Darton Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52546‐3), pp. vii + 215, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist , Richard Giles, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐590‐8), pp. xiv + 258, Pb £20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand     

BOOK REVIEW

Books Reviewed in this Article: Reason, Truth and History. By Hilary Putnam. Pp.xii, 222, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £15.00 (hardback), £4.95 (paperback). Fundamentals of philosophy. By David Stewart and H. Gene Blocker. Pp.xiii, 378, New York, Macmillan, 1982, £12.95. Modern Philosophy: An Introduction. By A.R. Lacey. Pp.vii, 246, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, £7.95 (hardback), £3.95 (paperback). Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy. By Samuel B. Mallin. Pp.xi, 302, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979, £14.20. Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality. Edited by Andrew Woodfield. Pp.xvi, 316, Oxford, Clarendon Press_l Oxford University Press, 1982, £16.00. Philosophical Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy. By Tom L. Beauchamp. Pp.xv, 396, New York & London, McGraw-Hill, 1982, £14.25. The Limits of Obligation. By James S. Fishkin. Pp.viii, 184, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1982, £12.95. Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West. By Frederick Copleston. Pp.281, London, Search Press, 1982, £10.50. Religious Experience and Christian Faith. By F.W. Dillistone. Pp.viii, 120. London, SCM Press, 1982, £4.95. Exploring Inner Space: Scientists and Religious Experience. By David Hay. Pp.256, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1982, £2.95. Judaism and Psychoanalysis. Edited by Mortimer Ostrow. Pp.ix, 305, New York, Ktav, 1982, $20.00. Ecclesial Reflection: An Anatomy of Theological Method. By Edward Farley. Pp.xix, 380, Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1982, $29.95. The Pastoral Nature of the Ministry. By Frank Wright. Pp.89, London, SCM Press, 1980, £2.50. Power and Authority in the Catholic Church. By Charles Dahm in collaboration with Robert Ghelardi. Pp.xviii, 334, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1981, £12.35. Religion in Sociological Perspective. By Bryan Wilson. Pp.vii. 187, Oxford University Press, 1982, £8.50. Myth, Religion and Society: Structuralist Essays. By M. Detienne, L. Gernet, J.-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet. Pp.xviii, 306, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £20.00 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Seven Theories of Human Society. By Tom Campbell. Pp.244, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £10.00. The Aims of Education Restated. By John White. Pp.xi, 177, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, £8.95 (hardback), £4.95 (paperback). Love and Meaning in Religious Education: An Incarnational Approach to Teaching Christianity. By D.J. O'Leary and T. Sallnow. Pp.147, Oxford University Press, 1982, £3.50. Servant and Son: Jesus in Parable and Gospel. By J. Ramsey Michaels. Pp.xiii, 323, Atlanta, John Knox Press, 1981, £7.80. Parables for Now. By Edmund Flood. Pp.98, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £2.50. More Parables for Now. By Edmund Flood. Pp.102, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £2.50. Councils and Synods: With other Documents relating to the English Church, Vol.1 (in 2 Parts), A.D. 871–1204. Edited by D. Whitelock, M. Brett and C.N. Brooke. Pp.1 xxix, xii, 1151, Oxford University Press, 1981, £65.00. The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral. By Francis Woodman. Pp.xviii, 282, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, £35.00. The Correspondence of Erasmus, Volume VI. Translated by R.A.B. Mynors and D.F.S. Thomson, annotated by Peter G. Bietenholz. Pp.xxii, 448, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1982, £56.25. Erasme: Vie de Jean Vitrier et de John Colet. Edited by Andrd Godin. Pp.160, Angers, Editions Moreana, 1982, $7.00. Erasme, lecteur d'Origène. By André Godin. Pp.ix, 724, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1982, no price given. Thomas More: history and providence. By Alistair Fox. Pp.xi, 271, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, no price given. Thomas More: Essays on the Icon. Edited by D. Grace and B. Byron. Pp.129, Melbourne, Dove Communications, 1980, no price given. The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559. By W.S. Hudson. Pp.x, 158, Durham (North Carolina), Duke University Press, 1980, $14.75. Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559. By Norman L. Jones. Pp.viii, 245 (Royal Historical Society. Studies in History Series 32), London, Royal Historical Society, 1982, £17.52. Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England. By Robert K. Faulkner. Pp.x, 190, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981, £15.75. Icon and Conquest. By Bernadette Bucher. Pp.xvii, 220, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1981, £9.95. The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe: An Introductory Survey. By David Buxton. Pp.viii, 405, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £42.50. American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States. By James Hennessey. Pp.xii, 397, New York, Oxford University Press, 1981, £13.50. Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century. By Marc H. Ellis. Pp.191, Ramsey, New Jersey and Leominster, England, Paulist Press/Fowler Wright Books, 1981, £7.45. The Newman Movement: Roman Catholics in American Higher Education, 1883–1971. By John Whitney Evans. Pp.xvi, 248, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1980, $14.95. Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1780–1845. By S.J. Connolly. Pp.338, Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1982, £17.00. The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics, 1870–1914. By D.W. Bebbington. Pp.x, 193, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1982, £10.00. Heinrich Pesch: sein Leben und seine Lehre. By Franz H. Mueller. Pp.220, Cologne, J.P. Bachem, 1980, no price given. Beyond Survival: Reflections on the Future of Judaism. By Dow Marmur. Pp.xix, 218, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1982, £7.95.     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Models of Revelation. By Avery Dulles. Pp. xi, 345, Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1983, £6.50. New and Old in Cod's Revelation. By Benedict Englezakis. Pp.122, Cambridge, James Clarke, 1982, £9.95. Divine Revelation: The Basic Issues. By Paul Helm. Pp.xii, 129, London, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1982, £5.25. Revelation and Its Interpretation. By Aylward Shorter. Pp.xiii, 277, London Geoffrey Chapman, 1983, £7.95. The Faith of the Old Testament: A History. By Werner H. Schmidt. Pp.x, 302, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1983, £15.00. Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. By Francis Landy. Pp.410 (Bible and Literature Series), Sheffield, The Almond Press, 1983, £17.95 (hardback), £8.95 (paperback). Situation and Theology: Old Testament Interpretations of the Syro-Ephraimite War. By Michael E.W. Thompson. Pp.179, Sheffield, The Almond Press, 1982, £15.95 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). The Passion as Liturgy: A Study in the Origin of the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. By Etienne Trocmé. Pp.ix, 116, London, SCM Press, 1983, £4.95. The Revival of the Griesbach Hypothesis: An Analysis and Appraisal. By C.M. Tuckett. Pp.viii, 255, Cambridge University Press, 1983, £18.00. The Cost of Authority: Manipulation and Freedom in the New Testament. By Graham Shaw. Pp.xi, 292, London, SCM Press, 1983, £9.50. The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context. By Calvin J. Roetzel. Pp.viii, 149, London, SCM Press, 1983, £5.95. Authority in Paul and Peter: The Identification of a Pastoral Stratum in the Pauline Corpus and I Peter. By Winsome Munro. Pp.viii, 226 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 45), Cambridge University Press, 1983, £15.00. The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology. By Bruce J. Malina. Pp.vi, 169, London, SCM, 1983, £5.95. Der Begriff des ‘rechten Gebrauchs’. By Christian Gnilka. Pp.151, Basel/Stuttgart, Schwabe, 1984, DM 30. Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages. By Pauline Stafford. Pp.xiii, 248, London, Batsford, 1983, £14.95. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. By Caroline Walker Bynum. Pp.xiv, 279. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1982, £21.50. Eschatology in Maimonidean Thought. Edited by Jacob I. Dienstag, Pp.cxx, 281, New York, Ktav, 1983, $39.50. Early Dominicans: Selected Writings. Edited with an introduction by Simon Tugwell. Pp.xiv, 508 (The Classics of Western Spirituality), New York, Paulist Press, 1982, £12.50. The Monastic Rule of Iosif Volotsky. Edited and translated by David M. Goldfrank. Pp.xii, 247 (Cistercian Studies Series 36), Kalamazoo (Michigan), 1983, $14.95. Homo Spiritualis Nititur Fide. By Michael Proterra. Pp.vi, 84, Washington, University Press of America, 1983, $17.50 (hardback), $7.25 (paperback). Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 31. Adages Iil to Iv100. Translated by Margaret Mann Phillips, annotated by R.A.E. Mynors. Pp.xiv, 493. University of Toronto Press, 1982, £48.75. Rhetoric and Reform. Erasmus's Civil Dispute with Luther. By Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle. Pp.215, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Press, 1983, £20.40. The Evangelical and Oxford Movements. Edited by Elizabeth Jay. Pp.x, 219 (Cambridge English prose texts), Cambridge University Press, 1983, £18.50 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Islam and Christianity Today: A Contribution to Dialogue. By W. Montgomery Watt, foreword by His Excellency Shaikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Pp.xiv, 157, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, £8.95. The Worth of Persons: A Study in Christian Ethics. By Neil Brown. Pp.ix, 134, Sydney, Catholic Institute, 1983, no price given. Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family. By James S. Fishkin. Pp.vii, 200, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1983, £15.00. Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition. By Henry A. Giroux. Pp.xiv, 280, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, £6.50. Language and Thought. By John L. Pollock. Pp.xii, 297, Princeton University Press, 1982, £21.70. Fonder l'Éthique en Psychanalyse. By Roland Sublon. Pp.138, Paris, FAC éditions, 1982, 60F. The Greeks on Pleasure. By J.C.B. Gosling and C.C.W. Taylor. Pp.xiv, 497, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1982, £22.50. Augustine on Evil. By G.R. Evans. Pp.xi, 298, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £15.00. From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science. By Charles Webster. Pp.xii, 107, Cambridge University Press, 1983, £12.50. Hegel. By Peter Singer. Pp.ix, 97 (Past Master Series), Oxford University Press, 1983, £7.95. Nietzsche. By Richard Schacht. Pp.xxii, 546, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, £18.50. Bradley's Logic. By Anthony Manser. Pp.x, 220, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1983, £17.50. Die Vollendung des Menschen: die Idee des Glaubensaktes und ihre philosophische Begründung in Frühwerk Maurice Blondels. By Anton E. van Hoof. Pp.x, 458, Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1983, DM 79. The Church. By Wolfhart Pannenberg. pp.175, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1983, $10.95. Infallibility: the Crossroads of Doctrine. By Peter Chirico. Pp.xxxvii, 349, (Theology and Life Series 1), Wilmington, Michael Glazier, 1983, $12.95. Bioethics and Belief: Religion and Medicine in Dialogue. By John Mahoney. Pp.127, London, Sheed and Ward, 1984, £3.95. Metaphor and Religious Language. By Janet Martin Soskice. Pp.x, 191, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985, £17.50. Metaphorical Theology: Models of Cod in Religious Language. By Sallie McFague. Pp.xi, 225, London, SCM Press, 1983, £6.50. Karl Barth's Philosophy of Communication. By Donald E. Phillips. Pp.xvi, 404. Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1981, 48DM. Le merveilleux accord de l'homme et de Dieu: étude de l'analogie de l'ětre chez Hans Urs von Balthasar. By Georges De Schrijver. Pp.344, Leuven University Press, 1983, no price given. The von Balthasar Reader. Edited by Medard Kehl and Werner Löser, translated by Robert J. Daly and Fred Lawrence. Pp.xiv, 437, Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1982, £14.95. The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. Vol. I: Seeing the Form. By Hans Urs von Balthasar, edited by Joseph Fessio and John Riches, translated by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis. Pp.691, Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1982, £19.95. Charles Williams: Poet of Theology. By Glen Cavaliero. Pp.x, 199, London, Macmillan, 1983, £20.00. Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment. By Mary Lutyens. Pp.248, London, John Murray, 1983, £15.00. Vatican II: More Postconciliar Documents. Edited by Austin Flannery. Pp.xxi, 920, Grand Rapids (Mich.), William B. Eerdmans, 1983, £8.10. The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church. Edited by J. Neuner and J. Dupuis. Pp.xxxv, 740, New York, Alba House; London, Collins Liturgical, 1983, $13.95, £9.95 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition. Edited by Michael Walsh with a Foreword by Cardinal Basil Hume. Pp.xv, 466, Tunbridge Wells, Burns & Oates, in assocation with Dove Communications, Melbourne, 1985, £10.95 (hardback), £5.95 (paperback).     