Book reviews

Faith & Theology features regular reviews of new scholarship in theology. Books for review should be addressed to:

Dr Benjamin Myers
School of Theology, Charles Sturt University
16 Masons Drive
North Parramatta NSW 2151

Australia

Recent F&T book reviews include the following:

• Agamben, Giorgio. What Is an Apparatus? (Stanford UP, 2009)
  
• Anatolios, Khaled. Athanasius: The Coherence of His Thought (Routledge, 1998)
• Anatolios, Khaled (ed.). Athanasius (Routledge, 2004)
• Anderson, Ray S. An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches (IVP, 2006)
• Anderson, Ray S. Exploration into God: Sermonic Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes (Wipf & Stock, 2006)


• Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics, New Digital Edition (Logos, 2008)
• Barth, Karl. Fifty Prayers (WJKP, 2008)
  
• Barth, Karl. God in Action: Theological Addresses (Wipf & Stock, 2005)
• Barth, Karl. The Word in This World: Two Sermons by Karl Barth, ed. Kurt I. Johanson (Regent College, 2007)
• Barth, Karl. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Wipf & Stock, 2003)
• Bird, Michael F. The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective (Paternoster, 2007)
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928-1931 (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 10; Fortress, 2008)
  
• Boeve, Lieven. God Interrupts History: Theology in a Time of Upheaval (Continuum, 2007)
• Bultmann, Rudolf. Theologie als Kritik: Ausgewählte Rezensionen und Forschungsberichte, ed. Matthias Dreher and Klaus W. Müller (Mohr Siebeck, 2002)
• Burgess, Andrew. The Ascension in Karl Barth (Ashgate, 2004)


• Chalamet, Christophe. Dialectical Theologians: Wilhelm Herrmann, Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann (TVZ, 2005)
• Chung, Meehyun (ed.). Breaking Silence: Theology from Asian Women (ISPCK/EATWOT, 2006)
• Clayton, Philip and Paul Davies (eds). The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (Oxford UP, 2006)
• Clough, David. Ethics in Crisis: Interpreting Barth’s Ethics (Ashgate, 2005)


• Dalferth, Ingolf U., Johannes Fischer, and Hans-Peter Großhans (eds). Denkwürdiges Geheimnis: Beiträge zur Gotteslehre: Festschrift für Eberhard Jüngel zum 70. Geburtstag (Mohr Siebeck, 2004)
• Danielson, Dennis. Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition (Regent College, 2008)
• Davies, Oliver, Paul D. Janz, and Clemens Sedmak. Transformation Theology: Church in the World (T&T Clark, 2007)
• Dawson, R. Dale. The Resurrection in Karl Barth (Ashgate, 2007)
• DeHart, Paul J. The Trial of the Witnesses: The Rise and Decline of Postliberal Theology (Blackwell, 2006)
• Dyrness, William and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, eds. Global Dictionary of Theology (IVP, 2008)


• Eichhorn, Mathias. Es wird regiert! Der Staat im Denken Karl Barths und Carl Schmitts in den Jahren 1919 bis 1938 (Duncker & Humblot, 1994)


• Fabricius, Kim. Paddling by the Shore (Bethel United Reformed Church, 2007)
• Franke, John. Barth for Armchair Theologians (WJKP, 2006)


• George, Timothy (ed.). God the Holy Trinity: Reflections on Christian Faith and Practice (Baker, 2006)
• Gockel, Matthias. Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison (Oxford UP, 2006)
• The Green Bible (Harper, 2008)
• Grenz, Stanley J. Reason for Hope: The Systematic Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg (Eerdmans, 2005)
• Gunton, Colin. The Barth Lectures (T&T Clark, 2007)


• Helm, Paul. John Calvin’s Ideas (Oxford UP, 2004)
• Hicks, Douglas A. and Mark Valeri, eds. Global Neighbors: Christian Faith and Moral Obligation in Today's Economy (Eerdmans, 2008)


• Jenson, Matt. The Gravity of Sin: Augustine, Luther and Barth on homo incurvatus in se (T&T Clark, 2007)
• Jenson, Robert W. and Solveig Lucia Gold. Conversations with Poppi about God: An Eight-Year-Old and Her Theologian Grandfather Trade Questions (Brazos Press, 2006)
• Journal of Theological Interpretation (Eisenbrauns, 2007)


• Kerr, Fergus. Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians (Blackwell, 2007)
• Kotsko, Adam. Žižek and Theology (T&T Clark, 2008)
  


• Lindsay, Mark R. Barth, Israel, and Jesus: Karl Barth’s Theology of Israel (Ashgate, 2007)
• Longman, Tremper and Peter Enns (eds). Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry and Writings (IVP, 2008)
• Lüdemann, Gerd. Das Jesusbild des Papstes: Über Joseph Ratzingers kühnen Umgang mit den Quellen (zu Klampen, 2007)


• MacDonald, Neil B. Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments (Baker, 2006)
• McCabe, Herbert. Faith within Reason (Continuum, 2007)
• McCormack, Bruce (ed.). Engaging the Doctrine of God: Contemporary Protestant Perspectives (Baker, 2008)
  
• McCormack, Bruce. Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Baker, 2008)
• McDougall, Joy Ann. Pilgrimage of Love: Moltmann on the Trinity and Christian Life (Oxford UP, 2005)
• McGrath, Alister. A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology (WJKP, 2009)
• McGrath, Alister. Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography (T&T Clark, 1999)
• Menke-Peitzmeyer, Michael. Subjektivität und Selbstinterpretation des dreifaltigen Gottes: Eine Studie zur Genese und Explikation des Paradigmas “Selbstoffenbarung Gottes” in der Theologie Karl Barths (Aschendorff, 2002)
• Metzger, Paul Louis (ed.). Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (T&T Clark, 2005)
• Milbank, John. The Mercurial Wood: Sites, Tales, Qualities (Salzburg, 1997)
• Molnar, Paul D. Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding (Eerdmans, 2007)


• Nimmo, Paul. Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth's Ethical Vision (T&T Clark, 2007)
• Noll, Mark and Carolyn Nystrom. Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (Baker, 2005)


• Perry, Tim. Mary for Evangelicals: Toward an Understanding of the Mother of Our Lord (IVP, 2006)
• Pomazansky, Michael. Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: A Concise Exposition (St Herman Press, 2005)


• Radosh, Daniel. Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture (Scribner, 2008)
• Ramachandra, Vinoth. Subverting Global Myths: Theology and the Public Issues Shaping Our World (IVP, 2008)
• Richardson, Kurt Anders. Reading Karl Barth: New Directions for North American Theology (Baker, 2004)
• Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead (Farrar, 2004)


• Sauter, Gerhard. Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2007)
• Short, Robert L. The Parables of Dr Seuss (WJKP, 2008)
  
• Spong, John Shelby. Jesus for the Non-Religious (HarperCollins, 2007)


• Vanhoozer, Kevin. The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (WJKP, 2005)
• Vanhoozer, Kevin. First Theology: God, Scripture and Hermeneutics (IVP, 2002)
• Volf, Miroslav. The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (Eerdmans, 2006)
• de Vries, Hent and Lawrence E. Sullivan (eds). Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham University Press, 2006)


• Webster, John. Barth’s Earlier Theology: Four Studies (T&T Clark, 2005)
• Webster, John. Confessing God: Essays in Christian Dogmatics II (T&T Clark, 2005)
• Wannenwetsch, Bernd (ed.). Who Am I? Bonhoeffer's Theology Through His Poetry (T&T Clark, 2009)
  
• Wright, N. T. Simply Christian (SPCK, 2006)