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Book reviewed in this article: Science and Human Values in the 21st Century. Edited by Ralph Wendell Burhoe Bioethics: Bridge to the Future. By Van Rensselaer Potter Biology and Ethics. Edited by F. J. Ebling     

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Philosophy and Illusion. By Morris Lazerowitz . The Concept of Philosophy. By R. W. Newell . Marxism and Ethics. By E. Kamenka . Hegelian Ethics. By W. H. Walsh . Action. By Sir Malcolm Knox . Gregory of Nazianzus. By Rosemary Radford Ruether . Byzantinische Urkundenlehre. Erster Abschnitt, Die Kaiserurkunden. Edited by Franz Dölger and Johannes Karayannopulos . By G. G. Willis . By Odilo Heiming . Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Marjorie Chibnall . By Peter Heath . Routledge & Kegan Paul English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation. By Peter Heath . Infallibility in the Church. An Anglican-Catholic Dialogue. Edited by M. D. Goulder . The Great Church in Captivity. By Steven Runciman . The Theses Were Not Posted. Luther between Reform Catholic Anglicans Today. Edited by John Wilkinson .     

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Books reviewed in this article: Understanding the Word: Essays in Honour of Bernhard W. Anderson. Edited by James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad and Ben C. Ollenburger. A Word in Season: Essays in Honour of William McKane. Edited by James D. Martin and Philip R. Davies. The Prophet Amos: A Translation and Commentary. By J. Alberto Soggin. Her Price is Beyond Rubies: The Jewish Woman in Graeco-Roman Palestine. By Léonie J. Archer. JSOT Supplement Series 60. The Gospel of Luke (Sacra Pagina 3). By Luke Timothy Johnson. The Acts of the Apostles (Sacra Pagina 5). By Luke Timothy Johnson. Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore. Jesus the Exorcist: A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Jesus (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/54). By Graham H. Twelftree. The Death of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels. By Raymond E. Brown. Paul and rhe Popular Philosophers. By Abraham J. Malherbe. History of New Testament Research, Volume One: From Deism to Tubingen. By William Baird. Theological Ethics of the New Testament. By Eduard Lohse. Living a Christian Life: Vol. 2 of The Way of the Lord Jesus. By Germain Grisez. Moral Demands and Personal Obligations. By Josef Fuchs. Plurality and Chrisrian Ethics. By Ian Markham. The Nature of Moral Thinking. By Francis Snare. Ethics (Oxford Readers). Edited by Peter Singer. Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologiae’. By James F. Keenan. Divine Power: The Medieval Power Distinction up to its Adoption by Albert, Bonaventure and Aquinas. By Lawrence Moonan. Preserving the Creation: Environmental Theology and Ethics. Edited by Kevin W. Irwin and Edmund D. Pellegrino. Religion and the Making of Society. By Charles Davis. The Good Stewards: Practical Applications of the Papal Social Vision of Work. By Michael Naughton. Things Old and New: Catholic Social Teaching Revisited. Edited by Francis P. McHugh and Samuel Natale. The Church Faces the Modern World: ‘Rerum Novarum’ and its Impact. Edited by Paul Furlong and David Curtis. Catholic Social Thought and the New World Order: Building on One Hundred Years. Edited by Oliver F. Williams and John W. Houck. The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach. By Charles E. Curran. God, Truth and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick. Edited by Arvind Sharma. Christianity and Chinese Religions. By Hans Kiing and Julia Ching. The Catholic Church in Modern China: Perspectives. Edited by Edmond Tang and Jean-Paul Wiest. Education And Meaning: Philosophy in Practice. By Paddy Walsh. Detachment and Concern: Conversations in the Philosophy of Teaching and Teacher Education. By Margret Buchman and Robert Floden. Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics and the Movies (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications). By Gregory D. Black. Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000–1300 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). By Janet Burton. The Early Reformation in Europe. Edited by Andrew Pettegree.     

