SHORT NOTICES

Book reviewed: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD‐ROM , John J. Collins, Fortress Press, 2004, (0‐8006‐2991‐4), pp. ix + 6 13, Pb $49.00
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples , Ilan Pappe, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐55632‐5), pp. xxi + 333, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Vaughan S Roberts
Warwick Job's God , Ellen van Wolde (ed.), Concilium 2004/4, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐03080‐3), pp. 141, Pb £9.95
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University Die Rezeption des Propheten Ezechiel in der Offenbarung des Johannes , B. Kowalski, Stuttgarter Biblische Beiträge 32, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk 2004 (3‐460‐00521‐1), pp. 529, c40.90
Reviewed by Steve Moyise
University College Chichester Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco‐Roman World , Judith M. Lieu, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926289‐6), pp. x + 370, Hb £55
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Durham Exploring New Testament Greek , Peter Kevern and Paula Gooder, SCM‐Canterbury Press, LTD 2004, London, 0‐334‐029422, pp. 236, £10.99
Reviewed by Doreen McFarlane
Hartford Seminary Communio Sanctorum: The Church as the Communion of Saints. Bilateral Working Group of the German National Bishops’ Conference and the Church Leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Translated by Mark W. Jeske, Michael Root, and Daniel R. Smith. Edited by Michael Root. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004. 0‐8146‐2566‐5 (pb.) xviii + 91. $14.95.
Reviewed by David M. Whitford
Claflin University Unwelcome Good News: Providence in Human Life , Andrew P. Porter, Wipf & Stock Publishers 2004 (ISBN 1‐59244‐938‐7), pp. viii + 149, pb $19.00
Reviewed by Sarah K. Pinnock
Trinity University, Town Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting , Heidi J. Hornik and Mikael C. Parsons, Trinity Press International 2004, A Continuum Imprint (1‐56338‐405‐1), pp. ix + 164, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Theology of Physics , Dr. George Richter, Richter – et al. 2004, (0‐9746720‐0‐9), pp. 184.
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     

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: Theory For Religious Studies , William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐96639‐6), pp. xv + 168, Pb £10.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury René Girard: Violence and Mimesis , Chris Fleming, Key Contemporary Thinkers, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2948‐2), pp. xii + 211, Pb £15.99/$24.95
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought , Margaret R. Miles, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1‐4051‐0845‐2, Pb 1‐4051‐0846‐0), pp. xxiv + 435, Hb £60/Pb £24.99
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire , Iain Gardner and Samuel N.C. Lieu (eds), Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0‐5215‐6090‐X, Pb 0‐5215‐6822‐6), pp. xviii + 312, Hb £50/Pb £19.95
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris , Barbara B. Diefendorf, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐509582‐0), pp. ix + 340, Hb £36.50
Reviewed by Stephen Morris
New York Calvin's Christology , Stephen Edmondson, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐54154‐9), pp. xiv + 248, Hb $70/Pb $25.99
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH Honest to God: 40 Years On , Colin Slee (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02939‐2), pp. xiv + 160, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions , George Sumner, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2498‐6), pp. vi + 219, Hb £17.95/$26
Reviewed by Revd Barry Linney
Cherry Hinton St. Andrew, Cambridge Bound to Be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism Reinhard Hütter, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2750‐0), pp. x + 313, Pb £18.99/$28
Reviewed by Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition , Christopher J. Ellis, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02967‐8), pp. viii + 327, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, County Durham Mission Implausible: Restoring Credibility to the Church , Duncan McLaren, Paternoster Press 2004 (1‐8422‐7295‐0), pp. 214, Hb £15.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet , Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97022‐9), pp. vii + 279, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury The Way it Was: The Narrative of the Birth of Jesus , Matthew Byrne, Columba Press 2004 (1‐85607‐463‐3), pp. 178, Pb £7.99/€11.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Christian Attitudes to Marriage: From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium , Peter Coleman, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02956‐2), pp. xii + 234, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by Randall Jay Woodard
Silver Spring, Maryland Sacred Longings: Ecofeminist Theology and Globalization , Mary C. Grey, SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02928‐7), pp. xii + 260, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life , William Schweiker and Charles T. Mathewes (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐24846), pp. ix + 242, Pb £25.99/ $36
Reviewed by Richard Nagle
Heythrop College, London A Time of Waiting: Images and Insights , Anne Thurston, Columba 2004 (1‐85607‐471‐4), pp. 93, Pb £6.99/€ 9.99 The Rosary in Space and Time , Ruth Rees, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐610‐1), pp. xiv + 140, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission , Harvey Whitehouse, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0615‐0), pp. xiii + 191, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by Owen Anderson
Arizona State University Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion , Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Sheila Greeve Davaney (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐97066‐0), pp. iv + 236, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy , Robert Eisen, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐517153‐5), pp. xii + 324, Hb £30
Reviewed by Mark W. Hamilton
Abilene Christian University With Reverence for the Word, Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam , Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish and Joseph W. Goering (eds), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐513727‐2), pp. xvii + 488, Hb £55
Reviewed by David Thomas
University of Birmingham Africa and the Bible , Edwin M. Yamauchi, Baker Academic 2004 (0‐8010‐2686‐5), pp. 297, Hb $26.99
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac , Edward Kessler, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐83542‐9), pp. xii + 222, Hb £45
Reviewed by Mark Newby
Birmingham The Ten Commandments in History: Mosaic Paradigms for a Well‐Ordered Society , Paul Grimley Kuntz, Eerdmans 2004 (0 8028 2660 1), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £17.99/$24
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Jacob's Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation , Mary Douglas, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926523‐2), pp. vi + 211, Hb £45
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Waiting for Josiah: The Judges , Philippe Guillaume, JSOTS Series 385, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6988‐4), pp. xiii +325, Hb £75
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , Jane Schaberg, Alice Bach, Esther Fuchs (eds), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐1582‐2), pp. x + 254, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Jesus and Gospel , Graham Stanton, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00802‐6), pp. xii + 239, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Philip Seddon
University of Birmingham The Byzantine Christ : Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor , Demetrios Bathrellos, Oxford University Press, 2004 (0‐19‐925864‐3), pp. xii + 228, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love : Divine Commands and Moral Obligations , C. Stephen Evans, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927217‐4), pp. x + 366 Hb £55
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield The Kingdom is Always but Coming : A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch , Christopher H. Evans, Library of Religious Autobiography Series, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐4736‐6), pp. xxx + 348 Pb £19.99/$25
Reviewed by David True
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion : Michoacan, 1927–29 , Matthew Butler, A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 2004 (0‐19‐72698‐8), pp. xx + 251, Hb £40
Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett
College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York Karl Barth : Theologian of Christian Witness , Joseph L. Mangina, Great Theologians, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0458‐6), pp. xiv + 208, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Thom Chittom Yves Congar's Theology of the Holy Spirit , Elizabeth Teresa Groppe, AAR Academy Series, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐516642‐6), pp. viii + 262, Hb £37.50
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melborne) Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation , Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Studies in Church History Volume 40, Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell and Brewer 2004 (0‐9529733‐9‐1), pp. xiv + 384, Hb £45/$75
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
Queen's College, Birmingham Sienna, Civil Religion and the Sienese , Gerald Parsons, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐1516‐2), pp. xx + 197, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Paris Graduate Management School and International Professional Managers’ Association Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas , Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister (eds), Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐514918‐1), pp. xiii + 338, Hb £45
Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century , Mark Sedgwick, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐515297‐2), pp. xiv + 370, Hb £25
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham An Introduction to Third World Theologies , John Parratt (ed.), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐79739‐X), pp vii + 189, Pb £16.99/$ 25.99
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics , Samuel Wells, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐071‐1), pp. 236, Pb £14.99/$19.99
Reviewed by Stephen Platten
Wakefield Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective , David Burrell, Challenges in Contemporary Theology, Blackwell 2004 (Pb 1‐4051‐2171‐8, Hb 1‐4051‐2170‐X), pp. xxi + 266, Pb £19.99/Hb £60
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication , Rachel Muers, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1900‐4), pp. viii + 238, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Esther Reed
University of St Andrews Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith , Richard Lennan, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐927146‐1), pp. 269, Hb £50
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol A Church Drawing Near: Spirituality and Mission in a Post‐ Christian Culture , Paul Avis, T. & T. Clark 2003 (0‐567‐08968‐1), pp. xii + 227, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto , Ivan Petrella, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4051‐5), pp. ix + 186, Hb £45
Reviewed by Kenneth Wilson
The Queen's College, Birmingham Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity , Paul J. Griffiths, Brazos Press 2004 (1‐58743‐086‐X), pp. 254, Pb $18.99
Reviewed by Adam Hood
The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture , T.J. Gorringe, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐4032‐9), pp. vi + 283, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion , Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Routledge 2005 (0‐415‐30209‐9), pp. xii + 194, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Gordon Lynch
University of Birmingham Theological Aesthetics: A Reader , Gesa E. Thiessen (ed.), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02947‐3), pp. xvi + 400, Pb £25
Reviewed by Ryan A. Neal
University of Edinburgh Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida , John Schad, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1‐84519‐020‐3), pp. vii + 177, Pb £15.95
Reviewed by Michael W. DeLashmutt
University of Glasgow Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience , James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette (eds), Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐3354‐3), pp. 285, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by James M. Byrne
Saint Michael's College, Vermont Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Justin L. Barrett, AltaMira Press 2004 (0‐7591‐0667‐3), pp. ix + 140, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Is God a Scientist? A Dialogue between Science and Religion , Robert Crawford, Palgrave Macmillan 2005 (1‐4039‐1688‐8), pp. vii + 179, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra
Accademia Georgica, Treia, Italy Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective , Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss (eds), Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2695‐4), pp. x + 339, Pb £19.99/$32
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Human Rights and the Image of God , Roger Ruston, SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02959‐7), pp. vii + 312, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire The Parish – People, Place and Ministry: A Theological and Practical Exploration , Malcolm Torry (ed.), Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐586‐X), pp. viii + 215, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Country Vicar: Reshaping Rural Ministry , David Osborne, Darton Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52546‐3), pp. vii + 215, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist , Richard Giles, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐590‐8), pp. xiv + 258, Pb £20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Paganism Reader , Chas S. Clifton and Graham Harvey (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30353‐2), pp. xi + 387, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury Give Me That Online Religion , Brenda Brasher, Rutgers University Press 2004 (0‐8135‐3436‐4), pp. xiv + 203, Pb $21.95
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief , Richard C. Prust, Rodopi 2004 (90‐420‐1088‐6), pp. 130, Pb €30/$39
Reviewed by William Schweitzer
University of Edinburgh God, Evil, and Ethics. A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion , Eric v.d. Luft, Gegensatz Press 2004 (0‐9655179‐1‐8), pp. viii + 264, Pb $14.95
Reviewed by Russell Re Manning
University of Cambridge Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales. Essays in Honour of Gareth Lloyd Jones , Robert Pope (ed.), Gracewing 2003 2003 (0‐85244‐401‐X), pp. xviii + 278, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Dr. Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch , Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2679‐2), pp. x + 228, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel , William M. Schniedewind, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82946‐1), pp. xiii + 257, Hb £25/$28
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence , Martin Laird, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926799‐5), pp. xii + 240, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Martin Heale, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22, The Boydell Press 2004 (1‐84383‐054X), pp. xvii + pp. 378, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Carolyn Muessig
University of Bristol Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe , Liz Herbert McAvoy, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5, D.S. Brewer 2004 (1‐84384‐008‐1), pp. ix + 276, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Kevin Magill
University of Bristol Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein , Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (eds), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02923‐6), pp. xiv + 286, Pb £35
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology , Gareth Jones (ed.), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐20685‐X), pp. xx + 586, Hb £85/$134.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures , Grace Davie, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (eds), Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3010‐2), pp. xii + 253, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Hugh McLeod
University of Birmingham Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of the Saints , Elizabeth A. Johnson, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1473‐7) pp. xvii + 379, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical , John Haldane, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐20703‐7), pp. xv + 288, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute, Melbourne Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa , Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Hurst and Company 2004 (1‐85065‐734‐3), vii +263, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire , Michael Northcott, I.B. Tauris 2004 (1‐85043‐478‐6), pp. 200, Hb £19.50
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Volume One: Foundations of Violence , Grace M. Jantzen, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐29033‐3), pp. x + 390, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace , Simon Fisher, Quaker Books, 2004 (0‐85245‐357‐4), pp. 123, Pb £9.00
Reviewed by K. Alan Jung
Biola University Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens , Bernd Wannenwetsch, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925387‐0), pp. xiv + 402, Hb £75
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice , Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐3156‐7, Pb 0‐7546‐3157‐5), pp. 201 + xii, Hb £47.50/Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course, Durham Free Time: Towards a Theology of Leisure , Graham Neville, University of Birmingham Press 2004 (1‐902459‐21‐0), pp. viii + 162, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking , Paul D. Janz, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82241‐6), pp. xi + 232, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Grassroots Spirituality: What It Is, Why It Is Here, Where It Is Going , Robert Forman, Imprint Academic 2004 (0‐907845‐681), pp. vii + 231, Pb £14.95?$29.90
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed: Understanding Religious Sacrifice: A Reader , Jeffrey Carter (ed), Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐4880‐1), pp. xi + 467, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Simon J. Taylor
Bristol Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World , Beverley Milton‐Edwards, Polity Press 2004 (0‐7456‐2712‐9), pp. viii + 240, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Jorgen Nielsen
University of Birmingham The Jewish‐Christian Schism Revisited , John Howard Yoder, Michael G. Cartwright and Peter Ochs (eds), SCM Press 2003 (0‐334‐02904‐X), pp. vii + 290, Pb £25
Reviewed by Brett Dewey
Baylor University, Texas Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture – Past and Present , John M. Court (ed.), T & T Clark International 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6968‐X), pp. xii + 334, Hb £75
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham Judges and Ruth , Victor H. Matthews, The New Cambridge Bible Commentary, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐00066‐1), pp. xxi + 270, Pb, £13.99, Hb £40
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham The Ancient Synagogue From Its Origins until 200 C.E.: Papers Presented at an International Conference at Lund University, October 14–17, 2001 , Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm (eds), Almqvist & Wiksell International 2003 (91‐22‐02028‐4), pp. xviii + 574, Pb
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
Birmingham University Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities , Bruce W. Winter, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4971‐7), pp. xvii + 236, Pb £18.99/$26
Reviewed by Bernadette McNary‐Zak
Rhodes College, Memphis Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and his Letters , Michael J. Gorman, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐3934‐7), pp. xiii + 610, Pb £27.99
Reviewed by Anthony Bash
University of Hull John , Mark Edwards, Blackwell Bible Commentaries, Blackwell 2004 (Hb 0‐631‐22906‐X, Pb 0‐631‐22907‐8), pp. xiv + 242, Hb £60/Pb £15.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries , Peter Lampe, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8050‐1), pp. xvii + 525, Hb £40
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham Jesus in the Manichaean Writings , Majella Franzmann, T & T Clark 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐5670‐8964‐9), pp. xiv + 168, Hb £60
Reviewed by Augustine Casiday
University of Durham A Mind Intent on God. The Prayers and Spiritual Writings of Alcuin: An Anthology , Douglas Dales, Canterbury Press 2004 (1‐85311‐570‐3), pp. xx + 102, Pb £7.99
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life , Lawrence S. Cunningham, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2762‐4), pp. xii + 160, Pb £9.99/$14
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand A Companion to the Reformation World , R. Po‐chia Hsia (ed.), Blackwell Publishing 2004 (0‐661‐22017‐8), pp. xix + 572, Hb £85/$124.95
Reviewed by R. Ward Holder
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola , Michael Ivens SJ, Translator, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐404‐4), pp. xii + 112, Hb £7.99
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association Shrines of Our Lady in England , Anne Vail, Gracewing 2004 (0‐85244‐603‐9), pp. ix + 246, Hb £9.99
Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston
University of Birmingham The Evolution of the English Churches 1500–2000 , Doreen Rosman, Cambridge University Press 2003 (Hb 0‐521‐64205‐1, Pb 0‐521‐64556‐5), pp. xiv + 399, Hb £50, Pb £18.95
Reviewed by J.N. Morris
Trinity Hall, Cambridge Public Faith? The State of Religious Belief and Practice in Britain , Paul Avis (ed.), SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05531‐9), pp. xiii + 145, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Anthony Cane
Diocese of Chichester Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) , Marjorie Post Abbot, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion, John William Oliver Jr., Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements, No. 44, Scarecrow Press 2003 (0‐8108‐4483‐4‐354‐X), pp. xxxii + 432, Hb $80.00,
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Bethel University, Minnesota The Shepherding Movement: Controversy and Charismatic Ecclesiology , S. David Moore, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 27, T & T Clark International 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐7160‐9), pp. x + 230, Pb £12.99/$19.95
Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills, Jr.
Florida State University Theology: The Basics , Alister E. McGrath, Blackwell 2004 (1‐4051‐1425‐8), pp. xxv + 162, Pb £12.99/$17.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners , Marguerite Shuster, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0994‐4), pp. xii + 280, Pb £19.99/$30
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI The Ecumenical Future , Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson (eds), Eerdmans 2004 90‐8028‐2671‐7), pp. viii + 237, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life , Douglas J. Schuurman, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐0137‐4), pp. xiv + 190, Pb £16.99/$20
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand Memory and Liturgy: The Place of Memory in the Composition and Practice of Liturgy , Peter Atkins, Ashgate 2004 (0‐7546‐0870‐0), pp. xvii + 155, Pb £15.99
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham On Prayer , Marcel Mauss, edited and with an introduction by W.S.F. Pickering, translated Susan Leslie, Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books 2004 (1‐57181‐633‐X), pp. xi + 158, Pb £17/$25
Reviewed by Gavin D’Costa
University of Bristol Discerning the Spirits: A Guide to Thinking about Christian Worship Today , Cornelius Plantinga Jr. and Sue A. Rozeboom, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐3999‐1), pp. xv + 170, Pb £12.99/$18
Reviewed by Adrian Burdon
Chester‐le‐Street, Co Durham Whirlwind of Life: The Story of Emilia Fogelklou , Malin Bergman Andrews, Quaker Books 2004 (0‐85245‐354‐X), pp. 206, Pb £9.50
Reviewed by Sally Bruyneel
Bethel University, Minnesota This Is Who I Am: Listening with Older Friends , Volume 9 of the Eldership and Oversight Handbooks, Quaker Books 2003 (0‐85245‐351‐5), pp. 57, Pb £4
Reviewed by John Armson
Herefordshire Contemporary Experiences of Friends in Britain Yearly Meeting, Role Over? National Lottery Funding and the Quaker Testimony against Gambling , Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Quaker Books 2004 (0‐85245‐358‐2), pp. vi + 107, Pb £6
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association The God You Have: Politics, Religion and the First Commandment , Patrick D. Miller, Fortress Press 2004 (0‐8006‐3662‐7), pp. x + 81, Pb $6
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
Emeritus Professor of Management; International Professional Managers Association Urban Ministry and the Kingdom of God , Laurie Green, SPCK 2003 (0‐281‐05530‐0), pp. ix + 182, Pb £12.99
Reviewed by Michael Northcott
University of Edinburgh Facing the City : Urban Mission in the 21^st Century , Rod Garner, Epworth 2004 (0‐7162‐0580‐7), pp. xv + 203, Pb £14.99
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand The Ethics of Nature , Celia E. Deane‐Drummond, Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐22938‐8), pp. xiv + 256, Pb £19.99/$29.95
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand The Myths of Time : From Saint Augustine to American Beauty , Hugh Rayment‐Pickard, Dartman, Longman and Todd 2004 (0‐232‐52493‐9) pp. xv + 144, Pb £10.95
Reviewed by Jason Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Representing Religion in World Cinema : Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making , S. Brent Plate (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (1‐4039‐6051‐8), pp. 272, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz
Augusta State University     

