SHORT NOTICES

Renewing the Vision: Rabbis Speak Out on Modem Issues, Jonathan A. Romain (ed)
The Three Pillars of Judaism: A Search for Faith and Values, Jonathan Wittenberg
Kierkegaard, Julia Watkin
Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations, Robert B. Pippin
The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age, David H. Lane
Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: Sacred Doctrine and the Natural Knowledge of God, Eugene F. Rogers jr
Christology from Within: Spirituality and the Incarnation in Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mark A. McIntosh
Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger (eds)
Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue, W. Mark Richardson and Wesley J. Wildman (eds)     

Book Reviews

James Griffin, Value Judgement: Improving our Ethical Beliefs
David DeGrazia, Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life andMoral Status
Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (eds), Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology
Henry Richardson, Practical Reasoning about Final Ends
Margaret Jane Radin, Contested Commodities: the Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts and Other Things
Gordon Graham, Ethics and International Relations
Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting (eds), Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty
André Gallois, The World Without, the Mind Within: an Essay on First-Person Authority
Richard Fumerton, Meta-epistemology and Scepticism
Raymond D. Boisvert, John Dewey: Rethinking our Time
Jonathan Lowe, Subjects of Experience
Edward Stein, Without Good Reason: the Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Robert L. Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock (eds), Wittgenstein and Quine
Scott Meikle, Aristotle's Economic Thought
Eric Matthews, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Jeri Doane and Diane Diamond Affect and Attachment in the Family: A Family-based Treatment of Major Psychiatric Disorder.
Jane Ribbens Mothers and Their Children. A Feminist Sociology of Chiidrearing.
Charlotte Burck and Bebe Speed, (eds) Gender, Power and Relationships.
Eddy Street Counselling for Family Problems.
Gerald R. Weeks and Larry Hof (eds), The Marital-Relationship Therapy Casebook: Theory and Application of the Intersystem Model.
Andrew I. Schwebel and Mark A. Fine, Understanding and Helping Families. A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach.
Janine Roberts, Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy.     

Review article

The Satanism Scare. James T. Richardson, Joel Best, and David G. Bromley, eds. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991. 320 pp, £1750 (p/b).     

Short Notices

Books reviewed in this article: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Hinduism and Buddhism Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni (eds), Transmitting Jewish Traditions. Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion Daniel H. Frank, Oliver Leaman and Charles H. Manekin (eds), The Jewish Philosophy Reader Robert L. Cole, The Shape and the Message of Book III (Psalms 73–89) M. Marcovich (ed), Athenagorae Qui Fertur: De Resurrectione Mortuorum Carol Harrison, Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity Donald K. McKim, Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms Tina Beattie, God's Mother, Eve's Advocate: A Gynocentric Refiguration of Marian Symbolism in Engagement with Luce Irigaray Leo D. Lefebure, Revelation, the Religions, and Violence Ian Barbour, When Science Meets Religion H. Paul Santmire, Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology Mark A. Noll and Ronald F. Thiemann (eds), Where Shall My Wond'ring Soul Begin? The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought Donal Dorr, Mission in Today's World John d'Arcy May, After Pluralism: Towards an Interreligious Ethic Alan Aldridge, Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction Martyn Percy (ed), Calling Time: Religion and Change at the Turn of the Millennium Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society Nicholas M. Healy, Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical‐Prophetic Ecclesiology T. J. Gorringe, Thinking Things Through. 8. Salvation     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
L. Day and P. Pringle (eds), Pringle Reflective Enquiry into Therapeutic Institutions
E. Mark Cummings, Patrick T. Davies and Susan B. Campbell , Developmental Psychopathology and Family Process. Theory, Research and Clinical Implications
Rachael Hetherington, Karen Baistow, I. Katz, J. Mesie and J. Trowel , The Welfare of Children with Mentally Ill Parents. Learning from Inter-Country
K.H. Brisch , Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Arvind Sharma (ed.), Hinduism and Secularism: After Ayodhya J’annine Jobling, Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context: Restless Readings Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner (eds), The Brother of Jesus: James the Just and his Mission Robert M. Grant, Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at Corinth Mark A. Noll (ed.), God and Mammon. Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860 Linda Woodhead (ed.), Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth Century Contexts Lynda Palazzo, Christina Rossetti’s Feminist Theology John K. Roth, Holocaust Politics Wolfram Weiße (ed.), Wahrheit und Dialog: Theologische Grundlagen und Impulse gegenwärtiger Religionspädagogik Rodney Stark, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism James Boyd White, The Edge of Meaning Daniel W. Hardy, Finding the Church – The Dynamic Truth of Anglicanism Kenneth Mason, Priesthood and Society, Second edition John Webster, Word and Church: Essays in Christian Dogmatics James Buckley and L. Gregory Jones (eds), Theology and Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium John Howard Yoder, Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method John Caputo, Mark Dooley and Michael Scanlon (eds), Questioning God Gavin Hyman, The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism? Walter T. Davis, Gary Dreibelbis, Teresa Blythe, Mark Scalese SJ, Elizabeth Winas Winslea and Donald L. Ashburn, Watching What We Watch: Prime–Time Television Through the Lens of Faith Christopher Deacy, Screen Christologies Tony Bayfield, Sidney Brichto and Eugene Fisher (eds), He Kissed Him and They Wept: Towards a Theology of Jewish–Catholic Partnership Adrian Thatcher, Living Together and Christian Ethics Steve Bruce, God is Dead: Secularization in the West David Harrington Watt, Bible–Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power Daniel Sack, Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture     

