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Book reviewed in this article:
GRIFFIN RESPONSE TO PETERS
Creation or Evolution: Correspondence on the Current Controversy . By E dward O. D odson and G eorge F. H owe
God and the Process of Reality . By D avid P ailin
Theology for a Scientqic Age . By A rthur P eacocke
The American Empirical Movement in Theology . By D elores J oanl R ogers
Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World . By H olmes R olston III.
A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern Worldview . By L. C harles B irch     

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Book reviews in this article:
The Theologian and His Universe: Theology and Cosmology/ram the Middle Ages to the Present . By N. M ax W ildiers .
On Knowing God . By J erry H. G ill
The Immorality of Limiting Growth . By E dward W alter
Naked Emperors: Essays of a Taboo-Stalker . By G arrett H ardin
Psychology and Theology: Prospects for Integration . By G ary R. C ollins
Science and Moral Priority: Merging Mind, Brain and Human Values . By R oger S perry
Religion: A Secular Theory . By A ndrew M. G reeley
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture . By F ritjof C apra     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Faith, Will and Grammar by Heikki Kirjavainen, Risto Saarinen and Reijo Työrinoja,
The Logic of God Incarnate by Thomas V. Morris,
The Mysteries of Religion by Stephen R. L. Clark,
Reason and Religion: Essays in Philosophical Theology by Anthony Kenny,
Religions Imagination edited by James P. Mackey,
God and the New Biology by Arthur Peacocke, J. M. Dent & Sons,
Science and Creation by John Polkinghorne, SPCK,     

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Books reviewed in this article.
God and the New Physics. By P aul D avies .
Cosmology and Theology. Edited by D avid T racy and N icholas L ash .
Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science. Edited by S andra H arding and M errill B. H intikka .
Experimenting with Truth: The Fusion of Religion with Technology, Needed for Humanity's Survival. By R ustum R oy .
The Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man. By E dward F. E dinger .
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America. By R ichard N euhaus .     

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Book Reviews in this article:
The Psychology of Religion . by J oseph F. B yrnes
L'Oeuvre Scientifique (Scientific Writings) . By P ierre T eilhard de C hardin . Edited by N icole and K arl S chmitz -M oormann
One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology . by J ohn P olkinghorne
Ecology and Religion: Toward a New Christian Theology of Nature . by J ohn C ar -M ody .
God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God . by J urgen M oltmann .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Saving and Secular Faith: An Invitation to Systematic Theology , by B. A. Gerrish.
Jesus is My Uncle , by Luis G. Pedraja.
The Human Person in Science and Theology , edited by Niels HenrikGregersen, Willem B. Drees and Ulf Görman.
Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology , by Dwight N. Hopkins.
Religion and Popular Culture in America , edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan.
God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and Religion , by Christopher Southgate.     

REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article:
The Religions of Tibet . By Giuseppe Tucci, translated by Geoffrey Samuel.
The Satanic cult . By Gerhard Zacharias.
A Study of Nietzsche . By J.P. Stern.
A Fantasy of Reason: The Life and Thought of William Godwin . By Don Locke.
Violence and Responsibility . By Peter Harris.
Doxology. The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life: A Systematic Theology . By Geoffrey Wainwright.
The Theology of Purgatory . By Robert Ombres.
Sources of Renewal . By Karol Wojtyla.
Faith in History and Society . By Johann Baptist Metz.
Priest in the Village: Experiences of African Community . By Aylward Shorter.
Witness to the World . By David J. Bosch.
Disciples and Prophets: A Biblical Model for the Religious Life . By Francis J. Moloney.
O Holy Mountain! Journal of a Retreat on Mount Athos . By M. Basil Pennington.
Sociology and Theology: Alliance and Conflict . Edited by David Martin, John Orme Mills and W.S.P. Pickering.
Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture . By Brevard S. Childs.
Studien zur Soziologie des Urchristentums . By Gerd Theissen.
Urchristliches und Altkirchliches: Vorträge und Aufsätze . By Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen.
The Chronicle of Eusebius and Greek Chronographic Tradition . By A.A. Mosshammer.
Anselm and Talking about God . By G.R. Evans.
The Code of Maimonides. Book Seven: The Book of Agriculture . Translated from the Hebrew by Isaac Klein.     

