The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism Translated by Julia Annas &; Jonathan Barnes Cambridge University Press 1994 ISBN‐0–521–30950–6 Hardback (£32.50) ISBN 0–521–31205‐X Paperback (£10.95)

Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649–1776 David Wootton (ed) Stanford University Press, 1994 viii, 497 pp. £35 ISBN 0804723567

John Marshall: John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xxi + 485. ISBN 0–521–44380–6 (hardback) £55 0–521–44687–3 (paperback) £22.95

Ian Harris: The Mind of John Locke: A Study of Political Theory in its Intellectual Setting Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xv + 429. ISBN 0–521–35603–2

Lawrence E. Klein: Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness Cambridge University Press, xii, 217 pp. £30

Cahiers Montesquieu: Lectures de Montesquieu, Actes du Colloque de Wolfenbuttel (26–28 Octobre 1989) réunis par Edgar Mass et Alberto Postigliola Liguori Editore, Napoli; Universitas, Paris; Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1993. ISBN 0–7294–0462–5. £18.00

George Armstrong Kelly: The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism with a foreword by Stephen R. Graubard, Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0–521–41227–7. £35.00

Christopher J. Berry: The Idea of Luxury. A Conceptual and Historical Investigation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 xiv + 271 pp., 0–521–466911 pbk

Sarah Gibbons: Kant's Theory of Imagination. Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience Oxford Philosophical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994 pp. 205 plus x. £27.50

Andrew Brook: Kant and the Mind Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. 327 plus xii. £35.00

The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte trans. and ed. by Oscar A. Haac New Brunswick (USA) and London: Transaction Publishers, 1995 pp. xxvi + 403. £31.95 ISBN 1–56000–148–8

Alan P. F. Sell: Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief University of Wales Press, 1995 ISBN 0–7083–1310–8. 338 pp. £35.00

Agnosticism: Contemporary Responses to Spencer and Huxley Ed. Andrew Pyle Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1995 (Key Issues 4), pp. xxvi + 301 ISBN (paper) 1–85506–404–9 £14.95, (cloth) 1–85506–405–7 £45.00     

Hutcheson,Perception, and the Sceptic's Challenge

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy: Series Editors, Karl Ameriks and Desmond M. Clarke. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy with Selections from the Objections and Replies. Translated and edited by John Cottingham. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xlvi + 120. £25., £7.95 pb. ISBN 0–521–55252–4 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–55818–2 (pb.).

Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality with A Treatise of Freewill. Edited by Sarah Hutton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxvi + 218. £37.50 hb., £13.95 pb., ISBN 0–521–47362–4 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47918–5 (pb.).

Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Translated and edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxix + 73. £35.00 hb., £12.95 pb. ISBN 0–521–47335–7 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47904–5 (pb.).

Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings. Translated and edited by Ann Thomson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxx + 179. £35.00 (hb.), £12.95. ISBN 0–521–47258‐X (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47849–9 (pb.).     

BOOKS RECEIVED

The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. Don Garrett (ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 465. ISBN 0–521–39235–7 (hb); ISBN 0–521–39865–7 (pb). £40.00 (hb) £12.95 (pb).

Spinoza: The Enduring Questions. Graeme Hunter (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 182. ISBN 0–8020–2876–4. £45.00.

The Spinozistic Heresy: The Debate on the ‘Tractatus Theologico‐Politicus’. 1670–77. Paolo Cristofolini (ed.). APA‐Holland University Press: Amsterdam and Maarssen, 1995, pp. viii, 260. ISBN 90–302–1502‐X.

Disguised and Overt Spinozism around 1700. Wiep van Bunge and Wim Klever (eds.). Brill, Leiden, 1996, pp. ix, 378. ISBN 90–04–10307–4.

Part of Nature: Self‐Knowledge in Spinoza's ‘Ethics’, by Genevieve Lloyd. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1994, pp. 182. ISBN 0–8014–2999–4. £24.95.

Spinoza and the ‘Ethics’, by Genevieve Lloyd. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks, London, 1996, pp. x, 163. ISBN 0–415–10782–2 (pb). £6.99.