Book Reviews

Kressel, Neil J. (ed.) Political Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Barber, James David The Book of Democracy
Aron, Adrianne and Corne, Shawn (eds) Writings for a Liberation Psychology: Ignacio Martin-Baró
Ettin, Mark F.; Fidler, Jay W. and Cohen, Bertram D. Group Processes and Political Dynamics     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Carsten Peter Thiede, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity Markus Bockmuehl (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Jesus Paul Copan and Craig A. Evans (eds), Who Was Jesus? A Jewish–Christian Dialogue David F. Ford and Mike Higton (eds), Jesus Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt and Frederique Vandecasteele–Vanneuville (eds), Anti–Judaism and the Fourth Gospel Tania Oldenhage, Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust Steve Moyise (ed.), Studies in the Book of Revelation Stephen R. Haynes, Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery George Herring, What was the Oxford Movement? Peter J. Bowler, Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth–Century Britain Giles Fraser, Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief Theo Hobson, The Rhetorical Word: Protestant Theology and the Rhetoric of Authority Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), The Last Things: Biblical and Theological Perspectives on Eschatology Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition W. Montgomery Watt, A Christian Faith for Today Alex Wright, Why Bother With Theology? Teresa Berger (ed.), Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (ed.), No Other God's Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions Mark Atherton (ed.), Celts and Christians: New Approaches to the Religious Traditions of Britain and Ireland Yossi Klein Halevi, William Morrow, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land Richard K. Fenn, Beyond Idols: The Shape of a Secular Society Robert Durback (ed.), Henri Nouwen: In My Own Words Raymond Plant, Politics, Theology and History Peter Coles (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the New Cosmology Wesley Carr et al (eds), The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Barbara Kellerman, Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business
Jon Hurwitz and Mark Peffley (eds.), Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the United States
Neil J. Smelser, The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
Paul Wachtel, Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle Between Whites and Blacks
Russell F. Farnen and Jos D. Meloen, Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education: A Cross-National Empirical Survey     

The Vedas in Śankara

Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity. Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, 266 pp., $21.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 631 19332 4.

Robert C. Smith, The Wounded Jung: Effects of Jung's Relationships on His Life and Work. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1996, xiii+208 pp., £22.00 ISBN 0 8101 1270 1.

John Breen and Mark Williams (eds), Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses. London, Macmillan, 1996, 189 pp., £42.50 ISBN 0 333 58938 6

Robert A. Segal, June Singer and Murray Stein (eds), The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Psychology and Contemporary Culture. Chicago, Open Court, 1995, xii+228 pp., £34.95, $38.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 8126 9277 2, £15.30, $17.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 8126 9278 0.     