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Theological Explorations. By Paul van Buren Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. By Bernard Lonergan , s.j . Metaphysics. By Emerich Coreth . English Edition by Joseph Donceel Wittgenstein and the Problem of Other Minds. Edited by Harold Morick Wittgenstein and the Problem of Other Minds. Edited by Harold Morick . Essays in Legal Philosophy. Edited by Robert S. Summers . The Son of Man in Mark. By Morna D. Hooker . Portrait of Paul. By E. W. Hunt . Tradition and Life in the Church. By Hans von Campenhausen . A History of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to the Year 1517. By John Moorman , Bishop of Ripon. Reason and Authority: the Thought of William Chillingworth. By Robert R. Orr . Deism: an Anthology. By Peter Gay . Social Ethics. Edited by Gibson Winter . The Peasant of the Garonne. By Jacques Maritain .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Human Procreation: Ethical Aspects of the New Techniques. Report of a Working Party, Council for Science and Society. Begotten or Made? Oliver O'Donovan. Test Tube Babies: A Christian View. Life before Birth: Consensus in Medical Ethics. By Kenneth Boyd, Brendan Callaghan and Edward Shotter. The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons: The Catholic Pastoral Letter on War and Peace. By James E. Dougherty. The Evangelicals and the Bishops' Pastoral Letter. Edited by Dean C. Curry. Psychoanalytical Reflections on the Holocaust: Selected Essays. Edited by Steven A. Luel and Paul Marcus. Jewish Ethics and Halakhah for Our Time. By Basil F. Herring. What Are They Saying About Scripture and Ethics? By William C. Spohn. The Interpretation of John. Edited by John Ashton. An Introduction to Catholic Sacramental Theology. By Alexandre Ganoczy. The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity. By Dorothee Soelle. Tudor Drama and Religious Controversy. By James C. Bryant. Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief. By Christina Larner. Attitudes to Other Religions: Comparative Religion in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Britain. By David Pailin. A Prince of the Church: Schleiermacher and the Beginnings of Modern Theology. By B.A. Gerrish. The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol. VI: The Via Media and Froude's ‘Remains’, January 1837 to December 1838. Edited by Gerard Tracey. The Rise and Decline of Englkh Modernism. By Alan M.G. Stephenson. God of Our Fathers? Do We Know What We Believe? By Peter Vardy The Need for Certainty: A Sociological Study of Conventional Religion. By Robert Towler. Salvation and Liberation. In Search of a Balance between Faith and Politics. By Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. The Quest for Eternity: An Outline of the Philosophy of Religion. By J.C.A. Gaskin. Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay. By Mary Midgley. The Legacy of Wittgenstein. By Anthony Kenny. Sartre and His Predecessors: The Self and The Other. By William Ralph Schroeder. No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Chriktian Attitudes Towards the World Religions. By Paul F. Knitter. Islam: A Christian Perspective. By Michael Nazir-Ali. Theodicy in Islamic Thought: the Dispute over Al-Ghāzalî's ‘Best of All Possible Worlds’. By Eric L. Ormsby. Strange Gifts? A Guide to Charismatic Renewal. Edited by David Martin and Peter Mullen. Liturgy Pastoral and Parochial. By Michael Perham.     

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Reviews in this article: Religion, Interpretation, and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model from Kant to Durkheim to Davidson. By Terry F. Godlove Ethics in an Age of Technology. By Ian Barbour . Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. By Stephen E. Toulmin . The Social Dimensions of Science. Edited by Ernan Mc Mullin . Evolutionary Epistemology and Its Implications for Humankind. By Franz M. Wuketits . Evolutionary Epistemology and Its Implications for Humankind. By Franz M. Wuketits . Integrity in Depth. By John Beebe .     

