BOOK REVIEWS

Hermeneutics, the Bible and Literary Criticism (Studies in Literature and Religion). Edited by Ann Loades and Michael McLain. The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System. By Avery Dulles. The Shape of Soreriology. By John McIntyre. Not the Cross But the Crucfied (Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs 1 1). By H.-E. Mertens. Verbum Curo: An Encyclopedia on Jesus, the Christ. By Michael O'Carroll. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of the Early Liturgy. By Paul Bradshaw. Worship: Initiation and the Churches. By Leonel L. Mitchell. The Eucharistic Mystery: Revitalizing the Tradition. By David Power. Church of Churches: The Ecclesiology of Communion. By J.-M. Tillard. God and History, Aspects of British Theology 1875-1914. By Peter Hinchliff. Clear Heads and Holy Hearts: The Religious and Theological Ideal of John Henry Newman (Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs 7). By Terrence Merrigan. The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community. By Graham Gould. John Moschos, ‘The Spiritual Meadow’. Introduction, translation and notes by John Wortley. A Gentle Touch. By David Pailin. The Eye of the Storm: Spiritual Resources for rhe Pursuit of Justice. By Kenneth Leech. The Church and the Arts (Studies in Church History 28). Edited by Diana Wood. Anti-Christian Polemic in Early Islam: Abu Isa al-Warraq's ‘Against the Trinity’ (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 45). Edited by David Thomas. Bernardus Magister: Papers Presented at the Nonacentenary Celebration of the Birth of St Bernard of Clairvaux (Cistercian Studies Series 135). Edited by John R. Sommerfeldt. Church and City 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke. Edited by David Abulafia, Michael Franklin and Miri Rubin. ‘Piers Plowman’ and the Problem of Belief. By Britton J. Harwood. Ignutius of Luyola: The Psychology of a Saint. By W. W. Meissner. Jerome Naahl, S. J., 1507-1580: Tracking the First Generation of Jesuits. By William V. Bangert, edited and completed by Thomas M. McCoog. From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto. By David Gentilcore. Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII. By Laurie Nussdorfer. Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays. Translated by M. A. Screech. Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’. By M. A. Screech. Religion and Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 31). Edited by Martin Warner. What is Faith? Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. By Anthony Kenny. Truth and Hisroriciry. By Richard Campbell.     

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The Book of Ruth (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament). By Robert L. Hubbard. A Reordering of Power: A Socio-Political Reading of Mark's Gospel. By Herman C. Waetjen. Paul and Jesus: Collected Essays (JSNT Supplement Series 37). Edited by A.J.M. Wedderburn. The Study of Literature and Religion (Studies in Literature and Religion). By David Jasper. Faith and the Play of Imagination: On the Role of Imagination in Religion (Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 5). By David J. Bryant. Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 26). By Arthur J. Droge. Denys the Areopagite (Outstanding Christian Thinkers). By Andrew Louth. Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils. Edited by Norman P. Tanner. Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology. By William P. Alston. Theological Essays. By Eberhard Jüngel, edited by J.B. Webster. Faithful Witness: Foundations of Theology for Today's Church. Edited by Leo J. O'Donovan and T. Howland Sanks. From Unity to Pluralism: The Internal Evolution of Thomism. By Gerald A. McCool. Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life. Edited by Michael J. Lacey. Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context. By Douglas John Hall. African Catholicism: Essays in Discovery. By Adrian Hastings. Emancipation in African Theology: An Inquiry on the Relevance of Latin American Liberation Theology to Africa (American University Studies VII/14). By Victor Wan-Tatah. Anglo-Catholicism: A Study in Religious Ambiguity. By W.S.F. Pickering. The Church and Secularisation: Urban Industrial Mission in North East England. By Michael S. Northcott. Religion and Advanced Industrial Society (Controversies in Sociology 23). By James A. Beckford. Religion, Interpretation and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model from Kant to Durkheim to Davidson. By Terry F. Godlove. Religion, Science and Magic — In Concert and In Conflict. Edited by J. Neusner, E. Frerichs and P.V. McCracken Flesher. A Dictionary of Superstitions. Edited by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem. The Churches, Ireland and the Irish (Studies in Church History 25). Edited by W.J. Shells and Diana Wood. John of Wales: A Study of the Works and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 10). By Jenny Swanson. Church and Society in Late Medieval England. By R.N. Swanson. Ecclesia Anglicana: Studies of the English Church in the Later Middle Ages. By Roy Martin Haines. ‘Piers Plowman’and the New Anti-Clericalism (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). By Wendy Scase. Thomas Müntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation. By Tom Scott. Jesuit Geometers. By Joseph MacDonnell. The Europe of the Devout: The Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society (Past and Present Publications). By Louis Châtellier, translated by Jean Birrell. You Looked at Me: The Spiritual Testament of Claudine Moine. Translated will commentary by Gerald Carroll. Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton's Great Poems. By Joan S. Bennett. Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: A Study in Polemic. By Richard Parish. A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914. By Ralph Gibson. Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law. The Islamic Classical Library. Translated by Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley. Montesquieu: the Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). Translated and edited by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone. Spinoza and Other Heretics. By Yirmiyahu Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, One Volume Edition The Lectures of 1827. Edited by Peter C. Hodgson. Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth and Poetry in the Later Writings. By Gerald L. Bruns. What is a Person? The Concept and Implications for Ethics (Problems in Contemporary Philosophy 21). By Kevin Doran. Christian Neighbor-Love: An Assessment of Six Rival Versions. By Garth L. Hallett. Moral Realism and the Foundation of Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy). By David O. Brink. Ethics in the Natural Sciences (Concilium 203). Edited by Dietmar Meith and Jacques Pohier.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Christian Smith, Christian America? What Evangelicals really want Nancy Eiesland, A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Suburb Janet Duitsman Cornelius, Slave Missions and The Black Church in the Antebellum South Linda Boynton Arthur, (ed) Religion, Dress and The Body William M. Newman and Peter L. Halvorson, Atlas of American Religion: The De‐nominational Era Michael P. Carroll, Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Pop‐ular Catholic Devotion Paul Eli Ivey, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in The United States, 1894‐1930 Andrew Greeley, The Catholic Imagination R. Scott Appleby, The Ambivalence Of The Sacred: Re‐Ligion, Violence, And Reconciliation Ana María Díaz‐Stevens and Anthony M. Stevens‐Arroyo, Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.S. Religion Wendy Griffin, (ed) Daughters Of The Goddess: Studies Of Healing, Identity, And Empowerment Carole Bell Ford, The Girls: Jewish Women Of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940‐1995 Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson, (eds) What Is Religion? Origins, Definitions, And Explanations Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter, (eds) Max Weber And Islam Wade Clark Roof, Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers And The Remaking Of American Religion James A. Wellman, The Gold Coast Church And The Ghetto: Christ And Culture In Main‐Line Protestantism Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror In The Mind Of God     

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

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Books Reviewed:
Robert Pollack, The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning and Free Will in Modern Medical Science
John F. Haught, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution
Richard W. Flory and Donald E. Miller, GenX Religion
Bryan Froehle and Mary Gautier, Catholicism USA: A Portrait of the Catholic Church in the United States
Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet Chafetz, Religion and the New Immigrants
Daniel B. Lee, Old Order Mennonites: Rituals, Beliefs, and Community
Chaim I. Waxman, Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective
Robert Wuthnow, Creative Spirituality
Bernard J. Lee, SM, with William D'Antonio and Others, The Catholic Experience of Small Christian Communities
Rodney Stark and Roger Finke, Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion
Sharon K Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst, Family, Religion and Social Change in Diverse Societies
John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow, Contesting The Sacred: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage
Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy, Latin American Religion in Motion     

