Whither ‘TRS’?

Books reviewed in this article:
Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon (eds), Guide to the Study of Religion
J'annine Jobling and Ian Markham (eds), Theological Liberalism, Creative and Critical     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill, (eds), Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy
John Meyer, Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought
Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason
David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, (eds), Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed:
Harold Coward, Sin and Salvation in the World Religions: A Short Introduction
Alan Race and Ingrid Shafer (eds), Religions in Dialogue: From Theocracy to Democracy
Melanie J. Wright, Understanding Judaism
Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays (eds), The Art of Reading Scripture
K.A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament
Judith Kovacs and Christopher Rowland, Revelation: The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ
John Holdsworth, Dwelling in a Strange Land: Exile in the Bible and in the Church
David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek (eds), Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Peter L. Berger, Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity
Andrew Pierce and Geraldine Smyth OP (eds), The Critical Spirit: Theology at the Crossroads of Faith and Culture
Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Popular Culture
Robert W. Jenson, On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions
David Knight, Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection
Natalie K. Watson, Feminist Theology
Tina Beattie, Woman
Burton Z. Cooper and John S. McClure, Claiming Theology in the Pulpit     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Disablement in the communityDonald L. Patrick and Hedley Peach (eds), Oxford University Press 1989, pp. 227.

Applications in health psychologyMarie Johnston and Theresa Marteau (eds), New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 1989, pp. 155.

Current developments in health psychologyPaul Bennett, John Weinman, and Peter Spurgeon (eds), Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers 1990 pp. 358.

ANXIETY PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL PERSPECTIVESN. Sartorius, V. Andreoli, G. Cassano, L. Eisenberg, P. Kielholz, P. Pancheri and G. Racagni (eds), New York: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation 1990

HOMESICKNESS, COGNITION AND HEALTHShirley Fisher (ed). London: Erlbaum Associates 1989 pp. 141.

CHRONIC ILLNESS DURING CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCEPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS. William T. Garrison and Susan McQuiston (eds). London: Sage 1989 pp. 160     

Recent Books in ≡ Biblical Studies

Books reviewed in this article:
J. P. Burgess, Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible in a Time of Church Conflict
T. E. Fretheim and K. Froehlich, The Bible as Word of God in a Postmodern Age
R. S. Hess and G. J. Wenham (eds), Make the Old Testament Live from Curriculum to Classroom
M. E. Mills, Images of God in the Old Testament
R. J. Clifford, The Wisdom Literature
S. L. McKenzie and M. P. Graham (eds), The Hebrew Bible Today: An Introduction to the Critical Issues
P. R. Davies, Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures
F. F. Segovia and M. A. Tolbert (eds), Teaching the Bible: The Discourses and Politics of Biblical Pedagogy     

Reviews

Malory Nye (ed), Culture and Religion: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal John L. Esposito and Michael Watson (eds), Religion and Global Order George D. Chryssides, Exploring New Religions Roger Jackson and John Makransky (eds), Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch (eds), Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism Mohammad Abu‐Hamdiyyah, The Qur'an: an Introduction Reuven Firestone, Jihad: the Origin of Holy War in Islam David Brown, Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change Peter J. Thuesen, In Disconcordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible Edward Adams, Constructing the World: A Study in Paul's Cosmological Language Andrew McGowan, Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals Hilarion Alfeyev, St. Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition Richard A. Muller, The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition Dwight N. Hopkins, Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology Sue Morgan, A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the Politics of Gender in the Late‐Victorian Church Michael Chandler, The Life and Work of Henry Parry Liddon Anthony O? Mahoney (ed), Palestinian Christians: Religion, Politics and Society in the Holy Land Michael Prior (ed), They Came and They Saw: Western Christian Experiences of the Holy Land Thomas Hummel, Kevork Hintlian and Ulf Carmesund (eds), Patterns of the Past, Prospects for the Future: The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land Gerald O'Collins, The Tripersonal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity Stephen Davis, Daniel Kendall and Gerald O'Collins (eds), The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity David Fergusson and Marcel Sarot (eds), The Future as God's Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology Daniel Harrington, Why Do We Suffer? A Scriptural Approach to the Human Condition Oliver O'Donovan & Jean Lockwood O'Donovan (eds), From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought Brian R. Clack, An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion Brian R. Clack, Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform David S. Cunningham, Ralph del Colle and Lucas Lamadrid (eds), Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainright on his Sixtieth Birthday Guatemala: Never Again! REMHI Recovery of Historical Memory Project. The Official Report of the Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan (eds), Religion and Popular Culture in America Susan J. Palmer and Charlotte E. Hardman (eds), Children in New Religions     

Reading Wittgenstein

Books reviewed in this essay:
Robert Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock (eds), Wittgenstein & Quine
John Koethe, The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought
P.M.S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
Hans Sluga and David G. Stern (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
Marie McGinn, Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations     

Science And Faith: New Books with the Same Scepticism

Books reviewed in this article:
Richard A. Lee Jr., Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology
Andrew P. Porter, By the Waters of Naturalism: Theology Perplexed Among the Sciences
W. Mark Richardson, Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, and Kirk Wegter–McNelly (eds), Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists
W. Mark Richardson and Gordy Slack (eds), Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth     

Book Reviews

James Griffin, Value Judgement: Improving our Ethical Beliefs
David DeGrazia, Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life andMoral Status
Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (eds), Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology
Henry Richardson, Practical Reasoning about Final Ends
Margaret Jane Radin, Contested Commodities: the Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts and Other Things
Gordon Graham, Ethics and International Relations
Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting (eds), Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty
André Gallois, The World Without, the Mind Within: an Essay on First-Person Authority
Richard Fumerton, Meta-epistemology and Scepticism
Raymond D. Boisvert, John Dewey: Rethinking our Time
Jonathan Lowe, Subjects of Experience
Edward Stein, Without Good Reason: the Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Robert L. Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock (eds), Wittgenstein and Quine
Scott Meikle, Aristotle's Economic Thought
Eric Matthews, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed Jerard F. Kehow (ed), Managing Selection in Changing Organizations: Human Resource Strategies Paul Sparrow and Mick Marchington (eds), Human Resource Management: The New Agenda Liz Whalley and Mike Smith, Deception in Selection Robert W. Eder and Michael M. Harris (eds), The Employment Interview Handbook Gary N. Powell (ed), Handbook of Gender and Work Abraham Sagie and Meni Koslowsky, Participation and Empowerment in Organizations: Modeling, Effectiveness and Applications Jeanette N. Cleveland, Margaret Stockdale and Kevin R. Murphy, Women and Men in Organizations: Sex and Gender Issues at Work David W. Bracken, Carol T. Timmreck and Allan H. Church (eds), The Handbook of Multisource Feedback     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Teresa Berger, Fragments of Real Presence: Liturgical Traditions in the Hands of Women Horst Dähn/Joachim Heise (eds) Staat und Kirchen in der DDR: Zum Stand der zeithistorischen und sozialwissen‐schaftlichen Forschung (State and churches in the GDR) Gillian R. Warson , Healing the Nations: Fred Kaan, the man and his hymns Perry Schmidt‐Leukel (ed), Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue: The Gerald Weisfeld Lectures 2004 David Tombs and Joseph Liechty (eds), Explorations in Reconciliation     

Book Reviews

Maund, Barry, Colours: their Nature and Representation
Savellos, Elias E. and Yalcin, Umit D. (eds), Supervenience: New Essays
Potts, Timothy C., Structures and Categories for the Representation of Meaning
Cushing, James T., Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, et al . (eds), Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honour of Ruth Barcan Marcus
Scaltsas, T., Charles, D. and Gill, M. L. (eds), Unity, Identity and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: an Intellectual Biography
Kremer, Elmar J. (ed.), The Great Arnauld and Some of his Philosophical Correspondents
Rutherford, Donald, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature
Johnson, Oliver A., The Mind of David Hume
Baron, Marcia W., Kantian Ethics Almost Without Apology
Allison, Henry E., Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
Atwell, John E., Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: the Metaphysics of Will
Stern, D.G., Wittgenstein on Mind and Language
Apel, Karl-Otto, Selected Essays, Vol. 1: Towards a Transcendental Semiotics     

Truth and Holiness: The Way of the Cross

The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek: Ecumenical Prospects for the Third Millennium , Jeremy Morris and Nicholas Sagovsky (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0-567-8907-X, Pb 0-567-08879-0), pp. xix + 244, Pb £14.99
In One Body Through the Cross: The Princeton Proposal for Christian Unity , Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0-8028-2298-3), pp. 62, Pb £7.99/$10     

Seeking after Theological Vision

Books reviewed in this article:
John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (eds), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Jerome H. Neyrey, Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew A. Le Grys, Preaching to the Nations: The Origins of Mission in the Early Church J. H. Charlesworth, Critical Reflections on the Odes of Solomon, Volume 1: Literary Setting, Textual Studies, Gnosticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of John Dale T. Irvin, Christian Histories, Christian Traditioning: Rendering Accounts Arvind Sharma, The Concept of Universal Religion in Modern Hindu Thought Martin Forward, A Bag of Needments: Geoffrey Parrinder and the Study of Religion M. A. Hayes and L. Gearon (eds), Contemporary Catholic Theology: A Reader A. Nichols, Catholic Thought Since the Enlightenment: A Survey Paul Badham, The Contemporary Challenge of Modernist Theology L. Miller and S. E. Grenz (eds), Introduction to Contemporary Theologies W. E. Conn, The Desiring Self: Rooting Pastoral Counselling and Spiritual Direction in Self‐Transcendence Chris Glaser, Coming Out as Sacrament E. Stump and M. J. Murray (eds), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions M. A. Hayes, W. Porter and D. Tombs (eds), Religion and Sexuality H. J. Cargas (ed.), Holocaust Scholars Write to the Vatican Gerrie ter Haar (ed.), Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the Diaspora Phyllis Zagano and Terrence W. Tilley (eds), Things New and Old: Essays on the Theology of Elizabeth A. Johnson J. J. DiCensio, The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis G. Pattison, Anxious Angels: A Retrospective View of Religious Existentialism Eugene Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible Georges Bernanos, The Heroic Face of Innocence: Three Stories by Georges Bernanos Steven Croft, Ministry in Three Dimensions: Ordination and Leadership in the Local Church Bryan D. Spinks and Iain R. Torrance (eds), To Glorify God, Essays in Modern Reformed Liturgy Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine E. Gudorf (eds), Ethics and World Religions: Cross‐Cultural Case Studies William Madges, God and the World Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, The Human Person and the Church Martin Israel,Happiness that Lasts Graham Cunningham, Religion and Magic, Approaches and Theories Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham (eds), Zion City of our God James A. Wharton, Job Terence E. Fretheim, First and Second Kings Edwin Robertson, The Prison Poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A New Translation with Commentary Gordon S. Wakefield, Methodist Spirituality James Thrower, Religion: The Classical Theories Alastair G. Hunter, Psalms Oliver Leaman, Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy Tamila Mgaloblishvili (ed.), Ancient Christianity in the Caucasus (Iberica Caucasica 1)     

A Voice Cursing in the Wilderness

Book reviewed in this article:
John Berkman and Michael Cartwright (eds), The Hauerwas Reader     

In Times like These: How We Pray – Edited by Malcolm Boyd and J. Jon Bruno (eds)

Book reviewed:
In Times like These: How We Pray , Malcolm Boyd and J. Jon Bruno (eds), Seabury Books 2005 (1-59627-015-2), 255 pp., pb $20.00     

Book reviews

Margaret Robinson, Family Transformation Through Divorce and Remarriage. A Systemic Approach
Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick (eds), Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
Rudi Dallos, Family Belief Systems, Therapy and Change
Lone Jacobsen and Peter Vesti, Torture Survivors – A New Group of Patients
W. Robert Beavers and Robert B. Hampson, Successful Families: Assessment and Intervention
Gregory Max Vogt and Stephen T. Sirridge, Like Son, Like Father: Healing the Father–Son Wound in Men's Lives
Douglas Hooper and Windy Dryden (eds), Couple Therapy: A Handbook. Open University Press Psychotherapy Handbook Series
Peter Stratton, Michael Preston-Shoot and Helga Hanks, Family Therapy: Training and Practice     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Shamita Basu, Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse: Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth‐Century Bengal Lynne Hume, Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australians Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders (eds), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa Philip R. Davies (ed.), First Person: Essays in Biblical Autobiography Martin O’Kane (ed.), Borders, Boundaries and the Bible Craig Bartholomew, Colin Greene and Karl Möller (eds), After Pentecost: Language and Biblical Interpretation, Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, volume 2 George J. Brooke (ed.), Book List 2002, Society for Old Testament Study V. Phillips Long, David W. Baker and Gordon J. Wenham (eds), Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of ‘Biblical Israel’ Ronald S. Wallace, Hannah's Prayer and its Answer: An Exposition for Bible Study Steven Tuell, I and II Chronicles Paul Murray O.P., A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment John Barton, Joel and Obadiah Magen Broshi, Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls Michael J. Gorman, Cruciformity: Paul's Narrative Spirituality of the Cross Daniel Marguerat, The First Christian Historian: Writing the ‘Acts of the Apostles’ Jan Willem van Henten and Friedrich Avemarie (eds), Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco‐Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity Gwilym Beckerlegge (ed.), From Sacred Text to Internet Alain Blancy and Maurice Jourjon and the Dombes Group, Mary: In the Plan of God and in the Communion of Saints Ronald J. Allen, Preaching is Believing: The Sermon as Theological Reflection Robert Gibbs and Elliot R. Wolfson (eds), Suffering Religion Laura E. Donaldson and Kwok Pui‐lan (eds), Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse Susan Frank Parsons (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology Hugh Connolly, Sin Steven Croft, Transforming Communities: Re‐imagining the Church for the 21^st Century     

Editor's Choice

The Editor reviews:
Morgan, David and Promey, Sally M. (eds), The Visual Culture of American Religions