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The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Christopher W. Steck, S. J. (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2001), ix + 226 pp. and The Systematic Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar. An Irenaean Retrieval by Kevin Mongrain (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2002), xii + 246 pp. Towards a Theology of God the Father: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theodramatic Approach by Margaret M. Turek (New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2001), + 327 pp. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003), xxii + 368pp. God, Evil, and Innocent Suffering: A Theological Reflection, by John E. Theil (New York, NY: Crossroad, 2002), xi + 179 pp. Out of the Depths: Women's Experience of Evil and Salvation by Ivone Gebara (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2002), vii + 211 pp. Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott (New York, NY: Norton, 2003), xiii + 357 pp. and Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity by Joel James Shuman and Keith G. Meador (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003), xiii + 174 pp. Heart and Head: Black Theology—Past, Present, and Future by Dwight N. Hopkins (New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002), xiv + 222 pp. Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of the Enlightenment by Avihu Zakai (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), xvii + 348 pp. Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), vi + 193 pp. The Nonviolent Atonement by J. Denny Weaver (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001), xiii + 246 pp.