Book Reviews

Keith W. Whitelam. The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History. John M. G. Barclay. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora from Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE). R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (Eds) The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Chaim Stern. Pirke Avot: Wisdom of the Jewish Sages. Gillian R. Evans. Method of Ecumenical Theology: The Lessons So Far. Eamon Duffy. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. James A. Francis. Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World. Vladimir Koudelka. Dominic. Inge B. Milfull. The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church. Vickie B. Sullivan. Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty and Politics Reformed. Hans-Peter Grosshans. Luther. Christopher Haigh.English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors. Andrew Pettegree. Marian Protestantism: Six Studies. Michael C. Questier. Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580–1625. Kenneth Hylson-Smith. The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. Gerald Bray (Ed) Documents of the English Reformation. James E. Force and Richard H. Popkin (Eds) The Books of Nature and Scripture: Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza's Time and the British Isles of Newton's Time. Henry Phillips. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day (Eds) The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy. Roy R. Robson. Old Believers in Modern Russia. Stephen K. Batalden (Ed) Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger (Eds) Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. Julie K. Ward (Ed) Feminism and Ancient Philosophy. John M. Cooper (Ed) Plato: Complete Works. By Stephen Everson. Aristotle on Perception. Jonathan Barnes and Miriam Griffin (Eds) Philosophia Togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome. M. B. Trapp. Maximus of Tyre: The Philosophical Orations, Translated with Introduction and Notes. John Marenbon. The Philosophy of Peter Abelard. Gordon Baker and Katherine J. Morris. Descartes' Dualism. David DeGrazia. Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status. B. Doherty and M. de Geus (Eds) Democracy and Green Political Thought.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Century of Biblical Archaeology. By Roger Moorey. The Bible. By Stephen Prickett and Robert Barnes. Jewish Lawfrom Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies. By E. P. Sanders. Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church. By Stuart G. Hall. Meisrer Eckhart: Mystical Theologian. By Oliver Davies. Bossuet: Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture. Translated and edited by Patrick Riley (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). T. S. Eliotand Mysticism: The Secret History of ‘Four Quartets’. By Paul Murray. The Identily of Anglican Worship. Edited by Kenneth Stevenson and Bryan Spinks. Born Before All Time: The Dispute over Christ's Origin. By Karl-Josef Kuschel, translated by John Bowden. Christ, Ethics and Tragedy. Essays in Honour of Donald MacKinnon. Edited by Kenneth Surin. Karl Rahner. By William V. Dych. Hans Urs von Bultharar. By John O'Donnell. A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity. By Keith Ward. From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianiry. By Anne Primavesi. Imagination and Authority: Theological Authorship in the Modern Tradition. By John E. Thiel. What is a Story? By Don Cupitt. Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (Sather Classical Lectures). By Averil Cameron. Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain. By Dorothy Watts. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Regents Studies in Medieval Culture). By Seth Lerer. Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion III). Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England. By Eamon Duffy. The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods. By James M. Stayer. Carholic Religious Poetsfrom Southwell to Crushaw. By Anthony D. Cousins. Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble. By Keith P. Luria. Unresting Transformation: The Theology and Spirituality of Maude Petre. By Ellen Leonard. Tradition and the Critical Spirit: Catholic Modernist Writings (Fortress Texts in Modern Theology). Writings of George Tyrrell, selected and introduced by James C. Livingston. Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. By Richard Brown. Ernst Troeltsch: Religion in History. Essays translated by James Luther Adams and Walter F. Bense. Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth. By John Finnis. Morality and Modernity. By Ross Poole. Understanding War (Points of Conflict). By W.B. Gallie. Business Ethics: The State of the Art (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics). Edited by Edward R. Freeman. Conditionals. Edited by Frank Jackson. The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge. By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. William of Ockham and the Divine Freedom. By Harry Klocker. Freedom in the Modern World: Maritain, Simon, Adler. Edited by Michael D. Torre. The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762. By Maurice Cranston. Wittgenstein Centenary Essays (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 28). Edited by A. Phillips Griffiths.     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Robin Gill, Churchgoing and Christian Ethics Sarah M. Pike, Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community Michael E. McCullough, Kenneth I. Pargament, and Carl E. Thoresen, Forgiveness: Theory, Research, and Practice Claudio Naranjo, The Divine Child and the Hero: Inner Meaning in Children’s Literature N. J. Demerath III, Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics Corwin E. Smidt, In God We Trust? Religion and American Political Life Grace Davie, Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates     

