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Modern Believing 49:2 April 2008

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Esther de Boer, The Mary Magdalene Cover-up: The Sources Behind the Myth.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. x, 213.


Rita Nakashima Brock, Jung Ha Kim, Kwok Pui-Lan, Seung Ai Yang (eds), Off The Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women's Religion and Theology.

Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xxii, 341.


William J Brown (ed), Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the bible as Scripture.

Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 158.


Jacqueline Bussie, The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison and Endo.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. viii, 212.


Mark D. Chapman, Bishops, Saints and Politics.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. viii, 243.


Mark D. Chapman (ed), Living the Magnificat: Affirming Catholicism in a Broken World.

London: Mowbray, 2007. Pp. xiv, 124.


John Cottingham, The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 186.


Kieran Flanagan, Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief .

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x, 189.


Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp (eds), A Sociology of Spirituality.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp xvi, 286.


Gary Greenberg, The Judas Brief: Who Really Killed Jesus?

London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. x, 282.


Mary Grey, To Rwanda and Back: Liberation Spirituality and Reconciliation.

London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007. Pp. xviii, 228.


James M. Gustafson, Moral Discernment in the Christian Life: Essays in Theological Ethics.

Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xxii, 261.


Russell Haitch, From Exorcism to Ecstasy: Eight Views of Baptism.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 185.


John Haldane, Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical.

London: Routledge, rp 2006. Pp. xvi, 288.


John Harrod, Weaving the Tapestry of Moral Judgement: Christian Ethics in a Plural World.

Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 360.


Michael S. Horton, Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ.

Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. 324.


Elizabeth A. Johnson, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God.

London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiv, 234.


Kirsteen Kim, The Holy Spirit in the World: A Global Conversation.

London, SPCK, 2007. Pp. xiv, 210.


Sebastian C. H. Kim and Pauline Kollontai (eds), Community Identity: Dynamics of Religion in Context.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xii, 286.


Hannah Lewis, Deaf Liberation Theology.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. x, 198.


Peter Mallen, The Reading and Transformation of Isaiah in Luke-Acts.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xii, 245.


Frank J. Matera, New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xxxi, 485.


John Médaille, The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace.

London: Continuum, 2007. Pp. xiv, 359.


Sandra Menssen and Thomas D. Sullivan, The Agnostic Enquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint.

Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xvi, 331.


Jill Middlemas, The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature and Theology of the ‘Exile'.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. x, 174.


Jolyon Mitchell, Media Violence and Christian Ethics.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 329.


Jolyon Mitchell and S. Brent Plate (eds), The Religion and Film Reader .

London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxii, 470.


Jürgen Moltmann, A Broad Place: An Autobiography.

London: SCM Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 406.


David Odell-Scott (ed), Reading Romans with Contemporary Philosophers and Theologians .

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. 287.


Leo G. Perdue, Wisdom Literature: A Theological History.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 415.


Robert Pope, Salvation in Celluloid: Theology, Imagination and Film.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xii, 208.


Robert Rezetko, Source and Revision in the Narratives of David's Transfer of the Ark: Text, Language and Story in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xiv, 418.


Mayra Rivera, The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 186.


Beverley Roberts Gaventa, Our Mother Saint Paul.

Nashville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 218.


Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young (eds), Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp.xxvii, 195.


D. Christopher Spinks, The Bible and the Crisis of Meaning: Debates on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xii, 201.


J. Samuel Subramanian, The Synoptic Gospels and the Psalms as Prophecy.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xx, 166.


John Swinton and Brian Brock (eds), Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. x, 251.


David Torevell, Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 203.


Andrew Village, The Bible and Lay People: An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. xvi, 190.


Robert Waldron, Thomas Merton: Master of Attention.

London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007. Pp. x, 101.


Heather Walton, Imagining Theology: Women, Writing and God.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xii, 152.


Fraser Watts, Jesus and Psychology (ed).

London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2007. Pp. xiv, 190.


Andrew P. Wilson, Transfigured: A Derridean Rereading of the Markan Transfiguration.

London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xiv, 185.


John E. Wilson, Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition.

Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. Pp. x, 286.


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