SHORT NOTICES

Great Christian Thinkers, Hans Küng
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, B. R. Tilghman
The Gospel According to John: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Thomas L. Brodie
Laughter A Theological Essay, Karl-Josef Kuschel
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, Alister E. McGrath (ed.)
Jonah (Old Testament Library) James Limburg
Gender, Power and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story, Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn
Hidden Treasure: A Journey towards Healing from Sexual Abuse, Muriel Green and Anne Townsend, Darton, Longman & Todd
Cry Love, Cry Hope: Responding to Aids, Bill Kirkpatrick (ed.), Darton, Longman & Todd
Pastoral Responses to Sexual Issues, William V. Arnold
Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister E. McGrath
African Theology: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography, Josiah U. Young III
Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology, Richard D. Nelson
Front Line Mission: Ministry in the Market Place, Denis Claringbull
The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope and Justice, J. David Pleins
A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, Jonathan Magonet     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Science, Life and Christian Belief: A Survey of Contemporary Issues. By Malcolm Jeeves and R. J. Berry.
A Scientific Theology. Volume 1: Nature . By Alister E. McGrath.
Faith, Science and Understanding . By John Polkinghorne.
Physics and Metaphysics: Theories of Space and Time . By Jennifer Trusted.
Controlling our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project . Edited By Phillip R. Sloan.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THEOLOGIANS EVALUATING SCIENCE (I) Scientific Theory and Religion. By E. W. Barnes . Revelation through Reason. By Errol E. Harris . The Promise of Science and the Power of Faith. By M. Holmes Hartshorne . Christian Faith and Natural Science. By Karl Heim . Theology in an Age of Science. By Leonard Hodgson . Christian Theology and Natural Science. By E. L. Mascall . Models and Mystery. By Ian T. Ramsey . Natural Religion and Christian Theology. By Charles E. Raven . Modern Science and Christian Beliefs. By Arthur F. Smethurst .     

Reviews

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)     