REVIEWS

Faith and Understanding, Paul Helm, Edinburgh University Press 1997 God, Reason and Theistic Proofs, Stephen T. Davis, Edinburgh University Press 1997 An Introduction to Pastoral Care, Charles V. Gerkin, Abingdon Press 1997 A Preserving Grace. Protestants, Catholics and Natural Law, Michael Cromartie (ed), Ethics and Public Policy Center and Eerdmans 1997 Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion, Ingvild S. Gilhus, Routledge 1997 Visions and Longings. Medieval Women Mystics, Monica Furlong, Mowbray/Cassell 1996 Women Confronting the Holocaust In Spite of the Horror, Jutta T. Bendremer, Edwin Mellen Press 1997 Political Christianity: A Reader, David McLellan (ed), SPCK 1997 Freedom of Religion and Belief. A world report, Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen (eds) Religion Without Transcendence?, D.Z. Phillips and Timothy Tessin (eds) Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Charles Taliaferro A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief Jewish Perspectives on Christianity, Fritz A. Rothschild (ed) Allah in the West. Islamic Movements in America and Europe, Gilles Kepel Qur'ān, Liberation and Pluralism: an Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression, Farid Esack Ambrose, Boniface Ramsey OP (The Early Church Fathers ed Carol Harrison) The Quest of the Historical Gospel: Mark, John and the Origins of the Gospel Genre, Lawrence M. Wills The Gospel of Luke, Joel B. Green (ed), (The New International Commentary on the New Testament) Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age, Robin Gill, T.&T. Clark 1997 Ethics and the Old Testament, John Barton, SCM Press 1998     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Power Picture , by Estelle and Charles Mc Carthy . The Roman Catholic Church In England And Wales : A Short History , by E. E. Reynolds. The Pilgrim Continues His Way , translated by R. M. French . The Trinity and the Religious Experience of Man , by Raimundo Panikkar. Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion : Aims , Methods and Theories of Research. Kirchenkampf und Ökumene 1939-45: Darstellung und Dokumentation , by Armin Boyens. The Churches and Politics in Germany , by Frederic Spotts. Church , State and Opposition in the Ussr , by Gerhard Simon. Erlösung und Emanzipation , ed. by L. Scheffczyk. Zur Theologie der Welt , by Johann Baptist Metz.     