Spinoza: The Way to Wisdom, by Herman de Dijn. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1996, pp. xii, 291. ISBN 1–55753–081–5.     

THE MANY LIVES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. £40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0–691–03310–2, 0–691–03311–0; £14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0–691–01937–1, 0–691–01938‐X.     

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     

The therapist's body

Abstract

War Memoirs, W.R. Bion, ed. Francesca Bion, London: Karnac, 1997, 312 pp., £32.50 hb., £24.95 pb.

Freely Associated: Encounters in Psychoanalysis, ed. Anthony Molino, London: Free Association Books, 1997, 211 pp., £15.95 pb.

The Politics of Attachment, ed. Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts, London: Free Association Books, 1996, 254 pp., £15.95 pb.

Psychotherapy and Society, David Pilgrim, London: Sage, 1997, 176 pp. £37.50 hb., £12.95 pb.

Handbook of Counselling in Organizations, eds. Michael Carroll and Michael Walton, London: Sage, 1997, 358 pp., £47.50 hb., £17.95 pb.

The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy, ed. Stephen Palmer and Ved Varma, London: Sage, 1997, 208 pp., £37.50 cloth £12.95 pb.

Supervision of Psychotherapy and Counselling: Making a Place to Think, ed. Geraldine Shipton, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997, 159 pp., £16.99 pb.     

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     

Books Received: Volume 13, Issue 2

Celia Wolf‐Devine: Descartes on Seeing: Epistemology and Visual Perception. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993 (Journal of the History of Philosophy Monograph Series), pp. viii + 121. ISBN 0–8093–1838–5.

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan with selected variants front the Latin edition of 1668. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Edwin Curley. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge 1994, pp. lxxx‐584. ISBN 0–87220–178–3 (cloth), £27.95, 0–87220–177–5 (pbk), £6.95.

Allison Coudert: Leibniz and the Kabbalah. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 218. £68.00. ISBN 0–7923–3114–1.

Richard Price: The Correspondence. [Edited by D. O. Thomas and W. Bernard Peach]. Vol. III. February 1786‐February 1791. Edited by W. Bernard Peach. (Duke U, Durham N.C. and University of Wales Press Cardiff 1994). ISBN 0–8223–1327–8.

Henry Allison: Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxi + 217 pp. £30 (hbk), £10.95 (pbk). ISBN 0–521–48295‐X (hbk), 0–521–48337–9 (pbk).

Terry Pinkard: Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 4451 pp. £40.00 hb. ISBN 0–521–45300–3.

Mary Anne Perkins: Coleridge's Philosophy, The Logos as Unifying Principle. (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1994) pp. 310. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–824075–9.

Elzbieta Ettinger: Hannah Arendt ‐ Martin Heidegger (London, Yale University Press, 1995) £10.95 ISBN 0–300–06407–1

Dana R. Villa: Arendt and Heidegger ‐ The Fate of the Political (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996) ISBN 0–691–04400–7     

Book reviews

John Christian Laursen (ed.). Religious Toleration: ‘The Variety of Rites’ from Cyrus to Defoe. New York, St Martin's Press, 1999. xx + 252 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–312–22233–5.

Daniel Garber. Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, £40.00 hb; £14.95 pb. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0–521–00337–7 pb. 0–521–80279–2 hb.

Olli Koistinen and John Biro (eds). Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 255 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–512815‐X.

Paul Abela. Kant's Empirical Realism. Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press, 2002. vii + 303 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–924274–7.

Bruce L. Kinzer. England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question. Toronto, Buffalo, and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001. 292 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8020–4862–5.

Maria Dimova‐Cookson. T. H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Perspective. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001. £40.00. xiii + 175 pp. ISBN 0–333–9144–7.

Stephen Mulhall. Inheritance &; Originality. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001. £40.00. xii + 448 pp. ISBN 0–19–924390–5.

Paul Gorner. Twentieth‐Century German Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. iii + 225 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0–19–289309–2.

Karen Green. Dummett: Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. xi + 236 pp. £55.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0–7456–2294–1 (hb) 0–7456–2295‐X (pb).     