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Book review in this Article The Ethos of the Bible. By Birger Gerhardsson. The Prophets, Vol. 1: The Assyrian Period. By Klaus Koch. The Gospel according to Saint John, Vol. 3. By Rudolf Schnackenburg. The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity. By Gerd Theissen. Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, Vol. 3: Self-Definition in the Craeco-Roman World. Edited by Ben F. Meyer and E.P. Sanders. The Church and Healing. Edited by W.J. Sheils. Miracles and the Medieval Mind: Theory, Record and Event, 1000 to 1215. By Benedicta Ward. The Luminous Vision; Six Medieval Mystics and their Teaching. By Anne Bancroft. Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life. By Eugenio Garin. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg 1480–1599. By M.U. Umgang mil Luther. By Gerhard Ebeling. The Reformation and the English People. By J.J. Scarisbrick. Between Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: Jean-Robert Chouet and the Introduction of Cartesian Science in the Academy of Geneva. By Michael Heyd. Richard Crashaw and the Spanish Golden Age. By R.V. Young. The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais. By Lucien Febvre, translated by Beatrice Gottlieb. History of Christianity in India, Vol. II: From the Middle of the 16th to the End of the 17th Century. By Joseph Thekkedath. The Vatican and the American Hierarchy from 1870 to 1965. By Gerald P. Fogarty. Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890–1914. By Michael Sutton. George Tyrrell and the Catholic Tradition. By Ellen Leonard. The Testing of the Churches 1932–1982: A Symposium. Edited by Rupert Davies. The Old Protestantism and the New: Essays on the Reformation Heritage. By B.A. Gerrish. An Introduction to Protestant Theology. By Helmut Gollwitzer. Dialogues on Morality and Religion. By Jakob Friedrich Fries. American Catholic Social Ethics: Twentieth-Century Approaches. By Charles E. Curran. Ethical Issues in Reproductive Medicine. Edited by Maurice Reidy. Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression. By Charles C. Lemert and Garth Gillan. Last Writingson the Philosophy of Psychology. Vol. I. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. By Michael J. Sandel. Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry. By Frederick Schauer. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. By Walter J. Ong. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa. By James W. Fernandez. Selfless Persons. By Steven Collins. Understanding Jewish Mysticism: A Source Reader Edited by David R. Blumenthal. The Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect, by Ibn Rushd, with the Commentary of Moses Narboni. Edited and translated by Kalman P. Bland.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: Personal Identity. By Godfrey Vesey . Personal Identity. By Godfrey Vesey . Truth and Dialogue. Edited by John Hick . Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values. By Max Scheler . Translated by N. S. Frings and R. L. Funk . Beyond the New Morality. By Germain Grisez and Russell Shaw . The Interaction of Law and Religion. By Harold J. Berman . This Man Jesus: An Essay toward a New Testament Christology. By Bruce Vawter . London, Geoffrey Chapman. Exodus: A Commentary. By Brevard S. Childs . Structure and Meaning in the Fourth Gospel. A Text-Linguistic Analysis of John 2:1–11 and 4:1–42. By Birger Olsson . Actualité de la Révélation Divine. By Richard P. Hardy . Reason and Belief. By Brand Blanshard . The Ministry of Reconciliation. By J. D. Crichton . The Story of the Anglican Ministry. By Edward P. Echlin . New Testament Christianity for Africa and the World. Essays in Honour of Harry Sawyerr. Edited by Mark E. Glasswell and Edward W. Fasholé -Luke . The Rise of Christianity. Prepared for the Course Team by Francis Clark . The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. Vol. 2. The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600–1700). By Jaroslav Pelikan . The Religion of Isaac Newton. The Fremnntle Lectures 1973. By Frank E. Manuel . God's Blueprints. By John Mc Kelvie Whitworth . The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Vol. XXVI. Edited by C. S. Dessain and Thomas Gornall . Il Problema Religioso nel Risorgimento e il Pensiero di Geremia Bonomelli. By Giuseppe Gallina . The Vatican and the Americanist Crisis: Denis J. O'Connell, American Agent in Rome 1885–1903. By Gerald P. Fogarty . L'Institut Saint-Serge: De I'académie d'autrefois au rayonnement d'aujourd'hui. By Alexis Kniazeff . Connaissance du Vatican: Histoire—Organisation—Activité. By Paul Poupard .     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination: Texts Under Negotiation. By Walter Brueggemann. In the Throe of Wonder: Intimations of the Sacred in a Post-Modern World. By Jerome A. Miller. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry. By David L. Petersen and Kent Harold Richards. Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, Volume I: Aαρωυ-Eυωχ. Edited by Horst Balz and Gerhard Schneiders. The Secretary in the Letters of Paul (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/42). By E. Randolph Richards. Revelation. By Wilfrid J. Harrington. Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation. Edited by Robert W. Hefner. The Metaphor of God Incarnate. By John Hick. Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion. By John Hick. The Nature of God. By Gerard J. Hughes. The Animals Issue: Moral Theoy in Practice. By Peter Carruthers. Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages. By G . R. Evans. Modalities in Medieval Philosophy. By Simo Knuuttila. Da Descarres a Spinoza: Percorsi della teologia razionale nel seicento. By Maria Emanuela Scribano. Tra Descartes e Bayle: Poiret e la teodicea. By Gianluca Mori. Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical. By Anthony Rudd. Kierkegaard on Art and Communication. Edited by George Pattison. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan Volume 10: Topics in Education. Edited by Robert M. Doran and Frederick E. Crowe. A Theology of Reconstruction: Nation-building and Human Rights. By Charles Villa-Vicencio. Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics (Theology and Medicine 2). Edited by Paul F. Camenisch. Theological Developments in Bioethics (Bioethics 3). Edited by Andrew Lustig et al. Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of Marriage During the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods. By Philip L. Reynolds. Marriage in the Early Church. Translated and edited by David G. Hunter. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. By Thomas F. Mathews. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present. Edited by Sheridan Gilley and W. J. Sheik. The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power and Religious Belief in Early Modern France (Harvard Historical Studies 112). By Michael Wolfe. English Polemics at the Spanish Court: Joseph Creswell's ‘Letter to the Ambassador from England’, The English and the Spanish Texts of 1606. Edited by Albert J. Loomie.     

