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Book reviewed in this article: JCP Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth, Carsten Peter Thiede Europe without Priests?, Jan Kerkhofs (ed.) Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession, Robert Fuller Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil: Prolegomena to a Christian Theology of Evil, Richard Worsley The Times Book of Best Sermons, Ruth Gledhill (ed.) University of Birmingham God in the City: Essays and Reflections from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Urban Theology Group, Peter Sedgewick (ed.) The Philosophy of Religious Language: Sign Symbol and Story, Dan R. Stiver Yes to a Global Ethic, Hans Küng (ed) True to This Earth: Global Challenges and Transforming Faith, Alan Race and Roger Williamson (eds) Angel and Me, Sara Maitland Searching the Scriptures Volume 2: A Feminist Commentary, The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300, Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise, Anthony C. Thiselton, T. & T. Clark The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jiirgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas, Arne Rasmusson The Persistence of Purgatory, Richard K. Fenn     

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

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Books reviewed: Kevin J. Vanhoozer Is There Meaning in This Text? The Bible, the Reader and the Morality of Literary Knowledge Rowan Williams Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement Ray S. Anderson Theological Foundations for Ministry: Selected Readings for a Theology of the Church in Ministry Alastair McKinnon The Kierkegaard Computer Workshop Thomas G. Weinandy Does God Suffer? Oswald Bayer Gott als Autor Zu einer Poietologischen Theologie Gareth Jones Christian Theology: A Brief Introduction. Kathryn Green‐McCreight Feminist Reconstructions of Christian Doctrine: Narrative Analysis and Appraisal. David Brown Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Changel.     

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Thiselton, Anthony C. Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise
Rose, Gillian Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation
Parratt, John Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today
Jenson, Robert W. Essays in Theology of Culture
Goodman, L.E. God of Abraham
Mommaers, Paul and Van Bragt, Jan Mysticism, Buddhist and Christian: Encounters with Jan Van Ruusbroec
Loughlin, Gerard Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology
Arendt, Hannah Love and Saint Augustine
Stock, Brian Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
Bethke, Elshtain, Jean Augustine and the Limits of Politics     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Anne E. Monius, Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community In Tamil-Speaking South India
Joseph Dan, The Heart and the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences
Walter Dietrich and Ulrich Luz (eds), The Bible in a World Context: An Experiment in Contextual Hermeneutics
Roy A. Harrisville and Walter Sundberg, The Bible in Modern Culture: Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs , Second edition
John L. Berquist, Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
William C. Placher, Jesus the Saviour: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Christian Faith
R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Holy Land, Holy Lands, and Christian History
Galia Sabar, Church, State and Society in Kenya: From Mediation to Opposition, 1963–1993
Charles T. Mathewes, Evil and the Augustinian Tradition
Norman Doe, The Law of the Church in Wales
Michael Barnes S.J., Theology and the Dialogue of Religions
Beverley Clack, Sex and Death: A Reappraisal of Human Mortality
Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady and Judith L. Poxon (eds), French Feminists on Religion: A Reader
Kay A. Read and Isabel L. Wollaston (eds), Suffer the Little Children: Urban Violence and Sacred Space
Erica Appelros, God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-realism
Conor Cunningham, Genealogy of Nihilism
Richard L. Fern, Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature
Kenneth Stevenson, Do This: The Shape, Style and Meaning of the Eucharist
Helen Orchard (ed.), Spirituality in Health Care Contexts
Christopher Cocksworth and Rosalind Brown, Being a Priest Today: Exploring Priestly Identity
Nancy Lammers Gross, If You Cannot Preach Like Paul...     

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Books reviewed:
Richard Bauckham, ed. God Will Be All in All: The Eschatology of JÏrgen Moltmann
Gary Dorrien The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology
Michael Jinkins The Church Faces Death: Ecclesiology in a Post-Modern Context
Allan D. Fitzgerald, ed. Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia
David F. Ford Self and Salvation: Being Transformed
David Fergusson Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics
F. LeRon Shults The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology: Wolfhart Pannenberg and the New Theological Rationality.
Rowan Williams On Christian Theology.     