List of contributors

Abstract

Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Marketplace, Eileen Smith (ed.), London: Routledge, 1997, 200 pp., £45 hb., £14.99 pb.

Staff Supervision in a Turbulent Environment: Managing Process and, Task in Front-line Services, Lynette Hughes and Paul Pengelly, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1997, 150 pp., £14.95 pb.

An Introduction to Object Relations, Lavina Gomez, London: Free Association Books, 1997, 245 pp., £15.95 pb.

Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, John Tsiantis, Anne Marie Sandier, Dimitris Anastasopolous and Brian Martindale (eds), London: Karnac, 1996, 176 pp., £17.95 pb.

Working with Drug Family Support Groups, Paul Lockley, London: Free Association Books, 1996, 275 pp., £15.95 pb.

The Cradle of Violence, Stephen Wilson, Oxford: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1995, 157 pp., £14.95 pb.

Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis, Katherine Killick and Joy Schaverien (eds), London: Routledge, 1997, 267 pp., £50 hb., £16.99 pb.     

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

Books reviewed: The Case for Religion , Keith Ward, Oneworld 2004 (1‐85168‐337‐2), pp. viii + 246, Hb £16.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity , Jacob K. Olupona (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27320‐X), pp. xvi + 348, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Secular Judaism: Faith, Values, and Spirituality , Yaakov Malkin, Valentine Mitchell 2004 (0‐85303‐512‐1), pp. x + 150, Hb £42.50/$62.50, Pb £17.50/$26.50
Reviewed by Berel Dov Lerner
Western Galilee Academic College, Israel Truth and Scripture: Challenging Underlying Assumptions , Brenda Watson, Aureus Publishing Ltd 2004 (1‐899750‐27‐4), pp. xvi + 208, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism , Brian Malley, Alta Mira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0665‐7), pp. ix + 173, Pb £20.95
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham The Book of Esther in Modern Research , Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon (eds), JSOTS Series 380, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6663‐X), pp. xii + 266, Hb £70
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment , Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.), Westminster John Knox 2002 (0‐664‐22277‐3), pp. vi + 253, Pb £20
Reviewed by Michael Barram
Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California Paul's Letter to the Romans : A Social‐Rhetorical Commentary , Ben Witherington III with Darlene Hyatt, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4504‐5), pp. xxxviii + 421, Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking , Michael Fishbane, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐826733‐9), pp. xiv + 459, Hb £ 70
Reviewed by Mayer I. Gruber
Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel The Suffering of the Impassible God : The Dialectics of Patristic Thought , Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐1992‐6982‐3), pp. xii + 210, £45
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Christology of Anselm of Canterbury , Dániel Deme, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3779‐4), pp. xii + 263, Hb £42.50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria , Daniel A. Keating, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926713‐8), pp. x + 315, Hb £55
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Reformed Theology and Visual Culture : The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards , William A. Dyrness, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54073‐9), pp. xv + 339, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Lord's Prayer : A Text in Tradition , Kenneth W. Stevenson, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02937‐6), pp. ix +290, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity , Gerald O’Collins and Mario Farrugia, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐925995‐X), pp. xiii + 409, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys , Mark A. Noll, InterVarsity Press 2003 (0‐8308‐2581‐9), pp. 330, Hb $23.00
Reviewed by Jonathan R. Baer
Wabash College, Indiana Baillie, Oman and Macmurray: Experience and Religious Belief , Adam Hood, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3135‐4), pp. x + 216, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ: In Dialogue with the Religions , Massimo Serretti (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2212‐6), translated by Teresa Talavera and David C. Schindler, pp. xi + 163, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy , Karen Kilby, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐25965‐7), pp. ix + 160, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Petre uea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide , Alexandru Popescu, Ashgate Press 2004 (0‐7546‐5006‐5), pp. xxviii + 366, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernity , Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2752‐7), pp. xiv + 235, £14.99/$20
Reviewed by Stephen Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond , Regina Schwartz (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96704‐X), pp. xii + 260, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana The Death of God and the Meaning of Life , Julian Young, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30790‐2), pp. vii + 236, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Does God Exist: The Craig‐Flew Debate , Stan W. Wallace (ed.), Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3190‐7; 0‐7546‐3189‐3), pp. x + 230, Pb £16.99/Hb £47.50
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Feminist Christian Encounters: The Methods and Strategies of Feminist Informed Christian Theologies , Angela Pears, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0990‐1), pp. vi + 198, 183, Hb £45
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Women's Faith Development: Patterns and Processes , Nicola Slee, Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0886‐7), pp. xii + 205, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Reconciliation in a World of Conflict , Luiz Carlos Susin and Maria Pilar Aquino (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐03076‐5), Concilium 2003/5, pp. 134, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile , Fabio Petito and Pavlos Hatzopoulos (eds), Palgrave 2004 (1‐4039‐6207‐3), pp. x + 286, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership , Douglas A. Hicks, Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐52960‐3), pp. vii + 222, Pb £16.99/$25
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor and International Professional Managers Association Religion in America Since 1945: A History , Patrick Allitt, Columbia University Press 2003 (0‐231‐12154‐7), pp. xv + 313, Hb £21/$30
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society , Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh, Columbia University Press 2003 (Pb 0‐231‐12733‐2, Hb 0‐231‐12732‐4, Cloth), pp. xx + 243, Pb £15.50/$22.50, Hb £41.50/$59.50
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
The College of Saint Rose, New York The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics , Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (eds), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐23506‐X), pp. xiii + 510, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics in the Time of Many Worlds , William Schweiker, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 1‐4051‐1344‐8, Pb 1‐4051‐1345‐6), pp. xxv + 239, Hb £55/$61.95, Pb £16.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Glastonbury Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present , Oliver O’Donovan and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4975‐X), pp. vi + 324, Pb £24.99/$35
Reviewed by Malcolm Brown
Cambridge Theological Federation The Character of Wisdom: Essays in Honour of Wesley Carr , Martyn Percy and Stephen Lowe (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3418‐3), pp. xii + 210, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Cathedral Science, Theology, and Ethics , Ted Peters, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0825‐5), pp. x + 347, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism , Terence L. Nichols, The Christian Practice of Everyday Life Series, Brazos Press 2003 (1‐58743‐046‐0), p. 240, Pb $ 17.99
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago God and the Nature of Time , Garrett J. DeWeese, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3519‐8), pp. xii + 294, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon , Roy Willis and Patrick Curry, Berg 2004 (1‐8597‐3687‐4), pp. vi + 170, Pb £ 15.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Comparative Theology: Essays for Keith Ward , T.W. Bartel (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05474‐6), pp. xv +208, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Elizabeth J Harris
University of Birmingham One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological and Philosophical Perspectives , Christine Helmer and Christof Landmesser (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925863‐5), pp. xi + 249, Hb £50
Reviewed by Walter Moberly
University of Durham A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures: Biblical and Quranic , Kenneth Cragg, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐012‐2), pp. xv + 145, Pb £12.95
Reviewed by Douglas Pratt
University of Waikato, New Zealand Fifty Key Christian Thinkers , Peter McEnhill and George Newlands, Routledge Key Guides, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐17050‐8), pp. xi + 297, £12.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham Athanasius , Khaled Anatolios, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐0202‐7), pp. viii + 293, Hb £50 Tertullian , Geoffrey D. Dunn, The Early Church Fathers, Routledge 2004 (0‐4152‐8231‐4), pp. viii + 200, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Reforming Mary: Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century , Beth Kreitzer, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516654‐X), pp. xi + 229, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 , Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf (eds), Cambridge University Press 2003 (0‐521‐81493‐6) pp. ix + 234, Hb £40
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century , Alan P.F. Sell and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Paternoster Press 2003 (1‐84227‐221‐7) pp. x + 398, Pb £24.99/$39.99
Reviewed by David Goodhew
York Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture , Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Religion and American Culture Series, Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐12640‐9), pp. xxiv + 326, Hb £24.50/$35
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar , Edward T. Oakes SJ and David Moss (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐89147‐7), pp. xviii + 282, Pb £16.99/$25.99
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Paths to Unity: Explorations in Ecumenical Method , Paul Avis (ed.), Church House Publishing 2004 (0‐7151‐5768‐X), pp. viii + 152, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham In the End – the Beginning: The Life of Hope , Jürgen Moltmann, SCM / Fortress 2004 (0‐8006‐3656‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £14.99/$17
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh From Cells to Souls – and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature , Malcolm Jeeves (ed.), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0985‐5), pp. xiv + 252, Pb $29
Reviewed by Paul Voelker
Loyola University Chicago Seeking God In All Things: Theology and Spiritual Direction , William Reiser, Liturgical Press 2004 (0‐8146‐5166‐6), xii + 172, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by Revd Barry J. Linney
Cherry Hinton, St. Andrew’s, Cambridge Sounding the Silence , John Skinner, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐589‐X), pp. xiv + 120, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Biblical and Near Eastern Essays – Studies in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart , Carmel McCarthy and John F. Healey (eds.), JSOTS Series 375, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6690‐7), pp. xix + 376, Hb £75
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Jesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation , Gerrit Scott Dawson, T&T Clark, 2004 (0‐567‐08221‐0), pp. xiii + 255, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church , Edward Adams and David G. Horrell (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0‐664‐22478‐4), pp. xvi + 332, Pb $39.95
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism , James F. Keenan, SJ, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 (ISBN 0‐7425‐3220‐8), pp. 118, pb $55.00
Reviewed by Bernadette McNary‐Zak
Rhodes College The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Post‐modern Faith In Honor of James H. Olthuis , James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, editors, Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, 2004, 272 pp. $34.99
Reviewed by Christopher Daniel‐Smith
Loyola Marymount University Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies: A Reader , Edited by William K. Kay and Anne Dyer, SCM Press 2004 (ISBN 0‐334‐02940‐6), pp. xxxiii + 332, Pb £25.00
Reviewed by Robert Cornwall
Santa Barbara, CA Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality , Andrew W. Hass, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐0868‐9), pp. xii + 184, Hb £47.50/$94.95
Reviewed by Brannon Hancock
University of Glasgow Modern Judaism. An Oxford Guide , Edited by Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud‐Kandel, Oxford University Press 2005 (ISBN 0‐19‐926287‐X), pp. ix + 459, Pb £22.95
Reviewed by Silviu Bunta
Marquette University An Introduction to Christianity , Linda Woodhead, Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐45445‐X, Pb 0‐521‐78655‐X,), pp. viii + 439, Hb £45, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael A. Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians , Frederick J. Long, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 131, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐84233‐6), pp. xix + 291, Hb £50/$80
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham The Mystery of Mary , Paul Haffner, Gracewing/Hillenbrand Books 2004 (UK 0‐85244‐650‐0; US 1‐59525‐008‐5), pp. xiv + 285, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life , Shirley du Boulay, DLT 2004 (0‐232‐52589‐7), pp. xi + 292, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire A Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans : Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350–1440 , James A. Clark, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, ISBN 0‐19‐927595‐5, pp. xi + 316, Hb £55.00
Reviewed by David Lohr
Hickory, North Carolina The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin , Donald McKim (ed), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐01672‐X), pp. xvii + 352, Pb £17.99/$24.99
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, Michigan In Search of the Catholic Spirit: Methodists and Roman Catholics in dialogue , David M. Chapman, Epworth Press 2004 (0‐7162‐0588‐2), pp. xviii + 312, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon
Chester le Street, County Durham King, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement , Robert Sherman, Theology for the Twenty‐first Century, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐02560‐8) xi + 291, Pb £22
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity , Carl Raschke, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2751‐9), pp. 215, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Borden Painter
Trinity College (Connecticut) A.J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist , Religion in America Series, R.G. Robins, New York, Oxford University P 2004 (0‐19‐516591‐8), pp. x + 316, Hb £27.50/$45.00
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills Jr.
Florida State University Emerging Evangelism , John Finney, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004 (0‐232‐52496‐3), pp. 178, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California Tractarians and the ‘Condition of England’: The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement , S.A. Skinner, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927323‐5), pp. x + 330, Hb £55
Reviewed by Denis Paz
University of North Texas A Different World Is Possible , Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino, and Felix Wilfred, eds., London: SCM Press, 2004 (0‐334‐03081‐1), pp. 140, Pb £10.50
Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung
Los Angeles, California The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant , Edwin Bryant and Maria Ekstrand (eds), Columbia UP 2004 (0 231 12256 X), pp. 448, Pb. $49.50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers Association Rethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction , Will Deming, Oxford University Press, 2005, (ISBN 0‐19‐516981‐6), pp. xi + 157, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Jane Compson
University of Central Florida Church, State and Civil Society , David Fergusson, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Hb 0‐521‐82239‐4, Pb 0‐521‐52959‐X), pp. vii + 213, Hb £40/$70, Pb £16.99/ $24.99
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality , Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐1958‐6, Pb 1‐4051‐12959‐4), pp. xii + 204, Hb £50, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Transformative Imagination: Rethinking Intercultural Theology , George Newlands, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3827‐8), pp. ix + 195, Hb £45
Reviewed by David Grumett
Exeter Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire , Brian Stanley (ed), Studies in the History of Christian Missions, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2116‐2), pp. 313, Hb £32.99/$45
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School Food for the Soul , Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro (eds.), Seabury Books 2004 (ISBN 1‐59627‐001‐2), pp. xxv + 242, Pb $18.00
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University Gay Unions In the Light of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason , Gray Temple, Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐457‐4), pp. 174, Pb $20.00
Reviewed by Randall Woodard
Silver Spring, MD A Brief History of Death , Douglas J. Davies, Blackwell 2005 (Pb 1‐4051‐0183‐0, Hb 1‐4051‐0182‐2), pp. xi + 184, Pb £12.99, Hb £40
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham A Fitting End: Making the Most of a Funeral , Hugh James, Canterbury Press Norwich 2004 (ISBN 1‐85311‐602‐5), pp. xi + 179, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago My Life and My Death: A Priest Confronts His Cancer , Jeffrey T. Simmons, New York: Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0‐89869‐445‐0), pp. 17 + 140, pb $14.00
Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien
Loyola University Chicago In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason , Kim Paffenroth, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1603‐9), pp. xvi + 160, Hb £22
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland. New Zealand Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics , S. Brent Plate, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐96992‐1), pp. xv + 171, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Gaye Ortiz
Augusta State University Science and Theology since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding , Peter Barrett, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08970‐3), pp. 208, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience , Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), Columbia University Press 2004 (0‐231‐13204‐2), pp. vii + 138, Hb £22.50/$34.50
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , William James, Centenary Edition, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐27809‐0), pp. lxiii + 415, Hb £16.99/$18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Discovering Girard , Michael Kirwan, Darton, Longman, and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52526‐9), pp. 137, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge     