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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. By Howard Clark Kee et al. The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version: Revised and expanded edition. Edited by Robert J. Miller Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q. By Christopher M. Tuckett The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting (The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting 4). Edited by Richard Bauckham. Studies in Early Christology By Martin Hengel. St. Jerome's ’Hebrew Questions on Genesis‘ Translated with introduction and commentary by C. T. R. Hayward. Responses to 101 Questions on the Psalms and Other Writings. By Roland E. Murphy. Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. By Jas’ Elsner. Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius’s ‘Life’ and the Late Antique City (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 25). By Derek Krueger. Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs By Denys Turner. Papal Primacy: From its Origins to the Present. By Klaus Schatz. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages. By André Vauchez. Scottish Theology from John Knox to John MacLeod Campbell. By Thomas F. Torrance. Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England 1540–1688. Edited by Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, its Empire, and Beyond 1540–1750. By Dauril Alden. Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses. Edited by John Breen and Mark Williams. Coleridge’s Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith. By Ronald C. Wendling. Hopkins Against History. By Eugene Hollahan. The Random Grim Forge: A Study of Social Ideas in the Work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. By Sjaak Zonneveld. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. By Michael A. Sells. Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America. James Randall Noblitt and Pamela Sue Perskin. Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment. Colin A. Ross. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. By Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. By Gerard Loughlin. Asceticism. Edited by Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis. Beyond its Authority? The Magisterium and Matters of Natural Law. By Frank Mobbs. Sex, Priests and Power. By A. W. Richard Sipe. God’s Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence, and the Rhetoric of Salvation. By Timothy Gorringe. Christ and the Spirit: Spirit-Christology in Trinitarian Perspective. By Ralph Del Colle. Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation. Edited by Jeff Astley, Leslie Francis and Colin Crowder. Christian Theology and Religious Education: Connections and Contradictions. Edited by Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis. Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives. Edited by G. Simon Love’s Virtues. By Mike W. Martin. Euthanasia: Death, Dying and the Medical Duty. Edited by G. R. Dunstan and P. J. Lachman. The Religion of Socrates. By Mark L. McPherran. Plato’s Ethics. By Terence Irwin. Stoic Studies. By A. A. Long. The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus. Edited by Lloyd P. Gerson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein. Edited by Peter Winch . The Foundations of Wittgenstein's Late Philosophy. By Ernst Konrad Specht . Translated by D. E. Walford . Freedom and Rights. By A. J. M. Milne . Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics: a study in enthusiasm. By Stanley Grean . Christian and Hindu Ethics. By S. C. Thakur .(. Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare. By Demetrius J. Constantelos . Les Premiers Défenseurs de la Liberté Religieuse: Textes Choisis. By Joseph Lecler , s.j. and Marius -François Valkhoff . Théologie de la Liberté Religieuse. By René Coste . Christian Marriage. By Jack Dominian . Marital Breakdown. By Jack Dominian . Priests for Tomorrow. By R. J. Bunnik . Translated from the Dutch by Frances Wilms . Ministers of Christ and His Church. By David N. Power , o.m.i . Intelligent Theology. Vol. Two: Confirmation and Priesthood. By Piet Fransen , s.j . Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II. Vol. IV. Edited by Herbert Vorgrimlér . Translated by Hilda Graef , W. J. O'Hara and Ronald Walls . The Office of Proclamation in the Theology of Karl Barth. By Carl F. Starkloff , s.j . The Priest In a Secularized World. Conferences of the Third International Congress at Lucerne. The Social Reality of Religion. By Peter L. Berger . Society without the Father. By Alexander Mjtscherlich . Marxism in the Twentieth Century. By Roger Garaudy . Translated by René Hague . The Foundations of Belief. By Leslie Dewart . Limits of Unbelief. By John Knox . Pilgrim of Rome: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Ernesto Buonaiuti. Edited by Claud Nelson and Norman Pittenger . Aufbruch und Miβverständnis: Zur Geschichte der reformkatholischen Bewegung. By Oskar Schroeder . Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus. By Joachim Jeremias . Translated by F. H. and C. H. Cave . Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie. Vol. I, Allgemeine Ikonographie A-Ezechiel. Edited by Engelbert Kirschbaum , s.j . The Secular Use of Church Buildings. By J. G. Davies . Line and Plummet. By Richard Dickinson . Sources for Change. By Herbert T. Neve .     

Book briefly noted

Introducing Applied Ethics Edited by Brenda Almond, Blackwell, 1995. Pp. 375. ISBN 0–631–19389–8. £45.00 (hbk), £14.99 (pbk).

Environmental Ethics Edited by Robert Elliot, Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 255. ISBN 9–19–875144–3. £9.95 (pbk)

Medicine and Moral Reasoning Edited by K.W.M. Fulford, Grant Gillett and Janet Martin Soskice Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 207. ISBN 0–521–45325–9 £37.50 (hbk), £12.95 (pbk).

Enlightenment and Religion. Rational Dissent in Eighteenth‐century Britain Edited by Knud Haakonssen, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 348. ISBN 0–521–56060–8. £40.00.

Dialettica, Arte e Società: Saggio su Theodor W. Adorno By Giacomo Rinaldi, Quattroventi, Urbino, 1994. Pp. 205. L. 30,000.

Relevance: Communication and Cognition, new revised edition, By Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, Blackwell, 1995. Pp. 326. ISBN 0–631–19878–4. £15.99.

Autobiographical Reflections By Eric Voegelin (Edited, with Introduction, by Ellis Sandoz), Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Pp. 131. ISBN 0807120766 $10.95.     

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Books Reviewed in this Article: Records of the Trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real, Volume I, 1483–1485. Edited by Haim Beinart. Records of the Trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real, Volume I, 1483–1485. Edited by Haim Beinart. The Correspondence of Erasmus, Volume II. Translated by R.A.B. Mynors and D.F.S. Thomson, annotated by Wallace K. Ferguson. The English Catholic Community, 1570–1850. By John Bossy. The Church in Victorian Scotland 1843–1874. By Andrew L. Drummond and James Bulloch. The Principle of Reserve in the Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman. By Robin C. Selby. Newman on Development. The search for an explanation in history. By Nicholas Lash. Bonhoeffer: Exile and Martyr. By Eberhard Bethge, edited with an essay by John W. de Gruchy. Kleine Geschichte des Oesterreichischen Staatsvertrages. By Gerald Stourzh. A Theology of the Old Testament. By John L. McKenzie. The Formation of the Gospel According to Mark. By E. Trocmé. Jesus and the Spirit. By James D.G. Dunn. Ethics in the New Testament. By Jack T. Sanders. Can Ethics be Christian? By James M. Gustafson. Wittgenstein and Religious Belief. By W. Donald Hudson. Darkness and Light: The Analysis of Doctrinal Statements. By Garth L. Hallett, S.J. The Common Catechism. A Christian Book of Faith. Mysticism & Theology. An Essay in Christian Metaphysics. By Illtyd Trethowan. Theological Investigations, Volume XIII. By Karl Rahner, translated by David Bourke. Elucidations. By Hans Urs von Balthasar, translated by John Riches. Searchings. By Bishop B.C. Butler. Has Dogma a Future? By Gerald O'Collins. The Experiment Hope. By Jürgen Moltmann. Edited and translated with a foreword by M. Douglas Meeks. Christian at the Crossroads. Karl Rahner. Biblical Reflections on Crises Facing the Church. By Raymond E. Brown. The Runaway Church. By Peter Hebblethwaite. The Seduction of the Spirit. By Harvey Cox. Silent Music. By William Johnston. The Transfiguration of Politics. By Paul Lehmann. Speaking in Parables. By Sallie TeSelle. The Story-Shaped World. By Brian Wicker. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems. A Casebook. Edited by Margaret Bottrall. Gerard Manley Hopkins: a critical symposium by the Kenyon Critics.     

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Philosophy after Darwin. Chapters for the Career of Philosophy Volume III, and Other Essays. By John Herman Randall, Jr, edited by Beth J. Singer The Philosophy of Marx. By William Leon McBride The Life of the Mind: Vol.1, Thinking; Vol. II, Willing. By Hannah Arendt The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt. By Margaret Canovan Philosophy and Totality: Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Department of Scholastic Philosophy. Edited by J. McEvoy Mind-Reach. By Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff The Birth of The Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. By Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Religion and Medicine 3. Edited by D. Millard Dictionary of Medical Ethics. Edited by A.S. Duncan, G.R. Dunstan and R.B. Welbourn Causing Death and Saving Lives. By Jonathan Glover Sittliche Erkenntnis zwischen Rationalität und Glauben. Bin Aspekt der Säkularisierung im Licht der Theologie Friedrich Gogartens. By Josef Vohn Ernst Troeltsch: Writings on Theology and Religion. Translated and edited by Robert Morgan and Michael Pye Paul Tillich, His Life and Thought: Volume I: Life. By Wilhelm and Marion Pauck The Birth of the Messiah. By Raymond E. Brown The Divine Miracles Discussed and Defended. By Leopold Sabourin The New Testament Concept of Witness. By Allison A. Trites Can we Trust the New Testament? By J.A.T. Robinson Paul and Jesus. By F.F. Bruce La Transfiguration selon les Pères Grecs. By Georges Habra The Concept of Grace in the Radical Reformation. By Alvin J. Beachy The Seventeenth Century Tradition: A Study in Recusant Thought. By George H. Tavard The Catholic Subjects of Elizabeth I. By Adrian Morey Cathedral and City. Edited by Robert Runcie A History of York Minster. Edited by G.E. Aylmer and Reginald Cant The Late Middle Ages. By Wim Swaan Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione. Edited by Guerrino Pelliccia (1962–68) and Giancarlo Rocca (1969-). Vol. III, Conv-Fig Vol. IV, Fig-Int     

The Growing Feminist Debate over the New Reproductive Technologies

A critical review of four recent works that reflect current conflicts and tensions among feminists regarding new reproductive technologies: In Search of Parenthood by Judith Lasker and Susan Borg; Ethics and Human Reproduction by Christine Overall; Made to Order, Patricia Spallone and Deborah Steinberg, eds. and Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine, Michelle Stanworth, ed. Their positions are evaluated against the background of growing feminist dialogue about the future of reproduction and the bearing of reproductive innovations on such related issues as racism, sexuality, motherhood and abortion.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Celtic Church in Britain. By Leslie Hardinge . Cardinal Contarini at Regensburg By Peter Matheson . Newman and the Common Tradition By John Coulson . Baron Friedrich Von Hügel and the Modernist Crisis in England By Lawrence F. Barmann . The Bible and the Ancient Near East By Roland DE Vaux . Understanding the Old Testament. Edited by O. Jessie Lace . The Making of the Old Testament. Edited by Enid B. Mellor . Exodus . By Ronald E. Clements . Isaiah 1–12: a Commentary By Otto Kaiser . The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic By Klaus Koch . Translated by Margaret Kohl . The Future of the World. By Matthias Rissi . Herod Antipas. By Harold W. Hoehner . Revelation and Theology: An analysis of the Barth-Harnack correspondence of 1923. By H. Martin Rumscheidt . Protestant Theology in Nineteenth Century. Its Background and History. By Karl Barth . Theologie vor Gericht. Der Fall Wilhelm Koch—Ein Bericht. By Max Seckler . L'Esprit Saint et L'Église. By E. Trocmé and others. Ecclesia a Spiritu Santo Edocta. Mélanges théologiques: Hommage à Mgr Gérard Philips. By J. Coppens and others. Forbid Them Not: The Importance and History of General Baptism. By R. R. Osborn . Meaning and Method: Prolegomena to a Scientific Philosophy of Religion and a Scientific Theology. By Anders Nygren . The Ontological Argument. By Jonathan Barnes . The Argument from Design. By Thomas Mc Pherson . Religious Experience. By T. R. Miles . The Concept of Worship. By Ninian Smart . Logical Analysis and Contemporary Theism. By John Donnelly . Knowing the Unknown God. By William Joseph Hill . The Culture of Unbelief. Edited by Rocco Caporale and Antonio Grumelli . Work, Society and Culture. Edited by Vukan Kuic . The Social Reality of Ethics: The Comparative Analysis of Moral Codes. By John H. Barnsley . Agent, Action and Reason. Edited by Robert Brinkley , Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras Praxis and Action. By Richard Bernstein . The Problematic Self in Kierkegaard and Freud. By J. Preston Cole . Histoire et Absolu: essai sur Kierkegaard. By Jacques Colette . Freud: Living and Dying. By Max Schur .     

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Reviews in this article David's Social Drama: A Hologram of Israel's Early Iron Age (The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series 7). By Jim Flanagan. Psalms, Part 1: With an Introduction to Cultic Poetry (The Forms of the Old Testament Literature Volume 14). By Erhard Gerstenberger. The Book of Job (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament). By John E. Hartley. Man's Anger and Cod's Silence: The Book of Job, By Dermot Cox. Ezra-Nehemia (Old Testament Library). By Joseph Blenkins Zephaniah: A Prophetic Drama (Bible and Literature Series 16). By Paul R. House. Apocalyptic and the New Testament. Essays in Honor of J. Louis Martyn (Journal for the Study of the New Testament S Five Studies on Interpretation of Scripture in Luke-Acts (Studiorum Novi Testament! Auxilia 14). By B.J. Koet. The Miracles of Jesus and the Theology of Miracles. By Rene Latourelle. Jesus and the Judaism of His Time. By Irving M. Zeitlin. The Epistle to the Galatians (The New International Commentary on the New Testament). By Ronald Y.K. Fung. Obeying the Truth: A Study of Paul's Ethics in Galatians (Studies of the New Testament and its World). By John Barclay. Ephesians: Power and Magic. The Concept of Power in Ephesians in the Light of its Historical Setting (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 63). By Clinton E. Arnold. Paul the Letter-Writer and the Second Letter to Timothy L'Apocalisse: Ermeneutica, esegesi, teologia (Supplementi alia Rivista Biblica 17). By Ugo Vanni. A History of the Qumran Community: An Investigation (Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 3). By Philip R. Callaway. Portraits of Adam in Early Judaism: From Sirach to 2 Baruch (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 1). By John R. Levison, Pp.255, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1988, £30.00. The Samaritans. Edited by Alan D. Crown. Origen. By Henri Crouzel. Pelagius: A Reluctant Heretic. By B.R. Rees. Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity. By Aline Rousselle. English Society and the Crusade 1216–1307 (Oxford Historical Monographs). By Simon Lloyd. Erasmus: Spiritualia — Enchiridion, De contemptu mundi, De vidua Christiana (Collected Works of Erasmus 66). Edited by John O'Malley. The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald's Altarpiece (California Studies in the History of Art Discovery Series 1). By Ruth Mellinkoff. Ignatianisch: Eigenart und Methode der Gesellschaft Jesu. Edited by Michael Sievernich, S.J., and Günter Switek, S.J. Ignatius Loyola. By Philip Caraman. Scotland Reformed: The Reformation in Angus and the Mearns. By Frank D. Bardgett. Stoicism and St Francis de Sales (Toronto Studies in Theology 44). By William Marceau. A Time to Favor Zion: The Ecology of School Development on the Urban Frontier: Cincinnati 1830–1870. By F. Michael Perko. The Churches and the Third Reich, Vol. 2: The Year of Disillusionment, 1934: Barmen and Rome. By Klaus Scholder, translated by John Bowden. Conscience and Captivity: Religion in Eastern Europe. By Janice Broun. Christ Without Absolutes: A Study of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch. By Sarah Coakley. On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community. Edited by Colin E. Gunton and Daniel W. Hardy. The Coherence of Life Without God Before God: The Problem of Earthly Desires in the Later Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By Terrence Reynolds. Under the Heel of Mary. By Nicholas Perry and Loreto Echeverria. Catholic Cults and Devotions: A Psychological Inquiry. By Michael P. Carroll. Women at the Well: Feminist Perspectives on Spiritual Direction. By Kathleen Fischer. From Silence to Participation: An Insider's View of Liturgical Renewal. By Bernard Botte. The Order of Penitence: Historical Roots and Pastoral Future. By Joseph A. Favazza. Theology and Philosophy. By Ingolf U. Dalferth. Classical Thought (A History of Western Philosophy I). By Terence Irwin. Wisdom, Information and Wonder. By Mary Midgley. The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World. By Anthony O'Hear. Images of Science: Scientific Practice and the Public. Edited by S. J. Doorman. Philosophers of Consciousness. By Eugene Webb. The Mind of Aristotle: A Study in Philosophical Growth. By John M. Rist. Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity. By Mary Louise Gill. Mind and Imagination in Aristotle. By Michael V. Wedin. Aristotle on the Human Good. By Richard Kraut. The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue. By Nancy Sherman. St Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae. A Concise Translation. Edited by Timothy McDermott. The Sermon-Conferences of St Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles' Creed. Edited and translated by Nicholas R. Ayo. Stages on Life's Way. By Søren Kierkegaard, edited and translated by Howard and Edna Hong. Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophic Method. By Charles L. Creegan. Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend. Edited by Deal W. Hudson and Matthew J. Mancini. Ethics and Community (Liberation and Theology 3). By Enrique Dussel, translated by Robert R. Barr. Keyguide to Information Sources in Business Ethics. By Francis P. McHugh, Pp. ix, 173, London, Mansell, 1988. £29.00. To Treat or Not To Treat: Bioethics and the Handicapped Newborn. By Richard C. Sparks. Birthrights: Law and Ethics at the Beginning of Life. Edited by Robert Lee and Derek Morgan. When Did I Begin? Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science. By Norman M. Ford. Jeremiah's Poems of Lament (Historic Texts and Interpreters in Biblical Scholarship 7). By Walter Baumgartner. Ecclesiastes (The New Century Bible Commentary). By R.N. Whybray. (Pp. xxiii, 179, Grand Rapids, Wm B. Eerdmans, and London, Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1989, £6.99. Ecclesiastes (Old Testament Guides). By R.N. Whybray. Plotinus: The Experience of Unity. By Gary M. Gurtler. The Evolution of Medieval Thought. By David Knowles, 2nd edition edited by D.E. Luscombe and C.N.L. Brooke. Jan van Ruusbroec Opera Omnia, 3: Die Geestelike Brulocht. (Studien en Tekstuitgaven van Ons Geestelijk Erf XX,3). Edited by J. Alaerts. Philosophy and Christian Belief. By William Charlton. Twentieth-Century Religious Thought. By John Macquarrie. God, Hope and History: Jürgen Moltmann and the Christian Concept of History. By A.J. Conyers.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy. Edited by Ian T. Ramsey . Evil and the God of Love. By John Hick . Blondel et Teilhard de Chardin, Correspondance Commentée. By Henri de Lubac . The Structure of Behaviour. By Maurice Merleau -Ponty . New Testament Essays. By Raymond E. Brown , S.S. Ideologies. By Patrick Corbett . Worship in Israel. By Hans -Joachim Kraus . Translated by Geoffrey Boswell . The Theology of St John. By Joseph Crehan , S.J. Jesus and the Kingdom. By George Eldon Ladd . Finding the Historical. By James Peter . The Shape of Christology By John Mcntyre . Christology. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer . Translated by John Bowden , with an introduction by Edwin H. Robertson . Theology of the English Reformers. By Philip Edgcumbe Hughes . The Execution of Justice in England: A True, Sincere, and Modest Defense of English Catholics. By William Cecil and William Allen . Edited by Robert M. Kingdon . The Revolution of the Saints. By Michael Walzer . L'Église au temps du Grand Schisme et de la crise conciliaire (1378–1449). By E. Delaruelle , E.-R. Labande and P. Ourliac . John Hus at the Council of Constance. Translated and introduced by M. Spinka . Mission to France 1944–1953, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII. Edited by Don Loris Capovilla . Translated by Dorothy White . The Vatican Council and Christian Unity. A commentary on the Decree on Ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council. By Bernard Leeming , S.J. The Documents of Vatican II. Edited by Walter M. Abbott , S.J. Translations edited by Mgr Joseph Gallagher .     

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The Bible and the Narrative Tradition. Edited by Frank McConnell. Pp.152, Oxford University Press, 1987, £15.00. Haggai, Zechariah 1–8 (Anchor Bible). By Carol L. Meyers and Eric M. Meyers. Pp.xcv, 478, New York, Doubleday, 1987, $20.00. The Qumran Community (Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200, 2). By Michael Knibb. Pp.xi, 275, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £32.50/£12.95. John (Word Biblical Commentary 36). By George R. Beasley-Murray. Pp.ccii, 441, Waco, Texas, Word Books, 1987, no price given. Im Anfang war das Wort: Textlinguistische Studien zum Johannesprolog (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 106). By Michael Theobald. Pp.146, Stuttgart, Katholisches Bibelwerk GmbH, 1983, no price given. Im Anfang war der ‘Johannesprolog’. Das urchristliche Logosbekenntnis die Basis neutestamentlicher und gnostischer Theologie (Biblische Untersuchungen 17). By Peter Hofrichter. Pp.481, Regensburg, Friedrich Pustet, 1986, DM48. Jesu Zeichen im Johannesevangelium (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 26). By Wolgang J. Bittner, Pp.xi, 334, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1987, DM 78. The Christocentric Literary Structure of the Fourth Gospel (Analecta Biblica 117). By George Mlakuzhyil, S.J. Pp.xx, 370, Rome, Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1987, L.45,000. The Hierarchy of Truths according to Yves Congar, O.P. (Analecta Gregoriana 246). By William Henn. Pp.xii, 272, Rome, Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 1987, L.95,000. The Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. By Louis Roberts. Pp.v, 266. Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1987, $36.95. The Wisdom of Science: Its Relevance to Culture & Religion. By Hanbury Brown. Pp.ix, 194, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £20.00/£6.95. A Philosophy of Human Hope. By Joseph J. Godfrey, Pp.xiv, 272, Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1987, no price given. Incarnate Love: Essays in Orthodox Ethics. By Vigen Guroian. Pp.xii, 212, University of Notre Dame Press, 1987, $24.95. On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Edited by Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey. Pp.x, 657, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987, $35.00 (hardback) $24.95 (paperback). Medical Research with Children: Ethics, Law and Practice (Oxford Medical Publications). Edited by Richard H. Nicholson. Pp.xii, 256, Oxford University Press, 1986, £12.50. Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Past and Present Publications). Edited by David Cannadine and Simon Price. Pp.xi, 349, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £25.00. Plato on Justice and Power: Reading Book I of Plato's ‘Republic’. By Kimon Lycos. Pp.ix, 201, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1987, £27.50. Aristotle: the Power of Perception. By Deborah K. W. Modrak. Pp.x, 249, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987, £23.95. The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol.I: Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary. By A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley. Pp.xv, 512, Cambridge University Press, 1987, £35.00/£15.00. Hegel's Critique of Kant. Edited by Stephen Priest. Pp.xii, 229, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, No price given. The Letters of St Cyprian of Carthage, Vol. 3: Letters 55–66 (Ancient Christian Writers 46). Translated and annotated by G.W. Clarke. Pp.vi, 345, New York, Newman Press, 1986, $24.95. St Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems (The Fathers of the Church 75). Translated by D.M. Meehan, OSB. Pp.xiv, 142, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1987, no price given. The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. By Hugh Wybrew. Pp.x.189, London SPCK, 1989, £8.95. Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe. By Joseph H. Lynch. Pp.xiv, 378, Princeton University Press, 1986, £39.00. Excommunication in the Middle Ages. By Elisabeth Vodola. Pp.xiii, 281, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986, £29.95. The Architecture of Solitude: Cistercian Abbeys in Twelfth-Century England. By Peter Fergusson. Pp.xxv, 188 (+ 140 plates), Princeton University Press, 1984, £64.50. Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles. Edited by Christopher Norton and David Park. Pp.xix, 453, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £60.00. Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality). Translated by G.R. Evans, Introduction by Jean Leclerq. Pp.296, Mahwah (NJ), Paulist Press, 1987, $12.95. Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian. By Grace Jantzen. Pp.x, 230. London SPCK, 1987, £8.95. Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation (World Spirituality, Vol.17). Edited by Jill Raitt in collaboration with Bernard McGinn and John Meyendorff, Pp.xxiii, 479, London, SCM Press, 1989, £19.50. Erasmus and the Jews. By Shimon Markish, translated by Anthony Olcott. Pp.viii, 203, Chicago University Press, 1986, £21.25. Hugo Grotius Meletius, sive De iis quae inter Christianos conveniunt epistola. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought Vol.XL). Critical edition with translation, commentary and introduction by G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes. Pp.xix, 191, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1988, 85 guilders. Law, Resistance and the State: The Opposition to Roman Law in Reformation Germany. By Gerald Strauss. Pp.xi, 302. Princeton University Press, 1986, £24.90. Thesaurus Lutheri: Auf der Suche nach neuen Paradigmen der Luther-Forschung. Edited by Tuomo Mannermaa, Anja Ghiselli and Simo Peura. Pp.327, Helsinki, Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft, 1987, no price given.     