REVIEWS

The Bible and the Modern World, D.J.A. Clines, Sheffield Academic Press 1997 Introduction to Biblical Studies, Steve Moyise, Cassell 1998 The Book of Hiding. Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation and Esther, Timothy K. Beal Listening In. A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms, S. B. Reid The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, Ben Witherington III The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation. A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics, Richard B. Hays, T. & T. Clark 1997 The Nations that Know Thee Not. Ancient Jewish Attitudes towards Other Religions, R. Goldenberg Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine, Michael Prior (ed) Theodicy, Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed) The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: the Philosophy of Religious Argument, J. Neusner and B. Chilton, Routledge 1997 The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Times to 1789, Volume 1 - History, Samuel Krauss and William Horbury (eds), JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1997 Defenders of Reason in Islam. Mu'tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol, Richard C. Martin and Mark R. Woodward with Dwi S. Atmaja, Oneworld 1997 Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People, Vinay Kumar Srivastava, Oxford University Press, Delhi 1997 Providential Accidents. An Autobiography, Geza Vermes, SCM Press 1998 Care in a Confused Climate: Pastoral Care and Postmodern Culture, Paul Goodliff, Darton, Longman and Todd 1998 The Jubilee Challenge: Utopia or Possibility? Hans Ucko (ed) Thinking Things Through 4. Why Evil and Suffering?, C.S. Rodd The Fascination of Evil, Concilium 1998/1, David Tracy and Hermann Haring (eds) A Love and its Sounding. Explorations of T. S. Eliot, Christopher Southgate, with a Foreword by Anne Stevenson, University of Salzburg 1997 Art, Modernity and Faith. Restoring the Image, George Pattison, SCM Press, 2nd edn 1998 Makers of Christian Theology in America, Mark G. Toulouse and James O. Duke (eds) To Speak of God in the Twilight Towards a Theology of Mission in the Postmodern World, Tiziano Tosolini, Gracewing 1997 Who Comes in the Name of the Lord?: Jesus at the Margins, Harold J. Recinos Beyond All Reason - The Limits of Post-Modern Theology, John Reader, Aureus 1997 Millennium, Messiahs and Mayhem. Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements, Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer (eds), Routledge 1997 Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology, Phillip Blond (ed) Kierkegaard: A Critical Reader, Jonathan Ree and Jane Chamberlain (eds) Tentmaking. Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry, James M. M. Francis and Leslie J. Francis (eds) The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition, Kenneth Stevenson, John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation, Francis McGrath, Burns and Oates 1997     

Erratum

James T. Richardson, Joel Best and David G. Bromley (eds). The satanism scareNew York, Aldine de Gruyter, 1991, 320 pp. ISBN 3 11 013221 4, paperback, DM 49     

REVIEWS

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

Reviews

Books reviewed Donald Wiebe, The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy Timothy Fitzgerald, The Ideology of Religious Studies John Witte Jr and Richard C. Martin (eds), Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism Paul J. Griffiths, Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion Shaye J. D. Cohen, The Beginnings of Jewishness. Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties José Faur, Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed Kenneth Cragg, The Weight in the Word – Prophethood: Biblical and Qur'anic Kenneth Cragg, Readings in the Qur'an James Howard‐Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward (eds), The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown John McManners, Church and Society in Eighteenth‐Century France, Volume 1 The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramifications, Volume 2 The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion Nigel Scotland,‘Good and Proper Men ’: Lord Palmerston and the Bench of Bishops David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, Mark A. Noll (eds), Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective Alistair Kee, Nietzsche against the Crucified Wallace W. Zane, Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of a West Indian Religion William P. Anderson and Richard L. Diesslin, A Journey through Christian Theology: With Texts from the First to the Twenty‐first Century David Coffey, Deus Trinitas: The Doctrine of the Triune God Reinhard Hutter, Suffering Divine Things: Theology as Church Practice John W. de Gruchy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Geffrey B. Kelly and C. John Weborg (eds), Reflections on Bonhoeffer: Essays in Honour of F. Burton Nelson George Hunsinger, Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth Richard Bauckham (ed.), God will be All in All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann Paul Avis, God and the Creative Imagination Nicholas Sagovsky, Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion Paul Helm, Faith with Reason Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief Lisa Barnes Lampman and Michelle D. Shattuck (eds), God and the Victim: Theological Reflections on Evil, Victimization, Justice, and Forgiveness Gregory Baum (ed.), The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview Frank Graziano, The Millennial New World Jennifer E. Porter and Darcee L. McLaren (eds),Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture Eugene F. Rogers Jr, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way Back into the Triune God Liam Gearon (ed.), English Literature, Theology and the Curriculum Robert Detweiler and David Jasper (eds), Religion and Literature: A Reader G. R. Evans and Martyn Percy (eds), Managing the Church? Order and Organization in a Secular Age     

Reviews

Books reviewed Clare O’Farrell, Daphne Meadmore, Erica McWilliam and Colin Symes (eds.), Taught Bodies David Willows, Divine Knowledge: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Christian Education Mark R. Schwehn (ed.), Everyone A Teacher (The Ethics of Everyday Life Richard T. Hughes, How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind Michael Joseph Brown, What They Don’t Tell You: A Survivor’s Guide to Biblical Studies Anthony J. Diekema, Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship Helen Edwards, Brenda Smith, ; and Graham Webb (eds.), Lecturing: Case Studies, Experience and Practice Robert Benne, Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions Steve Ketteridge, Stephanie Marshall and Heather Fry (eds.), The Effective Academic: A Handbook for Enhanced Academic Practice David Jobling, Tina Pippin and Ronald Schleifer (eds.), The Postmodern Bible Reader     

Book Reviews

Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason
Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: a Defence of Conceptual Analysis
John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control: a Theory of Moral Responsibility
Ruth Chang, Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
Mary Warnock, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
R.A. Duff, Criminal Attempts
Derek Bolton and Jonathan Hill, Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: the Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry
David Archard, Sexual Consent
Matthew Kieran, Media Ethics: a Philosophical Approach
John Cottingham, Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics
Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil
Simon Glendinning, On Being with Others: Heidegger – Derrida – Wittgenstein     

Convergence in Career Development Theory: A Book Review

Book reviewed in this article: Convergence in Career Development Theory: Implications for Science and Practice by Mark L. Savickas and Robert W. Lent (Eds.)     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed:
Mercy Amba Oduyoye. Beads and Strands: Reflections of an African Woman on Christianity in Africa. Kwame Bediako. Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience. Kä Mana. Christians and the Churches of Africa: Salvation in Christ and the Building of a New African Society. Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Sarah J. Dille. Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah. Reviewed by Mark Brummitt
Mary E. Shields. Circumscribing the Prostitute: The Rhetorics of Intertextuality, Metaphor and Gender in Jeremiah 3.1–4.4. Reviewed by Mark Brummitt
Hasia R. Diner. A New Promised Land: A History of Jews in America. Reviewed by Michael A. Chester
David Booy (ed.). Autobiographical Writings of Early Quaker Women. Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Frank Jehle, William B. Eerdmans. Ever against the Stream: The Politics of Karl Barth, 1906–1968. Reviewed by Peter Kalve
William F. Storrar and Andrew R. Morton (eds). Public Theology for the 21st Century. Reviewed by John Armson
Flemming Rutlege. The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings. Reviewed by Christy Lohr
Charles E. Curran. The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II. Reviewed by Bernadette McNary-Zak
Nancy Roth. An Invitation to Christian Yoga. Nancy Roth. Spiritual Exercises: Joining Body and Spirit in Prayer. Reviewed by Christy Lohr
Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigena (eds). Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Reviewed by Andrew Dawson
Margaret Benefiel. Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations. Reviewed by Christy Lohr