SHORT NOTICES

The School Tradition of the Old Testament (Bampton Lectures 1994), E. W. Heaton Augustine (Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series), Mary T. Clark The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas , Arne Rasmussen Pantheism: A Non-theistic Concept of Deity , Michael P. Levine Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging , Grace Davie Sarah Laughed , Trevor Dennis John's Gospel , Mark W. G. Stibbe Ephesians , Martin Kitchen II Thessalonians, Maarten J. J. Menken The Catholic Faith , Richard Conrad Faith and Criticism , Basil Mitchell Emotion and Spirit: Questioning the Claims of Psychoanalysis and Religion , Neville Symington     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Justin J. Meggitt, Paul, Poverty and Survival. J. Trebolle Barrera, The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible: an Introduction to the History of the Bible. Bonnie Thurston, Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary. Lewis Ayres and Gareth Jones (eds), Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community. Malcolm Lambert, The Cathars. Jan Bonda, The One Purpose of God: An Answer to the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment. H. Richard Niebuhr, Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings. Michael Northcott (ed.), Urban Theology: A Reader. C. Dale White, Making a Just Peace: Human Rights & Domination Systems. Colin Buchanan, Is the Church of England Biblical? An Anglican Ecclesiology. Darrell L. Guder (ed.), Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. Bert Hoedemaker, Secularization and Mission: A Theological Essay. Walter Klaiber, Call and Response: Biblical Foundations of a Theology of Evangelism. Walter Brueggemann & George Stroup (eds), Many Voices, One God: Being Faithful in a Pluralistic World. Michael Root & Risto Saarinen (eds), Baptism and the Unity of the Church. S.M. Heim (ed.), Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism. Yirmiyahu Yovel, Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. M. A. Ryan & T. D. Whitmore (eds), The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses. Rodger Charles SJ, Social Witness and Teaching: The Catholic Tradition from Genesis to Centesimus Annus. Rowena Robinson, Conversion, Continuity and Change: Lived Christianity in Southern Goa. James Luther Adams and Wilson Yates (eds), The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections. C. Gestrich, The Return of Splendor in the World: The Christian Doctrine of Sin and Forgiveness. D. Watts, Religion in Late Roman Britain: Forces of Change. Peter Byrne, The Moral Interpretation of Religion.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
God Plays Piano Too: Spiritual Lives of Disabled Children
Religion and the Making of Society: Essays in Social Theology, Charles Davis
From Synagogue to Church: Public Services and Offices in the Earliest Christian Communities, J. T. Burtchaell
Sharing a Vision, George Carey, Darton
Religion, Politics and the Moral Life, Michael Oakeshott, edited by Timothy Fuller
Morality and Politics in Modem Europe: The Harvard Lectures, Michael Oakeshott, edited by Shirley Robin Letwin
Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism, Jaroslav Pelikan
Schismatics, Sectarians, Dissidents, Deviants: The First One Hundred Years of Jewish-Christian Relations, Jack T. Sanders
Water Logic The Alternative to I am Right, You are Wrong, Edward de Bono
The General Synod Debate on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood, 11 November 1992
Never the Same Again: A Journey through Women's Ordination with the Bishop of London, Rob Marshall, Darton
Chosen: Gay Catholic Priests Tell Their Stories, Elizabeth Stuart
Hellfire and Lightning Rods: Liberating Science, Technology and Religion, Frederick Ferré
Searching the Scriptures I: A Feminist Introduction, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed.)
Signs of the Times: Theological Reflections, Juan Luis Segundo
Sister Philothea: Relationships between Women and Roman Catholic Priests, Tineke Ferwerda     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Cynics and Christian Origins. By F. Gerald Downing. A Study of Ignatius of Antioch in Syria and Asia (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 29). By Christine Trevett. The Emergence of Christian Theology. By Eric Osborn. Early Christian Poetry: A Collection of Essays Edited by J. den Boeft and A. Hilhorst. Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages. By Thomas J. Heffernan. Angelic Monks and Earthly Men. By Ludo J. R. Milis. Evacute;γómμα: Studies in Honor of Robert Taft, S. J. Studia Anselmiana. Analecta liturgica, 17. Edited by E. Cam and others. The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East I: Problems in the Literary Source Material. Edited by Averil Cameron and Lawrence I. Conrad. Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages: The Relations between Religion, Church and Society. By Adriaan H. Bredero. The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain 1031–1157. By Bernard F. Reilly. Shield and Sword: Jewish Polemics against Christianity and the Christians in France and Spain from 1100–1500 (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 8). By Hanne Trautner-Kromann. Living and Dying in England 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience. By Barbara Harvey. Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral, c.1075-c.1125 (Oxford Historical Monographs). By Teresa Webber. Renaissance Philosophy (A History of Western Philosophy 3). By Brian P. Copenhaver and Charles B. Schmitt. Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period. Essays edited by Marjorie Reeves. Beyond Charity. Reform Initiatives for the Poor. By Carter Lindberg. Marcello Cervini and Ecclesiastical Government in Tridentine Italy. By William V. Hudon. Interpretations of Erasmus c.1750-1920: Man On His Own. By Bruce Mansfield. F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism. By David Young. The Convert Cardinals: John Henry Newman and Henry Edward Manning. By David Newsome. Communication and Change in American Religious History. Edited by Leonard I. Sweet. New Dimensions in American Religious History: Essays in Honor of Martin E. Marty. Edited by Jay P. Dolan and James P. Wind. John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation. Edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso. American Catholics and the Formation of the United Nations (Melville Studies in Church History 4). By Joseph S. Rossi. Religion in Public Life. Edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and David McLellan. Dirty Hands: The Problem of Political Morality. By Steve Buckler. The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. By Stephen L. Carter. The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic Approach. By Charles E. Curran. Human Morality. By Samuel Scheffler. Religion and Mental Health. Edited by John F. Schumaker. Religion and Sexual Health. Edited by Ronald M. Green. Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction. By George Graham. Does God Exist? The Debate Between Theists and Atheists. By J. P. Moreland and Kai Nielsen, with contributions by Peter Kreeft, Antony Flew, William Lane Craig, Keith Parsons, Dallas Willard. Is God Real? Edited by Joseph Runzo. Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard's ‘Philosophical Fragments’. By C. Stephen Evans.     

SHORT NOTICES

Why God? Thinking Through Faith, Jim Thompson The Mandate of Heaven: The Divine Command and the Natural Order, Michael Keeling, T. & T. Clark The Times Best Sermons of 1996, Ruth Gledhill (ed.) Calendar: Christ's Time for the Church, Laurence Hull Stookey The ‘Obscrurism’ of Light: A Theological Study into the Nature of Light, Iain M. MacKenzie The Beginning and the End of ‘Religion’, Nicholas Lash Clinging to Faith, Peter D. Bishop Walter Benjamin and the Bible, Brian Britt Religion and Rational Theology: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni (eds) The New God-Image: a Study of Jung's Key Letters conceming the Evolution of the Western God-Image, Edward F. Edinger Zeal for Truth and Tolerance, Jan Mili? Lochman Qumran Cave 4 XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266–273) (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XVIII), Joseph Barmgarten (ed.) Mark Pryce, Finding a Voice: Men, Women and the Community of the Church     

Reviews

Books reviewed Webb, Stephen H., Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education Hillocks, George, Jr., Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching Brinkley, Alan; Dessants, Betty; Flamm, Michael; Fleming, Cynthia; Forcey, Charles; and Rothschild, Eric, The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom Kiely, Robert, Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor's Life Hart, D. G., University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education Sutherland, Peter, (ed.), Adult Learning: A Reader Seldin, Peter. (ed.), Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching: A Practical Guide to Improved Faculty Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions Hayes, Elizabeth; Flannery, Daniele D. with Brooks, Ann K., Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; and Hugo, Jane M., Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning     

Book Reviews

A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States , by Helen A. Berger
Religion in the News:Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse , by Stewart M. Hoover
Seventh-Day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change inan Emerging Religion , by Laura L. Vance
Prophetic Pentecostalism in Chile: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy , by Franz Kamsteeg
Process, Praxis, and Transcendence , by James L. Marsh
Sociology and the World's Religions , by Malcolm Hamilton
American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving , by Christian Smith
Journeys to the Spiritual Lands: The Natural History of West IndianReligion , by Wallace W. Zane
Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion And Religious Aspects of Organizations , edited by N.J. Demerath III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, and Rhys H. Williams
The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns , by Robert A. Emmons
Becoming Religious: Understanding Devotion to the Unseen , by Susan Kwilecki
     

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Adrian Hastings, The Church in Africa 1450–1950. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994, xiv+706 pp., 8 maps, $ 45.00 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 826399 6.

Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa. Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 1995, xi+420 pp., $ 24.00 ISBN 0 8028 08433.

Paul Giord (ed.), The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa. Studies of Religion in Africa: Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, No. 12. Leiden, Brill, 1995, xi+301 pp., $ 101.50 ISBN 9004103244.

Paul Giord, African Christianity: Its Public Role. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998, viii+368 pp., $ 39.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 253 33417 9, $ 22.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 253 21204 9.

Kwame Bediako, Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1995, xii+276 pp., £18.00 (paperback) ISBN 0 7486 0635 4; New York, Orbis Books, 1995, $ 25.00 (paperback) ISBN 1570750483.