General

Brettler, Marc Zvi, Peter Ennsr and Daniel J. Harrington, The Bible and the believer. How to read the Bible critically and religiously. Pp. ix+210. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £17.99. 978 0 19 986300 6

Denysenko, Nicholas, The blessing of waters and epiphany. The eastern liturgical tradition. Pp. xviii+237 incl. 33 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £55. 978 1 4094 4078 9

Hillerbrand, Hans J., A new history of Christianity. Pp. xvii+427 incl. 15 ills. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012. $41.99 (paper). 978 0 687 02796 5

Lamm, Julia A. (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell companion to Christian mysticism. (The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion.) Pp. xx+651. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013(12). £120. 978 1 4443 3286 5

McCarthy, David Matzko, Sharing God's good company. A theology of the communion of saints. Pp. viii+174. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £18.99 ($28) (paper). 978 0 8028 6709 4

Mortimer, Richard, Guide to the muniments of Westminster Abbey. (Westminster Abbey Records Ser., 7.) Pp. xiv+123 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £25. 978 1 84383 743 5

Niederkorn-Bruck, Meta (ed.), Kartäusisches Denken und daraus resultierende Netzwerke vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit. Internationale Tagung. Kartause Aggsbach 23–27. August 2011. Zum Anlass des 80. Geburtstages von James Hogg. 4 vols. (Analecta Cartusiana, 276.) Pp. 274 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates; 240 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates; 214 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates; 294 incl. numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2012. €45 each (paper). 978 3 902895 02 8; 978 3 902895 04 2; 978 3 902895 01 1; 978 3 902895 03 5

Sarsky, Darren, Scriptural interpretation. A theological exploration. (Challenges in Contemporary Theology.) Pp. xvi+276. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2013(12). £60. 978 1 118 36745 2

Tamcke, Martin, Orientalische Christen und Europa. Kulturbegegnung zwischen Interferenz, Partizipation und Antizipation. (Göttinger Orientforschungen. Syriaca, 41.) Pp. xi+388. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. €84 (paper). 978 3 447 06757 7; 0340 6326

Taylor, Marian Ann (ed.) (with Agnes Choi), Handbook of women biblical interpreters. A historical and biographical guide. Pp. xvii+585. Grand Rapids, Mi.: Baker Academic, 2012. $44.99. 978 0 8010 3356 8

Taylor Richard C. and Irfan A. Omar (eds), The Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage. Philosophical and theological perspectives. (Marquette Studies in Philosophy, 75.) Pp. 339. Milwaukee, Wis: Marquette University Press, 2012. $29 (paper). 978 0 87462 811 1

Ancient world

Amar, Joseph P. (ed. and trans.), The Syriac Vita tradition of Ephrem the Syrian. 2 vols. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 629, 630. Scriptores Syri, 242, 243.) Pp. xxiii+104; xxxix+118. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. €70 (paper), €65 (paper). 978 90 429 2331 7; 978 90 429 2332 4; 0070 0452

Beeley, Christopher A., The unity of Christ. Continuity and conflict in patristic tradition. Pp. xii+391. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £35. 978 0 300 17862 3

Beeley, Christopher A. (ed.), Re-reading Gregory of Nazianzus. Essays on history, theology, and culture. (CUA Studies in Early Christianity.) Pp. xiv+321 incl. frontispiece. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. $39.95. 978 0 8132 1991 2

Blowers, Paul M., Drama of the divine economy. Creator and creation in early Christian theology and piety. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. xv+424. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £85. 978 0 19 966041 4

Carter, T. J., The Apollinarian Christologies. A study of the writings of Apollinarius of Laodicea. Pp. 423. London: Hamley King Publishing, 2011. £25.99 (paper). 978 1 257 75976 7

Cassin, Matthieu, L'Écriture de la controverse chez Grégoire de Nysse. Polémique littéraire et exégèse dans le ‘Contre Eunome’. (Collection des Études augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 193.) Pp. 440. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2012. €33,64 (paper). 978 2 85121 255 9; 1158 7032

