New Books on Darwinism Look at the Religious and Rhetorical Aspects of Evolutionary Theory

Darwin's Proof: The Triumph of Religion Over Science , Cornelius Hunter, Brazos Press 2003 (1-58743-056-8), pp. 168, Hb $17.99
Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design , Thomas Woodward, Baker Books 2003 (0-8010-6443-0), pp. 303, Hb $19.99     

Once More . . .

The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings , Third Edition, Bart D. Ehrman, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-515462-2), pp. xxxvi + 506, Pb £21.99
A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages , Walter Ullmann with a new introduction by George Garnett. Routledge 2003 (0-415-30227-7), pp. xix + 339, Pb $19.99
Showing of Love , Julian of Norwich, translated by Julia Bolton Holloway, DLT 2003 (0-232-52503-X), pp. xxxiv + 133, Pb £9.95
The Encyclopedia of Christianity , Volume 3 (J-O), Erwin Fahlbusch et al. , Eerdmans 2003 (0-8028-2415-3) / Brill 2003 (90-04-12654-6), pp. xxix + 918, Hb £65/$100
Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and its Legacy , Revised Edition, Richard L. Rubenstein and John K. Roth (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22353-2), pp. xi + 499, Pb $29.95     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
The Major World Religions : An Introduction with Texts , T. Patrick Burke, Second Edition, Blackwell 2004 (1-4051-1049-X), pp. xix + 380, Pb £17.99/$34.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Biblical World , two volumes, John Barton (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0-415-34954-0), Hb £45 Reviewed by Deryn Guest University of Birmingham
Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 1 : The Christbook (Matthew 1–12) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-1118-3), pp. xlviii + 604, Hb £34.95/$45 Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 2 : The Churchbook (Matthew 13–18) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2670-9), pp. xxxii + 854, Hb £34.95/$45 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Religion in the Medieval World , Bernard Hamilton, Second Edition, Arnold Publishers 2003 (0-340-80839-X), pp. ix + 196, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Stephen Morris New York
A History of the Popes 1830–1914 , Owen Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0-19-926286-1), pp. x + 614, Pb £25 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
Religion and American Culture : A Reader , David G. Hackett (ed.), Second Edition, Routledge 2003 (0-415-94273-X), pp. xvi + 550, Pb £22.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett The College of Saint Rose, New York
Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue : Black Theology in the Slave Narrative , Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings (eds), Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22521-7), pp. xvi + 205, Pb $24.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India , M.N. Srinivas, Oxford University Press 2003 [Clarendon Press 1952] (0‐19‐5659744), pp. 279, Hb £20 Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah , Peter Schäfer, Princeton University Press 2002 (0‐691‐09068‐8), pp. xviii + 306, Hb £19.95 Judaism When Christianity Began: A Survey of Belief and Practice , Jacob Neusner, Westminster John Knox Press 2002 (0‐664‐22527‐6), pp. vii + 202, Pb £17.99 Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism , Omid Safi (ed.), Oneworld 2003 (1‐85168‐316‐X), pp. xi + 351, Pb £16.99 Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel , S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐82646‐224‐3), pp. x + 188, Hb £50 The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible , David M. Carr, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515652‐8), pp. x + 212, Hb £17.99 In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future , Craig C. Hill, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6090‐7), pp. viii + 229, Pb £11.99 John for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1–10 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05302‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £8.99 John for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 11–21 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05520‐3), pp. xii + 188, Pb £8.99 Paul for Everyone, The Prison Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05303‐0), pp. xi + 227, Pb £8.99 Dimensions of Baptism: Biblical and Theological Studies , Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6203‐0), pp. xvi + 