REVIEWS

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

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels , Bruce J. Malina
Resurrection and Discipleship. Interpretive Models, Biblical Reflections, Theological Consequences , Thonvald Lorenzen
The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse. Rhetoric, Society Idelogy , Vermon K. Robbins
Spirituality and the Secular Quest , Peter H. Van Ness (ed.)
Faithful Change. The Personal and Public Challenges of Post-modern Life , James Fowler
From Chaos to Mission - Refounding Religious Life Formation , Gerald A. Arbuckle SM
Dying to be One , David Butler
Interpreting Charismatic Experience , David Middlemiss
Toward a Theology of the Body , Mary T. Prokes, T. &K T. Clark
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688 , Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier (eds)
The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, Vol. I: 1558–1688 , Kenneth Hylson-Smith
Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE-117 CE) , John M. G. Barclay
The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology , Charles Lindholm
German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700–1918 , Nicholas Hope
The Question of Meaning: A Theological and Philosophical Orientation , Gerhard Sauter, trans. and ed. by Geoffrey W. Bromiley
John A. Ryan. Economic Justice. Selections from Distributive Justice and A Living Wage , Harlan R. Beckley (ed.)
Doing Theology for the People of God: Studies in Honour of J. I. Packer , Donald Lewis and Alister McGrath (eds)
Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology , Brian D. Ingraffia
Biblical Theology: Problems and Perspectives. In Honor of J. Christian Beker , Steven J. Kraftchik, Charles D. Myers, Jr., and Ben C. Ollenburger (eds)     

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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)     

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Books reviewed in this article: Justin J. Meggitt, Paul, Poverty and Survival. J. Trebolle Barrera, The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible: an Introduction to the History of the Bible. Bonnie Thurston, Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary. Lewis Ayres and Gareth Jones (eds), Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community. Malcolm Lambert, The Cathars. Jan Bonda, The One Purpose of God: An Answer to the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment. H. Richard Niebuhr, Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings. Michael Northcott (ed.), Urban Theology: A Reader. C. Dale White, Making a Just Peace: Human Rights & Domination Systems. Colin Buchanan, Is the Church of England Biblical? An Anglican Ecclesiology. Darrell L. Guder (ed.), Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Bert Hoedemaker, Secularization and Mission: A Theological Essay. Walter Klaiber, Call and Response: Biblical Foundations of a Theology of Evangelism. Walter Brueggemann & George Stroup (eds), Many Voices, One God: Being Faithful in a Pluralistic World. Michael Root & Risto Saarinen (eds), Baptism and the Unity of the Church. S.M. Heim (ed.), Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism. Yirmiyahu Yovel, Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. M. A. Ryan & T. D. Whitmore (eds), The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses. Rodger Charles SJ, Social Witness and Teaching: The Catholic Tradition from Genesis to Centesimus Annus. Rowena Robinson, Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa. James Luther Adams and Wilson Yates (eds), The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections. C. Gestrich, The Return of Splendor in the World: The Christian Doctrine of Sin and Forgiveness. D. Watts, Religion in Late Roman Britain: Forces of Change. Peter Byrne, The Moral Interpretation of Religion.     

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Books reviewed: Sue Patterson Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age Michael J. McClymond Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards W. Jay Wood Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous Philip Clayton God and Contemporary Science Ian A. McFarland Listening to the Least: Doing Theology from the Outside In C. Stephen Evans Faith Beyond Reason Andrew Bradstock Faith in the Revolution: The Political Theologies of Muentzer and Winstanley Stephen C. Barton, ed. Where Shall Wisdom be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World Jeffrey G. Sobosan Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science, and Cosmology     

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Book reviewed in this article: Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity , Gerd Lüdemann Spitting at Dragons: Towards a Feminist Theology of Sainthood , Elizabeth Stuart Hermeneutics as Theological Prolegomena: A Canonical Approach , Charles J. Scalise Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism , Alastair H. B. Logan, T. & T. Clark Judas - Betrayer or Friend of Jesus? , William Klassen Celibacy: A Way of Loving, Living and Senving , A. W. Richard Sipe, Gill & Macmillan Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism , Grace Jantzen Postmodem Theologies: The Challenge of Religious Diversity , Terence W. Tilley (ed.) On Naming the Present: cod, Hermeneutics and Church , David Tracy The Character of Our Communities: Toward an Ethic of Liberation for the Church , Gloria Albrecht The Future of Anglicanism - Essays on Faith and Order , Robert Hannaford (ed.) Our Lady: The Mother of Jesus in Christian Faith and Devotion , Norman Pittenger The Cross on the Sword Catholic Chaplains in the Forces , Tom Johnstone and James Hagerty, Geoffrey Chapman In Search of the Sacred: Anthropology and the Study of Religions , Clinton Bennett Transforming Practice: Pastoral Theology in an Age of Uncertainty , Elaine Graham Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults , Steve Bruce Global Gods: Exploring the Roles of Religions in Modem Societies , David W. Shenk     

