BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: Biblical Semantic Logic: A Preliminary Analysis. By Arthur Gibson. Pp.xii, 244, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £12.00. The Great Code. By Northrop Frye. Pp.xxiii, 261, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, £9.95. The Critical Meaning of the Bible. By Raymond E. Brown. Pp.x, 150, New York/Ramsey, Paulist Press, 1981, $3.95. The Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture. By William J. Abraham. Pp.126, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, £9.50. Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension. By D.A. Carson. Pp.xii, 271, London, Marshal, Morgan and Scott, 1981, £10.95. Presented to Lou H. Silberman. Edited by J.L. Crenshaw and Samuel Sandmel. Pp.xviii, 273, New York, Ktav, 1980, $20.00. New Testament Textual Criticism: its Significance for Exegesis. Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger. Edited by E.J. Epp and G.D. Fee. Pp.xxviii, 410, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981, £40.00. To Advance the Gospel: New Testament Studies. By Joseph A. Fitzmyer. Pp.xiii, 265, New York, Crossroad, 1981, $19.50. The Gospel According to Matthew. By Francis Wright Beare. Pp.x, 550, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £25.00. Jesus als Lehrer. By Rainer Riesner. Pp.xi, 614 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2 Reihe, 7), Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1981, 59 DM. Paradise Now and Not Yet. By A.T. Lincoln. Pp.xiii, 277 (Society for New Testament Studies. Monograph Series 43), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £ 15.00. Blessing in Paul. By Joseph Thuruthumaly. Pp.vii, 328, Alwaye (India), Pontifical Institute of Theology and Philosophy, 1981, no price given. God Incarnate: Story and Belief. Edited by A.E. Harvey. Pp.viii, 104, London, SPCK, 1981, £3.95. Christ in a Changing World: Towards an Ethical Christology. By Tom F. Driver. Pp.xi, 183, London, SCM, 1981, £5.95. To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism. By Rosemary Radford Ruether. Pp.85, London, SCM, 1981, £2.95. The Spirit as Lord: The Pneumatology of Karl Barth. By Philip J. Rosato. Pp.x, 228, Edinburgh, T. &amp; T. Clark, 1981, £8.95. Providence. By Michael J. Langford. Pp.183, London, SCM, 1981, £5.50. Faith and Reason. By Richard Swinburne. Pp.206, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £16.00. Knowing God. By Jerry H. Gill. Pp.173, Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1981, $9.95. Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to the Sacraments in the Christian Church By Joseph Martos. Pp.530, London, SCM Press, 1981, £8.50. The Dynamic of Tradition. By A.M. Allchin. Pp.vni, 151, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £4.50. Peter and the Single Church. By John de Satgé. Pp.x, 182, London, SPCK, 1981, £4.95. L'Homme et ses Probèmes dans la Lumière du Christ. By René Latourelle. Pp.386, Montréal, Bellarmin: Tournai, Desclée, 1981, $12.00. God and Man in African Religion: A Case Study of the Igbo of Nigeria. By E.I. Metuh. Pp.xiv, 181, London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1981, £3.95. A Fifth Gospel: In Search of Black Christian Values. By J.G. Healy. Pp.xvi, 204, London, SCM Press, 1981, £4.95. Prophecy and Revolution. By Nathaniel I. Ndiokwere. Pp.xvi, 319, London, SPCK, 1981, £8.50. A Technique for Loving: Non‐Violence in the Indian and Christian Traditions. By P.D. Bishop. Pp.viii, 184, London, SCM Press, 1981, £5.50. Living Theology in Asia. Edited by John C. England. Pp.x, 242, London, SCM Press Limited, 1981, £4.95. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Pp.xiii, 217, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981, £15.75. Religious Change in Zambia: Exploratory Studies. By Wim M.J. van Binsbergen. Pp.xii, 423, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, £18.00. A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change. By Bernice Martin. Pp.272, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1981, £12.50. The Orthodox Church in Russia. Edited by Archbishop Pitirim. Pp.254, London, Thames and Hudson, 1982, £30.00. Daily Prayer in the Early Church. By Paul F. Bradshaw. Pp.x, 191 (Alcuin Club Collections 63), London, SPCK, 1981, £6.95. Records of the Trials of the Spanish Inquisition in Ciudad Real, Volume III, The Trials of 1512–1527 in Toledo. Edited by Haim Beinart. Pp.x, 768, Jerusalem, The Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1981, £31.20. The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536–7. By Scott Michael Harrison. Pp.viii, 158, London, Royal Historical Society, 1981, £17.52. Pascal: Adversary and Advocate. By Robert J. Nelson. Pp.vi, 286, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1981, £15.75. Challoner and His Church: A Catholic Bishop in Georgian England. Edited by Eamon Duffy. Pp.xiv, 203, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £9.95. The French Prophets. The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth‐Century England. By Hillel Schwartz. Pp.xvi, 382, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980, £15.00. Religion and Imagination ‘in aid of a grammar of assent’. By John Coulson. Pp.x, 193, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981, £12.50. Ethical Responsibility: Bonhoeffer's Legacy, to the Churches. Edited by John D. Godsey and Geffrey B. Kelly. Pp.x, 340, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1981, $39.95. Struggle and Submission: R.C. Zaehner on Mysticisms. By W.L. Newell. Pp.xvii, 383, Washington, University Press of America, 1981, $21.75 (hardback), $12.75 (paperback). Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. Edited by M.R. Wright. Pp.vii, 364, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1981, £28.00. A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. VI: Aristotle: an Encounter. By W.K.G. Guthrie. Pp.xvi + 456. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £30.00. Aristotle the Philosopher. By J.L. Ackrill. Pp.160, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, £6.95. The Beginning of Christian Philosophy. By Eric Osborn. Pp.xiv, 321, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £24.00.

Topic: Biblical Studies and Interpretation
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences