BOOK REVIEWS

Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context. By Brevard S. Childs. Pp.xvi, 255, London, S.C.M. Press, 1985, £10.00. The Cult of Molek: A Reassessment. By George C. Heider. Pp.xvii, 446, Sheffield, JSOT Press, 1985, £18.50 (hardback), £8.50 (paperback). A History of Israel from Alexander the Great to Bar Kochba. By H. Jagersma, translated by John Bowden. Pp. xiv, 224, London, SCM Press, 1985, £9.50. Naissance d'une Ex?èse: Daniel dans l'Eglise ancienne des trpis premiers siècles (Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese 28). By Reinhard Bodenmann. Pp.xviii, 442, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1986, 98 DM. The Son of Man (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 38). By Chrys C. Caragounis. Pp.ix, 310, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1986, DM 118. Paul, His Letters and His Theology: An Introduction to Paul's Epistles. By Stanley B. Marrow. Pp.vii, 278, Mahwah NJ, Paulist Press, 1986, $9.95. Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 22). By Lewis R. Donelson. Pp.viii, 222, Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1986, 78 DM. The Second and Third Epistles of John (Studies of the New Testament and Its World). By Judith Lieu, PP.x, 264, Edinburgh T & T Clark, 1986, £12.95 Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach. By Francis Watson. Pp.xii, 246, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £22.50. Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World. By Alan F. Segal. Pp.viii 207, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1986, £16.95. The Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity, 1). Edited by Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring. Pp.xxx 319. Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1986, no price given. Saint Augustine on Slavery. By Gervase Corcoran. Pp.102, Rome, Institutum Patristicum ‘Augustinianum’, 1985, no price given. An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy. By Oliver Leaman. Pp.xii, 208, Cambridge University Press, 1985, £20 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback). Anselm's Argument: The Logic of Divine Existence. (Avebury Series in Philosophy). By Robert Brecher. Pp.viii, 138, Aldershot, Gower Publishing, 1985, £16.00. Wyclif In His Times. Edited by Anthony Kenny. Pp.viii, 174, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, £19.50. Calvin's Old Testament Commentaries. By T.H.L. Parker. Pp.239, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1986, £14.95. Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London. By Andrew Pettegree. Pp.ix, 329, Oxford University Press, 1986, £22.50. Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524–1821 (Cambridge Latin American Studies). By Adriaan C. van Oss. Pp.xx, 248, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £27.50. Immodest Acts. By Judith C. Brown. Pp.viii, 214, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986, $14.95. English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman. By C.O. Brink. Pp.x, 243, Cambridge, James Clarke; New York, Oxford University Press, 1986, £11.95. Neither Angel nor Beast: The Life and Works of Blaise Pascal. By Francis X. J. Coleman, Pp.xii, 227, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, £17.95. La Soppressione Napoleonica delle Corporazioni Religiose: Contributo alla Storia Religiosa del Primo Ottocento Italiano, 1808–1814. By Carmelo Amedeo Naselli. Pp.309, Rome, Università Gregoriana Editrice, 1986, no price given. The Irish Catholic Experience. A Historical Survey. By Patrick J. Corish, Pp.ix, 283, Dublin, Gill and MacMillan, 1986, £25.00. The Priesthoods and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly. By D.G. Paz. Pp.xxiii, 422, Lewiston (NY), The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986, $59.95. Catholic Boston: Studies in Religion and Community, 1870–1970. Edited by Robert E. Sullivan and James M. O'Toole. Pp.ix, 280, Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, 1985, $8.00. Modern American Religion: Volume I: The Irony of It All, 1893–1919. By Martin E. Marty. Pp.xi, 386, Chicago University Press, 1986, £22.25. “Sufficiently Radical’ Catholicism, Progressivism and the Bishops” Program of 1919. By Joseph M. McShane, Pp.x, 307, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1986, $38.95. The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton. By Michael Mott. Pp.xxvi, 690, London, Sheldon Press, 1986, £19.50. Relics and Shrines. By David Sox. Pp. xvi, 237, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985, $12.95. Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today: Why? Where? How? By J.G. Davies. Pp. xiv, 274, London, SCM Press, 1988, $14.95. The Bleeding Mind. By Ian Wilson, Pp. ix, 164, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988, $12.95. ‘I ENCOUNTERED GOD!’ The Spiritual Exercises with the Gospel of Saint John. By David M. Stanley. Pp. xvi, 328, St. Louis, The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1986, $14.00 (hardback) $11.00 (paperback). Hymns and the Christian Myth By Lionel Adey. Pp. xiii, 269, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1986, £17.45. Eucharist and Offering. By Kenneth Stevenson. Pp. xiii, 327, New York, Pueblo Publishing, 1986, no price given. The Methods of Modern Theology: The Dream of Reason (Contemporary Christian Studies). By Paul Avis. Pp. 240, Basingstoke, Hants, Marshall Pickering, 1986, £13.95. Being and Truth: Essays in Honour of John Macquarrie. Edited by Alistair Kee. and Eugene Thomas Long. Pp. xviii, 462, London, SCM Press, 1986, £25.00. Die Herrschaft des Gekreuzigten: Ernst Käsemanns Frage nach der Mitte der Schrift (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 46). By Bernhard Ehler. Pp. xiii, 365 Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1986, DM 146. Eberhard Jüngel, An Introduction to his Theology. By J.B. Webster. Pp.182, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £20.00. Dieu, le Temps et l'Etre. By G. Lafont. Pp.373, Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1986, 176F. God's Action in the World. By Maurice Wiles. Pp.viii, 118, London, SCM Press, 1986, £5.95. Faith and the Future. By Walter Kasper. Pp.viii, 140, Tunbridge Wells, Burns and Oates, 1985, £8.95. God in Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation: The Gifford Lectures 1984–1985. By Jürgen Moltmann, translated by Margaret Köhl. Pp.xvi, 365, London, SCM Press, 1985, £10.50. Process Theology and the Christian Doctrine of God (Word and Spirit 8) Edited by Santiago Sia. Pp.viii, 110, Leominster, Fowler and Wright, 1986, £7.00. Process Theology and the Christian Tradition (Studies in Historical Theology V). By Illtyd Trethowan. Pp.xii, 124, Still River, MA, St Bede's Publications, 1986, £10.75. Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology. By James L. Cone. Pp.viii, 167, Paternoster Press, 1986, £7.95. A Place in the Sun. By Theo Witvliet. Pp.182, SCM, London 1986, £5.95. Divine Impassibility: An Essay in Philosophical Theology. By Richard E. Creel, Pp.xi, 238, Cambridge University Press, 1986, £25.00. Being and Predication: Thomistic Interpretations (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 16). By Ralph McInerny. Pp.xii, 323, Washington DC, Catholic University of America Press, 1986, no price given. Circles of God: Theology and Science from the Greeks to Copernicus. By H.P. Nebelsick. Pp.xxviii, 284, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1986, £16.00. One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology. By John Polkinghorne. Pp.xiii, 114, London SPCK, 1986, £4.50. Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century. By Amos Funkenstein. Pp.xii, 421, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1986, £31.70. Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall. Edited by Margaret J. Osier and Paul Lawrence Farber. Pp.xiv, 350, Cambridge University Press, 1985, £32.50.