Ancient Israel, Judaism and Christianity in Contemporary Perspective. Essays in Memory of Karl-Johan Illman – Edited by Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Antti Laato, Risto Nurmela and Karl Gustav Sandelin (eds)

Book reviewed:
Ancient Israel, Judaism and Christianity in Contemporary Perspective. Essays in Memory of Karl-Johan Illman , Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Antti Laato, Risto Nurmela and Karl Gustav Sandelin (eds), Lanham University Press of America 2006 (0-7618-3362-5), ix + 448 pp., pb $41.00     

Book Reviews

Warren, Karen J. (ed.) Ecological Feminism
Steiner, Hillel An Essay on Rights
Marietta, Don E., Jr and Embree, Lester (eds) Environmental Philosopy and Environmental Activism
Haworth, Alan Anti-Libertarianism
Leahy, Michael and Cohn-Sherbok, Dan (eds) The Liberation Debate: Rights at Issue     

The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy

Book Information The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy. The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman, eds., Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, viii + 345, $69.30 (cloth) Edited by Robert C. Solomon; and David Sherman. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. viii + 345. $69.30 (cloth:),     

Book Reviews

Robinson, Howard Perception
Macnamara, John and Reyes, Gonzalo E. (eds) The Logical Foundations of Cognition
Michael, M. and O'Leary-Hawthorne, J. (eds) Philosophy in Mind
McCulloch, Gregory The Mind and its World
Wilson, Robert A. Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds
Harris, Henry (ed.), Identity
Landman, Janet Regret: the Persistence of the Possible
Miller, David Critical Rationalism: a Restatement and Defence
Stevenson, Leslie and Byerly, Henry The Many Faces of Science
Fogelin, Robert J. Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Sessions, William Lad The Concept of Faith: a Philosophical Investigation
Copp, David Morality, Normativity and Society
Kane, Robert Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World
Gellner, Ernest Encounters with Nationalism
Hadot, Pierre Philosophy as a Way of Life; Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
Grayling, A.C. (ed.), Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject
Bunning, Nicholas and Tsui-James, E.P. (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Williams, Paul with Tribe, Anthony, Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition Kreyenbroek, Philip G., in collaboration with Munshi, Shehnaz Neville, Living Zoroastrianism: Urban Parsis Speak About Their Religion Freedman, David Noel and McClymond, Michael J. (eds), The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus and Muhammad as Religious Founders Porter, Stanley E. and Pearson, Brook W. R. (eds), Christian‐Jewish Relations Through the Centuries Boys, Mary C., Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self‐Understanding Neusner Jacob, Sonn, Tamara and Brockopp, Jonathan E., Judaism and Islam in Practice Miller, Patrick D., The Religion of Ancient Israel Gottwald, Norman K., The Politics of Ancient Israel Flint, Peter W. (ed) with Kim, Tae Hun, The Bible at Qumran: Text, Shape, and Interpretation Johnston, Philip and Walker, Peter (eds), The Land of Promise: Biblical, Theological and Contemporary Perspectives Sauter, Gerhard and Barton, John (eds), Revelation and Story: Narrative Theology and the Centrality of Story Vaggione, Richard Paul, Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution Howard, Thomas Albert, Religion and the Rise of Historicism: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth‐Century Historical Consciousness Ustorf, Werner, Sailing on the Next Tide: Missions, Missiology, and the Third Reich McDowell, John C., Hope in Barth’s Eschatology: Interrogations and Transformations beyond Tragedy Corrington, Robert S., A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy Brown, Frank Burch, Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life Swinton, John, Spirituality and Mental Health Care: Rediscovering a ‘Forgotten’ Dimension Clark, Stephen R., Biology and Christian Ethics Fenn, Richard K. (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion Livezey, Lowell W. (ed.), Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City     

Reviews

Malpas, J.E. (ed) The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan Vols I and II
Popper, Karl R. The Myth of the Framework and Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
Baier, Annette Moral Prejudices
Gormally, Luke (ed) Moral Truth and Moral Tradition
Preyer, G., Siebelt, F. and Ulfig, A. (eds) Language, Mind and Epistemology: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy
Midgley, Mary The Ethical Primate     

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     

Is Scripture the Origin of Halakhah? – Jacob Neusner The Talmud: Law,Theology, Narrative: A Sourcebook – Jacob Neusner Theology of Normative Judaism: A Source Book – Jacob Neusner The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination: The Mishnah against the Bible and Qumran – Jacob Neusner

Book reviewed: Is Scripture the Origin of Halakhah? , Jacob Neusner, University Press of America 2005 (0‐7618‐3117‐7), xiv + 217 pp., pb $34.00 The Talmud: Law, Theology, Narrative: A Sourcebook , Jacob Neusner, University Press of America 2005 (0‐7618‐3115‐0), xxxiv + 251 pp., pb $39.00 Theology of Normative Judaism: A Source Book , Jacob Neusner, University Press of America 2005 (0‐7618‐3116‐9), vi + 156 pp., pb $26.00 The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination: The Mishnah against the Bible and Qumran , Jacob Neusner, University Press of America 2005 (0‐7618‐3118‐5), xxxiv + 226 pp., pb $35.00     

