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Book reviewed in this article: LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES: THE VATICAN COUNCIL AND CHRISTIAN UNITY. A Commentary on the Decree on Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council, with a translation of the text, by BERNARD LEEMING, S.J. MODERN CHURCH HISTORY: A STUDY OF SURVIVAL. The Church in Russia 1927–1943, by WILLIAM C. FLETCHER MODERN CHURCH HISTORY: PROTESTANTISM IN TRANSITION, by CHARLES W. KEGLEY. Harper and Row THE CHURCH AT WORSHIP: WORSHIP: ITS THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE, by J.-J. VON ALLMEN. Transl. H. Knight and W. F. Fleet THE NEED OF CLEAR ANSWERS: ULTIMATE CONCERN, Tillich in dialogue with students, by D. MACKENZIE BROWN A GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGIAN'S VIEW OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT: HISTORIA TēS OIKOUMENIKēS KINēSEōS (History of Ecumenical Movement), by VASIL T. ISTAVRIDIS A GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGIAN'S VIEW OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT: ORTHODOXIA KAI ANGLIKANISMOS (Orthodoxy and Anglicanism), by VASIL T. ISTAVRIDIS OUR OWN STORY: THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. A Study of Its Background and History, by DAVID P. GAINES THROUGH THE EYES OF A JAPANESE THEOLOGIAN: THEOLOGY OF THE PAIN OF GOD, by KAZOH KITAMORI AN ECUMENICAL PIONEER: LAYMAN EXTRAORDINARY. A tribute to John R. Mott, 1865–1955, by ROBERT C. MACKIE and Others     

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Book reviewed in this article: TRACTS FOR THE TIMES: THE CHURCH AND ECUMENISM: Volume 4 of Concilium TRACTS FOR THE TIMES: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Volume 6 of Concilium TRACTS FOR THE TIMES: THE ORTHODOX, THEIR RELATIONS WITH ROME (series: Where we stand), by JOSEPH GILL and EDMUND FLOOD THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE THEOLOGIAN AND THE HISTORIAN: CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY, by E. HARRIS HARBISON THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE THEOLOGIAN AND THE HISTORIAN: THE BYZANTINE PATRIARCHATE, 451–1204, by GEORGE EVERY THE MIRACULOUS GIFT OF LANGUAGE: DAS WORT IN DEN WORTEN, by FRISO MELZER (Die deutsche Sprache im Dienste der Christus-Nachfolge. Ein theo-philologisches Wörterbuch) J. C. B. Mohr THE REFORMED TRADITION IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE: ARCHITECTURE IN WORSHIP, by ANDRÉ BIÉLER THE REFORMED TRADITION IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE: CHRIST AND ARCHITECTURE, by DONALD J. BRUGGINK and CARL H. DROPPERS QUESTIONS POSED BY CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICALSL: ROME: OPPONENT OR PARTNER, by RUDOLF J. EHRLICH QUESTIONS POSED BY CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICALSL: ALL IN EACH PLACE: TOWARDS REUNION IN ENGLAND. Edited by J. I. PACKER     