Reviews

Books reviewed: David Westerlund and Ingvar Svanberg (eds), Islam Outside the Arab World David Marshall, God, Muhammad and the Unbelievers: A Qur'anic Study Richard King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ‘The Mystic East’ M. P. Weitzman, The Syriac Version of the Old Testament: An Introduction A. Bach (ed.), Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader Carolyn Osiek, The Shepherd of Hermas Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush (eds), Asceticism and the New Testament Gerd Theissen, A Theory of Primitive Christianity Norman Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa contra gentiles II Gabriel Audisio, The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival, c.1170–c.1570 Alister E. McGrath, Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography Timothy J. Gorringe, Karl Barth Against Hegemony Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart (eds), Hope against Hope: Christian Eschatology in Contemporary Context Stephen R. Haynes and John K. Roth (eds), The Death of G‐d Movement and the Holocaust: Radical Theology Encounters the Shoah Keith E. Yandell, Philosophy of Religion: A Contemporary Introduction Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within Gianni Vattimo, trans. Luca D? Isanto and David Webb, Belief Robert Merrihew Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics Sue Patterson, Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age Christopher Southgate (ed.), God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion Holmes Rolston III, Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science Deuk‐Hoon Park, Christian Praxis and Economic Justice David L. Edwards, After Death? Past Beliefs and Real Possibilities     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Michael Horton, A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of Christ–Centred Worship. Colin E. Gunton, Becoming and Being: The Doctrine of God in Charles Hartshorne and Karl Barth. Alister McGrath, A Scientific Theology, volume 1, Nature. Edward Farley, Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic. Eberhard Jüngel, God's Being Is in Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock, Truth in Aquinas. William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, eds., Naturalism: A Critical Analysis. Theodor Dieter, Der junge Luther und Aristoteles: eine historisch–systematische Untersuchung zum Verhältnis von Theologie und Philosophie. Dirk–Martin Grube, UnbegrÏndbarkeit Gottes? Tillichs und Barths Erkenntnistheorien im Horizont der gegenwärtigen Philosophie. Markus Bockmuehl, Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. Leander E. Keck, Who is Jesus? History in Perfect Tense Nicholas M. Healy, Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical–Prophetic Ecclesiology. Amy Plantinga Pauw, The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Eberhard Jüngel: an Introduction to his Theology by J. B. Webster
Annette Baier Postures of the Mind , xxii+314 pp Methuen, London 1985.
Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay towards a Trinitarian Tkeology by Colin E. Gunton, Marshall, Morgan and Scott
Brian Hebblethwaite The Christian Hope , ii+244pp. Basingstoke, Hants. Marshall Morgan & Scott.
Kwesi A. Dickson: Theology in Africa (Darton, Longman and Todd
Diogenes Allen, Philosophy For Understanding Theology     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Jeremy Begbie, Theology, Music, and Time (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)
Sharon E. Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self
Leanne McCall Tigert, Coming Out Through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Art of Biblical Poetry. By Robert Alter The- Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke's Writings. By Susan R. Carrett Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. By Richard B. Hays Jesus and Postmodernism. By James Breech The Genesis of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundations of Doctrinal Criticism. By Alister E. McGrath Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches, East and West. By Paul Bradshaw Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age. By Enrico Mazza Liberation Theology: A Documentary Histoty. Edited by Alfred T. Hennelly The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. By Lesslie Newbigin The Sacred in Life and Art. By Philip Sherrard The Ideology of the Aesthetic. By Terry Eagleton The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief (Oxford Philosophical Monographs). By Michael Banner Return to Reason. By James Kelly Clark The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrares, Together with Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard's Writings II). Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong ‘For Self-Examination’and‘Judge for Yourself’(Kierkegaard's Writings XXI). Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong Simone Weil; Utopian Pessimist. By David McLcllan The Making of Orthodoxy: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick. Edited by Rowan Williams The Apostolic Fathers (Outstanding Christian Thinkers). By Simon Tugwell Christian Spirituality: Post-Reformation and Modern (World Spirituality). Edited by Louis Dupré and Don E. Saliers The Ignatian Personality of Gerard Manley Hopkins. By David Anthony Downes Missionaries Go Home? A Sociological Interpretation of an African Response to Christian Missions. By E. M. Uka Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa The Diocesan Seminary in the United States: A History from the 1780s to The Present (Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism). By Joseph M. White The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1252 to 1355 (Collected Works of Erasmus 9). Translated by R. A. B. Mynors Catholics Against the Church: Anti-Abortion Protest in Toronto, 1969–1985. By Michael W. Cuneo The Return of the English Benedictines to London Ealing Abbey: 1896 to Independence. By René Kollar The Theater of Devtion: East Anglian Drama and Society in ttw Late Middle Ages. By Gail McMurray Gibson Mary Tudor: A Life. By David Loades Many Tables: The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today. By Dennis E. Smith and Hal E. Taussig     

The Nicene Faith: Formation of Christian Theology, Vol. 2 Parts 1 and 2

Book reviewed:
The Nicene Faith: Formation of Christian Theology, Vol. 2 Parts 1 and 2 by John Behr (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004) xviii + 507 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Louth University of Durham Department of Theology and Religion Abbey House Palace Green Durham DH1 3RS UK     

REVIEWS

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     

Reviews

Books Reviewed in this article:
THE WEIGHT OF GLORY — A Vision and Practice for Christian Faith: The Future of Liberal Theology, Essays for Peter Baelz edited by D.W. Hardy and P.H. Sedgwick
THE MORALS OF JESUS, by Nicholas Peter Harvey.
A SEPARATE GOD: THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF GNOSTICISM by Simone Pétrement.
GOD—HIS AND HERS, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel & Jürgen Moltmann
READING IN COMMUNION: Scripture and ethics In Christian Life, by Stephen E. Fowl and L. Gregory Jones.
SACRIFICE AND REDEMPTION Durham Essays in Theology, edited by S.W. Sykes
THE BIBLE'S AUTHORITY; A PORTRAIT GALLERY OF THINKERS FROM LESSING TO BULTMANN by J.C O'Neill     

Reviews

Books reviewd:
Craig A. Carter, The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder
Troels Engberg–Pederson, Paul and the Stoics
Dan R. Stiver, Theology after Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology
Samuel M. Powell, The Trinity in German Thought
Friedericke Nüssel, Allein aus Glauben: Zur Entwicklung der Rechtfertigungslehre in der konkordistischen und frühen nachkonkordistischen Theologie
Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes and Murray A. Rae, eds., The Practice of Theology: A Reader
Joseph L. Mangina, Karl Barth on the Christian Life: The Practical Knowledge of God     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Stephen E. Fowl Engaging Scripture. A Model for Theological Interpretation
David A. S. Ferguson The Cosmos and the Creator: an Introductionm to the Theology of Creation
Colin E. Grunton The Triune Creator: a Historical and Systematic Study
Larry W. Hurtado One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Jonardon Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India Joseph Epes Brown with Emily Cousins, Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions Cyril S. Rodd, Glimpses of a Strange Land: Studies in Old Testament Ethics Chris Rowland and John Vincent (eds), Bible and Practice Robert Cummings Neville, Symbols of Jesus: A Christology of Symbolic Engagement David Batson, The Treasure Chest of the Early Christians: Faith, Care and Community from the Apostolic Age to Constantine the Great Florent Gaboriau, The Conversion of Edith Stein Peter C. Hodgson, Christian Faith: A Brief Introduction Michaela Davey, Mastering Theology Ray Billington, Religion Without God Daniel M. Bell, Liberation Theology After the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering Kevin J. Vanhoozer (ed.), Nothing Greater, Nothing Better – Theological Essays on the Love of God Craig A. Carter, The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder Andrew Shanks, ‘What Is Truth?’: Towards a Theological Poetics Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton (eds), Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity and Self Alister E. McGrath, The Future of Christianity Stephen H. Webb, Good Eating Mark D. Jordan, The Ethics of Sex Eugene F. Rogers, Jr (ed.), Theology and Sexuality: Classic and Contemporary Readings Philip L. Culbertson (ed.), The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write About their Faith Lothar Bauerochse, Learning to Live Together: Interchurch Partnerships as Ecumenical Communities of Learning Wade Clark Roof, Spiritual Marketplace: Baby–boomers and the Remaking of American Religion William A. Dyrness, Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue B. P. Vysheslavtsev, The Eternal in Russian Philosophy Andrew Purves, Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition Fraser Watts, Rebecca Nye and Sara Savage, Psychology for Christian Ministry Diane Jonte–Pace, Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud’s Cultural Texts     

Reviews

Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
Sue Patterson, Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age
Michael Banner, Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
Alejandro García-Rivera, The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics
Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography
David N. Power, Sacrament: The Language of God's Giving
Rush Rhees, Discussions of Simone Weil
Richard Viladesau, Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art
George Hunsinger, Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth
Kevin F. Burke, S.J., The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuriá     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Schiffman, James C. VanderKam (eds), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Elinor, Buddha & Christ: Images of Wholeness
Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke (eds), Ciphers In the Sand: Interpretation of The Woman Taken in Adulter
Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History. The Religion of Herodotus
Bernard Lonergan, Frederick E. Crow and Robert M. Doran (eds), Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
John W. O'Malley, Trent and all That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era
Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
Michael D. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Martin Ott, African Theology in Images
Keith Ward, Religion and Community
Martin Sutherland (ed.), Mission Without Christendom: Exploring the Site
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
Philip Clayton, The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Andrew Shanks, God and Modernity: A New and Better Way to Do Theology
James P. Mackey, The Critique of Theological Reason
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
Anne Primavesi, Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science
Michael H. Barnes, Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science
Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science
George Lovell, Consultancy, Ministry and Mission, A Handbook for Practitioners and Work Consultants in Christian Organizations     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
David F. Ford, Self and Salvation: Being Transformed
Francis Clark, Godfaring: On Reason, Faith, and Sacred Being
David Kamitsuka, Theology and Contemporary Culture: Liberation, Postliberal and Revisionary Perspectives
Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
Laurence Paul Hemming (ed.), Radical Orthodoxy?—A Catholic Enquiry
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
Martin X. Moleski, S.J., Personal Catholicism: The Theological Epistemologies of John Henry Newman and Michael Polanyi
Denis Donoghue, Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature     

Reviews

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