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Interfaith Pilgrims: Living Truths and Truthful Living , Swarthmore Lecture, 2003, Eleanor Nesbitt, Quaker Books 2003 (0‐85245‐347‐7), pp. 124, Pb £8 Learning from Other Faiths , Hermann Häring, Janet Martin Soskice and Felix Wilfred (eds), Concilium 2003/4, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03075‐7), pp. 141, Pb £9.95 A New Introduction to Islam , Daniel Brown, Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐21604‐9), pp. xv + 269, Pb £14.99/$27.95 Islam in Context: Past, Present and Future , Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2627‐X), pp. 231, Pb $17.99 Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations , John Barton, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22596‐9), pp. xi + 212, Pb £17.99 Jesus Remembered , Volume I of Christianity in the Making , James D.G. Dunn, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐3931–2), pp. xvii + 1019, Hb £39.95 New Creation in Paul's Letters and Thought , Moyer V. Hubbard, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 119, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81485‐5), pp. xiii + 293, Hb £45/$60 Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles , Karl Olav Sandnes, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 120, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81535‐5), pp. xiv + 318, Hb £45/$60 Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark , Marvin Meyer, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐409‐4), pp. vii + 199, Pb £16.99/$23 Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative , Melanie J. Wright, AAR Cultural Criticism Series, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515226‐3), pp. 172, Hb £30 The Theology of St Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation , Thomas Weinandy and Daniel A. Keating (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8900‐2), pp. xv + 269, Hb £35 The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians , Ronald E. Heine, Oxford University Press 2002 (0‐1992‐24551‐7), pp. xii + 297, Hb £50 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–2000 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2001 (0‐664‐22354‐0), pp. xxvi + 494, Pb £30 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 2000–1950 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22355‐9), pp. xx + 666, Pb £30 Adventures in Orthodoxy: The Marvels of the Christian Creed and the Audacity of Belief , Dwight Longenecker, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐406‐0), pp. xx + 170, Pb £9.99 Essentials of Christian Theology , William C. Placher (ed.), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22395‐8), pp. x + 422, Pb $29.95 Postmodern Christianity , John W. Riggs, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐364‐0), pp. xi + 174, Pb $19 Gateways to Dogmatics: Reasoning Theologically for the Life of the Church , Gerhard Sauter, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4700‐5), pp. xx–310, Pb £12.99 A Theology of Engagement , Ian S. Markham, Blackwell 2003 (Hb 0‐631‐23601‐5, Pb 0‐631‐23602‐3), pp. x + 250, Hb £55/$64.95, Pb £16.99/29.95 Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight, Terry J. Tekippe, Paulist Press 2003 (0‐8091‐4150‐7), pp. xii + 110, Pb $16.95 The Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II's ‘Gospel of the Body’ , Christopher West, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐600‐4), pp. xix + 530, Pb £20 Impossible God: Derrida's Theology , Hugh Rayment‐Pickard, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0597‐3), pp. x + 185, Hb £40 Rationality and Religious Theism , Joshua L. Golding, Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1568‐5), pp. 142, Pb £15.99/$29.95 Does God Have a Future? A Debate on Divine Providence , Christopher A. Hall and John Sanders, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2604‐0), pp. 222, Pb $17.99 Infinitely Beloved: The Challenge of Divine Intimacy , Brian Thorne, Darton, Longman & Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52507‐2), pp. x + 92, Pb £8.95 Cosmic Grace and Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew , Father John Chryssavgis (ed.), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐2169‐3), pp. xii + 351, Hb £27.95 The New Anti‐Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice , Philip Jenkins, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515480‐0), pp. vii + 258, Hb £14.99 Politics and Religion , Steve Bruce, Polity Press 2003 (Hb 0‐7456‐2819‐2, Pb 0‐7456‐2820‐6), pp. xii + 292, Hb £50 / Pb £15.99 Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation , Douglas V. Henry, Bob R. Agee (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1398‐4), pp. xii + 175, Pb £12.99/$18 The Foundation of Hope: Turning Dreams into Reality , R. John Elford (ed.), Liverpool University Press 2003 (0‐85323‐519‐8), pp. xii + 228, Hb £22.50 God's Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature , R.J. Berry, T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08915‐0), pp. xvi + 286, Hb £17.99 The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age , Norman Wirzba, Oxford University Press (0‐19‐515716‐8), pp. xiv + 240, Hb £25 Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology , Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs (eds), Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐064‐9), pp. 256, Pb $19.99 The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle‐earth , Ralph C. Wood, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22610‐8), pp. xi + 169, Pb $14.95 Preaching Mark in Two Voices , Brian K. Blount and Gary W. Charles, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22393‐1), pp. xiii + 273, Pb £15.99 The Case for Humanism: An Introduction , Lewis Vaughn and Austin Dacey, Rowman and Littlefield 2003 (0‐7425‐1393‐9), pp. ix + 223, Pb £20.95     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Traditional Sayings in the Old Testament. By Carole R. Fontaine. Pp. viii, 279, Sheffield, The Almond Press, 1982, £17.95 (hardback), £8.95 (paperback). The First Day of the New Creation: The Resurrection and the Christian Faith. By Vesilin Keisch. Pp.206, Crestwood, New York, St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1982, £6.25. The First Day of the New Creation: The Resurrection and the Christian Faith. By Vesilin Keisch. Pp.206, Crestwood, New York, St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1982, £6.25. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective. By Pinchas Lapide. Pp.160, London, SPCK, 1983, 4.95. Easter Enigma. By John Wenham. Pp.162, Exeter, Paternoster Press, 1984, £2.95. The Anastasis: the Resurrection of Jesus as an Historical Event. By J. Duncan M. Derrett. Pp.xiv, 166, Shipston-on-Stour, P. Drinkwater, 1982, £5.00. The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity. By Christopher Rowland. Pp. xii, 562, London, SPCK, 1982, £22.50. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai. By Vincent J. Donovan. Pp. viii, 200, London, SCM Press, 1982, £5.50. Basics of a Roman Catholic Theology. By William A. Van Roo, S.J. Pp.387, Rome, Gregorian University Press, 1982, $21.00. Charisms and Charismatic Renewal: a Biblical and Theological Study. By Francis A. Sullivan. Pp.184, Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1982, £5.95. Holiness and Politics. By Peter Hinchliff. Pp.214, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1982, £8.95. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God. By Keith Ward. Pp.240, Oxford, Blackwell, 1982, £14.00. The Point of Christology. By S.M. Ogden. Pp.xii, 193 (The 1980 Sarum Lectures), London, SCM Press, 1982, £5.95. Fullness of Humanity: Christ's Humanness and Ours. By T.E. Pollard. Pp.126 (The 1980 Croall Lectures), Sheffield, The Almond Press, 1982, £9.95 (hardback), £5.95 (paperback). Milton's Good God: A Study in Literary Theodicy. By Dennis Richard Danielson. Pp.xi, 292, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £20.00. Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art. By Leslie Tannenbaum. Pp.xiii, 373, Princeton University Press, 1982, £17.60. The Inner Journey of the Poet and Other Papers. By Kathleen Raine, edited by Brian Keeble. Pp.xii, 208, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1982, £9.95. i Vol. 34: Horayot and Niddah. Translated by Jacob Neusner. Pp.xiii, 243 (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism), Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1982, £17.50. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire A.D. 312–460. By Ed. Hunt. Pp. £+ 269, Oxford University Press, 1982, £16.50. Constantine versus Christ: The Triumph of Ideology. By Alistair Kee. Pp.186, London, SCM Press, 1982, £5.95. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity. By Peter Brown. Pp.347, London, Faber and Faber, 1982, £10.50. Elishe: History of Vardan and the Armenian War. Translation and commentary by Robert W. Thomson. Pp.x, 353, 1 map, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1982, £21.00. Ireland in Early Mediaeval Europe: Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes. Edited by Dorothy Whitelock, Rosamond McKitterick and David Dumville. Pp.x, 406, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £39.00. Letters from Ireland 1228–1229 by Stephen of Lexington. Translated with an introduction by B.W. O'Dwyer. Pp.vii, 292, Kalamazoo, Cistercian Publications, 1982, $24.95. The Occupation of Celtic Sites in Ireland by the Canons Regular of St Augustine and the Cistercians. By Geraldine Carville. Pp.ix, 158, Kalamazoo, Cistercian Publications, 1982, $13.95. Chartres: The Masons who built a Legend. By John James. Pp.200, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £17.50. Temples, Churches and Mosques: A Guide to the Appreciation of Religious Architecture. By J.G. Davies. Pp.x, 262, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982, £12.50. The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and their Myth. By Peter Partner. Pp.xxi, 209. Oxford University Press, 1982, £12.95. The Italian Crusades: The Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades Against Christian Lay Powers, 1254–1343. By Norman Housley. Pp.xi, 293, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1982, £17.50. The Westminster Chronicle, 1381–1394. Edited and Translated by L.C. Hector and Barbara F. Harvey. Pp.lxxvii, 563. Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1982, £42.00. Frömmigkeitstheologie am Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts. By Berndt Hamm. Pp.xv, 378 (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie), Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1982, 168 DM. Erasmi Opera omnia, IX, 2: Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Apologia respondens ad ea quae Iambus Lopis Stunica taxavrat in prima duntaxat Novi Testamenti aeditione. Edited by Henk Jan de Jonge. Pp.292, Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1983, 280 guilders. The Christian Polity of John Calvin. By Harro Höpfl. Pp.x, 303, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £27.50. Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God. By John Calvin, translated with an Introduction by J.K.S. Reid. Pp.191, Cambridge, James Clarke & Co., 1982, £5.95. Spanish Protestants and Reformers in the Sixteenth Century: A Bibliography. By A. Gordon Kinder. Pp.108, London, Grant & Cutler, 1983, £6.80. Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church. By Peter Lake. Pp.viii, 357, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £27.50. Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of Elizabethan Catholics. By Peter Holmes. Pp.viii, 279, Cambridge University Press, 1982, £22.50. Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Keith L. Sprunger. Pp.xiii, 485, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1982, 172 guilders. John Toland and the Deist Controversy. By Robert E. Sullivan. Pp.viii, 355, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1982, £19.95. Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England. By Stephen A. Marini. Pp. 213, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1982, £11.55. Religion and Society in North America: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by Robert deV: Brunkow. Pp.xi, 515, Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio; Oxford, EBC-Clio, 1983, £57.75. Charles Lowder and the Ritualist Movement. By Lida Ellsworth. Pp.vi, 234, London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1982, £17.95. How the Pope became Infallible: Pius IX and the Politics of Persuasion. By August Bernhard Hasler. Pp.xi, 383, New York, Doubleday, 1981, $14.95; London, Sheldon Pres, 1982, £15.00. Hauptsache der Papst ist katholisch. Edited by Bruno Nies. Pp.104, Salzburg, Otto Müller, 1982, öS 140. Religious Change in Contemporary Poland: Secularization and Politics. By Maciej Pomian-Srednicki. Pp.227, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, £12.50. World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World. Edited by David B. Barrett. Pp.1010, Nairobi, Oxford University Press, 1982, £55.00. Probability and Evidence. By Paul Horwich. Pp.vii, 146 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), Cambridge University Press, 1982, £15.00. Philosophical Foundations of Probability Theory. By Roy Weatherford. Pp.xi, 282 (International Library of Philosophy), London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £15.00. The Origins of Greek Thought. By Jean-Pierre Vernant. Pp.144, London, Methuen, 1982, £9.95. Portraying Analogy. By J.F. Ross. Pp.xi, 244 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), Cambridge University Press, 1981, £20.00. The Marriage of East and West. By Bede Griffiths. Pp.224, London, Collins, 1982, £5.95. The Religious Experience: A Socio-Psychological Perspective. By C.D. Batson & W.L. Ventis Pp.ix, 356, New York, Oxford University Press, 1982, £18.50 (hardback),£9.95 (paperback).     

