REVIEWS

Books reviewed: The Paganism Reader , Chas S. Clifton and Graham Harvey (eds), Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐30353‐2), pp. xi + 387, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Rick Arrandale
Director, Isle of Avalon Foundation, Glastonbury Give Me That Online Religion , Brenda Brasher, Rutgers University Press 2004 (0‐8135‐3436‐4), pp. xiv + 203, Pb $21.95
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief , Richard C. Prust, Rodopi 2004 (90‐420‐1088‐6), pp. 130, Pb €30/$39
Reviewed by William Schweitzer
University of Edinburgh God, Evil, and Ethics. A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion , Eric v.d. Luft, Gegensatz Press 2004 (0‐9655179‐1‐8), pp. viii + 264, Pb $14.95
Reviewed by Russell Re Manning
University of Cambridge Honouring the Past and Shaping the Future: Religious and Biblical Studies in Wales. Essays in Honour of Gareth Lloyd Jones , Robert Pope (ed.), Gracewing 2003 2003 (0‐85244‐401‐X), pp. xviii + 278, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Dr. Daniel L. Smith‐Christopher
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Treasures Old and New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch , Joseph Blenkinsopp, Eerdmans 2004 (0‐8028‐2679‐2), pp. x + 228, Pb £17.99
Reviewed by Benjamin Bury
University of Birmingham How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel , William M. Schniedewind, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82946‐1), pp. xiii + 257, Hb £25/$28
Reviewed by Deryn Guest
University of Birmingham Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence , Martin Laird, Oxford Early Christian Studies, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐926799‐5), pp. xii + 240, Hb £50
Reviewed by Philip McCosker
Peterhouse, Cambridge The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries , Martin Heale, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 22, The Boydell Press 2004 (1‐84383‐054X), pp. xvii + pp. 378, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Carolyn Muessig
University of Bristol Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe , Liz Herbert McAvoy, Studies in Medieval Mysticism 5, D.S. Brewer 2004 (1‐84384‐008‐1), pp. ix + 276, Hb £50/$85
Reviewed by Kevin Magill
University of Bristol Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein , Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain (eds), SCM Press 2004 (0‐334‐02923‐6), pp. xiv + 286, Pb £35
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute (Melbourne) The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology , Gareth Jones (ed.), Blackwell 2004 (0‐631‐20685‐X), pp. xx + 586, Hb £85/$134.95
Reviewed by Jason A. Fout
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MI Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures , Grace Davie, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead (eds), Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ashgate 2003 (0‐7546‐3010‐2), pp. xii + 253, Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Hugh McLeod
University of Birmingham Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of the Saints , Elizabeth A. Johnson, Continuum 2004 (0‐8264‐1473‐7) pp. xvii + 379, Pb £18.99
Reviewed by A. Denise Starkey
Loyola University Chicago Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical , John Haldane, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐20703‐7), pp. xv + 288, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Tracey Rowland
John Paul II Institute, Melbourne Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa , Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Hurst and Company 2004 (1‐85065‐734‐3), vii +263, Pb $19.95
Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong
Baylor University, Waco, Texas An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire , Michael Northcott, I.B. Tauris 2004 (1‐85043‐478‐6), pp. 200, Hb £19.50
Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb
Wabash College, Indiana Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Volume One: Foundations of Violence , Grace M. Jantzen, Routledge 2004 (0‐415‐29033‐3), pp. x + 390, Pb £19.99
Reviewed by Sandra Ellis‐Killian
The Alethia Foundation Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace , Simon Fisher, Quaker Books, 2004 (0‐85245‐357‐4), pp. 123, Pb £9.00
Reviewed by K. Alan Jung
Biola University Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens , Bernd Wannenwetsch, Oxford University Press 2004 (0‐19‐925387‐0), pp. xiv + 402, Hb £75
Reviewed by Craig Hovey
University of Cambridge A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic: Gathering the Nations in Love and Justice , Frank G. Kirkpatrick, Ashgate 2003 (Hb 0‐7546‐3156‐7, Pb 0‐7546‐3157‐5), pp. 201 + xii, Hb £47.50/Pb £16.99
Reviewed by Michael Chester
The North East Oecumenical Course, Durham Free Time: Towards a Theology of Leisure , Graham Neville, University of Birmingham Press 2004 (1‐902459‐21‐0), pp. viii + 162, Pb £14.95
Reviewed by Peter Atkins
Auckland, New Zealand God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking , Paul D. Janz, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0‐521‐82241‐6), pp. xi + 232, Hb £45/$65
Reviewed by Ruth Walker
University of Waikato, New Zealand Grassroots Spirituality: What It Is, Why It Is Here, Where It Is Going , Robert Forman, Imprint Academic 2004 (0‐907845‐681), pp. vii + 231, Pb £14.95?$29.90
Reviewed by Gerald Vinten
International Professional Managers’ Association