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Book Reviews in this article Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times (Society for New Testament Studies, Monograph Series 55). By Howard Clark Kee. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, vol. I: Texts. Edited by Hans Dieter Betz. Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Library of Early Christianity). By Stanley K. Stowers. Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 8). By Douglas E. Oakman. Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus. By H. Falk. Passion Narratives and Gospel Theologies. By Frank J. Matera. Commentaries on Romans 1532–1542. By T.H.L. Parker. Old Testament Priests and the New Priest according to the New Testament. By Albert Vanhoye, translated by J. Bernard Orchard. Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification. By Alister E. McGrath. Theology and the Problem of Evil. By Kenneth Surin. Theology After Wittgenstein. By Fergus Kerr. Karl Barth, A Theological Legacy. By Eberhard Jüngel. Religion and Culture: Essays in Honour of Bernard Lonergan S.J Edited by Timothy P. Fallon and Phillip B. Riley. The Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol 4: Collection. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. The Analogy of Beauty: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Edited by John Riches The Catholicity of the Church. By Avery Dulles. The Formation of Christendom. By Judith Herrin. Weltbild Maximus des Bekenners (Einsiedeln, 1961 [2nd ed.]) or L. Thunberg Lelio Sozzini: Opere. (Studi e testi per la storia religiosa del cinquecento. Vol. 1) Edited by Antonio Rotondò. The French Exiled Clergy in the British Isles after 1789: A Historical Introduction and Working List. By Dominic Aidan Bellenger. The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism. By Lester R. Kurtz. A Jesuit Friendship: Letters of George Tyrrell to Herbert Thurston. Presented by Robert Butterworth. Jewish Spirituality from the Bible through the Middle Ages. Edited by Arthur Green. Temple and Contemplation. By Henry Corbin. Bible and Theology in African Christianity. By John S. Mbiti. The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological Origins. By Michael P. Carroll. The Origins of the Liturgical Year. By Thomas J. Talley. War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin. By Carlos M.N. Eire. Women'S Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development. Edited by Joann Wolski Conn. Parmenides: Being, Bounds and Logic. By Scott Austin. Self-Knowledge in Plato'S ‘Phaedrus’. By Charles L. Griswold, jr. Plato'S ‘Parmenides’: The Conversion of the Soul. By Mitchell H. Miller, jr. The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy. By Hans-Georg Gadamer. Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics. By Stephen Houlgate. The General Will before Rousseau. The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic. By Patrick Riley The Interpretation of Belief: Coleridge, Schleiermacher and Romanticism. Edited by David Jasper. Derrida on the Threshold of Sense. By John Llewelyn. Moral Responsibility. Edited by John Martin Fischer.