On the prohibitive cost of indiscernible concrete possible worlds

Book Information New Essays on the A Priori. Edited by Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 2000. Pp. xi + 478. £15.99.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Making of Moral Theology, A Study of the Roman Catholic Traditions: The Martin D'Arcy Memorial Lectures 1981–2. By John Mahoney. Pp.xxv, 357, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, £32.50. Wholly Human: Essays on the Theory and Language of Morality. By Bruno Schüller. Pp.iv, 220, Inchicore, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1986, £10.95. Directions in Fundamental Moral Theology. By Charles E. Curran. Pp.286, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan; University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, £9.95 A Textbook of Christian Ethics. By Robin Gill. Pp. xiii, 571, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1985, £9.95. The Basis for Christian Ethics. By John Gallagher. Pp. 271, New York, Paulist Press, 1985, $8.95. The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality (Studies in Bioethics). by James Rachels. Pp. viii, 204, Oxford University Press, 1986, £12.95 (hbk), £3.95 (pbk). Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics. By Oliver O'Donovan. Pp.284, Leicester, Inter-Varsity Press, 1986, £14.95. Towards a Just Social Order. By Derek L. Phillips. Pp.x, 460, Princeton University Press, 1986, £35.80 (hbk), £8.95 (pbk). The Political Mythology of Apartheid. By Leonard Thompson. Pp.xi, 293, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1985, £22.50. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. By Martha C. Nussbaum. Pp. xvii, 544, Cambridge University Press, 1985, £35.00/£12.95. William Ockham. By Marilyn McCord Adams. Pp. xx, 1402, Notre Dame University Press, 1987, $90.00. Coleridge's Philosophy of Language. (Yale Studies in English 195). By James C. McKusick. Pp.xiii, 175, New Haven, Yale University Press 1986, no price given. The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain. By T.R. Wright. Pp.xiii, 306, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £27.50. Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature. By Hilary Fraser. Pp.xii, 287, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £25.00. Hegel and Whitehead: Contemporary Perspectives on Systematic Philosophy. Edited by George R. Lucas Jr. Pp.vi, 325, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1986, $44.50 (hardback), $14.95 (paperback). Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity, an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Volume 2. By G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker. Pp.xvi, 352, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985, £25.00. Historical Fundamentals and the Study of Religions (Haskell Lectures delivered at the University of Chicago). By Kurt Rudolph. Pp.xiii, 123, New York, Macmillan, 1986, £16.95. The History of Israel and Judah in Old Testament Times. By François Castel. Pp.xii, 267, New York/Mahwah (NJ), Paulist Press, 1986, $8.95. The Greek Text of Jeremiah: A Revised Hypothesis (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series 47). By Sven Soderlund. Pp.xi, 304, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1986, £18.50/£8.95. The Historical Jesus of the Synoptics (Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today 2). By Juan Luis Segundo. Pp.ix, 230, London, Sheed & Ward, 1985, £9.50. The Humanist Christology of Paul (Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today 3). By Juan Luis Segundo. Pp.viii, 244, London, Sheed and Ward, 1986, £10.50. The Christ of the Ignatian Exercises (Jesus of Nazareth Yesterday and Today 4). By Juan Luis Segundo, edited and translated by John Drury. Pp.147, London, Sheed and Ward, 1988, £10.50. The Making of Modern German Christology: From the Enlightenment to Pannenberg. By Alister E. McGrath. Pp.231, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, £19.50. The Same Jesus: A Contemporary Christology. By Daniel A. Helminiak. Pp.xxiii, 337, Chicago, Loyola University Press, 1986, $15.95. Does God Change? (Studies in Historical Theology IV). By Thomas G. Weinandy. Pp.xxxii, 211. Still River (MA), St Bede's Publications, 1986. £15.25. Augustine (Past Masters). By Henry Chadwick. Pp.vi, 122, Oxford University Press, 1986, £9.95/£2.95. Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy. By Seth Lerer. Pp.xii, 264, Princeton University Press, 1985, £20.10. The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues (Studies in the History of Christian Thought 37 & 38). By Francis Clark. Pp.xii, 773 (in two volumes), Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1987, no price given. Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century (World Spirituality, Vol.16). Edited by Bernard McGinn, John Meyendorff and Jean Leclercq. Pp.xxv, 502, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, £39.50; London, SCM Press, 1989, £17.50. The Theology of Huldrich Zwingli. By W.P. Stephens. Pp.xii, 348, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, £27.50. Episcopacy in Scotland: The History of an Idea, 1560–1638. By David George Mullan. Pp.vii, 279, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1986. £25.00. Newman and the Modernists. (College Theology Society. Resources in Religion I). Edited by Mary Jo Weaver. Pp.vii, 223, Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1986, $24.50/$12.25. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge University Press. Vol. 1: Colonial Latin America. Pp.xx, 645, 1984, £60.00; Vol. 2: Colonial Latin America. Pp.xx, 912, 1984, £75.00; Vol. 3: From Independence to c.1870. Pp.xv, 935, 1985, £75.00; Vol.4: c.1870 to 1930. Pp.xviii, 676, 1986, £60.00. Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil. By James Lockhart and Stuart Schwartz. Pp.x, 480, Cambridge University Press, 1983, £37.50/£12.95. Communication for All: New World Information and Communications Order. Edited by Phillip Lee. Pp. xiii, 158, Maryknoll, Orbis Books, 1986, $11.95.     

