BOOK REVIEWS

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Books reviewed in this article: To the Lengths of God: Truth and the Ecumenical Age. By B. R. Brinkman. The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church. By Thomas F. Torrance. The Mystery of the Triune God (Heythrop Monographs, n.6). By John J. O'Donnell. Ecumenical Theology and the Elusiveness of Doctrine. By Paul Avis. Ambiguity and the Presence of God. By Ruth Page. Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. Edited by Letty M. Russell. Problems of Old Testament Theology in the 20th Century. By Henning Graf Reventlow. Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise. By Ronald F. Thiemann. Studying the Old Testament: From Tradition to Canon. By Annemarie Ohler. Form and Vitality in the World and God: A Christian Perspective. By Trevor Williams. Jesus and Community: The Social Dimension of Christian Faith. By Gerhard Lohfink. Church, Charism and Power. By L. Boff. Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and Reformed Churches. Edited by Thomas F. Torrance. The Practice of Faith: A Handbook of Contemporary Spirituality. By Karl Rahner, edited by Karl Lehmann and Albert Raffelt. Let This Mind Be In You: The Quest for Identity Through Oedipus to Christ. By Sebastian Moore. St Francis: A Model for Human Liberation. By L. Boff. The Sacred in a Secular Age. Edited by Phillip E. Hammond. Sickness and Sectarianism: Exploratory Studies in Medical and Religious Sectarianism. Edited by R. Kenneth Jones. Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach. By Luc de Heusch. Theoretical Explorations in African Religion. Edited by W. van Binsbergen and M. Schoffeleers. Cult Controversies: The Societal Response to the New Religious Movements. By James A. Beckford. Apocalypse Delayed. The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses. By M. James Penton. The Lawful Rights of Mankind: An Introduction to the International Legal Code of Human Rights. By Paul Sieghart. The Theory and Practice of Human Rights. By L. J. Mcfarlane. Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants (Studies in Bioethics). By Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy. By Robert N. Wennberg. Abortion: The Catholic Debate in America. By Hans Lotstra. Philosophy for Understanding Theology. By Diogenes Allen. Parmenides of Elea: Fragments. Edited by David Gallop. Theophrastus of Eresus, on his Life and Work (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities). Edited by William W. Fortenbaugh (et al.). Scepticism or Platonism? The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy. By Harold Tarrant (Cambridge Classical Studies). Greek Religion, Archaic and Classical. By Walter Burkert. History, Society and the Churches: Essays in honour of Owen Chadwick. Edited by Derek Beales and Geoffrey Best. Scotland and the Crusades, 1095–1560. By Alan Macquarrie. Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1512–1819 By Joachim Whaley. Churchmen and Philosophers By Bruce Kuklick. Nietzsche and Pascal on Christianity (American University Studies, Series V, Philosophy). By Charles M. Natoli. Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century. By James E. McClellan. Monsieur Portal et les siens (1855–1926). By Regis Ladous, preface by Emile Poulat. Progress and Pessimism: Religion, Politics and History in Late Nineteenth Century Britain (Harvard Historical Studies 104). By J.P. von Arx. The Social Vision of William Blake. By Michael Ferber. Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933: The Failure of‘Corporate Pluralism’. By William L. Patch, Jr. Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emmanuel Hirsch. By Robert P. Ericksen. Westminster, Whitehall and the Vatican: The Role of Cardinal Hinsley, 1935–43. By Thomas Moloney. The Triple Myth: A Life of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac. By Stella Alexander. The Nun, the Infidel and the Superman. By D. Felicitas Corrigan. A Basic Grammar of the Ugaritic Language with Selected Texts and Glossary. By Stanislav Segert.