Book reviews

Michael Durrant and Cheryl White (eds), Ideas for Therapy with Sexual Abuse
Alan Jenkins, Invitations To Responsibility: The Therapeutic Engagement of Men who are Violent and Abusive
Ellen S. Amatea, Brief Strategic Intervention for School Behaviour Problems
Derald Wing Sue and David Sue, Counselling the Culturally Different – Theory and Practice
Donna Smith, Stepmothering
Moncrieff Cochran, Mary Larner, David Riley, Lars Gunnarsson and Charles R. Henderson Jr, Extending Families: The Social Networks of Parents and Their Children
Jeffrey A. Kottler, On Being a Therapist
Anthony Williams, Forbidden Agendas, Strategic Action in Groups
David J. Moultrup, Husbands, Wives and Lovers: The Emotional System of the Extramarital Affair     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Linda Woodhead (ed.), Peter Berger and the Study of Religion Jacob Neusner, Dual Discourse, Single Judaism: The Category‐Formations of the Halakhah and the Aggadah Defined, Compared, and Contrasted Thomas L. Brodie, Genesis as Dialogue: A Literary, Historical and Theological Commentary Anthony C. Thiselton, The First Epistle to the Corinthians. A Commentary on the Greek Text, The New International Greek Testament Commentary Paul B. Duff, Who Rides the Beast? Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse David R. Cartlidge and J. Keith Elliott, Art and the Christian Apocrypha Jeffrey A. Trumbower, Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non‐Christians in Early Christianity Mark Hill, Ecclesiastical Law K. Hannah Holtschneider, German Protestants Remember the Holocaust: Theology and the Construction of Collective Memory Catherine Cookson, Regulating Religion: The Courts and the Free Exercise Clause Amanda Porterfield, The Transformation of American Religion: The Story of a Late Twentieth‐Century Awakening Colin Gunton, Stephen Holmes and Murray Rae, (eds.) The Practice of Theology: A Reader John Polkinghorne, (ed.) The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis Francesca Aran Murphy, The Comedy of Revelation: Paradise Lost and Regained in Biblical Narrative Donald A. Hay and Alan Kreider, (eds.) Christianity and the Culture of Economics Richard H. Roberts, Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences Celia E. Deane‐Drummond, Biology and Theology Today: Exploring the Boundaries Jorn Henrik Olsen, Kristus i tropisk Afrika – i spaendingsfeltet mellem identitet og relevans (Christ in Tropical Africa – in the tension between identity and relevance)     

Book reviews

Alan S. Gurman and David P. Kniskern (eds), The Handbook of Family Therapy, volume II
Joseph Nowinski, Substance Abuse in Adolescents and Young Adults
Constance Hammen, Depression Runs in Families: The Social Context of Risk and Resilience in Children of Depressed Mothers
Robert Sherman, Paul Oresky and Yvonne Rountree, Solving Problems in Couples and Family Therapy: Techniques and Tactics     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. E. Keck et al. (eds), Numbers, Deuteronomy, Introduction to Narrative Literature, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1&2 Samuel S. E. Gillingham, One Bible, Many Voices: Different Approaches to Biblical Studies Michael D. Goulder, The Psalms of the Return (Book 5, Psalms 107–150): Studies in the Psalter IV James D. G. Dunn, T. & T. Clark, The Theology of Paul the Apostle D. Mendels, Identity, Religion and Historiography: Studies in Hellenistic History William Horbury, Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ James S. McLaren, Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE J. Neusner and B. Chilton, Jewish-Christian Debates: God, Kingdom, Messiah Ben Pink Dandelion, Douglas Gwyn and Timothy Peat, Heaven on Earth: Quakers and the Second Coming Adnan Aslam, Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr W. Cantwell Smith, Believing: An Historical Perspective W. Cantwell Smith, Faith and Belief: The Difference Between Them Norman Doe, Canon Law in the Anglican Communion: A Worldwide Perspective G. R. Evans, Discipline and Justice in the Church of England Alan Falconer (ed.), Faith and Order in Moshi: The 1996 Commission Meeting Lewis S. Mudge, The Church as Moral Community: Ecclesiology and Ethics in Ecumenical Debate T. F. Best and D. Hellar (eds), Eucharistic Worship in Ecumenical Contexts: The Lima Liturgy – And Beyond Timothy Bradshaw ed, Grace and Truth in the Secular Age José Comblin, Called for Freedom: The Changing Context of Liberation Theology Karen Kilby, Karl Rahner Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women and Redemption: A Theological History Ian Markham, Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology Johannes A. van der Ven, Formation of the Moral Self Robin Gill (ed.), Euthanasia and the Churches Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil John Polkinghorne, Science and Theology: An Introduction John P. Burgess (ed.), In Whose Image? Faith, Science and the New Genetics Stephen Platten (ed.), Seeing Ourselves: Interpreting Contemporary Society Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (eds), Religion Ursula King (ed.), Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age     