Books Received

God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-Realism, Erica Appelros. Ashgate New Thinking in Theology and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, UK/ Burlington, USA/Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate, 2002, vii + 212 pp., £40.00.

Daniel Dennett, Andrew Brook and Don Ross (eds). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 302 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Solomon Maimon: Monism, Skepticism, and Mathematics, Meir Buzaglo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, xiii + 168 pp., $32.50.

Catholic Social Teaching 1891-Present: A Historical Theological and Ethical Analysis, Charles E. Curran. Moral Traditions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, ix + 261 pp., $49.95, £37.00, pb. $19.95, £15.00.

Man Made God: The Meaning of Life, Luc Ferry. Trans. David Pellauer. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, iv + 172 pp., pb. $14.00, £9.00.

Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism, Rainer Forst. Trans. John Farrell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, xii + 346 pp., $55.00/£37.95, pb. $22.50/£15.95.

Social Epistemology, 2nd ed., Steve Fuller. Bloomington/Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xxxi + 314 pp., $49.95, pb. $21.95.

Toleration as Recognition, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, vii + 242 pp., $60.00.

Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy, Stephen Gaukroger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 258 pp., $60.00, pb. $22.00.

Introduction to Logic, Henry J. Gensler. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 399 pp., $80.00, pb. $24.95, £15.99.

History and Illusion in Politics, Raymond Geuss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, viii + 175 pp., $55.00, pb. $19.00.

Morality and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics, Alfonso GomezLobo. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, xvii + 142 pp., pb. $17.95, £13.50.

Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How We Act Together, Keith Graham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 202 pp., $55.00.

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life, Gregg M. Horowitz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xv + 239 pp., $49.50, pb. $19.95.

The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 249 pp., $60.00.

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, vol. 2, Julia Kristeva. Trans. Jeanine Herman. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $32.50, £22.50.

Philosophical Reflections, Abdul Lathief. Keralam. India: Mulberry Publications, 2002, 164 pp., no price given.

Philosophy, Music and Emotion, Geoffrey Madell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, vii + 162 pp., £40.00.

Rule-Following and Meaning, Alexander Miller and Crispin Wright (eds). Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, x + 302 pp., £45.00, pb. £16.95.

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor, Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 228 pp., $55.00.

The Idea of a Catholic University, George Dennis O'Brien. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, ix + 239 pp., $28.00, £18.00.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, VaI Plum wood. Environmental Philosophies. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $75.00, pb. $21.95.

Logical Form and Language, Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter (eds). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, x + 512 pp., £55.00, pb. £19.99.

Patriotism, Igor Primoratz (ed.). Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002, 298 pp., pb. $29.00.

Man as a Moral Agent in Aristotle, Marten Ringbom. Acta Philosophical Fennica 70 (2002). Helsinki: Societas Philosophical Fennica, 2002, 197 pp., no price given

The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change, Theodore R. Schatzki. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002, xxii + 295 pp., $45.00.

Robert Nozick, David Schmidtz (ed.). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 230 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Lives of Things, Charles E. Scott. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington/ Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, ix + 196 pp. $49.95, pb. $19.95.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith. Ed. Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xxxi + 411 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

Scheler's Ethical Personalism: Its Logic, Development, and Promise, Peter H. Spader. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 25. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002, xviii + 327 pp., $45.00, pb. $20.00.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Stern. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 234 pp., $55.00, pb. $14.95.

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction, 2nd ed., Anne Thomson. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 209 pp., $65.00, pb. $20.95.

Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from The Harvard Review of Philosophy, S. Phineas Upham (ed.). London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xv + 189 pp., no price given.

Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question, Richard L. Velkley. Chicago/ London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, x +192 pp., $40.00, £25.00, pb. $18.00, £11.50.

Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), trans. and ed. Michael Zank. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xix + 238 pp., $68.50, pb. $22.95.