401, Hb £80 The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered , Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515808‐3), pp. x + 165, Hb £30 Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Crisis of Culture , George Pattison, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐01042‐X), pp. xiv + 257, Pb £17.95 Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love , Amy Laura Hall, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐89311‐9), pp. xi + 222, Pb £15.95 Literature and Religion in Mid‐Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot , Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (0‐333‐99337‐3), pp. ix + 221, Cloth £42.50 Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards , Douglas A. Sweeney, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515428‐2), pp. xi + 255, £35 Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States , Dan McKanan, Oxford University Press 2002 (019‐514‐5321), pp. viii + 294, Hb £40 Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II , Tracey Rowland, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐30527‐6), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £18.99 The Friend of the Bridegroom: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner , Sergius Bulgakov, Translated by Boris Jakim, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4979‐2), pp. xi + 190, Pb £19.99/$28 Confessing and Commending the Faith: Historic Witness and Apologetic Method , Alan P.F. Sell, University of Wales Press 2002 (0‐7083‐1747‐2), pp. xi + 550, Hb £45 Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition , D. G. Hart, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2615‐6), pp. 261, Pb $24.99 In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminishing Christianity , R. R. Reno, Brazos 2002 (1‐58743‐033‐9), pp. 208, Pb $15.99 True Religion , Graham Ward, Blackwell Manifestos, Blackwell Publishing 2003 (0‐631‐22174‐3), pp. ix + 168, Pb £12.99 Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World , David Herbert, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1339‐9), pp. x + 322, Pb. £16.99 Faith‐Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik , Douglas Johnston (ed.), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐516089‐4), pp. xxi + 270, Hb £19.99 Holiness , John Webster, SCM 2003 (0‐334‐02895‐7), pp. 116, Pb £12.99 Creation , Hans Schwarz, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6066‐4), pp. xii+ 254, Pb £20 God and the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Eschatological Doctrine of God , Christiaan Mostert, T. & T. Clark 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08850‐2), pp. xv + 262, Pb £14.99 Divine Action and Modern Science , Nicholas Saunders, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐52416‐4), pp. xviii + 234, Pb £16.95 Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value , Willem B. Drees (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐29061‐9), pp. xv + 341, Pb £14.99/$24.95 Suffering, Death, and Identity , Robert N. Fisher, Daniel T. Primozic, Peter A. Day and Joel A. Thompson (eds), Value Inquiry Book Series , Vol. 135, Robert Ginsberg and Peter A. Redpath (eds), Rodopi 2002 (90‐420‐1173‐4), pp. 210, Pb $40 Identity , Vernon White, SCM Press 2002 (0‐334‐02890‐6), pp. x + 176, Pb £9.99 Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality , David Fontana, BPS and Blackwell 2003 (Hb 1‐40510‐805‐3, Pb 1‐40510‐806‐1), pp. ix + 260, Hb £50, Pb £15.99 Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity , Richard A. Cohen and James L. Marsh (eds), SUNY 2002 (0‐7914‐5190‐9), pp. xiv + 239, Pb £15 The Naked Parish Priest: What Priests Really Think They’re Doing , Stephen H. Louden and Leslie J. Francis, Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6798‐9), pp. viii + 232, Pb £14.99 Your Word Is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together , Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐0508‐6), pp. x + 168, Pb £14.99/$20 Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education. A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Developments in Evangelical Theological Education , Bernard Ott, Regnum Books International 2001 (1‐870345‐14‐2), pp. xxvii + 382, Pb £14.99 Key Texts in American Jewish Culture , Jack Kugelmass (ed.), Rutgers University Press 2003 (0‐8135‐3221‐3), pp. vii + 308, Pb $24 Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy: Through a Glass Darkly , Paul Coates, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1585‐5), pp. 217, Hb £47.50     

