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