Reviews

Jantzen, Grace M. Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism
Matuštík, Martin J. and Westphal, Merold (eds) Kierkegaard and Post/Modernity
Samuelson, Norbert Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
Goizueta, Roberto S. Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment
Lee, Jung Young The Trinity in Asian Perspective
Schwöbel, Christoph (ed.) Trinitarian Theology Today: Essays on Divine Being and Act
Murphy, Francesca Aran Christ the Form of Beauty: A Study in Theology and Literature
Rasmusson, Arne The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas
Reno, R.R. The Ordinary Transformed: Karl Rahner and the Christian Vision of Transcendence
Dorrien, Gary Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: John R. Quinn, The Reform of the Papacy: The Costly Call to Christian Unity Kosuke Nishitani, Niehuh, Hromádka, Troeltsch, and Barth: The Significance of Theology of History for Christiari Social Ethics Prof. Dr Stobbe, Gemeinsam für Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Bewahrung der Schöpfen ‐ der Konziliare Prozeβ/Contrihution of Churches und Civil Society to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation ‐ the Conciliar Process     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Fundamentalisms Observed. Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Kann Man Gott aus der Natur Erkennen?: Evolution als Offenbarung. Edited by Carsten Bresch , Sigurd Martin Daecke , and Helmut Riedlinger . Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg. By David C. Cassidy . Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding. Edited by Robert J. Russell , William R. Stoeger , S.J., and George V. Coyne Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. By E. Thomas Lawson and Robert McCauley . The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. By Robert Ackerman .     

REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: The Metaphor of God Incarnate, John Hick Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, G. R. Evans, Routledge 1993 The Bible and Postmodern Imagination: Texts under Negotiation, Walter Brueggemann The Panther and the Hind: A Theological History of Anglicanism, Aidan Nichols The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Sallie McFague Infant Baptism and the Gospel: The Church of England's Dilemma, C. Buchanan, Darton, Longman & Todd Discipleship of Equals, Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza The Renewal of Common Prayer: Unity and Diversity in Church of England Worship, M. Perham (ed.) A Theological Introduction to the Book of Psalms; The Psalms as Torah, J. Clinton McCann Jr, Abingdon Is God Real?, Joseph Runzo (ed.), Macmillan Asian Faces of Jesus, R. S. Sugirtharajah (ed.) Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, Rosemary Radford Ruether Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and Reformed Churches, T. F. Torrance (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, D. K. McKim (ed.) Eucharist: Christ's Feast with the Church, Lawrence Hull Stookey Hans Küng: New Horizons for Faith and Thought, Karl-Josef Kuschel and Hermann Hauml;Uring (eds), Our God Has No Favourites: A Liberation Theology of the Eucharist, Anne Primavesi and Jennifer Henderson Buddhism and Christianity: Rivals and Allies, Ninian Smart, Macmillan Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England, Harry Potter The Greater-Good Defence: An Essay on the Rationality of Faith, Melville Y. Stewart, Macmillan     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Kathryn Tanner: Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology
Charles Marsh: God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
John D. Caputo: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
David Toole: Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy and Apocalypse
George R. Hunsberger: Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality
Peter Ochs: Peirce, Pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture
Elizabeth A. Johnson: Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints
Stephen H. Webb: On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
Elizabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza: Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context
Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs and Robert Gibbs: Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy
Stephen L. Brock: Action and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action
Emmanuel Levinas: Of God Who Comes to Mind
Timothy Houston Polk: The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of Faith
Robert Barron: And Now I See … A Theology of Transformation
Stephen Crites: Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking
John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (eds): Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
GRIFFIN RESPONSE TO PETERS
Creation or Evolution: Correspondence on the Current Controversy . By E dward O. D odson and G eorge F. H owe
God and the Process of Reality . By D avid P ailin
Theology for a Scientqic Age . By A rthur P eacocke
The American Empirical Movement in Theology . By D elores J oanl R ogers
Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World . By H olmes R olston III.
A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern Worldview . By L. C harles B irch     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
James K.A. Smith. Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation.
John B. Thomson. The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas.
Sarah Coakley. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender.
D. Stephen Long. The Goodness of God: Theology, Church and the Social Order.
Philip Dixon. Nice and Hot Disputes: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Seventeenth Century.
Andrew Moore. Realism and Christian Faith: God, Grammar and Meaning.
G.R. Evans, ed. The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period.
David Willows. Divine Knowledge: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Christian Education.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Theology After Wittgenstein by Fergus Kerr
Contemporary Aesthetics — A Philosophical Analysis by R.A. Sharpe
Trials and Punishments     

REVIEWS

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

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
Konrad Schaefer, Psalms
L. Daniel Hawk, Joshua
Hans Urs von Balthasar (ed.), Robert J. Daly, S.J. (trans.), Origen: Spirit and Fire, A Thematic Anthology of His Writings
Nicholas de Lange (ed.), Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader
James M. Byrne, God: Thoughts in an Age of Uncertainty
David R. Law Inspiration
Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context
George Pattison, A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion
Rufus Black, Christian Moral Realism – Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel
Peter C. Hodgson, Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot
Theresa M. DiPasquale, Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne
Hans Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion
David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish
Douglas V. Porpora, Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life     

Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
The Theologian and His Universe: Theology and Cosmology/ram the Middle Ages to the Present . By N. M ax W ildiers .
On Knowing God . By J erry H. G ill
The Immorality of Limiting Growth . By E dward W alter
Naked Emperors: Essays of a Taboo-Stalker . By G arrett H ardin
Psychology and Theology: Prospects for Integration . By G ary R. C ollins
Science and Moral Priority: Merging Mind, Brain and Human Values . By R oger S perry
Religion: A Secular Theory . By A ndrew M. G reeley
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture . By F ritjof C apra     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics , by Seyla Benhabib
The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice , by Kathyrn
A Theology of Reconstruction: Nation-Building and Human Rights , by Charles Villa-vicencio
Out of Every Tribe and Nation: Christian Theology at the Ethnic Reoundtable , by Justo L. Gonzalez
The Thought of Thomas Aquinas , by Brian Davies
Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein , by Philip R. Shields
Self/Power/Other. Political Theory and Dialogical Ethics , by Romand Coles
Christian Faith and Philosophical Theology: Essays in Honour of Vincent Brümmer , edited by Gijsbert van den Brink, Luco J. van den Brom, and Marcel Sarot
A New Handbook of Christian Theology , Edited by Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price
The Love commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy , Edited by Edmund Santurri and William Werpehowski
Gott: Philosophisch-theologische Denkversuche , by Ingolf U. Dalferth
The New Testament and The People of God , by N.T. Wright
Sister in the Wilderness. The Challenge of Womanist God-Tald , by Delores Williams
Bound to Differ, The Dynamics of Theological Discourses , by Wesley A. Kort
Between Athens and Berlin: The Theological Education Debate , by David H. Kelsey     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Towards A Protestant Theology of Religions , by Paul Knitter Oreo : A Perspective on Rage and Marginal Men and Women , by Charles V. Willie. Light and Rejoicing — A Christian's Understanding of Jewish Worship , by William W. Simpson. Als Christ in der politischen Entscheidung , by Helmut Schmidt. The Religious World of Russian Culture . Russia and Bibliografía Teológica Comentada Del área Iberoamericana (BTC) Veränderung der Welt -Bekehrung der Kirchen , by Lukas Vischer.     

SHORT NOTICES

Great Christian Thinkers, Hans Küng
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, B. R. Tilghman
The Gospel According to John: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Thomas L. Brodie
Laughter A Theological Essay, Karl-Josef Kuschel
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, Alister E. McGrath (ed.)
Jonah (Old Testament Library) James Limburg
Gender, Power and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story, Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn
Hidden Treasure: A Journey towards Healing from Sexual Abuse, Muriel Green and Anne Townsend, Darton, Longman & Todd
Cry Love, Cry Hope: Responding to Aids, Bill Kirkpatrick (ed.), Darton, Longman & Todd
Pastoral Responses to Sexual Issues, William V. Arnold
Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister E. McGrath
African Theology: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography, Josiah U. Young III
Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology, Richard D. Nelson
Front Line Mission: Ministry in the Market Place, Denis Claringbull
The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope and Justice, J. David Pleins
A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, Jonathan Magonet     

Book Reviews

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

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article
Canonization. Theology, History, Process edited by William H. Woestman OMI
Christianity and the Religions. From Confrontation to Dialogue by Jacques Dupuis SJ translated by Phillip Berryman
The Practice of Theology: A Reader edited by Colin Gunton, Stephen R Holmes & Murray Rae
Seven Words for the 21st Century by Edmund Newell and others
The Bible in the Renaissance. Essays on Biblical Commentary and Translation in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries edited by Richard Griffiths     

Editor's Choice

The Editor reviews:
William R. Jones, Is God a White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology.     

REVIEWS

Reviews in This Article
THE MORAL CASE AGAINST RELIGIOUS BELIEF by R. A. Sharpe SCM Press, London, 1997, pp
LIBERATING CONSCIENCE: Feminist Explorations in Moral Theology by Anne E. Patrick; SCM Press     

BOOK REVIEWS

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

REVIEWS

Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith, Wolfhart Pannenberg Rapture Encaged: The Suppression of the Feminine in Western Culture, Ruth Anthony El Saffar A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Rainer Albertz Jesus and Faith: A Conversation on the Work of John Dominic Crossan, Jeffrey Carlson and Robert A. Ludwig (eds) Word and Spirit at Play: Toward a Charismatic Theology, Jean-Jacques Suurmond The Nature of Knowledge: Concerning Adaptations, Instincts and the Evolution of Intelligence, Henry Plotkin Animal Theology, Andrew Linzey Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation, A.W. Wainwright The Book of Revelation (New Testament Guide), J.M. Court The Climax of Prophecy: Studies in the Book of Revelation, R. Bauckham, T. & T. Clark Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ, Gustavo Gutierrez Confusions in Christian Social Ethics: Problems for Geneva and Rome, Ronald H. Preston Spirituality in Ecumenical Perspective, E. Glenn Hinson (ed.) Who Do You Say That I Am? Introduction to Christology, Jacques Dupuis Islam: A Challenge for Christianity (Concilium 1994/3), Hans Kiing and Jiirgen Moltmann (eds)