Joined-up Thomism and the 'Second Quest' for Trinitarian Renewal

Book reviewed:
Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology , Matthew Levering, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1-4051-1733-8; Pb 1-4051-1734-6), pp. x + 254, Hb £55/$61.95, Pb £19.99/$32.95     

An American Carl Schmitt: Lee Harris on the Nature and Purpose of Enemies

Book reviewed:
Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History , Lee Harris, Free Press 2004 (0-7432-5749-9), pp. 232, Hb $26     

Recent Books in Barth Studies

Books reviewed:
Barth on the Descent into Hell: God, Atonement and the Christian Life , David Lauber, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3341-1), pp. vii + 186, Hb £40
Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth , John Yocum, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3322-5), pp. vii + 200, Hb £45
For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial Theology , George Hunsinger (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2699-7), pp. vi + 214, Pb £24.99
The Ascension in Karl Barth , Andrew Burgess, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3874-X), pp. viii + 209, Hb £47.50     

Short Notices

Shamanism: A Reader , Graham Harvey (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐25330‐6), pp. 461, Pb £17.99 Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology , edited and translated by Lawrence M. Wills, Oxford University Press 2002 (Hb 0‐19‐515141‐0; Pb 0‐19‐515142‐9), pp. x + 298, Hb £40.50, Pb £20 4QPesher Nahum: A Critical Commentary , Gregory L. Doudna, Sheffield Academic Press 2001, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 35, Copenhagen International Series 8 (1‐84127‐156‐X), pp. 813, Hb £95 Copper Scroll Studies , George J. Brooke and Philip R. Davies (eds), Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 40, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6055‐0), pp. xvi + 344, Hb £95 Jesus in his Jewish Context , Geza Vermes, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02915‐5), pp. x + 198, Pb £12.99 The New Testament: History, Literature, Religion , Gerd Theissen, T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐567‐08948‐7, Pb, 0‐567‐08949‐5), pp. xii + 206, Hb £40, Pb £12.99 Mary Magdalene: Beyond the Myth , Esther de Boer, Translated by John Bowden, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02690‐3) pp. xi + 147, Pb £12.99 Slave of All: The Paradox of Authority and Servanthood in the Gospel of Mark , Narry F. Santos, JSNTS Series 237, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐62251), pp. xii + 337, Hb £65 An Introduction to the New Testament Apocrypha , Fred Lapham, T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐8264‐6978‐7, Pb 0‐8264‐6979‐5), pp. ix + 193, Hb £70, Pb £14.99 The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. Robert Louis Wilken, Yale University Press 2003 (0‐300‐09708‐5), pp. xxii + 368, Pb £22.50 Communication and the Gospel , John Holdsworth, Darton, Longman & Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52488‐2), pp. xii + 119, Pb £8.95 From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural , Lynn Schofield Clark, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515609‐9), pp. xii + 292, Hb £20 Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture , Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08807‐3), pp. xv + 407, Pb £17.99 Introducing Christianity , Sally Bruyneel and Alan G. Padgett, Orbis Books 2003 (1‐57075‐395‐4), pp. xi + 164, Pb $18 Problems in Theology 1, Creation: A Reader , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08977‐0), pp. vii + 119, Pb £12.99 Problems in Theology 2, Evil: A Reader , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08975‐0), pp. viii + 112, Pb £12.99 The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology , Kevin Vanhoozer (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12733‐2), pp. xv + 295, Pb £15.95/$23 Apostolicity and Unity: Essays on the Porvoo Common Statement , Ola Tjørhom (ed.), Eerdmans 2003 (2‐8254‐1375‐5), pp. xii + 271, Pb £18.90/$30 Signs amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History , Lesslie Newbigin, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0989‐9), pp. xiv + 121, Pb £10.99/$15 The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation , John B. Thomson, Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3394‐2), pp. x + 245, Hb £49.50 The Resurrection of God Incarnate , Richard Swinburne, Oxford University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐19‐925745‐0, Pb 0‐19‐925746‐9), pp. vi + 224, Hb £45, Pb £16.99 Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy , Robert Miner, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27698‐5), pp. xvi + 166, £17.99 A Political Theology of Nature , Peter Scott, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐521‐64165‐9, Pb 0‐521‐52717‐1), pp. xiii + 275, Hb £47.50, Pb £17.95 Re‐ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics , Celia Deane‐Drummond, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Robin Grove‐White (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (Hb 0‐567‐08896‐0, Pb 0‐567‐08878‐2), pp. xiv + 368, Hb £50, Pb £17.99 Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy , Paul F. Knitter and Chandra Muzaffar (eds), Orbis Books 2002 (1‐57075‐446‐2), pp. xiv + 193, Pb $20 Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What To Do About It , Don S. Browning, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1112‐4), pp. xiv + 292, Pb £21.99/$30 Spiritual Caregiving as Secular Sacrament: A Practical Theology for Professional Caregivers , Ray S. Anderson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003 (1‐84310‐746‐5), pp. 192, Pb £15.95/$24.95 Growing Old in Christ , Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador, and David Cloutier (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4607‐6), pp. x + 310, Pb £17.99/$24 Psychotherapy and Spirituality , Agneta Schreurs, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2002 (1‐85302‐975‐0), pp. 313, Pb £17.95/$26.95 Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation? , Amin Saikal, Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (1‐4039‐0358‐1), pp. x + 171, Pb £13.99 Gender, Politics, and Islam , Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith A. Howard (eds), University of Chicago Press 2002 (0‐226‐73428‐5), pp. 354, Hb $39 Searching for God in Godforsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death , Hubert G. Locke, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐6084‐2), pp. x + 109, Pb £12.99/$18     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Interfaith Pilgrims: Living Truths and Truthful Living , Swarthmore Lecture, 2003, Eleanor Nesbitt, Quaker Books 2003 (0‐85245‐347‐7), pp. 124, Pb £8 Learning from Other Faiths , Hermann Häring, Janet Martin Soskice and Felix Wilfred (eds), Concilium 2003/4, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03075‐7), pp. 141, Pb £9.95 A New Introduction to Islam , Daniel Brown, Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐21604‐9), pp. xv + 269, Pb £14.99/$27.95 Islam in Context: Past, Present and Future , Peter G. Riddell and Peter Cotterell, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2627‐X), pp. 231, Pb $17.99 Understanding Old Testament Ethics: Approaches and Explorations , John Barton, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22596‐9), pp. xi + 212, Pb £17.99 Jesus Remembered , Volume I of Christianity in the Making , James D.G. Dunn, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐3931–2), pp. xvii + 1019, Hb £39.95 New Creation in Paul's Letters and Thought , Moyer V. Hubbard, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 119, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81485‐5), pp. xiii + 293, Hb £45/$60 Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles , Karl Olav Sandnes, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 120, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐81535‐5), pp. xiv + 318, Hb £45/$60 Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark , Marvin Meyer, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐409‐4), pp. vii + 199, Pb £16.99/$23 Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative , Melanie J. Wright, AAR Cultural Criticism Series, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515226‐3), pp. 172, Hb £30 The Theology of St Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation , Thomas Weinandy and Daniel A. Keating (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8900‐2), pp. xv + 269, Hb £35 The Commentaries of Origen and Jerome on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians , Ronald E. Heine, Oxford University Press 2002 (0‐1992‐24551‐7), pp. xii + 297, Hb £50 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–2000 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2001 (0‐664‐22354‐0), pp. xxvi + 494, Pb £30 The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 2000–1950 , Gary Dorrien, Westminster/John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22355‐9), pp. xx + 666, Pb £30 Adventures in Orthodoxy: The Marvels of the Christian Creed and the Audacity of Belief , Dwight Longenecker, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐406‐0), pp. xx + 170, Pb £9.99 Essentials of Christian Theology , William C. Placher (ed.), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22395‐8), pp. x + 422, Pb $29.95 Postmodern Christianity , John W. Riggs, Trinity Press International 2003 (1‐56338‐364‐0), pp. xi + 174, Pb $19 Gateways to Dogmatics: Reasoning Theologically for the Life of the Church , Gerhard Sauter, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4700‐5), pp. xx–310, Pb £12.99 A Theology of Engagement , Ian S. Markham, Blackwell 2003 (Hb 0‐631‐23601‐5, Pb 0‐631‐23602‐3), pp. x + 250, Hb £55/$64.95, Pb £16.99/29.95 Bernard Lonergan: An Introductory Guide to Insight, Terry J. Tekippe, Paulist Press 2003 (0‐8091‐4150‐7), pp. xii + 110, Pb $16.95 The Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II's ‘Gospel of the Body’ , Christopher West, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐600‐4), pp. xix + 530, Pb £20 Impossible God: Derrida's Theology , Hugh Rayment‐Pickard, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0597‐3), pp. x + 185, Hb £40 Rationality and Religious Theism , Joshua L. Golding, Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1568‐5), pp. 142, Pb £15.99/$29.95 Does God Have a Future? A Debate on Divine Providence , Christopher A. Hall and John Sanders, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2604‐0), pp. 222, Pb $17.99 Infinitely Beloved: The Challenge of Divine Intimacy , Brian Thorne, Darton, Longman & Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52507‐2), pp. x + 92, Pb £8.95 Cosmic Grace and Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew , Father John Chryssavgis (ed.), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐2169‐3), pp. xii + 351, Hb £27.95 The New Anti‐Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice , Philip Jenkins, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515480‐0), pp. vii + 258, Hb £14.99 Politics and Religion , Steve Bruce, Polity Press 2003 (Hb 0‐7456‐2819‐2, Pb 0‐7456‐2820‐6), pp. xii + 292, Hb £50 / Pb £15.99 Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation , Douglas V. Henry, Bob R. Agee (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1398‐4), pp. xii + 175, Pb £12.99/$18 The Foundation of Hope: Turning Dreams into Reality , R. John Elford (ed.), Liverpool University Press 2003 (0‐85323‐519‐8), pp. xii + 228, Hb £22.50 God's Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature , R.J. Berry, T. & T. Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08915‐0), pp. xvi + 286, Hb £17.99 The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age , Norman Wirzba, Oxford University Press (0‐19‐515716‐8), pp. xiv + 240, Hb £25 Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology , Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs (eds), Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐064‐9), pp. 256, Pb $19.99 The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle‐earth , Ralph C. Wood, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22610‐8), pp. xi + 169, Pb $14.95 Preaching Mark in Two Voices , Brian K. Blount and Gary W. Charles, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22393‐1), pp. xiii + 273, Pb £15.99 The Case for Humanism: An Introduction , Lewis Vaughn and Austin Dacey, Rowman and Littlefield 2003 (0‐7425‐1393‐9), pp. ix + 223, Pb £20.95     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture – Past and Present , John M. Court (ed.), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (ISBN 0-8264-6658-3), pp. xii + 334, Pb £35 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Psalms in Israel's Worship , Sigmund Mowinckel, The Biblical Resource Series, translated by D.R. Ap-Thomas, with a new Foreword by James L. Crenshaw, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2816-7), pp. xliv + 303, Hb £19.99/$40 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7 , Will Deeming, Second Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-3989-4), pp. xxii + 271, Pb £19.99 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of Durham     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Divine Love in Islamic Mysticism: The Teachings of Al‐Ghazali and Al‐Dabbagh , Binyamin Abrahamov, RoutledgeCurzon Sufi Series, RoutledgeCurzon 2003 (0‐7007‐1607‐6), pp. 190, Hb £65 Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text , Ellen F. Davies (Translation and notes) and Margaret Adams Parker (woodcuts), Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0‐664‐22374‐5), pp. xxiii + 123, Hb £12.99 A Woman’s Place is in the House: Royal Women of Judah and their Involvement in the House of David , Elna K. Solvang, JSOTS Series 349, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6213‐8), pp. xiii + 188, Hb £50 A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos , Karl Möller, JSOT Series 372, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6568‐4), pp. xiv + 352, Hb £65 Jesus the Pharisee , Hyam Maccoby, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02914‐7), pp. x + 228, Pb £16.99 Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel: A Study of Ancient Reading Techniques , Stan Harstine, JSNTS Series 229, London, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6026‐7), pp. viii + 194, Hb £50 A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Meaning and Function of the Old Testament in Revelation 21.1–22.5 , D. Mathewson, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint, JSNTS Series 238 (0 8264 6226 X), pp. xii + 282, Hb £60 From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and to the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 , Rachel Fulton, Columbia University Press 2002 (0‐231‐12550‐X), pp. 676, Hb £28/$40 The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social‐Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity , Magnus Zetterholm, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐29896‐2), pp. xiv + 272, Hb £50 Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary , B.R. Gaventa and C.L. Rigby (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2002 (0‐664‐22438‐5), pp. xii + 158, Pb £12.99 Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition , Jean‐Yves Leloup, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐537‐7), pp. viii + 141, Pb £9.99 Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078–1079: Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours , Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12685‐9), pp. xi + 197, £13/$18.50 Ignatius: Sharing the Pilgrim Story. A Reading of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola , Peter Du Brul SJ, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐536‐9), pp. lxxii + 206, Pb £15.99 Religion and the Cold War , Dianne Kirby (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (0‐333‐99398‐5), pp. xiii + 245, Hb £45 Religion in Late Modernity , Robert Cummings Neville, State University of New York Press 2002 (0‐7914‐5424‐X), pp. xv + 284, Pb $22.95 The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture , Dee E. Andrews, Princeton University Press 2002, pp. xv + 367, Hb £15.95 Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion , Anthony B. Pinn, Fortress Press 2003 (0‐8006‐3601‐5), pp. xiv + 274, Pb $22 Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers , Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513376‐5), pp. x + 194, Hb £19.99 Thinking Through Myths: Philosophical Perspectives , Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), Routledge 2002 (0‐415‐25461‐2), pp. xi + 217, Pb £15.99 Belief Beyond Boundaries: Wicca, Celtic Spirituality and the New Age , Joanne Pearson (ed.), Ashgate, in association with The Open University, 2002 (0‐7546‐0820‐4), pp. ix + 339, Pb £13.99 Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Catholic Voices , Helen Bergin and Susan Smith (eds), Accent Publications 2002 (0‐9583454‐4‐9), pp. 277, Pb NZ$35 Believing in Nothing and Something: An Approach to Humanist Beliefs and Values , Geoff Heath, Bowland 2003 (0‐9544221‐0‐4), pp. 134, Pb £11.95 Who are the Christians in the Middle East? , Betty Jane Bailey and J. Martin Bailey, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1020‐9), pp. xiii + 215, Pb £14.99/$20 The Theology of Reconciliation: Essays in Biblical and Systematic Theology , Colin Gunton (ed.), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8889‐8), pp. vi + 177, Hb £25 Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought. Essays in Honor of John W. de Gruchy , Lyn Holness and Ralf K. Wüstenberg (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐3916‐9) / David Philip Publishers 2002 (0‐86486‐605‐4), pp. xxvi + 286, Pb £28.99/$40 Incarnation and Physics: Natural Science in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance , Tapio Luoma, Oxford University Press 2002 (0‐19‐515189‐5), pp. viii + 230, Hb £35 Shelter from the Storm: Caring for the Victims of Kosovo , Bruce D. Thompson, SCM Press 2003 (0‐7162‐0569‐6), pp. xvi + 121, Pb £9.99     

Reviews

Myth and History in the Bible , Giovanni Garbini, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6260‐X), pp. viii + 149, Hb £60 Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity , Douglas Harink, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐041‐X), pp. 283, Pb $23.99 The Church in Antioch in the First Century CE: Communion and Conflict , Michelle T. Slee, JSNTS Series 244, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐826‐46683‐4), pp. xiii + 214, Hb £60 The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient Novel: Rewriting the Past , Christine M. Thomas, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐512507‐X), pp. xiii + 186, Hb £35 East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church. From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence , Henry Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐926457‐0), pp. x + 306, Hb £60 Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life , Nicholas M. Healy, Great Theologians Series, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐1471‐9, Pb 0‐7546‐1472‐7), pp. xiv + 168, Hb £47.50, Pb £16.99 Anglicans and Orthodox: Unity and Subversion 1559–1725 , Judith Pinnington, Forward by Rowan Williams, Introduction by Kallistos Ware, Gracewing 2003 (0‐8006‐3127‐7), pp. xxx +260, Pb £14.99 Abraham! Abraham! Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac , Jerome I. Gellman, Ashgate 2003 (0 7546 1679 7), pp. vii + 125, Pb £16.99 Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888–1945 , Daisy L. Machado, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐5152239), pp. xiii + 151, Hb £25/$39.95 Jews and Christians: People of God , Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0507‐8), pp. ix + 198, Pb £12.99/$18 John Hick: An Autobiography , John Hick, Oneworld Publications 2003 (1‐85168‐312‐7), pp. viii + 328, Hb £19.99/$29.95 Rowan Williams: An Introduction , Rupert Shortt, DLT 2003 (0‐232‐52490‐4), pp. x + 133, Pb £7.95 Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity , Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald and Jeremy Caddick (eds), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6699‐0), pp. xiii + 205, £14.99 Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 , Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia (eds), Duke University Press 2003 (0‐8223‐3221‐3), pp. viii + 226, Pb £16.95 Liturgy in a Postmodern World , Keith Pecklers SJ (ed.), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6412‐2). pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99 The Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Demands on Hermeneutics , Jeffrey F. Keuss (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0767‐4), pp. vii + 142, Hb £40 Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments , Ted Peters, Robert John Russell and Michael Welker (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐0519‐1), pp. xvii + 326, Pb £27.99/$39 Faith and Philosophy: The Historical Impact , D.G. Leahy, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3120‐6), pp. xiii + 180, Pb £16.99 God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science , Neil A. Manson (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐26344‐1), pp. xvi + 376, Pb £15.99 Religious Education between Modernization and Globalization: New Perspectives on the United States and Germany , Richard R. Osmer and Friedrich Schweitzer, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐1284‐8), pp. xix + 319, Pb £28.99/$40 Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology , Albert Borgmann, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐058‐4), pp. 144, Pb $14.99 Christian Microenterprise Development: An Introduction , David Bussau and Russell Mask, Regnum 2003 (1‐870345‐28‐2), pp. xiii + 142, Pb £9.99 Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader , Lorne L. Dawson (ed.), Blackwell 2003 (1‐4051‐0180‐6), pp. viii + 297, Pb £17.99/$29.95 Hb £55/$64.95     

History of the United Church of Christ

Book reviewed:
The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ , Barbara Brown Zikmund (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995–2005. Vols I–VII
Ancient and Medieval Legacies, Vol. I , Richard Ulrich (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1995 (0-8298-1064-1), 583 pp., $60.00
Reformation Roots, Vol. II , John Payne (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1997 (0-8298-1143-5), xii + 683 pp., $60.00
Colonial and National Beginnings, Vol. III , Charles Hambrick-Stowe (ed.), Pilgrim Press 1998 (0-8298-1113-3), x + 518 pp., $60.00
Consolidation and Expansion, Vol. IV , Elizabeth Nordbeck, Lowell Zuck (eds), Pilgrim Press 1999 (0-8298-1110-9), xvi + 668 pp., $60.00
Outreach and Diversity, Vol. V , Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Lawrence Jones, Robert Schneider (eds), Pilgrim Press 2000 (0-8298-1111-7), xiv + 536 pp., $60.00
Growing Toward Unity, Vol. VI , Elsabeth Slaughter Hilke (ed.), Pilgrim Press 2001 (0-8298-1112-5), xvi + 744 pp., $70.00
United and Uniting, Vol. VII , Frederick Trost, Barbara Brown Zikmund (eds), Pilgrim Press 2005 (0-8298-1113-3), xx + 828 pp., $70.00     

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     

Journeys of Hope: Tragedy, Time and the Desert

Book reviewed:
The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture , David Jasper, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1-4051-1974-8, Pb 1-4051-1975-6), pp. xix + 208, Hb £50, Pb £15.99
Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope: Literature, Theology and Sociology in Conversation , Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn, Rachel Muers, Brian Phillips and Richard E. Sturm, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-0765-8), pp. xxvii + 157, Hb £45     

Short Notices

Books reviewed: Legitimating New Religions , James R. Lewis, Rutgers University Press 2003 (0‐8135‐3324‐4), pp. viii + 272, Pb $21.95 Dictionary of Buddhism , Damien Keown with contributions from Stephen Hodge, Charles Jones and Paola Tinti, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐860560‐9), pp. x + 357, Hb £20/$35 The Bible: The New Revised Standard Version Cross‐Reference Edition, with Apocrypha; Anglicized Text , Managing Editor Martin H. Manser, with John Barton (for the Old Testament) and Bruce Metzger (for the Apocrypha and New Testament), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐100016‐7), pp. xxii +1,520, Hb £35 When the Great Abyss Opened: Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah's Flood , J. David Pleins, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515608‐0), pp. xi + 242, Hb £20 Exploring the Old Testament, Volume 3: The Psalms and Wisdom Literature , Ernest Lucas, SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05431‐2), pp. xvi + 207, Pb £16.99 Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? , William G. Dever, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐0975‐8), pp. xi + 268, Pb £17.95 Paul, Luke and the Graeco‐Roman World: Essays in Honour of Alexander J. M. Wedderburn , Alf Christophersen, Carsten Claussen, Jörg Frey and Bruce Longenecker (eds), Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 217, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (1‐84127‐259‐0), pp. xvi + 290, Hb £65 God and History in the Book of Revelation: New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and Moltmann , Michael Gilbertson, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐82466‐4), Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 124, pp. xiii + 235 Hb £47.50/$65 From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed , William H. C. Frend, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02908‐2), pp. vii + 212, Pb £12.99 Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology: A Study of Reason, Will, and Grace , Nigel Voak, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐926039‐7), pp. xviii + 348, Hb £50/$85 Nice and Hot Disputes: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Seventeenth Century , Philip Dixon, Continuum 2003 (0‐5670‐8816‐2), pp. xi– 236, Hb £40 Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages , Ursula King, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐32652‐4), pp. v + 270, Pb £13.99 The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology , Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐22342‐8), pp. x + 566, Hb £85 Progressive Christians Speak: A Different Voice on Faith and Politics , John Cobb Jr (ed.), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0‐664‐22589‐6), pp. xvi + 341, Pb £20 War and Peace: A Selection of Key Readings. Problems in Theology 3 , Jeff Astley, David Brown and Ann Loades (eds), T. & T. Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08973‐8), pp. viii + 111, Pb £12.99 Invitation to the Sociology of Religion , Phil Zuckerman, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐94126‐1), pp. ix + 156, Pb £15.99 Faith and Feminism: An Introduction to Christian Feminist Theology , Nicola Slee, Darton, Longman and Todd 2003 (0‐232‐52486‐6), Exploring Faith: Theology for Life, pp. xi + 131, Pb £8.95 Introducing Feminist Perspectives on Pastoral Theology , Zoë Bennett Moore, Introductions in Feminist Theology 11, Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6261‐8), pp. 157, Pb £15.99/$11.90 Teaching Freud Diane Jonte‐Pace (ed.), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐5157680), AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series, pp. xi + 276, Pb £48 Blessed are the Cynical: How Original Sin Can Make America a Better Place , Mark Ellingsen, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐042‐8), pp. 208, Hb $23.99 Worship , Keith F. Pecklers, Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6856‐X), pp vi + 234, Pb, £14.99 Worship Seeking Understanding: Windows into Christian Practice , John D. Witvliet, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2623‐7), pp. 319, Pb $26.99 Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in the Theological Tradition , Jeremy Driscoll, Gracewing 2003 (0‐85244‐469‐9), pp. 251, Pb, £17.99 Confessing Jesus Christ: Preaching in a Postmodern World , David J. Lose, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4983‐0), pp. viii + 264, Pb £19.99 Charis and Charisma: David Yonggi Cho and the Growth of Yoido Full Gospel Church , Sung‐Hoon Myung and Young‐Gi Hong (eds), Regnum 2003 (1‐870345‐45‐2), pp. xi + 217, Pb £19.99     

Karl Barth, the Church and the Churches – Edited by William G. Rusch (ed.)

Book reviewed:
Karl Barth, the Church and the Churches , William G. Rusch (ed.), William B. Eerdmans 2005 (0-8028-2970-8), xi + 59 pp., pb $12.00     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7308-5), xiv + 434 pp., pb $24.95
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 2: 1839–2004 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7309-3), xiv + 575 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Nirmal Singh Hindu University of America
Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion , Megan McKenna, Seabury Books 2004 (1-59627-006-3), xi + 211 pp., pb $16 Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong Baylor University
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion , Anthony C. Thiselton, Baker Academic 2005 (0-8010-3120-6), viii + 344 pp., pb $24.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University West
The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 , David F. Ford, Rachel Muers (eds), Blackwells 2005 (1-4051-0277-2), xxi + 819 pp., pb £19.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed
The Politics of Cultural Differences. By David C. Leege, Kenneth D. Wald, Brian S. Krueger, and Paul D. Mueller. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2002. 304 pp. $21.95 paper, $60 cloth.
The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders. Edited by Jerrold M. Post, M.D. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2003. 412 pp.
FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability. By Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. 2003. 141 + xii pp.
The Power of Legitimacy: Assessing the Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining. By Christopher Gelpi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2003. 232 pp. $39.50.     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed:
The Septuagint , Jennifer M. Dines, T&T Clark International 2004 (0-567-08464-7), xvii + 196 pp., pb £14.99/$29.95 Reviewed by Benjamin Bury University of Birmingham
The SCM Press A–Z of Patristic Theology , John A. McGuckin, SCM Press 2005 (0-334-04010-8), xxiii + 367 pp., pb £29.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University
Holy Teaching : Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas , Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Brazos Press 2005 (1-58743-035-5), 320 pp., pb $27.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge
Eucharist with a Small 'e' , Miriam Therese Winter, Orbis Books 2005 (1-57075-617-7), 158 pp., pb $15 Reviewed by John Armson Herefordshire
Listening to Islam : With Thomas Merton, Sayyid Qutb, Kenneth Cragg, and Ziauddin Sardar : Praise, Reason, and Reflection , John H. Watson, Sussex Academic Press 2005 (1-84519-101-3), v + 109 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Jason Walsh Phoenix, Arizona
PADRES : The National Chicano Priest Movement , Richard Edward Martinez, University of Texas Press 2005 (0292706782), vi + 197 pp., pb $19.95 Reviewed by Marc Cortez University of St. Andrews
Blair's Britain : A Christian Critique , Mark D. Chapman, Darton, Longman & Todd 2005 (0232526036), viii + 120 pp., pb £10.95 Reviewed by Alistair Kee University of Edinburgh
American Cultural Baggage : How to Recognize and Deal with It , Stan Nussbaum, Orbis 2005 (1-57075-625-2), 160 pp., pb $15 Reviewed by Michael J. Sleasman Trinity International University
How the Other Half Worships , Camilo José Vergara, Rutgers University Press 2005 (0-8135-3682-0), xviii + 285 pp., $49.95 Reviewed by Michael Barram Saint Mary's College of California