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Books reviewed:
Kathryn Tanner: Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology
Charles Marsh: God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
John D. Caputo: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
David Toole: Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy and Apocalypse
George R. Hunsberger: Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality
Peter Ochs: Peirce, Pragmatism and the Logic of Scripture
Elizabeth A. Johnson: Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints
Stephen H. Webb: On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
Elizabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza: Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context
Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs and Robert Gibbs: Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy
Stephen L. Brock: Action and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action
Emmanuel Levinas: Of God Who Comes to Mind
Timothy Houston Polk: The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of Faith
Robert Barron: And Now I See … A Theology of Transformation
Stephen Crites: Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking
John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (eds): Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology     

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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     

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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)     

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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Books reviewed in this article.
The Experiment of Life: Science and Religion. Edited by F. K enneth H are .
The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. By W ayne A. M eeks .
Nature and Religious Imagination: From Edwards to Bushnell. By C onrad C herry .
The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century. Edited by A. R. P eacocke .
Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion. By A rthur P eacocke     

THE WILD AND CROOKED TREE: BARTH, FISH, AND INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES

God the Spirit by Michael Welker
Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936 by Bruce L. McCormack
God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism by Leszek Kolakowski
The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida, trans. David Wills
Desiring Theology by Charles E. Winquist
Postmodern Theologies. The Challenge of Religious Diversity by Terrence W. Tilley, with others     

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Books reviewed:
Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Religion in Higher Education: The Politics of the Multi-Faith Campus
R. W. L. Moberly, The Bible, Theology and Faith: A Study of Abraham and Jesus
Yvonne Sherwood, A Biblical Text and its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
Hans-Josef Klauck, trans. Brian McNeil, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostle
Mark A. Noll, American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction
S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends
Gavin D'Costa, Sexing the Trinity: Gender, Culture and the Divine
John B. Cobb, Jr. and Clark H. Pinnock (eds), Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue between Process and Free Will Theists
Sheila Greeve Davaney, Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century
Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust
Stephen Parsons, Ungodly Fear: Fundamentalist Christianity and the Abuse of Power
David H. Smith (ed), Caring Well: Religion, Narrative, and Health Care Ethics
Mark Barger Elliott, Creative Styles of Preaching
Bishop Joe Aldred (ed), Praying with Power     

REVIEWS

Models for Scripture , John Goldingay, Paternoster Critical Theology , Gareth Jones Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture , William C. Placher, Westminster/John Knox The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman's God in Us , Richard Harries One Faith? Non-realism and the World of Faiths , David A. Hart European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 , Hugh McLeod (ed.) Religion in Industrial Society: Oldham and Saddleworth 1740–1865 , Mark Smith Hear Our Voice: Women Rabbis Tell Their Stories , Sybil Sheridan (ed.) Rethinking Islam , Mohammed Arkoun Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology , Stephen Pattison Theology, Ideology and Liberation , Peter Scott A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles , Stanley K. Stowers, God in Christian Perspective , George Newlands, T. & T. Clark Learning to Speak: The Church's Voice in Public Affairs , Keith Clements, T. & T. Clark The Ethics of IVF , Anthony Dyson, Mowbray The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS , Simon Garfield Sophie's World , Jostein Gaarder The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief , George M. Marsden The Last Philosophy , Don Cupitt The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God , Clark Pinnock and others, Paternoster Christianity without Absolutes , Reinhold Bernhardt     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Catholic Study Bible Early Israel: A New Horizon. By R. B. Coote Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity. By Thomas W. Overholt The École Biblique and the New Testament: A Century of Scholarship (1890–1990) (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 13). By Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Woman, Cult and Miracle Recital: A Redactional Critical Investigation on Mark 5:24–34. By Marla J. Selvidge The Son of Man Tradition. By Douglas R. A. Hare A Tribute to Geza Vermes: Essays on Jewish and Christian Literature and History. Edited by Philip R. Davies and Richard T. White A Separate God. By S. Pétrement Hellenism in Late Antiquity (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures). By G. W. Bowersock Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and‘The Lives of the Eastern Saints’. By Susan Ashbrook Harvey Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800 (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 3). By Patrick Sims-Williams The Venerable Bede (Outstanding Christian Thinkers). By Benedicta Ward St Symeon The New Theologian and Spiritual Fatherhood (Byzantina Neerlandica 11). By H. J. M. Turner The Jews in Christian Europe 1400–1700. By John Edwards Das Bild vom Juden im Deutschland des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts dargestellt an den Schriften Johannes Pfefferkorns (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modem Judaism 3). By Hans-Martin Kim Pico della Mirandola 's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism. By Chaim Wirszubski The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion 4). By Elizabeth Rapley Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement, 1625–1641. By Allan I. Macinnes Handel. By Hamish Swanston. Pp. xi, 161, London, Geoffrey Chapman Black Christians and White Missionaries. By Richard Gray Newman and his Age. By Sheridan Gilley Newman after a Hundred Years. Edited by Ian Ker and Alan G. Hill Newman: A Man for Our Time. Edited by David Brown The Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel: French Catholic and Realist Novelists. 1850–1970. By Malcolm Scott The Varieties of Protestantism in Nazi Germany: Five Theopolitical Positions (Toronto Studies in Theology 50). By Franz G. M. Feige Modem Catholicism: Vatican II and After. Edited by Adrian Hastings The Vatican, the Law and the Human Embryo. By Michael J. Coughlan IVF and Justice: Moral, Social and Legal Issues Related to Human‘in vitro’Fertilisation. By Teresa Iglesias Prenatal Diagnosis: Confronting the Ethical Issues. By Agneta Sutton Organ Transplants and Ethics By David Lamb The Foundurions of Christian Ethics. By Michael Keeling Christian Ethics: Options and Issues. By Norman L. Geisler La Christ de la philosophie. By Xavier Tilliette Thomistic Papers V. Edited by Thomas A. Russmann The Idea of the Miraculous: The Challenge to Science and Religion. By T. C. Williams Probability and Theistic Explanation (Oxford Theological Monographs). By Robert Prevost     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Unbaptized God: The Basic Flaw in Ecumencial Theology by Robert W. Jenson
The Body of God, by Saille Mcfague
Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions by David B.Burrell
Speaking the Christian God:the Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism,by Alvin F. Kimel
Loyalty to God. The Apostles'Creed in life and Liturgy by Theodore W. Jennings, Jr.
Theology and Narrative: Selected Essays by Hans Frei, ed. George Hunsinger and William C. Placher
Pseudo-Dionysius. A Commentary on the Texts and an Intriduction to Their Influence, by Paul Rorern
Ecumencial faith in Evangetical Perspective by Gabriel Rapids
Theology after Vedanta. An Experiment in Comparative Theology, by Francis X. Clooney,S.J.
New Horizons in Hermeneutics: The Theory and Practice of Transforming Biblical Reading by Anthony C. Thiselton
Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion edited by Philippa Berry and Andrew Wernick
The Amnesty of Grace: Justification by Faith from a Latin American Perspective, by Elsa Tamez, trans. Sharon H. Ringe     

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Books reviewed in this article.
Erikson: Identity and Religion. By J. E ugene W right , J r .
Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An Evaluation of Western Philosophy. By C harles H artshorne .
The Gospel from Outer Space. By R obert L. S hort .
The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature. By H einz R. P agels .
Science, Theology and Einstein. By I ain P aul .     

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Brain Research and Personhood: A Philosophical Theological Inquiry. By E ugene P. W ratchford.
Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation. By N eal C. G illespie.
Creativity and God: A Challenge to Process Theology. By R obert C. N eville.
Creation and the World of Science. By A. R. P eacocke.
Physics and Philosophy: Selected Essays. By H enry M argenau.
Biblical Games: A Strategic Analysis of Stories in the Old Testament. By S teven J. B rams.