Reviews

Books reviewed: William C. Placher, Jesus the Savior: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Christian Faith. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, 230pp. £15.99 Telford Work, Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2002, xx + 343pp. $ 35.00 Herbert Boyd McGonigle, Sufficient Saving Grace, John Wesley's Evangelical Arminianism. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2001, 331pp. £24.95 Robert L. Perkins, ed., The Concept of Irony, International Kierkegaard Commentary (Volume 2). Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001, 427pp. $35.00 Stephen R. Holmes, Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology. Carlisle: Paternoster Press/ Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002, 164pp. £14.99 Alan G. Padgett, Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xiv + 218pp. £15.99 pb. Graham Redding, Prayer and the Priesthood of Christ in the Reformed Tradition. London: T. & T. Clark, A Continuum Imprint, 2003, vi + 324pp. £30.00 Paul Louis Metzger, The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, 252pp. $38.00 / £27.99 Kilian McDonnell, The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2003, 270pp. $24.95 John Inge, A Christian Theology of Place. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ix + 161pp., £45.00 hb., £15.99 pb. Michael Lodahl, God of Nature and of Grace: Reading the World in a Wesleyan Way. Nashville: Kingswood Books Abingdon Press, 2003, 254pp. £24.99 Oswald Bayer, Vernunft ist Sprache: Hamanns Metakritik Kants. Stuttgart: Frommann‐Holzboog, 2002, xiv + 504pp. ∈ 128.00 Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, x + 254pp. £55 hb., £19.99 pb. John Webster, Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 144pp. £32.50 hb., £10.95 pb.     

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).     

SHORT NOTICES

Books reviewed:
The Septuagint , Jennifer M. Dines, T&T Clark International 2004 (0-567-08464-7), xvii + 196 pp., pb £14.99/$29.95 Reviewed by Benjamin Bury University of Birmingham
The SCM Press A–Z of Patristic Theology , John A. McGuckin, SCM Press 2005 (0-334-04010-8), xxiii + 367 pp., pb £29.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University
Holy Teaching : Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas , Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Brazos Press 2005 (1-58743-035-5), 320 pp., pb $27.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge
Eucharist with a Small 'e' , Miriam Therese Winter, Orbis Books 2005 (1-57075-617-7), 158 pp., pb $15 Reviewed by John Armson Herefordshire
Listening to Islam : With Thomas Merton, Sayyid Qutb, Kenneth Cragg, and Ziauddin Sardar : Praise, Reason, and Reflection , John H. Watson, Sussex Academic Press 2005 (1-84519-101-3), v + 109 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Jason Walsh Phoenix, Arizona
PADRES : The National Chicano Priest Movement , Richard Edward Martinez, University of Texas Press 2005 (0292706782), vi + 197 pp., pb $19.95 Reviewed by Marc Cortez University of St. Andrews
Blair's Britain : A Christian Critique , Mark D. Chapman, Darton, Longman & Todd 2005 (0232526036), viii + 120 pp., pb £10.95 Reviewed by Alistair Kee University of Edinburgh
American Cultural Baggage : How to Recognize and Deal with It , Stan Nussbaum, Orbis 2005 (1-57075-625-2), 160 pp., pb $15 Reviewed by Michael J. Sleasman Trinity International University
How the Other Half Worships , Camilo José Vergara, Rutgers University Press 2005 (0-8135-3682-0), xviii + 285 pp., $49.95 Reviewed by Michael Barram Saint Mary's College of California     

ONCE MORE . . .

Books reviewed:
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7308-5), xiv + 434 pp., pb $24.95
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 2: 1839–2004 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7309-3), xiv + 575 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Nirmal Singh Hindu University of America
Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion , Megan McKenna, Seabury Books 2004 (1-59627-006-3), xi + 211 pp., pb $16 Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong Baylor University
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion , Anthony C. Thiselton, Baker Academic 2005 (0-8010-3120-6), viii + 344 pp., pb $24.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University West
The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 , David F. Ford, Rachel Muers (eds), Blackwells 2005 (1-4051-0277-2), xxi + 819 pp., pb £19.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge     

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

(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.     

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     

Books Received

God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-Realism, Erica Appelros. Ashgate New Thinking in Theology and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, UK/ Burlington, USA/Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate, 2002, vii + 212 pp., £40.00.

Daniel Dennett, Andrew Brook and Don Ross (eds). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 302 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Solomon Maimon: Monism, Skepticism, and Mathematics, Meir Buzaglo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, xiii + 168 pp., $32.50.

Catholic Social Teaching 1891-Present: A Historical Theological and Ethical Analysis, Charles E. Curran. Moral Traditions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, ix + 261 pp., $49.95, £37.00, pb. $19.95, £15.00.

Man Made God: The Meaning of Life, Luc Ferry. Trans. David Pellauer. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, iv + 172 pp., pb. $14.00, £9.00.

Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism, Rainer Forst. Trans. John Farrell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, xii + 346 pp., $55.00/£37.95, pb. $22.50/£15.95.

Social Epistemology, 2nd ed., Steve Fuller. Bloomington/Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xxxi + 314 pp., $49.95, pb. $21.95.

Toleration as Recognition, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, vii + 242 pp., $60.00.

Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy, Stephen Gaukroger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 258 pp., $60.00, pb. $22.00.

Introduction to Logic, Henry J. Gensler. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 399 pp., $80.00, pb. $24.95, £15.99.

History and Illusion in Politics, Raymond Geuss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, viii + 175 pp., $55.00, pb. $19.00.

Morality and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics, Alfonso GomezLobo. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, xvii + 142 pp., pb. $17.95, £13.50.

Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How We Act Together, Keith Graham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 202 pp., $55.00.

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life, Gregg M. Horowitz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xv + 239 pp., $49.50, pb. $19.95.

The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 249 pp., $60.00.

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, vol. 2, Julia Kristeva. Trans. Jeanine Herman. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $32.50, £22.50.

Philosophical Reflections, Abdul Lathief. Keralam. India: Mulberry Publications, 2002, 164 pp., no price given.

Philosophy, Music and Emotion, Geoffrey Madell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, vii + 162 pp., £40.00.

Rule-Following and Meaning, Alexander Miller and Crispin Wright (eds). Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, x + 302 pp., £45.00, pb. £16.95.

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor, Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 228 pp., $55.00.

The Idea of a Catholic University, George Dennis O'Brien. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, ix + 239 pp., $28.00, £18.00.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, VaI Plum wood. Environmental Philosophies. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $75.00, pb. $21.95.

Logical Form and Language, Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter (eds). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, x + 512 pp., £55.00, pb. £19.99.

Patriotism, Igor Primoratz (ed.). Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002, 298 pp., pb. $29.00.

Man as a Moral Agent in Aristotle, Marten Ringbom. Acta Philosophical Fennica 70 (2002). Helsinki: Societas Philosophical Fennica, 2002, 197 pp., no price given

The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change, Theodore R. Schatzki. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002, xxii + 295 pp., $45.00.

Robert Nozick, David Schmidtz (ed.). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 230 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Lives of Things, Charles E. Scott. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington/ Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, ix + 196 pp. $49.95, pb. $19.95.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith. Ed. Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xxxi + 411 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

Scheler's Ethical Personalism: Its Logic, Development, and Promise, Peter H. Spader. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 25. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002, xviii + 327 pp., $45.00, pb. $20.00.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Stern. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 234 pp., $55.00, pb. $14.95.

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction, 2nd ed., Anne Thomson. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 209 pp., $65.00, pb. $20.95.

Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from The Harvard Review of Philosophy, S. Phineas Upham (ed.). London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xv + 189 pp., no price given.

Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question, Richard L. Velkley. Chicago/ London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, x +192 pp., $40.00, £25.00, pb. $18.00, £11.50.

Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), trans. and ed. Michael Zank. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xix + 238 pp., $68.50, pb. $22.95.     

Book reviews

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: moral education and economic culture in Japan and the four mini‐dragons Tu Wei‐Ming (Ed.), 1996 Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press ii + 418pp., hb £28.50, pb £12.50, ISBN 0 674 16086 X (hb)

The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the moral evolution of early Sung thought Don J. Wyatt, 1996 Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press xii + 340 pp., hb (price not given), ISBN 0 8248 1755 9

Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School and questions of nationalism James W. Heisig & John C. Maraludo (Eds), 1995 Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press hb $40.00, pb $19.95

Untying the Knots in Buddhism. Selected essays Buddhist Tradition Series Volume 28, 1997 Alex Wayman 1997 Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass x + 618 pp, hb Rs. 495; ISBN 81 208 1321 9

Historical Dictionary of Hinduism Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, No. 13 Bruce M. Sullivan 1997 Lanham, MD & London, The Scarecrow Press xviii, 346 pp, pb £46.55, ISBN 0 8108 3327 1

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion. Eastern and Western thought (New and enlarged edition; first 1980) William L. Reese, 1996 New York, Humanities Press xiv + 856 pp., pb, ISBN 0 391 03864 8     

Books Received

Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Sharon Ander son-Gold. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2001, xiii +138 pp., $49.50, pb. $17.95.

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science, Jody Azzouni. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xi + 259 pp., $50.00.

Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Yuri Balashov and Alex Rosenberg (eds). Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 522 pp.

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic, Claudia Baracchi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, ix + 249 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions, Gernot Böhme. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, ix + 189 pp., £45.00, pb. £13.99.

The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays, Bernard Bosenquet. Ed. with intro. Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet Key Texts. Classic Studies in the History of Ideas. South Bend, IN: St Augustine's Press, 2001, xxxvii +388 pp., pb. no price given.

Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I, Marcus Brainard. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, xvii + 331 pp., $86.50, pb. $29.95.

The Nature of Research: Inquiry in Academic Contexts, Angela Brew. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, v + 205 pp., pb. £18.99.

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide, Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 275 pp., (pb.) No price given.

Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy, M. J. Cain. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Oxford: Polity, 2002, ix + 240 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.00.

The Religious, John D. Caputo (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2002, xiii + 322 pp., £55.00, pb. £16.99.

101 Philosophy Problems, Martin Cohen. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, xviii + 229 pp., pb. £8.99.

Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism, James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen (eds). Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy. London/New York: 2002, xii + 242 pp., £50.00.

Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac. Ed. and trans. Hans Aarsleff. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xlv + 225 pp., $59.95, pb. $21.95.

Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction, Frank Cunningham. Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vi + 248 pp., pb. £13.99.

Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy: An Analytical Anthropology, Stefaan E. Cuypers. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Aldershot/Burlington USA/Singapore/ Sydney: Ashgate, 2001, ix + 172 pp., £37.50.

Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience, Barry Dainton. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, xvi + 254 pp.

Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue, John J. Davenport and Anthony Rudd (eds). Replies by Alasdair Maclntyre and Philip L. Quinn. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2001, xxxix + 363 pp., £47.95, pb. £22.50.

What Distinguishes Human Understanding? John Deely. South Bend, IN: St Augustine's Press, 2002, xiv + 178 pp., £17.50.

Acts of Religion, Jacques Derrida. Ed. with intro. by Gil Anidjar. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vi + 436 pp., pb. £15.99.

Religion and Media, Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (eds). Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xvii + 649 pp., $69.00, pb. $29.95.

Art and Value, George Dickie. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, vi + 114 pp., £45.00, pb. £11.99.

Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Nietische: An Anthology, Steven M. Emmanuel and Patrick Goold (eds). Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Routledge, 2002, xvii + 525 pp.

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (1903-1959), Robert Enger and Lester Denonn (eds), with new intro. by John Slater. London/New York: Routledge, 1992, reissue: 2001, 736 pp., pb. $26.95.

Democracy, David Estlund (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £55.00, pb. £15.99.

Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Christopher Falzon. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 230 pp., pb. £11.99.

Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin, Peter Fenves. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xiii + 379 pp., $55.00, pb. $24.95.

Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues, Matthew Festenstein and Simon Thompson (eds). Cambridge: Polity, 2001, ix + 241 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Berkeley and the Principles of Human Knowledge, Robert J. Fogelin. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, x + 166 pp., pb. £8.99.

Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, Richard Foley. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, x + 182 pp., $55.00.

Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times, Steve Fuller. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pb. 2001, xvii + 472 pp., pb. $22.50, 314.50.

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice, Raimond Gaita. London/New York: Routledge (1998), 2002, xiii + 293 pp., pb.

Stochastic Causality, Maria Carla Galavotti, Patrick Suppe s and Domenieo Costantini (eds). CSLI Publications. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, xii + 275 pp., $65.00, pb. $25.00; £41.00, pb. £16.00.

Introduction to Logic, Harry J. Gensler. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 399 pp., pb. £15.99.

Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations, Graeme Gilloch. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Oxford: Polity, 2002, xi + 304 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries, Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos (eds). Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, v + 310 pp., $81.50, pb. $27.95.

Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't, Alan H. Goldman. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 210 pp., $54.95.

Manners and Violence, Ignacio L. Götz. Westport, CN/London: Praeger, 2000, xiii +131 pp., £44.50.

Dummett: Philosophy of Language, Karen Green. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, xi + 236 pp., £55.00, pb. £14.99.

Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, P. M. S. Hacker. Oxford: Clarendon Press,2001. xxiv + 375 pp., £35.00.

India: A Financial Sector for the Twenty-first Century, James A. Hanson and Sanjay Kathuria (eds). Oxford India Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (first publ. 1999), xv + 446 pp., pb. £13.99.

Socialism, Michael W. Howard (ed.). Key Concepts in Critical Theory. New York: Humanity Books, 2001, 408 pp., pb. $29.00.

Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics, Martha Husain. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York,2002. ix + 152 pp., pb. $16.95.

Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality, Robert A. Hinde. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiv + 241 pp., pb. £15.99.

Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl. Two vols. trans. J. N. Findlay, revised Dermot Moran with new preface by Dermot Moran and new introduction by Michael Dummett. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, vol. 1, Ixxxvii + 331 pp., pb. $29.95; vol. 2, xiv + 364 pp., pb. $29.95.

The Shorter Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl. Abridged ed. and trans. J. N. Findlay, abridged and revised by Dermot Moran with new preface by Dermot Moran and new introduction by Michael Dummett. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, Ixxxv + 422 pp., pb. $27.95.

The Political, David Ingram (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/ Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £60.00, pb. £15.99.

Hegel, M. J. In wood. Arguments of the Philosophers. London/New York: Routledge (1983 and 1998), xxxiv + 582 pp., pb.

Reconsidering Michael Polanyi's Philosophy, Stefania Ruzsits Jha. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, viii + 318 pp., $32.00.

Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts, Diane Jone-Pace. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, x + 190 pp., $45.00, pb. $17.95, £29.95, pb. £12.95.

Free Will, Robert Kane (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £55.00, pb. £15.99.

Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy, James C. Klagge (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xv + 272 pp., $54.95, pb. $19.95.

Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference, Kevin C. Klement. Studies in Philosophy: Outstanding Dissertations. New York/London: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 260 pp., $70.00.

The Presence of Myth, Leszek Kolakowski. Chicago, IL/London: University of Chicago Press (1989), pb. ed. 2001, xii + 138 pp., $13.00, £8.50.

Justifying Emotions: Pride and Jealousy, Kristján Kristjansson. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xii + 257 pp., £50.00.

Understanding Philosophy of Science, James Ladyman. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 290 pp., pb. £12.99.

Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology, John Leslie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xi + 234 pp., £25.00.

Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, John Llewelyn. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xx + 255 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

Logic, Form, and Grammar. Peter Long. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 109 pp.

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Michael J. Loux. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 303 pp., pb. £13.99.

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, Michael J. Loux (ed.). Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xii + 555 pp., pb. £16.99.

The Metaphysicians of Meaning: Russell and Frege on Sense and Denotation, Gideon Makin. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, ix + 229 pp.

Towards a Critical Theory of Society, Herbert Marcuse. Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse 2. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xiii + 242 pp., £19.99.

Kierkegaard in the Present Age, Gordon Marino. Pref. by Philip Rieff. Marquette Studies in Philosophy 27. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2001, 124 pp.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, K. T. Maslin. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, xviii + 332 pp., no price given.

The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Eric Matthews. Continental European Philosophy. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, vi + 186 pp., £40.00, pb. £14.95.

Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott. Bradford Books. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press, 2001, xv + 262 pp., $32.95.

Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, Brian McGuinness. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xv + 299 pp., £50.00.

Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning, Christopher McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ix + 251 pp., $54.95, pb. $19.95.

Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, xxxv + 202 pp., £35.00, pb. £11.95.

The Sublime in Kant and Beckett Aesthetic Judgement, Ethics and Literature, Bjørn K. Myskja. Kantstudien 140. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, xii + 313 pp., no price given.

Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind, Steven Nadler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xvi + 225 pp., £22.50.

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley (eds). 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, 2002 (McGraw-Hill, 1995), xiii + 479 pp.

Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense, Content, and Concept, Albert Newen, Ulrich Nortmann and Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz (eds). CSLI Publications. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, xxiv + 351 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00, £41.00, pb. £14.50.

Naturalism and Religion, Kai Nielsen. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001, 506 pp., $40.00.

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche. Ed. Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman; trans. Judith Norman. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxxiv + 193 pp., $38.00, pb. $14.00.

Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence, Christopher Norris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, viii + 228 pp., £40.00.

Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against Scientism, Frederick A. Olafson. London/ New York: Routledge, 2001, xi + 115 pp., pb. £13.99.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation. Matthew B. Ostrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 175 pp., $55.00, pb. $20.00.

Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill (eds). Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, ix + 358 pp., $73.50, pb. $24.95.

Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life, Keith Ansell Pearson. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 246 pp., $80.00, pb. $38.95.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, VaI Plum wood. Environmental Philosophies. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vii + 291 pp., pb. £13.99.

Ethical Life: The Past and Present of Ethical Cultures, Harry Redner. Lanham/Boulder/ New York/Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, ix + 348 pp., $80.00, pb. $32.95.

Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution, Nicholas Rescher. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2001, xxiii + 293 pp., £44.50, pb. £20.95.

Medicine, Magic and Religion, W. H. R. Rivers. The Fitzpatrick Lectures (first publ. 1924). Routledge Classics. Preface by G. Elliot Smith. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, viii + 136 pp. (pb.). No price given.

Is it Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emannuel Levinas, Jill Robbins (ed.). Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, ix + 305 pp., $55.00, pb. $24.95.

Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction, Alex Rosenberg. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 191 pp.

ABC of Relativity, Bertrand Russell. 6th ed. with intro. by Peter Clark. London/NY: Routledge, 1992, reissue: 2001, xvi + 155 pp., pb. $15.95.

What is Truth? Richard Schantz (ed.). Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy 1. Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, vi + 338 pp., no price given.

The BlackweU Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Robert L. Simon (ed.). Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, xi + 329 pp., £60.00, pb. £16.99.

The Unfinished Project: Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism, Lorenzo C. Simpson. London/NY: Routledge, 2001, xi +180 pp., $85.00, pb. $22.95.

Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Stern. Routledge Guidebooks. London / New York: 2001, xviii + 234 pp., pb. £8.99.

Wittgenstein, Avrum Stroll. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002, ix + 162 pp., pb. $14.95.

Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature, Scott Sturgeon. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 166 pp.

Marx for a Post-Communist Era, Stefan Sullivan. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 191 pp., pb. £14.99.

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction, Arme Thompson. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 209 pp., pb. £12.99.

Hyperreality: Paradigm for the Third Millennium, John Tiffin and Nobuyoshi Terashima (eds). London/New York: Routledge, 2001, vvii +165 pp., (pb.) price not given.

Foucault and Latin America: Appropriations and Deployments of Discoursive Analysis, Benigno Trigo (ed.). New York/London: Routledge, 2002, xxi + 305 pp., pb. £16.99.

Knowledge, Michael Welbourne. Central Problems of Philosophy. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2001, xiii + 143 pp., £35.00, pb. £12.95.

Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good, Michael Weston. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xix + 198 pp., pb. £14.99.

A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind, Steven L. Winter. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2001, xvii + 440 pp., $38.00/£24.00.

Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology, John H. Zammito. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, xii + 576 pp., pb. $29.00, £18.50.     

Book reviews

Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience. Peter L. Berger, 1997 Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 216 pp., £13.40 (hb) ISBN 3–11–015562–1

Reflections on Sociology and Theology. David Martin, 1997 Oxford: Clarendon Press viii +257 pp., £30.00 ISBN 0–19–827384–3

Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth‐Century Theology and Philosophy. Stanley Hauerwas, 1997 Oxford: Westview Press/Harper Collins 242 pp., £21.50 (hb) ISBN 0–8133–3349–0

The Longing for Home. Leroy Rouner, ed., 1997 Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 17 Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press 248 pp., US$34.00 (hb) ISBN 0–268–01310–1

The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach. Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Bernard Spilka, Bruce Hunsberger & Richard Gorsuch, 1996, 2nd edition New York, London: Guilford Press 546 pp., US$70.00, £45.00 (hb) ISBN 1–57230–116–3

America's Communal Utopias. Donald E. Pitzer, ed., 1997 Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press 537 pp., US$60.00 (hb), US$24.95 (pb) ISBN 0–8078–2299‐X (hb), ISBN 0–8078–4609–0 (pb)

Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium. Donald E. Miller, 1997 Los Angeles, CA: California University Press 254 pp, US$ 27.50 (hb) ISBN 0–520–20938–9

Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change since 1970. Mark A. Shibley, 1996 Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press 156 pp., US$24.95 ISBN 1–57003–106–1

Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America. David Lehmann, 1996 Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press xiv +244 pp., £39.50 (hb) ISBN 0–7456–1784–0

The Soul of Development: Biblical Christianity and Economic Transformation in Guatemala. Amy L. Sherman, 1997 Oxford: Oxford University Press 224 pp., £37.99 ISBN 0–19–510671–7

Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Diane J. Austin‐Broos, 1997 With a Foreword by Raymond T. Smith Chicago; The University of Chicago Press 328 pp., US$19.95, £15.95 (pb), US$50.00, £39.95 (hb) ISBN 0–226–03286–8 (pb), ISBN 0–226–03284–1 (hb)

Black God: The Afro‐Asian Roots of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Religions. Julian Baldick, 1997 London, New York: I.B.Tauris 198 pp., £39.50 (hb) ISBN 1–86064–123–7

Image of the Prophet Muhammad in the West: A Study of Muir, Margoliouth and Watt. Jabal Muhammad Buaben, 1996/1417 AH. Markfield: The Islamic Foundation 394p., £ 9.50 (pb); £19.50 (hb) ISBN 0–86037–261–8 (pb), ISBN 0–86037–260‐X (hb)

New Religious Movements in Western Europe: An Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, No. 41 Elisabeth Arweck & Peter B. Clarke, 1997 Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press xliii + 381 pp., £71.50 (hb) ISBN 0–313–24324–7

The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity. Paul Heelas, 1996 Oxford: Blackwell 266 pp., £45.00, US$49.95 (hb); £13.99; US$21.95 (pb) ISBN 0–631–19331–6 (hb), ISBN 0–631–19332–4 (pb)

New Age Religion and Western Culture. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, 1996 Leiden & New York: E. J. Brill 580 pp., NLG 235.00, US$ 147.50 (hb), NLG 80.00, US$51.75 (pb) ISBN 90–04–10695–2 (hb), ISBN 90–04–10696–0 (pb)

Embers of Wan Letters from a Quaker Relief Worker in War‐Torn Germany. Grigór McClelland, 1997 London: British Academic Press 230 pp., £25.00 (hb) ISBN 8–6064–312–4

Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ. William A. Christian Jr., 1996 Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press xxii + 544 pp. £32.00 ISBN 0–520–20040–3

The Topography of Remembrance: The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia. Gerdien Jonker, 1995 Leiden: E. J. Brill xiii + 284 pp., c. £66.00 ISBN 90–04–10162–4

Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. Susan Paul Pattie, 1997 Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press 282 pp., £38.25 ISBN 1–56098–629–8

The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society. Tanya M. Luhrmann, 1996 Cambridge, MA & London, England: Harvard University Press xi +317 pp., £33.50 (hb), £15.50 (pb) ISBN 0–674–35675–6 (hb), ISBN 0–674–35676–4 (pb)

The Feast of the Sorcerer Practices of Consciousness and Power. Bruce Kapferer, 1997 Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press 367 pp., US$65.00, £51.95 (hb), US$27.50, £21.95 (pb) ISBN 0–226–42411–1 (hb), ISBN 1–226–42413–8 (pb)

Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth. P.F. Kornicki & I.J. McMullen, eds., 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press xxv +315 pp., £40.00, US$59.95 ISBN 0–521–55028–9

Teaching Right and Wrong: Moral Education in the Balance. Richard Smith & Paul Standish, eds., 1997 Stoke on Trent, England: Trentham Books 157 pp., £13.95 (pb) ISBN 1–85856–084–5     

Book Review

Clinical Klein, R.D. Hinshelwood, London: Free Association Books, 1994, 260 pp., £16.95 pb.

Psychodynamic Treatment Research: A Handbook for Clinical Practice, Nancy E. Miller, Lester Luborsky, Jacques P. Barber and John Docherty, New York: Basic Books, 1993, 577 pp., £40 hb.

Counselling in Independent Practice, Gabrielle Syme, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994, 160 pp, £10.99 pb.

Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Stephen Frosh, London: Routledge, 1994, 153 pp., £35 hb, £11.99 pb.

A Handbook for Personal Tutors, Sue Wheeler and Jan Birtle, The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 1993, 172 pp., £13.99.

Counselling for Women, Janet Perry, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 128 pp., £10.99 pb.

An Introduction to CounselLing, John McLeod, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 234 pp., £12.99 pb.

Exploring the Unconscious: New Pathways in Depth Analysis, George Frankl, London: Open Gate Press, 1994, 172 pp., £12.95 hb.