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Books reviewed: Frans Jozef van Beeck, God Encountered: A Contemporary Catholic Systematic Theology, Volume Two/4: The Revelation of the Glory; Part IV/A: The Genealogy of Depravity: Morality and Immorality Nicholas M. Healy, Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical‐Prophetic Ecclesiology Richard Viladesau, Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art and Rhetoric James K. A. Smith, The Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic Clark M. Williamson, Way of Blessing, Way of Life: A Christian Theology Thomas G. Weinandy, Does God Suffer? Michael L. Budde and Robert W. Brimlow, (eds.) The Church as Counterculture Brian S. Hook and R. R. Reno, Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence Geoffrey Wainwright, Is the Reformation Over? Catholics and Protestants at the Turn of the Millennia Paul J. Griffiths, Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion     

SHORT NOTICES

Liberation Theology UK, John Vincent and Chris Rowland (eds) Metaphysical Personalism: An Analysis of Austin Farrer's Metaphysics of Theism, Charles Conti Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism, David Brakke Early Christian Art and Architecture: An Introduction, Guntram Koch Jesus and the Land, Charles R. Page II Psychiatry and Religion, Dinesh Bhugra (ed.) This We Can Say: Talking Honestly about Sex, The Society of Friends Feminist Theological Ethics: A Reader, Lois K. Daly (ed.) All Things are Possible to Believers, Rudolf Schnackenburg New Occasions Teach New Duties? Christian Ethics for Today, Cyril Rodd (ed.), T. & T. Clark Power through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in II Corinthians, Timothy B. Savage Authority and Anglicanism, Stephen Ross White Judaism Transcends Catastrophe: God, Torah and Israel Beyond the Holocaust, Jacob Neusner (ed.)     

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The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuries, Wayne A. Meeks Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction, J. Philip Wogaman Sexual Chaos, Tim Stafford Promise or Pretence? A Christian's Guide to Sexual Morals, A. E. Harvey Church in Black and White, John L. Wilkinson A Tale of Two Missions, Michael Goulder The Buddha and Christ: Explorations in Buddhist and Christian Dialogue, Leo D. Lefebure Living the Mystery: Affirming Catholicism and the Future of Anglicanism, Jeffrey John (ed.) The Anglican Parochial Clergy: A Celebration, Michael Hinton The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark, Robert Hamerton-Kelly Who Would a Teacher Be? Wrestling with Religious Education (Wounded Pilgrim Series), Clare Richards, Darton, Longman & Todd Catholic Social Thought and the New World Order, Oliver F. Williams and John W. Hauck (eds) Can Virtue be Taught?, Barbara Darling-Smith (ed.) The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic ‘Quaestio Disputata’: With Special Emphasis on its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science, Brian Lawn, E. J. Brill The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Bart D. Ehrman The Church: The Universal Sacrament of Salvation, Johann Auer Ace of Freedoms: Thomas Merton's Christ, George Kilcourse Retrieving Fundamental Theology: The Three Styles of Contemporary Theology, Gerald O'Collins     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Christ and Spirit. Spirit-Christology in Trinitaraian Perspective by Ralph Delcolle
Winds of the Spriti: A constructive Christian Theology, Peter C. Hodgson
The Eucharist Makes the Church: Henri de Lubac and john Zizioulas in Dialogue by Paul McParthan
Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology by Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Plurality and Christian Ethics, by Lan S. Markham
Ther fall to Voilence: Original sin in Relational Theology by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religion by Keith Ward
Power & Christian Ethics by James P. Mackey
Mystical Language of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells
Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture by William C. Placher     

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Books reviewed: David Novak, Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory Jean Bethke Elshtain, Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities Gerhard Lohfink, Does God Need the Church? Toward a Theology of the People of God Gerald O'Collins, The Tripersonal God: Understanding and Interpreting the Trinity Timothy P. Jackson, Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity Will Coleman, Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of “Telling the Story” Garrett Green, Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity     

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Books reviewed: Stanley Hauerwas Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified Tyler T. Roberts Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion Michael Fishbane The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology Kevin J. Vanhoozer Is There a Meaning in This Text? Thomas A. Carlson Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God William J. Abraham Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism Mark. A. McIntosh Mystical Theology: The Integrity of Spirituality and Theology Susan K. Wood Spiritual Exegesis and the Church in the Theology of Henri de Lubac Stephen E. Fowl Engaging Scripture: A Model for Theological Interpretation Nicholas Boyle Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney