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Book reviewed in this article:
GOD IN PROCESS THOUGHT: A Study in Charles Hartshorne's Concept of God By Santiago Sia
SCIENCE, REASON AND RELIGION By Derek Stanesby
THE NATURE OF DOCTRINE: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY IN A POSTLIBERAL AGE By George A.
THE CHURCH WITH A HUMAN FACE. A NEW AND EXPANDED THEOLOGY OF MINISTRY. By Edward Schillebeeckx     

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MIDRASH AND LECTION IN MATTHEW, by M. D. Goulder.
THE SECOND GIFT: A Study of Grace, by Edward Yarnold.
CONSCIENCE, by John Donnelly and Leonard Lyons
FREEDOM AND RESENTMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS, by P. F. Strawson. Methuen & Co.
TO HEAVEN WITH SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, the Jewish Path to God, by Lionel Blue.
GENIUS: An Ideology in Literature, by Robert Currie.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN LITERARY HISTORY, edited by Ralph Cohen.
HERESY, CRUSADE AND INQUISITION IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, 1100-1250, by Walter L. Wakefield.
DISCRETION AND VALOUR. Religious conditions in Russia and Eastern Europe, by Trevor Beeson.     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Dorothee Soelle, The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
R. R. Reno, Redemptive Change: Atonement and the Christian Cure of the Soul
Francesca Aran Murphy, The Comedy of Revelation: Paradise Lost and Regained in Biblical Narrative
Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae Ia 75–89
Hent de Vries, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing
Charles Pinches, Theology and Action: After Theory in Christian Ethics
Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Feminist Reconstructions of Christian Doctrine: Narrative Analysis and Appraisal
Gavin D'Costa, Sexing the Trinity: Gender, Culture, and the Divine
Allen Verhey, Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life
Herbert McCabe, God Still Matters
Marguerite Abdul-Masih, Edward Schillebeeckx and Hans Frei: A Conversation on Method and Christology     

SHORT NOTICES

Why God? Thinking Through Faith, Jim Thompson The Mandate of Heaven: The Divine Command and the Natural Order, Michael Keeling, T. & T. Clark The Times Best Sermons of 1996, Ruth Gledhill (ed.) Calendar: Christ's Time for the Church, Laurence Hull Stookey The ‘Obscrurism’ of Light: A Theological Study into the Nature of Light, Iain M. MacKenzie The Beginning and the End of ‘Religion’, Nicholas Lash Clinging to Faith, Peter D. Bishop Walter Benjamin and the Bible, Brian Britt Religion and Rational Theology: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni (eds) The New God-Image: a Study of Jung's Key Letters conceming the Evolution of the Western God-Image, Edward F. Edinger Zeal for Truth and Tolerance, Jan Mili? Lochman Qumran Cave 4 XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266–273) (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XVIII), Joseph Barmgarten (ed.) Mark Pryce, Finding a Voice: Men, Women and the Community of the Church     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article:
N. Wyatt, Religious Texts from Ugarit: The Words of Ilimilku and his Colleagues
H. Stegemann, The Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus
K. Niederwimmer, The Didache, Hermeneia – A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible
Graham Neville, Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism
Marie M. Fortune, Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us
Stephen R. L. Clark, God, Religion and Reality
R. A. Segal, Jung on Mythology: Key Readings
D. E. Cooper & J. A. Palmer (eds), Spirit of the Environment: Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Michael Uhlmann (ed.), Last Rights: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
Philip A. Cunningham & Arthur F. Starr (eds), Sharing Shalom: A Process for Local Interfaith Dialogue between Christians and Jews     

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Book Review in this Articles:
THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, edited by F. L. Cross
THE VIRGINAL CONCEPTION AND BODILY RESURRECTION OF JESUS, by Raymond E. Brown
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? by H. J. Richards
THE THEOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, by W. G. Kümmel
STUDIES IN PAUL'S TECHNIQUES AND THEOLOGY, by Anthony Tyrrell Hanson
THE STORY OF ANGLICAN MINISTRY, by Edward P. Echlin
SOCIAL SECURITY AND SOCIETY, by Victor George
CURRENT ISSUES IN COMMUNITY WORK. A Study by the Community Work Group, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Routledge end Kegan Paul     

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Book reviewed in this article:
R.S, Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God , by D.Z. Phillips, Macmillan
The Methods of Modern Tehology by Paul Avis, Marshall Pickering
Philosophy and Miracle: The Contemporary Debate , By David Basinger and Randall Basinger.
Jesus In Our Western Culture: Mysticism, Ethics and Politics , by Edward Schillebeeckx.
Believer, Christian, Catholic: Three Essays in Fundamental Theology by David Coffey, Catholic Institute of Sydney
English-Speaking justice by George Parkin Grant, Notre Dame
Judaism by Nicholas de Lange, Oxford University
The Making of Modern German Christology from the Enlightenment to Pannenberg , by Alister E. McGrath
Being As Communion by John D. Zizioulas. Darton, Longman
The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God by James S. Cutsinger
Persons and Personality by A. Peacocke & G. Gillett     

SHORT NOTICES

Short Notices:
Mary E. Mills, Images of God in the Old Testament
Tod Linafelt and Timothy K. Beal, God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann
Kari Latvus, God, Anger and Ideology: The Anger of God in Joshua and Judges in Relation to Deuteronomy amd the Priestly Writings (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 279)
Edwin D. Freed, The Stories of Jesus' Birth: A Critical Introduction (The Biblical Seminar 72)
David B. Capes, Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul's Christology (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2 Reihe, 47)
Gerard O'Daly, Platonism Pagan and Christian: Studies in Plotinus and Augustine
Alistair McFayden and Marcel Sarot, Forgiveness and Truth: Explorations in Contemporary Theology     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Story of Israel between Settlement and Exile. By A.D.H. Mayes. Deuteronomic History. By Terence E. Fretheim. Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaism. By Joseph Blenkinsopp. Jesus Son of Man. By Barnabas Lindars. The Message of Mark. By Morna D. Hooker. The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for Paul in Story and Canon. By Dennis Ronald MacDonald. Studies of the Church in History: Essays in Honor of Robert S. Paul on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Morton Davies. Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors. By George A. Kennedy. Cyril of Alexandria: Select Letters. Edited and translated by Lionel R. Wickham. Gregory Palamas: The Triads. Edited with an introduction by John Meyendorff, translation by Nicholas Gendle, preface by Jaroslav Pelikan. John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Translated by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell (with notes by Norman Russell), introduction by Kallistos Ware, preface by Colm Luibheid. Akathistos, Byzantine Hymn to the Mother of God. Translated for chant and choral recitation by Paul M. Addison. John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Translated by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell (with notes by Norman Russell), introduction by Kallistos Ware, preface by Colm Luibheid. Akathistos, Byzantine Hymn to the Mother of God. Translated for chant and choral recitation by Paul M. Addison. The Cistercian Alternative. By Andre Louf. The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By Brian Stock. Politics, Finance and the Church in the Reign of Edward II: Walter Stapledon Treasurer of England. By Mark Buck. The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell, A Case Study. By E.W. Ives. My Dear Peter:‘The Ars Poetica’and Hermeneutics for More's Utopia. By Elizabeth McCutcheon The Sack of Rome, 1527. By André Chastel. The Poet's Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell. By Warren L. Chernaik. The Anglican Spiritual Tradition. By John R.H. Moorman. Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: a Study of the Relationships between Natural Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature. By Barbara J. Shapiro. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain, Vol. 3. Edited by R. Davies, A.R. George and G. Rupp. Evangelicals United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre-Victorian Britain, 1795–1830. By Roger H. Martin. Beethoven and the Voice of God. By Wilfrid Mellers. Developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland 1789–1829. By Christine Johnson. The Sectarian Spirit: Sectarianism, Society, and Politics in Victorian Cotton Towns. By Paul J. Phillips. Revivalism, Social Conscience and Community in the Burned-Over District: The Trial of Rhoda Bement. By Glenn C. Altschuler and Jan M. Saltzgaber. Old Catholics and Anglicans, 1931–1981. Edited by Gordon Huelin. What Ever Happened to Vatican II? By Michael Winter. Oscar Romero: Bishop and Manyr. By James R. Brockman. Catholics in Apartheid Society. Edited by Andrew Prior. Theologie im 20. Jahrhundert: Stand und Aufgaben. Edited by George Strecker. Why Believe in God? By Michael Goulder and John Hick. The Second Christianity. By John Hick. God Among Us: The Gospel Proclaimed. By Edward Schillebeeckx. God Is New Each Moment. By Edward Schillebeeckx. From Christ to God. By David G.A. Calvert. Interpreting Jesus. By Gerald O'Collins. Son of Man and Son of God. By John C. Dwyer. In Quest of Jesus: A Guidebook. By W. Barnes Tatum. Logos-Symbol in the Christology of Karl Rahner. By Joseph H.P. Wong. Christo-Psychology. By Morton T. Kelsey. Sacraments as God's Self-Giving: Sacramental Practice and Faith. By James F. White. Priesthood and Ministry: Ecumenical Research. By Max Thurian. Authority in the Church. Edited by Piet F. Fransen. Papal Infallibility: An Application of Lonergan ‘s Theological Method. Edited by Terry J. Tekippe. Christian Moral Reasoning. By Garth Hallett. Baron Friedrich von Hügel's Philosophy of Religion By James J. Kelly. Three Faces of Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Current Theories of Understanding. By Roy J. Howard. Science Deified and Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture from the Bronze Age to the Beginnings of the Modern Era. By Raymond Olson. On History and other Essays. By Michael Oakeshott. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. By Leo Strauss with an introduction by Thomas L. Pangle. Myth and Thought Among the Greeks. By Jean-Pierre Vernant. The Early Greek Concept of the Soul. By Jan Bremmer. Viraha-Bhakti: The early history of Krsna Devotion in South India. By Friedhelm Hardy. The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton. By Alzina Stone Dale.     

The need to belong can motivate belief in God

The need to belong can motivate belief in God. In Study 1, 40 undergraduates read bogus astrophysics articles "proving" God's existence or not offering proof. Participants in the proof-for-God condition reported higher belief in God (compared to control) when they chronically imagined God as accepting but lower belief in God when they imagined God as rejecting. Additionally, in Study 2 (72 undergraduates), these effects did not occur when participants' belongingness need was satisfied by priming close others. Study 3 manipulated 79 Internet participants' image of God. Chronic believers in the God-is-rejecting condition reported lower religious behavioral intentions than chronic believers in the God-is-accepting condition, and this effect was mediated by lower desires for closeness with God. In Study 4 (106 Internet participants), chronic believers with an accepting image of God reported that their belief in God is motivated by belongingness needs.     

REVIEWS

The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane to the Grave. A Commentary on the Passion Narratives of the Four Gospels, Raymond E. Brown Opening Minds: Some Thoughts on Work with Children and Young People in the Religious Society of Friends, Sue Collins Finding and Following: Talking with Children about God, Helen Oppenheimer Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self and Community in the Slave Mind, Riggins R. Earl Jr The Resurrection of Jesus, Gerd Ludemann The Disabled God: Towards a Liberation Theology of Disability, Nancy L. Eisland Received Wisdom: Reviewing the Role of Tradition in Christian Ethics, Bernard Hoose A History of the Early Church, Norbert Brox Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses, M. Himmelfarb Prophecy and the Apocalyptic Dream: Protest and Promise, D. S. Russell Daniel (Hermeneia Commentaries), J. J. Collins Befriending Our Desires, Philip Sheldrake The Future of Prophetic Christianity: Essays in Honor of Robert McAfee Brown, Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tuily (eds) What is Catholicism? An Anglican Response to the Official Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, David L. Edwards Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffen The Promise of His Theology, Charles Marsh Resurrection: Essays in Honour of Leslie Houlden, Stephen Barton and Graham Stanton (eds) Humanity, Environment and God, Glasgow Centenary Gifford Lectures, Neil Spurway (ed.) Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology, Mary McClintockFulkerson Paul: An Introduction to His Thought, C. K. Barrett Anglicans and Roman Catholics: The Search for Unity, Christopher Hill and Edward Yarnold SJ (eds) Reimagining Denominationalism: Interpretive Essays, Robert Bruce Mullin and Russell E. Richey (eds)     

Existential inertia and the Aristotelian proof

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion - Edward Feser defends the ‘Aristotelian proof’ for the existence of God, which reasons that the only adequate explanation of the...     

Reviews

Reviews in this article: Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate. By Ullica Segerstrale. The Triumph of Sociobiology. By John Alcock. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. 25th Anniversary Edition. By Edward O. Wilson Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion. By David Ray Griffin Reductionism: Analysis and the Fullness of Reality. By Richard H. Jones Paths from Science towards God: The End of All Our Exploring. By Arthur Peacocke     

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The Philosophy of Leibniz by Benson Mates
Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt: The British Naturalist Tradition in Wilkins, Hume, Reid and Newman by M. Jamie Ferreira
Formative Writings 1929–1941 by Simone Weil, edited by Dorothy Tuck McFarland and Wilhelmina van Ness
Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition by Jean Hampton
Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin
Needs by Garrett Thomson
The Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig     

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Colin E. Gunton Yesterday and Today: A Study of Continuities in Christology, xi+228pp. London. Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd. 1983. $9.50. Gerd Theissen Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach Translated by John Bowden from the German, SCM Press 1984 L5.95 Vincent Brümmer What Are We Doing When We Pray?, vi + 138pp. SCM Press 1984. Price $5.95 (paperback) Thomas F. Tracy God, Action and Embodiment, xix + 184pp. Eerdmans 1984. $10.80.     

Atheists Become Emotionally Aroused When Daring God to Do Terrible Things

We examined whether atheists exhibit evidence of emotional arousal when they dare God to cause harm to themselves and their intimates. In Study 1, the participants (16 atheists, 13 religious individuals) read aloud 36 statements of three different types: God, offensive, and neutral. In Study 2 (N = 19 atheists), 10 new stimulus statements were included in which atheists wished for negative events to occur. The atheists did not think the God statements were as unpleasant as the religious participants did in their verbal reports. However, the skin conductance level showed that asking God to do awful things was equally stressful to atheists as it was to religious people and that atheists were more affected by God statements than by wish or offensive statements. The results imply that atheists' attitudes toward God are ambivalent in that their explicit beliefs conflict with their affective response.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article
A G roup F actor A nalysis of the A djustment Q uestionnaire . By R. C. Perry.
T hree E ssays on S ex and M arriage . By Edward Westermarck.
T he S cience of H uman R eproduction . By H. M. Parshley.
S ex E fficiency T hrough E xercises . By Th. H. van de Velde.
E ncyclopedia of S exual K nowledge . By A. Costler, A. Willy, and others. Under the Editorship of Norman Haire.
R hythm of L ife . By Sofie Lazarsfeld.
E n S jukdom, som B estraffas ; E n S tudiei H omosexualitetens P sykofysik . [A Disease Which Is Punished: A Study in the Psycho-Physics of Homosexuality.] By Dr. Gunnar Nycander.
P sychotherapeutische P raxis : A Quarterly for Applied Medical Psychotherapy. Published by Psychotherapeutische Praxis, Wien-Leipzig-Bern, 1934.     

Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God

Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true, the extent to which one believes in God may be influenced by one's more general tendency to rely on intuition versus reflection. Three studies support this hypothesis, linking intuitive cognitive style to belief in God. Study 1 showed that individual differences in cognitive style predict belief in God. Participants completed the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005), which employs math problems that, although easily solvable, have intuitively compelling incorrect answers. Participants who gave more intuitive answers on the CRT reported stronger belief in God. This effect was not mediated by education level, income, political orientation, or other demographic variables. Study 2 showed that the correlation between CRT scores and belief in God also holds when cognitive ability (IQ) and aspects of personality were controlled. Moreover, both studies demonstrated that intuitive CRT responses predicted the degree to which individuals reported having strengthened their belief in God since childhood, but not their familial religiosity during childhood, suggesting a causal relationship between cognitive style and change in belief over time. Study 3 revealed such a causal relationship over the short term: Experimentally inducing a mindset that favors intuition over reflection increases self-reported belief in God.