RECENT BOOKS IN…NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

Exploring the Gospel of John: Essays in Honor of D. Moody Smith , R. Alan Culpepper and C. Clifton Black (eds) Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Writings , Majella Franzmann, T. & T. Clark Renewal through Suffering: A Study of II Corinthians , A. E. Harvey, T. & T. Clark The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence: Interests and Ideology from I Corinthians to I Clement , David G. Horrell, T. & T. Clark Jesus Matters: 150 Years of Research , C. J. den Heyer Who Did Jesus Think He Was? , J. C. O'Neill, E. J. Brill Scripture and Discernment: Decision Making in the Church , Luke T. Johnson The Human Condition: Anthropology in the Teachings of Jesus , Paul and John, Udo Schnelle, T. & T. Clark     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Michael W. Myers, Brahman: A Comparative Theology Leo G. Perdue (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible W. Lee Humphreys, The Character of God in the Book of Genesis: A Narrative Appraisal Klaus Baltzer, Deutero‐Isaiah, Hermeneia — A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible Brevard S. Childs, Isaiah, The Old Testament Library Tina Beattie, The Last Supper According to Mary and Martha Jacob Neusner, The Halakhah and the Aggadah: Theological Perspectives J. Behr, Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement John Chrysostom, Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen, The Early Church Fathers Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets Phillip Cary, Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist Paul M. Collins, Trinitarian Theology West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas G. R. Evans (ed.), The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period Donald K. McKim, Introducing the Reformed Faith: Biblical Revelation, Christian Tradition, Contemporary Significance Eric L. Santner, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship John Robinson, Honest to God Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation Vincent J. Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamin Valentin (eds), The Ties that Bind: African American and Hispanic American/ Latino/a Theologies in Dialogue Colin Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine Jacques Derrida, edited by Pascale‐Anne Brault and Michael Naas, The Work of Mourning Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh (eds), Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth‐Century Philosophy John Hick, Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion Janet Radcliffe Richards, Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
EQUALITY AND LIBERTY: A Defense of Radical Egalitarianism Kai Nielsen Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985
LIBERTY AND EQUALITY Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul (eds.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985
EQUALITY (Key Ideas Series) Bryan S. Turner Chichester: Ellis Honvood Limited, 1986; London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1986
UTILITY AND RIGHTS R.G. Frey (ed.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
INALIENABLE RIGHTS: A Defense Diana T. Meyers New York
DEMOCRACY EAST AND WEST: A Philosophical Overview Howard P. Kainz New York
OUT OF ORDER: Affirmative Action and the Crisis of Doctrinaire Liberalism Nicholas Capaldi Buffalo     

Book reviews and books received

Michel Hersen and Alan S. Bellack (eds.): Handbook of Clinical Behaviour Therapy with Adults. New York: Plenum, 1985.

D. S. Whitaker: Using Groups to Help People. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

D. H. J. Morgan: The Family, Politics and Social Theory. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

Ray Fitzpatrick, John Hinton, Stanton Newnam, Graham Scambler and James Thompson: The Experience of Illness. London: Tavistock, 1984.     

Short Notices

Short notices of reissued books:
Jacques Waardenburg (ed.), Muslim Perceptions of other Religions: A Historical Survey
Nicholas Awde (ed.), Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qurãn and Hadiths
Jacob Neusner and William Scott Green (eds), Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rhetoric and Ethic. The Politics of Biblical Studies
Yairah Amit, History and Ideology: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible
David R. Slavitt (translator), The Book of the Twelve Prophets
Anthony R. Ceresko OSFS, Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom: A Spirituality for Liberation
Martin Abegg Jr., Peter Flint, Eugene Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Most Ancient Versions of the Books of the Bible
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus
Calvin Roetzel, Paul, the Man and the Myth
Robert Dodaro & George Lawless (eds), Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner
Allan D. Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia
Bernhard Lohse, Translated by Ray A. Harrisville, Martin Luther's Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development
Robert Pope, Seeking God's Kingdom: The Nonconformist Social Gospel in Wales 1906–1939
Anton Wessels, 'A Kind of Bible': Vincent van Gogh as Evangelist
Daniel E. Albrecht, Rites in the Spirit: A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality,
David G. Kamitsuka, Theology and Contemporary Culture: Liberation, Postliberal and Revisionary Perspectives
Lynn Japinga, Feminism and Christianity: An Essential Guide
Michael Howard, God in the Depths – Images of the Sea in the Development of Faith
Pat Lyne OCDS, Edith Stein Rediscovered: A Personal Portrait     

Book Reviews

Andy Treacher and John Carpenter (eds.): Using Family Therapy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

Robert de Board: Counselling People at Work. Farnborough: Gower, 1983.

Ellen Noonan: Counselling Young People. London: Methuen, 1983.     

Reviews

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

Reviews

Rottschaefer, William A. The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
Mccutcheon, Russell T. Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Drengson, Alan The Practice of Technology: Exploring Technology,Ecophilosophy, and Spiritual Disciplines for Vital Links
Burrell, David B. and Mcginn, Bernard (eds.) God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium