Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India , M.N. Srinivas, Oxford University Press 2003 Clarendon Press 1952] (0‐19‐5659744), pp. 279, Hb £20 Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah , Peter Schäfer, Princeton University Press 2002 (0‐691‐09068‐8), pp. xviii + 306, Hb £19.95 Judaism When Christianity Began: A Survey of Belief and Practice , Jacob Neusner, Westminster John Knox Press 2002 (0‐664‐22527‐6), pp. vii + 202, Pb £17.99 Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism , Omid Safi (ed.), Oneworld 2003 (1‐85168‐316‐X), pp. xi + 351, Pb £16.99 Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel , S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Sheffield Academic Press 2003, A Continuum Imprint (0‐82646‐224‐3), pp. x + 188, Hb £50 The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Bible , David M. Carr, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515652‐8), pp. x + 212, Hb £17.99 In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future , Craig C. Hill, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6090‐7), pp. viii + 229, Pb £11.99 John for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1–10 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05302‐2), pp. xii + 180, Pb £8.99 John for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 11–21 , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05520‐3), pp. xii + 188, Pb £8.99 Paul for Everyone, The Prison Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon , Tom Wright, SPCK 2002 (0‐281‐05303‐0), pp. xi + 227, Pb £8.99 Dimensions of Baptism: Biblical and Theological Studies , Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross (eds), Sheffield Academic Press 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐8264‐6203‐0), pp. xvi + 401, Hb £80 The Poverty of Riches: St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered , Kenneth Baxter Wolf, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515808‐3), pp. x + 165, Hb £30 Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth‐Century Crisis of Culture , George Pattison, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐01042‐X), pp. xiv + 257, Pb £17.95 Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love , Amy Laura Hall, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐89311‐9), pp. xi + 222, Pb £15.95 Literature and Religion in Mid‐Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot , Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton, Palgrave Macmillan 2003 (0‐333‐99337‐3), pp. ix + 221, Cloth £42.50 Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards , Douglas A. Sweeney, Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐515428‐2), pp. xi + 255, £35 Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States , Dan McKanan, Oxford University Press 2002 (019‐514‐5321), pp. viii + 294, Hb £40 Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II , Tracey Rowland, Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐30527‐6), pp. xiv + 226, Pb £18.99 The Friend of the Bridegroom: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Forerunner , Sergius Bulgakov, Translated by Boris Jakim, Eerdmans 2003 (0‐8028‐4979‐2), pp. xi + 190, Pb £19.99/$28 Confessing and Commending the Faith: Historic Witness and Apologetic Method , Alan P.F. Sell, University of Wales Press 2002 (0‐7083‐1747‐2), pp. xi + 550, Hb £45 Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition , D. G. Hart, Baker Academic 2003 (0‐8010‐2615‐6), pp. 261, Pb $24.99 In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminishing Christianity , R. R. Reno, Brazos 2002 (1‐58743‐033‐9), pp. 208, Pb $15.99 True Religion , Graham Ward, Blackwell Manifestos, Blackwell Publishing 2003 (0‐631‐22174‐3), pp. ix + 168, Pb £12.99 Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World , David Herbert, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1339‐9), pp. x + 322, Pb. £16.99 Faith‐Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik , Douglas Johnston (ed.), Oxford University Press 2003 (0‐19‐516089‐4), pp. xxi + 270, Hb £19.99 Holiness , John Webster, SCM 2003 (0‐334‐02895‐7), pp. 116, Pb £12.99 Creation , Hans Schwarz, Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐6066‐4), pp. xii+ 254, Pb £20 God and the Future: Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Eschatological Doctrine of God , Christiaan Mostert, T. & T. Clark 2002, A Continuum Imprint (0‐567‐08850‐2), pp. xv + 262, Pb £14.99 Divine Action and Modern Science , Nicholas Saunders, Cambridge University Press 2002 (0‐521‐52416‐4), pp. xviii + 234, Pb £16.95 Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value , Willem B. Drees (ed.), Routledge 2003 (0‐415‐29061‐9), pp. xv + 341, Pb £14.99/$24.95 Suffering, Death, and Identity , Robert N. Fisher, Daniel T. Primozic, Peter A. Day and Joel A. Thompson (eds), Value Inquiry Book Series , Vol. 135, Robert Ginsberg and Peter A. Redpath (eds), Rodopi 2002 (90‐420‐1173‐4), pp. 210, Pb $40 Identity , Vernon White, SCM Press 2002 (0‐334‐02890‐6), pp. x + 176, Pb £9.99 Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality , David Fontana, BPS and Blackwell 2003 (Hb 1‐40510‐805‐3, Pb 1‐40510‐806‐1), pp. ix + 260, Hb £50, Pb £15.99 Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity , Richard A. Cohen and James L. Marsh (eds), SUNY 2002 (0‐7914‐5190‐9), pp. xiv + 239, Pb £15 The Naked Parish Priest: What Priests Really Think They’re Doing , Stephen H. Louden and Leslie J. Francis, Continuum 2003 (0‐8264‐6798‐9), pp. viii + 232, Pb £14.99 Your Word Is Truth: A Project of Evangelicals and Catholics Together , Charles Colson and Richard John Neuhaus (eds), Eerdmans 2002 (0‐8028‐0508‐6), pp. x + 168, Pb £14.99/$20 Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education. A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Developments in Evangelical Theological Education , Bernard Ott, Regnum Books International 2001 (1‐870345‐14‐2), pp. xxvii + 382, Pb £14.99 Key Texts in American Jewish Culture , Jack Kugelmass (ed.), Rutgers University Press 2003 (0‐8135‐3221‐3), pp. vii + 308, Pb $24 Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy: Through a Glass Darkly , Paul Coates, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐1585‐5), pp. 217, Hb £47.50