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