SHORT NOTICES

Liberation Theology UK, John Vincent and Chris Rowland (eds) Metaphysical Personalism: An Analysis of Austin Farrer's Metaphysics of Theism, Charles Conti Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism, David Brakke Early Christian Art and Architecture: An Introduction, Guntram Koch Jesus and the Land, Charles R. Page II Psychiatry and Religion, Dinesh Bhugra (ed.) This We Can Say: Talking Honestly about Sex, The Society of Friends Feminist Theological Ethics: A Reader, Lois K. Daly (ed.) All Things are Possible to Believers, Rudolf Schnackenburg New Occasions Teach New Duties? Christian Ethics for Today, Cyril Rodd (ed.), T. & T. Clark Power through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in II Corinthians, Timothy B. Savage Authority and Anglicanism, Stephen Ross White Judaism Transcends Catastrophe: God, Torah and Israel Beyond the Holocaust, Jacob Neusner (ed.)     

Reviews

Jantzen, Grace M. Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism
Matuštík, Martin J. and Westphal, Merold (eds) Kierkegaard and Post/Modernity
Samuelson, Norbert Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
Goizueta, Roberto S. Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment
Lee, Jung Young The Trinity in Asian Perspective
Schwöbel, Christoph (ed.) Trinitarian Theology Today: Essays on Divine Being and Act
Murphy, Francesca Aran Christ the Form of Beauty: A Study in Theology and Literature
Rasmusson, Arne The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas
Reno, R.R. The Ordinary Transformed: Karl Rahner and the Christian Vision of Transcendence
Dorrien, Gary Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity     

SHORT NOTICES

Great Christian Thinkers, Hans Küng
Folklore and the Hebrew Bible, Susan Niditch
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, B. R. Tilghman
The Gospel According to John: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Thomas L. Brodie
Laughter A Theological Essay, Karl-Josef Kuschel
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, Alister E. McGrath (ed.)
Jonah (Old Testament Library) James Limburg
Gender, Power and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story, Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn
Hidden Treasure: A Journey towards Healing from Sexual Abuse, Muriel Green and Anne Townsend, Darton, Longman & Todd
Cry Love, Cry Hope: Responding to Aids, Bill Kirkpatrick (ed.), Darton, Longman & Todd
Pastoral Responses to Sexual Issues, William V. Arnold
Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister E. McGrath
African Theology: A Critical Analysis and Annotated Bibliography, Josiah U. Young III
Raising up a Faithful Priest: Community and Priesthood in Biblical Theology, Richard D. Nelson
Front Line Mission: Ministry in the Market Place, Denis Claringbull
The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope and Justice, J. David Pleins
A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, Jonathan Magonet     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Remembering the Christian Past by Robert L. Wilken
Exbodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis by L. Gregory Jones
Boundaries of Our Habitations: Tradition and Theological Construction by Delwin Brown
Theological Essays II by Eberhard Jüngel, ed. John Webster, trans. Arnold Neufeldt-Fast and John Webster (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1994); and, The Possibilities of Theology: Studies in the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel in his Sixtieth Year , ed. John Webster     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
James K.A. Smith. Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation.
John B. Thomson. The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas.
Sarah Coakley. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender.
D. Stephen Long. The Goodness of God: Theology, Church and the Social Order.
Philip Dixon. Nice and Hot Disputes: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Seventeenth Century.
Andrew Moore. Realism and Christian Faith: God, Grammar and Meaning.
G.R. Evans, ed. The Medieval Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Medieval Period.
David Willows. Divine Knowledge: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Christian Education.     

Essentials of Christian Theology

Books reviewed:
William Placher, ed., Essentials of Christian Theology. Reviewed by Murray A. Rae University of Otago     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Christ and Spirit. Spirit-Christology in Trinitaraian Perspective by Ralph Delcolle
Winds of the Spriti: A constructive Christian Theology, Peter C. Hodgson
The Eucharist Makes the Church: Henri de Lubac and john Zizioulas in Dialogue by Paul McParthan
Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology by Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Plurality and Christian Ethics, by Lan S. Markham
Ther fall to Voilence: Original sin in Relational Theology by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Religion and Revelation: A Theology of Revelation in the World's Religion by Keith Ward
Power & Christian Ethics by James P. Mackey
Mystical Language of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells
Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture by William C. Placher     

Reviews

Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
Sue Patterson, Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age
Michael Banner, Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
Alejandro García-Rivera, The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics
Richard Fardon, Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography
David N. Power, Sacrament: The Language of God's Giving
Rush Rhees, Discussions of Simone Weil
Richard Viladesau, Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art
George Hunsinger, Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth
Kevin F. Burke, S.J., The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuriá     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Sue Patterson Realist Christian Theology in a Postmodern Age Michael J. McClymond Encounters with God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards W. Jay Wood Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous Philip Clayton God and Contemporary Science Ian A. McFarland Listening to the Least: Doing Theology from the Outside In C. Stephen Evans Faith Beyond Reason Andrew Bradstock Faith in the Revolution: The Political Theologies of Muentzer and Winstanley Stephen C. Barton, ed. Where Shall Wisdom be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World Jeffrey G. Sobosan Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science, and Cosmology     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels , Bruce J. Malina
Resurrection and Discipleship. Interpretive Models, Biblical Reflections, Theological Consequences , Thonvald Lorenzen
The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse. Rhetoric, Society Idelogy , Vermon K. Robbins
Spirituality and the Secular Quest , Peter H. Van Ness (ed.)
Faithful Change. The Personal and Public Challenges of Post-modern Life , James Fowler
From Chaos to Mission - Refounding Religious Life Formation , Gerald A. Arbuckle SM
Dying to be One , David Butler
Interpreting Charismatic Experience , David Middlemiss
Toward a Theology of the Body , Mary T. Prokes, T. &K T. Clark
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688 , Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier (eds)
The Churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, Vol. I: 1558–1688 , Kenneth Hylson-Smith
Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE-117 CE) , John M. G. Barclay
The Islamic Middle East: An Historical Anthropology , Charles Lindholm
German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700–1918 , Nicholas Hope
The Question of Meaning: A Theological and Philosophical Orientation , Gerhard Sauter, trans. and ed. by Geoffrey W. Bromiley
John A. Ryan. Economic Justice. Selections from Distributive Justice and A Living Wage , Harlan R. Beckley (ed.)
Doing Theology for the People of God: Studies in Honour of J. I. Packer , Donald Lewis and Alister McGrath (eds)
Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology , Brian D. Ingraffia
Biblical Theology: Problems and Perspectives. In Honor of J. Christian Beker , Steven J. Kraftchik, Charles D. Myers, Jr., and Ben C. Ollenburger (eds)     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
David F. Ford, Self and Salvation: Being Transformed
Francis Clark, Godfaring: On Reason, Faith, and Sacred Being
David Kamitsuka, Theology and Contemporary Culture: Liberation, Postliberal and Revisionary Perspectives
Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
Laurence Paul Hemming (ed.), Radical Orthodoxy?—A Catholic Enquiry
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
Martin X. Moleski, S.J., Personal Catholicism: The Theological Epistemologies of John Henry Newman and Michael Polanyi
Denis Donoghue, Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Gerald R. McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context Gavin D’Costa, The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity David Fergusson and Marcel Sarot, (eds.) The Future as God’s Gift: Explorations in Christian Eschatology Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart, Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology in Contemporary Context Gerhard Sauter, What Dare We Hope? Reconsidering Eschatology Douglas Farrow, Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology Celia E. Deane‐Drummond, Creation through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology Gregory Baum, (ed.) The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview Niels Grønkjaer, (ed.) The Return of God: Theological Perspectives in Contemporary Philosophy Christine Helmer, The Trinity and Martin Luther: A Study of the Relationship between Genre, Language and the Trinity in Luther’s Works (1523–1546) Niels Henrik Gregersen and J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, (eds.) Rethinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue Wolfhart Pannenberg, Beitraege zur Systematischen Theologie. Band 3 Kirche und Oekumene Frank G. Kirkpatrick, The Ethics of Community     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Perry Schmidt–Leukel (ed.), Buddhist Perceptions of Jesus: Papers of the Third Conference of the European Network of Buddhist–Christian Studies (St Ottilien 1999) David Jobling, Tina Pippin, Ronald Schleifer (eds), The Postmodern Bible Reader Mark D. Chapman, Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology: Religion and Cultural Synthesis in Wilhelmine Germany Stephen J. Hunt, Religion in Western Society James J. Buckley and David S. Yeago (eds), Knowing the Triune God: The Work of the Spirit in the Practices of the Church Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass (eds), Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life Dan R. Stiver, Theology After Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology T. J. Gorringe, The Education of Desire: Towards a Theology of the Senses Anthony Harvey, By What Authority? George Guiver (ed.), Priests in a People‘s Church Sarah Coakley, Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender Robert McKim, Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity Kenneth Leech, Through our Long Exile: Contextual Theology and the Urban Experience David N. Power, ‘The Word of the Lord’: Liturgy’s Use of Scripture Owen Hardwicke, Living Beyond Conformity: An Experience of Ministry and Priesthood     

Recent Books on ≡ Theology, Science and Religion

Books reviewed in this article:
Keith Ward, God, Faith & the New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science.
Fraser Watts ed, Science Meets Faith: Theology and Science in Conversation.
Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues.
Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Lawrence H. Schiffman, James C. VanderKam (eds), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Robert Elinor, Buddha & Christ: Images of Wholeness
Larry J. Kreitzer and Deborah W. Rooke (eds), Ciphers In the Sand: Interpretation of The Woman Taken in Adulter
Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History. The Religion of Herodotus
Bernard Lonergan, Frederick E. Crow and Robert M. Doran (eds), Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas
John W. O'Malley, Trent and all That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era
Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
Michael D. Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Martin Ott, African Theology in Images
Keith Ward, Religion and Community
Martin Sutherland (ed.), Mission Without Christendom: Exploring the Site
Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth
Philip Clayton, The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Andrew Shanks, God and Modernity: A New and Better Way to Do Theology
James P. Mackey, The Critique of Theological Reason
John E. Thiel, Senses of Tradition: Continuity and Development in Catholic Faith
Anne Primavesi, Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science
Michael H. Barnes, Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science
Stanley L. Jaki, The Savior of Science
George Lovell, Consultancy, Ministry and Mission, A Handbook for Practitioners and Work Consultants in Christian Organizations     

What's [Not] New in Trinitarian Theology

The Christian Doctrine of God: One Being Three Persons , Thomas F. Torrance, T. & T. Clark
The Father's Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity , Thomas G. Weinandy, T. & T. Clark
Trinitarian Theology Today: Essays on Divine Being and Act , Christoph Schwöbel (ed.), T. & T. Clark     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: JCP Rekindling the Word: In Search of Gospel Truth, Carsten Peter Thiede Europe without Priests?, Jan Kerkhofs (ed.) Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession, Robert Fuller Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil: Prolegomena to a Christian Theology of Evil, Richard Worsley The Times Book of Best Sermons, Ruth Gledhill (ed.) University of Birmingham God in the City: Essays and Reflections from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Urban Theology Group, Peter Sedgewick (ed.) The Philosophy of Religious Language: Sign Symbol and Story, Dan R. Stiver Yes to a Global Ethic, Hans Küng (ed) True to This Earth: Global Challenges and Transforming Faith, Alan Race and Roger Williamson (eds) Angel and Me, Sara Maitland Searching the Scriptures Volume 2: A Feminist Commentary, The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300, Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise, Anthony C. Thiselton, T. & T. Clark The Church as Polis: From Political Theology to Theological Politics as Exemplified by Jiirgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas, Arne Rasmusson The Persistence of Purgatory, Richard K. Fenn