Book Reviews

Abstract

New Directions in Counselling, Rowan Bayne, Ian Horton and Jenny Bimrose (eds), London: Routledge, 1996, 321 pp., £14.99 pb. £50.00 hb.

Counselling the Elderly and their Carers, Paul Terry, London: Macmillan, 1997, 184 pp., £14.99 pb.

The Many Faces of Eros: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Human Sexuality, Joyce McDougall, London: Free Association Books, 1995, 257 pp., £15.99 pb.

The Mind Object: Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency, Edward G. Corrigan and Pearl-Ellen Gordon (eds), London: Karnac Books, 1995, 263 pp., £19.95 pb.

Interventions with Bereaved Children, Susan C. Smith and Sister Margaret Pennells (eds), London: Jessica Kingsiey, 1995, 342 pp., £16.95 pb.

Race, Culture and Counselling, Colin Lago in collaboration with Joyce Thompson, Buckingham: Open University Press, 168 pp., £27.50 hb., £12.99 pb.

D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, Brett Kahr, London: Karnac Books, 1996, 189 pp., £17.95 pb.     

Books Received

(Inclusion in this list does not preclude a subsequent review discussion.)

Habermas and Pragmatism, ed. Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Catherine Kemp. London/New York: Routledge: 2002, xi + 244 pp., pb. £15.99.

Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions, David Bloor. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xvi + 173 pp., pb. £17.99.

What Ought I to Do?: Morality in Kant and Levinas, Catherine Chalier. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, 197 pp., $45.00, pb. $17.95.

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, John Christman. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 248 pp., £12.99, $20.95.

Paradoxes from A to Z, Michael Clark. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xi + 218 pp., no price given.

Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, Jonathan Crary. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, 397 pp., $45.00, pb. $22.95.

Heidegger's Concept of Truth, Daniel Dahlstrom. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxx + 462 pp., $60.00.

A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray, Penelope Deutscher. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, ix + 228 pp., $39.95, pb. $17.95.

A History of Irish Thought, Thomas Duddy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 362 pp., pb., no price given.

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics, Christopher Eberle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 405 pp., $75.00, pb. $28.00.

The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism, Brian Ellis. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, v + 185 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Mark J. Cherry (eds). Clinical Medical Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, x + 331 pp., pb. $39.95, £29,75.

A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Michael Friedman. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Co., 2000, xv + 175 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Non-Representational Theory of Knowledge, Warren G. Frisina. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xiii + 262 pp., $71.50, pb. $22.95.

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Richard M. Gale (ed.). Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, viii + 348 pp., £60.00, pb. £17.99.

The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics, Marcus Giaquinto. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, xi +286 pp., £35.00.

Forgiveness and Revenge, Trudy Govier. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 205 pp., pb. £13.99.

Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, Robert Hahn. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001, xxiii + 326 pp., $81.50, pb. $28.95.

Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary, Espen Hammer. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xiv + 199 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality, Robert A. Hinde. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiv + 241, pb. no price given.

The Divine Attributes, Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz. Exploring the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, xi + 204 pp., £50.00, pb. £15.99.

The Letters of George Santayana, Book Three 1921-1927, ed. William Holzberger. The Works of George Santayana. Vol. V. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, Ixviii + 512 pp., $55.00.

Theoretical Philosophy After 1781, Immanuel Kant. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Ed. Henry Allison and Peter Heath. Trans. Gary Hatfield and Michael Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 530 pp., $95.00.

Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality, Samuel J. Kerstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiv + 226 pp., $60.00.

Skepticism: The Central Issues, Charles Landesman. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, x + 210 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology, Leonard Lawlor. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xii + 286 pp., $49.95, pb. $19.95.

Richard Rorty, Alan Malachowski. Philosophy Now. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, xxi + 202 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics, George Marcus. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, viii + 171 pp., $45.00, pb. $19.95.

The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills. SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xv + 261 pp., $73.50, pb. $24.95.

The Phenomenology Reader, Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney (eds), London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 614 pp.

Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, xxxv + 202 pp., pb. $16.95.

On Film, Stephen Mulhall. Thinking in Action. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, v + 142pp., pb. £7.99, $12.95.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication, Andrew Neuman. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 251 pp., $60.00.

An Introduction to Philosophy, Jon Nuttall. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xvii + 254 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Vico: The First New Science, Gianbattista Vico. Ed. Leon Pompa. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Ixiv + 302 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

The Ethics of Aquinas, Stephen J. Pope (ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, xv + 496 pp., pb. $39.95, £29.75.

The Right and the Good, David Ross. Ed. Philip Stratton-Lake. British Moral Philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, Iviii + 183 pp., £40.00.

Dreaming by the Book, Elaine Scarry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 292 pp., pb. $18.95.

Environmental Ethics and Policy-Making, Mikael Stenmark. Ashgate Translations in Philosophy, Theology and Religion. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2002, vi + 161 pp., £37.50.

Bayes's Theorem, Richard Swinburne (ed.). Proceedings of the British Academy 113. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002, ix + 149 pp., £17.99.

After Christianity, Gianni Vattimo. Trans. Luca D'lsanto. Italian Academy Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, v + 156 pp., $24.50, pb. $17.00.

The Other Husserl: The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology, Donn Welton. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xvi + 496 pp., $54.95, pb. $29.95.

Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, Bernard Williams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, xi + 328 pp., £19.95, $27.95.     

Survey article: Christianity in the People's Republic of China

Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. Martin (eds), Rationality and the Study of Religion. Acta Jutlandica LXXII: 1, Theology Series 19. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1997, 221 pp., n.p., ISBN 87 7288 692 7).

Phillip Blond (ed.), Post-Secular Philosophy. London, Routledge, 1998, xiii+376 pp., £50, $85 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 09777 0, £15.99, $24.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 415 09778 9.

Peter and Linda Murray, The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, xii+596 pp., £15.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 860216 2.

Andrew Rawlinson, The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions. La Salle, IL, Open Court, 1997, xix+650 pp., $34.95, £31.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 812 69310 8.

C. G. Jung, Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, edited and selected by Roderick Main. New York and London, Routledge, vi+177 pp., $69.95, £45 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 15509 6, (paperback) $18.95, £14.99 ISBN 0 415 15508 8.

Rosalind Hackett, Art and Religion in Africa. Religion and the Arts Series. London, Cassell, 1996, 240 pp., 113 drawings and black-and-white photographs, four colour plates, n.p. ISBN 0 304 33752 8.

Schubert M. Ogden, Is There Only One True Religion or Are There Many? Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, 1992, iii+114 pp., $12.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 87074 329 5.

N. Ross Reat and Edmund F. Perry, A World Theology: The Central Spiritual Reality of Humankind. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, iii+314 pp., $65.00, £45.00 ISBN 0 521 33159 5.     

Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When, 2nd edition

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Counselling in Medical Settings, Patricia East, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995, 153 pp., £10.99 pb.

An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame, Anne Gray, London: Routledge, 1994, 162 pp. £30 hb., £10.00 pb.

Supervising the Counsellor: A Cyclical Model, Steve Page and Val Woskett, London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 215 pp., £35 hb., £12.99 pb.

Paedophiles and Sexual Offences against Children, Dennis Howitt, Chichester: Wiley, 1995, 289 pp., £27.50 hb., £16.99 pb.

A Question of Time: Essentials of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Angela Molnos, London: Karnac, 1995, 132 pp., £14.95 pb.

Mental Space, Robert M. Young, London: Process Press, 1994, 200 pp., £15.95 pb.

Counselling in the Pastoral and Spiritual Context, David Lyall, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994, 159 pp. £10.99 pb.     

Book reviews

Arvind Sharma, The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedānra: A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, viii+232 pp., £29.50, $32.50. ISBN 0 271 01032 0.

Niels C. Nielsen Jr (ed.), Christianity After Communism: Social, Political and Cultural Struggle in Russia. Boulder, Westview Press, 1994, ix+171 pp., £37.00, $49.95. ISBN 0 8133 2365 7.

Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, xi+744 pp., £45.00, $49.95. ISBN 0 521 43405 X.

Christopher Herbert, Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991, 312 pp., $48 (hardback) ISBN 0 1226 32738 8, $16.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 32738 6.

Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995, 198 pp., $27.50. ISBN 0 674 00871 5.

William Hamilton, A Quest for the Post-Historical Jesus. New York, Continuum, 1994, 304 pp., $27.50. ISBN 0 8264 0641 6.

Valerie J. Hoffman, Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt. University of South Carolina Press, 1995, 377 pp.+ notes and index. ISBN 1 57003 055 3.

Margaret H. Case (ed.), Heinrich Zimmer: Coming Into His Own. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994, vi+ 148 pp., $24.95. ISBN 0 691 03337 4.

Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, Women Under the Bō Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions 5.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xx+284 pp., £37.50, $59.95. ISBN 0 521 46129 4.

Philip C. Almond, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xiii+ 218 pp., £35. ISBN 0 521 45371 2.

George W. Stocking, Jr., After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, London, Athlone Press, 1996, xx+441 pp., $40. ISBN 0 485 30072 9.

P. F. Kornicki and I. J. McMullen (eds), Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxv+315 pp., £40. ISBN 0 521 55028 9.

Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081–1261. 605 pp., $89.95 (cloth). ISBN 0521 26432 4.

David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996, ix+301 pp., $29.95, £23.95. ISBN 0 691 03375 7.