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Book reviewed in this article: ORDINATION OF WOMEN IN ECUMENICAL PERSPECTIVE: WORK BOOK FOR THE CHURCH'S FUTURE, ed. CONSTANCE F. PARVEY. UNE EGLISE À CROIX GAMMÉE? LE PROTESTANTISME ALLEMAND AU DÉBUT DU RÉGIME NAZI (1932–1935), par BERNARD REYMOND. FOR THE HEALTH OF BODY AND SOUL: AN EASTERN ORTHODOX INTRODUCTION TO BIOETHICS, by STANLEY S. HARAKAS. COMMUNION AND INTERCOMMUNION: A STUDY OF COMMUNION AND INTERCOMMUNION BASED ON THE THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF THE EASTERN CHURCH, by KALLISTOS WARE. INTERPRETING ORTHODOXY: THE COMMUNICATION OF EASTERN ORTHODOX BELIEFS TO CHRISTIANS OF WESTERN CHURCH TRADITIONS, by N. A. NISSIOTIS.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IN THE USA: THE AMERICAN CHURCHES IN THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT, 1900–1968, by SAMUEL MCCREA CAVERT A HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: HISTORIA TOU OIKOUMENIKOU PATRIARCHEIOU (History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate) by VASIL T. ISTAVRIDIS AN ORTHODOX APPROACH TO SOCIAL WELFARE: BYZANTINE PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL WELFARE, by DEMETRIOS J. CONSTANTELOS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Revelations from an Ancient Library: THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY, by JAMES M. ROBINSON (ed.) TO HEAL AND TO REVEAL: THE PROPHETIC VOCATION ACCORDING TO LUKE, by PAUL S. MINEAR. TÉMOIGNAGE CHRÉTIEN (1941–1944), by RENÉE BÉDARIDA. THE HUMAN PRESENCE: AN ORTHODOX VIEW OF NATURE, by PAULOS GREGORIOS. THE CATHOLIC REDISCOVERY OF PROTESTANTISM, by PAUL M. MINUS, Jr. SOMETHING IS STIRRING IN WORLD ORTHODOXY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FORTHCOMING GREAT AND HOLY COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, by STANLEY S. HARAKAS. CHRISTOLOGY AT THE CROSSROADS, by JON SOBRINO, SJ, translated by John Drury Is CHRIST THE END OF THE LAW?, by GERARD S. SLOYAN. BRITAIN TODAY AND TOMORROW by TREVOR BEESON.     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE FINALITY OF CHRIST: CHRIST THE MEANING OF HISTORY, by HENDRIKUS BERKHOF AN ECUMENICAL ANTHOLOGY OF PREACHING: DIE VERKÜNDIGUNG DES REICHES GOTTES IN DER KIRCHE JESU CHRISTI. Zeugnisse aus allen Jahrhunderten und allen Konfessionen. Band VII: Von der Mitte des 19. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts, von ERNST STAEHELIN LIBERTY FOR ERROR AND LIBERTY FOR TRUTH: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND ROMAN CATHOLIC TRADITION. Problèmes chrétiens sur la liberté religieuse, by GUY DE BROGLIE, S. J. THE POST-VATICAN II ATTITUDE TO SCRIPTURE: THE HUMAN REALITY OF SACRED SCRIPTURE (Concilium Vol. X). ED. P. BENOIT, and R. E. MURPHY THE ECUMENICAL WORD IN EAST GERMANY: KONFESSION UND ÖKUMENE, Aspekte — Probleme — Aufgaben. Edited by HELMUT RISTOW and HELMUTH BURGERT CHURCH GROWTH: NEW PATTERNS OF CHURCH GROWTH IN BRAZIL, by WILLIAM R. READ CHURCH GROWTH: CHURCH GROWTH IN MEXICO, by DONALD MCGAVRAN, JOHN HUEGEL and JACK TAYLOR CHURCH GROWTH: WILDFIRE: CHURCH GROWTH IN KOREA, by ROY E. SHEARER     

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Book reviewed in this article: SALVATION AND THE PERFECT SOCIETY: THE ETERNAL QUEST, by ALFRED BRAUNTHAL. SECURITY, DISARMAMENT AND ECONOMICS: SOCIO-ETHICAL CHALLENGES FOR EUROPEAN CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANS AFTER HELSINKI AND BELGRADE. THIS LAND AND PEOPLE: A SYMPOSIUM ON CHRISTIAN AND WELSH NATIONAL IDENTITY, by PAUL H. BALLARD and D. HUW JONES. THE ORTHODOX WAY, by KALLISTOS WARE. SLPRI (STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE) YEARBOOK 1979. WORLD ARMAMENT AND DISARMAMENT. PASTORALE DU BAPTEME by JEAN-JACQUES VON ALLMEN. PASTORAL CARE WITH HANDICAPPED PERSONS, by LOWELL G. COLSTON. PARTNERS IN LIFE: THE HANDICAPPED AND THE CHURCH, ed. GEIKO MÜLLER-FAHRENHOLZ. CROIRE EN DIALOGUE, by RENE GIRAULT and JEAN VERNETTE. HUMANHOOD: ESSAYS IN BIOMEDIAL ETHICS, by JOSEPH FLETCHER.     

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Book reviewed in this article: AN ORTHODOX REFERENCE BOOK: (The Holy Theological School of Halki: 1923 to Today), by Vasil T. Istavridis THE CHURCH AND ANTI-SEMITISM: The Grey Book, by Johan M. Snoek     

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Book reviewed in this article: “HISTORY”, AS PRESENTED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION: Time and History — A Study on the Revelation, by Mathias Rissi, translation by Gordon C. Winsor. WORSHIP AND MISSION: The Church Worships (Concilium, Vol. XII), by Johannes Wagner and Helmut Hucke. WORSHIP AND MISSION: Worship and Mission, by J. G. Davies. ASIAN ECUMENICAL HERITAGE: Asia and the Ecumenical Movement 1896–1961, by Hans-Ruedi Weber CHURCH AND SOCIETY, VOLUMES I, II, III: Responsible Government in a Revolutionary Age, Edited by Z. K. Matthews CHURCH AND SOCIETY, VOLUMES I, II, III: Christian Social Ethics in a Changing World. Ed. John C. Bennett. CHURCH AND SOCIETY, VOLUMES I, II, III: Man in Community. Ed. Egbert de Vries. “GRANDCHILDREN, MEET YOUR GRANDPARENTS”: Brief Outline on the Study of Theology, by Friedrich Schleiermacher, translated by Terrence N. Tice. “GRANDCHILDREN, MEET YOUR GRANDPARENTS”: Faith and the Vitalities of History: A Theological Study Based on the Work of Albrecht Ritschl, by Philip Hefner. RESPONSIBILITY AMID CHANGE: Welt im Umbruch. Gesellschaftliche und geistige Probleme in den Entwikklungsländern, by Karl Heinz Pfeffer.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Pharisee and Apostle: A GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT. VOL. II: ROMANS-REVELATION, by MAX ZERWICK and MARY GROSVENOR. Pharisee and Apostle: A HIDDEN REVOLUTION, by ELLIS RIVKIN. Pharisee and Apostle: PAUL AMONG JEWS AND GENTILES, by KRISTER STENDAHL. Pharisee and Apostle: PAUL DE TARSE: APÔTRE DE NOTRE TEMPS, ed. LORENZO DE LORENZI. Pharisee and Apostle: LE MONDE DE LA BIBLE, no. 5, 1978: PAUL: L'ENVOYÉ DU CHRIST, 64 pp., no. 6, 1978: PAUL: FONDATEUR D'ÉGLISES THE CHURCH IN OUR TIMES: AN ECUMENICAL HISTORY FROM A BRITISH PERSPECTIVE, by RUPERT E. DAVIES. RELIGION, VERSKLAVUNG UND BEFREIUNG. VON DER ENGLISCHEN REFORMATION BIS ZUR AMERIKANISCHEN REVOLUTION, BY KLAUS SCHMIDT. THE MEANING OF THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE: THE EMERGENCY, ed. by SARAL K. CHATTERJI.     

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Book reviewed in this article: AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES: LE PAYSAN DE LA GARONNE, Un vieux laïc s'interroge à propos du temps présent, by JACQUES MARUAIN THE FINALITY OF CHRIST: THE FINALITY OF CHRIST, edited by DOW KIRKPATRICK CHURCH AND SOCIETY: WHO SPEAKS FOR THE CHURCH? A critique of the 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, by PAUL RAMSEY ECUMENICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: INTERNATIONALE ÖKUMENISCHE BIBLIOGRAPHIE. International Ecumenical Bibliography. Bibliographie ?cuménique internationale. Band 1/2, 1962/63     

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Book reviewed in this article: ECUMENICITY IN AMERICA: Church Cooperation and Unity in America: A Historical Review: 1900–1970, by Samuel McCrea Cavert ECUMENICAL HISTORY IN BRIEF: Zueinander-Miteinander, by Walter Müller-Römheld. A NEW HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN: A History of Christianity in Japan, by Richard H. Drummond. AN UNUSUAL “FESTSCHRIFT”: Irish Anglicanism 1869–1969. Essays on the role of Anglicanism in Irish Life presented to the Church of Ireland on the occasion of the centenary of its Disestablishment by a group of Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker and Roman Catholic scholars. Edited by Michael Hurley, S. J. ORTHODOX REFERENCE BOOK: : 1844–1923 (The Holy Theological School of Halki: 1844–1923), by Vasil T. Istavridis THE DIALECTIC OF DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: Development through revolution by Arend T. van Leeuwen     

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Book reviewed in this article: PRAISE GOD: COMMON PRAYER AT TAIZÉ translated by EMILY CHISHOLM. FATHERING: FACT OR FABLE. by EDWARD V. STEIN (ed.). MUSLIME — UNSERE NACHBARN: BEITRÄGE ZUM GESPRÄCH ÜBER DEN GLAUBEN (by GERHARD JASPER (ed.) THE ULTIMATE CHURCH AND THE PROMISE OF SALVATION by FR JEROME P. THEISEN, O.S.B. BIBLICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, by GEORGIA HARKNESS and CHARLES F. KRAFT. AUSCHWITZ: BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA? REFLECTIONS ON THE HOLOCAUST, by EVA FLEISCHNER (ed.). MAN AND THE UNIVERSE OF FAITHS, by M. M. THOMAS.     

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Book reviewed in this article: THIRD-EYE THEOLOGY: THEOLOGY IN FORMATION IN ASIAN SETTINGS, ed. by C. S. SONG. JOHN R. MOTT, 1865–1955: A BIOGRAPHY, by HOWARD C. HOPKINS. FAITH AND SCIENCE IN AN UNJUST WORLD. Geneva: WCC, 1980. Vol. I: PLENARY PRESENTATIONS, ed. by Roger Shinn THE MORAL MEANING OF REVOLUTION, by JON P. GUNNEMANN. TOWARDS A CHURCH OF THE POOR, ed. by JULIO DE SANTA ANA UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERFAITH STUDY, ed. by ALAN D. FALCONER. THE SECURITY TRAP. ARMS RACE, MILITARISM AND DISARMAMENT: A CONCERN OF CHRISTIANS, ed. by JOSÉ-ANTONIO VIERA GALLO. AND THEY TOOK THEMSELVES WIVES: THE EMERGENCE OF PATRIARCHY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by DAVID BAKAN.     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL: DAS ANSTÖSSIGE VOLK. Über die weltliche Glaubensgemeinschaft der Juden, by JOCHANAN BLOCH CORRECTIVE INSIGHTS: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ESCHATOLOGY IN THE THOUGHTS OF NICOLAS BERDYAEV, by C. S. CALIAN. E. J. Brill THE HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF PROTESTANT WORSHIP: WORSHIP AND THEOLOGY IN ENGLAND —The Ecumenical Century 1900 — 1965, by HORTON DAVIES THE ANGLICAN AND LUTHERAN BISHOPRIC IN JERUSALEM: VORWEGGENOMMENE EINHEIT. Die Gründung des Bistums Jerusalem im Jahre 1841, by KURT SCHMIDT-CLAUSEN DOGMATIC CRITICISM: THEOLOGY IN RECONSTRUCTION, by T. F. TORRANCE     

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Book reviewed in this article: WHAT IS DIALOGUE?: Oecumenica. Jahrbuch für ökumenische Forschung. Published by Institut für Ökumenische Forschung, Strasbourg; edited by F. W. Kantzenbach and Vilmos Vajta A LAYMAN'S VIEWPOINT: Borderlands of Theology by Donald Mackinnon AN INSPIRING RECORD: The Ecumenical Witness of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, by W. Stanley Rycroft. THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT AND THE GERMAN CHURCH STRUGGLE: Kirchenkampf und Ökumene 1933 bis 1939, by Armin Boyens.     

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Book reviewed in this article: CONCILIARITY PAST AND PRESENT: Councils and Assemblies, ed. G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker CONCILIARITY PAST AND PRESENT: “La Structure Synodale de l'Eglise dans la Théologie orientale”, by Pierre Duprey CCIA RETROSPECT: The Churches and the Nations, by Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, with foreword by Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft AN ECUMENICAL PIONEER: Alphonse Koechlin, pasteur et chef d'Eglise. Préface de W. A. Visser 't Hooft, by Henri d'Espine THE INFALLIBILITY DEBATE CHURCH AND SOCIETY THE DEBATE CONTINUES: Technology and Social Justice, by Ronald H. Preston (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Palestine Comes First by Lucas Grollenberg
ACTS AND THE HISTORY OF EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY by Martin Hengel
CATHERINE OF GENOA: PURGATION AND PURGATORY AND THE SPIRITUAL DIALOGUE trans and ed by S. Hughes with an introduction by B. J. Groeschel
SONS OF THE PROPHETS: EVANGELICAL LEADERS OF THE VICTORIAN CHURCH by Michael Hennell
FESTAL DRAMA IN DEUTERO-ISAIAH by John Earton
INCARNATION AND MYTH: THE DEBATE CONTINUED edited by Michael Goulder
ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Freaderick Copleston
JESUS AND THE LIVING PAST by Michael Ramsey
MYTHS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT by Benedikt Otzen, Hans Gottliab and Knud Joppesen     

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Book reviewed in this article: RELIGION'S FUTURE ROLE: The future of religion, by Kathleen Bliss ORTHODOX HYMNOGRAPHY: The Festal Menaion, by Mother Mary of the Monastery of the Veil at Bussy-en-Othe and Father Kallistos Timothy Ware THE BAPTISMAL DEBATE: Die Lehre von der Taufe, by Edmund Schlink     

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Book reviewed in this article: CHURCH UNION: Principles of Church Union , Adopted by the Consultation at its Meeting 1966 in Dallas, Texas A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT: Historia del Pensamiento Cristiano , by Justo L. Gonzalez SOCIAL PROTEST: Dissenter in a Great Society , by William Stringfellow