Crislip, Andrew, Thorns in the flesh. Illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity. (Divinations. Rereading Late Ancient Religion.) Pp. vii+237. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013(12). £42.50 ($65). 978 0 8122 4445 8

Dal Santo, Matthew, Debating the saints' cult in the age of Gregory the Great. (Oxford Studies in Byzantium.) Pp. xii+399. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £75. 978 0 19 964679 1

Dorfbauer, Lukas J. (ed.), Pseudo-Augustinus. De oratione et elemosina. De sobrietate et castitate. De incarnatione et deitate Christi ad Ianuarium. Dialogus quaestionum. (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 99.) Pp. 470. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011. €69 (paper). 978 3 7001 7063 1

Fuchs, Gisela, Auflehnung und Fall im syrischen Buch der Stufen (Liber Graduum). Eine motiv- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung. (Orientalia Biblica et Christiana, 19.) Pp. 423. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. €86. 978 3 447 06683 9; 0946 5065

Hauben, Hans, Studies on the Melitian schism in Egypt (AD 306–335). (Collected Studies, 1001.) Pp. xxxvi+256. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £80. 978 1 4094 3942 4

Heil, Günter and Adolf M. Ritter (eds), Corpus Dionysiacum II. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. De coelesti hierarchi. De ecclesiastica hierarchia. De mystica theologia. Epistulae. 2. Überarbeitete Auflage. (Patristische Texte und Studien, 67.) Pp. xv+300. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. €129,95. 978 3 11 027706 7; 0553 4003

Hochschild, Paige E., Memory in Augustine's theological anthropology. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. viii+251. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 964302 8

Mayer, Wendy and Pauline Allen, The churches of Syrian Antioch (300–638 CE). (Late Antique History and Religion, 5.) Pp. xviii+372 incl. 142 ills. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2012. €67. 978 90 429 2604 2

Meyers, Eric M. and Mark A. Chancey, Alexander to Constantine. Archaeology of the land of the Bible. (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, 3.) Pp. xv+363 incl. 10 maps and 170 figs+17 colour plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2012. £30. 978 0 300 14179 5

Parker, David C., Textual scholarship and the making of the New Testament. Pp. viii+186 incl. 7 figs and 9 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £20. 978 0 19 965781 0

Patterson, Paul A., Visions of Christ. The Anthropomorphite controversy of 399 CE. (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 68.) Pp. xi+183.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €49 (paper). 978 3 16 152040 2; 1436 3003

Ray, Walter D., Tasting heaven on earth. Worship in sixth-century Constantinople. (The Church at Worship. Case Studies from Christian History.) Pp. xi+158 incl. 23 ills. Grand Rapids, Mi: Eerdmans, 2012. £18.99 ($28) (paper). 978 0 8026 6663 9

Stern, Sacha, Calendars in antiquity. Empires, state, and societies. Pp. ix+457 incl. 17 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £95. 978 0 19 958944 9

Tite, Philip L., The apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans. An epistolary and rhetorical analysis. (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, 7.) Pp. xiii+158. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €80. 978 90 04 22805 4; 1574 7085

Tuckett, Christopher (ed.), 2 Clement. Introduction, text, and commentary. (Oxford Apostolic Fathers.) Pp. x+328. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £120. 978 0 19 969460 0

Tzamalikos, P., A newly discovered Greek Father. Cassian the Sabaite eclipsed by John Cassian of Marseilles. (Supplements to Vigilae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 111.) Pp. xv+716. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €184. 978 90 04 22441 4; 0920 623X

Tzamalikos, P., The real Cassian revisited. Monastic life, Greek paideia, and Origenism in the sixth century. (Supplements to Vigilae Christianae. Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language, 112.) Pp. xvii+548 incl. 28 black-and-white and colour plates. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €165. 978 90 04 22440 7; 0920 623X

Van Nuffelen, Peter, Orosius and the rhetoric of history. (Oxford Early Christian Studies.) Pp. viii+252.Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 19 965527 4

Van de Paverd, Frans, Quotiescumque. Greek origin of a Latin confessor's guide. Pp. 204. Utrecht: Author, 2012. 978 9039 3580 54

Wallraff, Martin, Carlo Scardino, Laura Mecella and Christophe Guignard (eds) (trans. William Adler), Iulius Africanus. Cesti. The extant fragments. (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte. New Ser., 18.) Pp. cxxxii+224 incl. 4 figs. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. €129.95. 978 3 11 028676 2; 0232 2900

Young, Frances, Exegesis and theology in early Christianity. (Collected Studies, 1013.) Pp. xvi+316 incl. frontispiece. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Variorum, 2012. £80. 978 1 4094 4781 8

Medieval Europe and Byzantium

Bevegnati, Giunta (trans. and intro. Thomas Renna, ed. Shannon Larson), The life and miracles of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297). Pp. 344. St Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2012. $44.95 (paper). 978 1 57659 301 1

Bryant, Richard (with Michael Hare and others), The western midlands. (Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, 10.) Pp. xx+596 incl. frontispiece, 1 table, 48 figs and 794 black-and-white plates+1 colour plate. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2012. £95. 978 0 19 726515 4

Burton, Janet and Karen Stöber (eds), The regular canons in the medieval British Isles. (Medieval Church Studies, 19.) Pp. xvii+516 incl. 48 figs, 1 graph, 5 maps and 3 tables. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €130. 978 2 503 53248 6

Clarke, Peter D. and Anne J. Duggan (eds), Pope Alexander III (1159–81). The art of survival. (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.) Pp. xxi+427 incl. frontispiece and map. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 0 7546 6288 4

De Nie, Giselle and Thomas F. X. Noble (eds), Envisioning experience in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Dynamic patterns in texts and images. Pp. ix+171 incl. 10 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £60. 978 1 4094 3948 6

Hamilton, Louis I. and Stefano Riccioni (eds), Rome re-imagined. Twelfth-century Jews, Christians and Muslims encounter the eternal city. (Special Offprint of Medieval Encounters, 17/4–5.) Pp. x+159 incl. 11 figs and 5 maps. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €79 (paper). 978 90 04 22528 2

Hoffmann, Tobias (ed.), A companion to angels in medieval philosophy. (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 35.) Pp. vii+335. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €155. 978 90 04 18346 9; 1871 6377

Howard, Peter, Creating magnificence in Renaissance Florence. (Essays and Studies, 29.) Pp. 173. Toronto: University of Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. $19 (paper). 978 0 7727 2126 6

Hudson, Anne (ed.), Two revisions of Rolle's English psalter commentary and the related canticles. Vol. 1. Pp. ccv+390 incl. 4 plates and 3 charts. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the Early English Text Society), 2012. £65. 978 0 19 966920 2

Johnson, Holly, The grammar of Good Friday. Macaronic sermons of late medieval England. (Sermo. Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 8.) Pp. xxx+487. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €110. 978 2 503 53339 1

Johrendt, Jochen and Harald Müller (eds), Rom und die Regionen. Studien zur Homogenisierung der lateinischen Kirche im Hochmittelalter. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. New Ser, 19.) Pp. viii+495. Berlin–Boston: de Gruyter, 2012. €119,95. 978 3 11 028514 7; 0930 4304

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo and Linda Olson, Opening up Middle English manuscripts. Literary and visual approaches. Pp. xxxii+392 incl. numerous colour plates. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2012. $99.95 (cloth), $45 (paper). 978 0 8014 5053 2; 978 0 8014 7830 7

Lambert, Sarah and Helen Nicholson (eds), Languages of love and hate. Conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean. (International Medieval Research, 15.) Pp. xxix+286 incl. 9 figs. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €80. 978 2 503 52064 3

Lauwers, M. (ed.), La Dîme, l'église et la société féodale. (Collection d'études médiévales de Nice, 12.) Pp. 634. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €65 (paper). 978 2 503 54525 7

Linehan, Peter, Historical memory and clerical activity in medieval Spain and Portugal. (Collected Studies, 1011.) Pp. xxvi+332 incl. 4 figs and 5 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £85. 978 1 4094 5110 5

Morgan, Nigel J. (ed.), English monastic litanies of the saints after 1100, I: Abbotsbury–Peterborough. (Henry Bradshaw Society, 119.) Pp. x+204. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Henry Bradshaw Society), 2012. £45. 978 1 90749 726 1; 0144 0241

Murdoch, Brian, Gregorius. An incestuous saint in medieval Europe and beyond. Pp. xiii+270. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £75. 978 0 19 959640 9

Power, Amanda, Roger Bacon and the defence of Christendom. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. 4th Ser.) Pp. x+303. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013(2). £60. 978 0 521 88522 5

Rider, Catherine, Magic and religion in medieval England. Pp. 219 incl. 17 ills. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. £20. 978 1 78023 035 1

Tsougarakis, Nickiphoros I., The Latin religious orders in medieval Greece, 1204–1500. (Medieval Church Studies, 18.) Pp. xxiii+394 incl. 5 figs and 7 maps. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. €100. 978 2 503 53229 5

Reformation and Counter–Reformation Europe

Alfieri, Fernanda and Claudio Ferlan, Avventure dell'obbedienza nella Compagnia di Gesù. Teorie e prassi fra XVI e XIX secolo. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Quaderni, 86.) Pp. 268. Bologna: il Mulino, 2012. €22 (paper). 978 88 15 23789 7

Almond, Philip C., The Lancashire witches. A chronicle of sorcery and death on Pendle Hill. Pp. xxviii+209 incl. frontispiece+21 plates. London–New York: Tauris, 2012. £19.99. 978 1 78076 062 9

Betteridge, Thomas and Thomas S. Freeman (eds), Henry VIII and history. Pp. xii+279. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 0015 8

Campbell, Kenneth L., Windows into men's souls. Religious nonconformity in Tudor and early Stuart England. Pp. x+225. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. £39.95. 978 0 7391 6819 6

Capp, Bernard, England's culture wars. Puritan reformation and its enemies in the interregnum, 1649–1660. Pp. xiii+274. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £60. 978 0 19 964178 9

Creasman, Allyson F., Censorship and civic order in reformation Germany, 1517–1648. Printed poison & evil talk. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+291 incl. 4 ills. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £65. 978 1 4094 1001 0

Dillon, Anne, Michelangelo and the English martyrs. Pp. xxvii+356 incl. 82 figs+34 colour plates. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £75. 978 0 7546 6447 5

Doerksen, Daniel W., Picturing religious experience. George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures. Pp. xiii+241. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2011. £44.95 978 1 611 356 6

Gray, Jonathan Michael, Oaths and the English Reformation. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. xi+272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013(12). £60. 978 1 107 01802 0

Ingram, Kevin, The Conversos and Moriscos in late medieval Spain and beyond, I: Departures and change; II: The Morisco issue. (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 141/1, 160.) Pp. ix+366 incl. map; xxiii+278 incl. map. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2009, 2012. €99, €105. 978 90 04 17553 2; 978 90 04 22859 7; 1573 4188

Lewis, Rhodri, William Petty on the order of nature. An unpublished manuscript treatise. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 399.) Pp. xiv+176. Tempe, Az: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. £40 ($55). 978 0 86698 447 8

Lim, Paul C. H., Mystery unveiled. The crisis of the Trinity in early modern England. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvii+488 incl. 7 ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £45. 978 0 19 533946 8

López, Ángela Atienza (ed.), Iglesia memorable. Crónicas, historias, escritos … a mayor gloria. Siglos XVI–XVIII. Pp. 391 incl. 2 ills. Madrid: Sílex, 2012. €24 (paper). 878 84 7737 737 5

Martin, Jessica and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and domestic devotion in early modern Britain. (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.) Pp. xi+295 incl. 11 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2012. £70. 978 1 4094 3131 2

Montover, Nathan, Luther's revolution. The political dimensions of Martin Luther's universal priesthood. Pp. ix+154. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012. £15 (paper). 978 0 227 68014 8

Moser, Christian, Die Dignität des Ereignisses. Studien zu Heinrich Bullingers Reformationsgeschichtsschreibung. 2 vols. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 163.) Pp. xiii+455 incl. 15 ills and 4 diagrams; xii+458–1110. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2012. €210. 978 90 04 22978 5; 1573 5664

Newhauser, Richard and Susan J. Ridyard (eds), Sin in medieval and early modern culture. The tradition of the seven deadly sins. Pp. xv+341 incl. 17 ills. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2012. £60. 978 1 903153 41 3

Pfefferkorn, Johannes (trans. Ruth I. Cape, historical intro. Maria Diemling), The Jews' mirror. (Der Juden Spiegel). (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 390.) Pp. xiv+114. Tempe, Az: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. £34 ($45). 978 0 86698 438 6

Raiswell, Richard (ed.) (with Peter Dendle), The devil in society in premodern Europe. (Essays and Studies, 28.) Pp. 568 incl. 20 black-and-white and colour plates. Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. $37 (paper). 978 0 7727 2124 2

Redworth, Glyn and Christopher J. Henstock (eds), The letters of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza. 2 vols. Pp. xlix+308; v+358. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. £195. 978 1 84893 218 0

Sauerbrey, Anna, Die Straßburger Klöster im 16. Jahrhundert. Eine Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Geschlechtergeschichte. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, 69.) Pp. xiii+438. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. €99. 978 3 16 151691 7; 1865 2840

Shukman, Ann, Bishops and covenanters. Religion and politics in Scotland, 1688–1691. Pp. xiv+186. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012. £12.99 (paper). 978 1 906566 68 6

Waddell, Brodie, God, duty and community in English economic life, 1660–1720. (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 13.) Pp. xii+276 incl. 8 figs and 1 table. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £60. 978 1 84383 779 4; 1476 9107

Wallace, Peter G., The long European reformation. Religion, political conflict, and the search for conformity, 1350–1750. 2nd edn. (European History in Perspective.) Pp. xiii+306. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (first publ. 2004). £60. 978 0 230 57482 3; 978 0 230 57483 0

Wickersham, Jane K., Rituals of prosecution. The Roman inquisition and the prosecution of philo-Protestants in sixteenth-century Italy. Pp. 430. Toronto–Buffalo–London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. $80. 978 1 4426 4500 4

Woollett, Anne T., Yvonne Szafran and Alan Phenix, Drama and devotion. Heemskerck's Ecce Homo altarpiece from Warsaw. Pp. 112 incl. 68 colour and 21 black-and-white plates. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2012. £16.99 ($25) (paper). 978 1 60606 112 1

Modern Europe

Beaken, Robert (foreword Rowan Williams), Cosmo Lang. Archbishop in war and crisis. Pp. xix+300 incl. frontispiece+22 plates. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012. £25. 978 1 78076 355 2

Boldt, Andreas, Leopold von Ranke und Irland. (Historische Mitteilungen, 83.) Pp. 280. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012. €54 (paper). 978 3 515 10198 1

Francis, Keith A. and William Gibson (eds), The Oxford handbook of the British sermon, 1689–1901. Pp. xv+662. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £95. 978 0 19 958359 1

Hayes, Patrick J., A Catholic brains trust. The history of the Catholic commission on intellectual and cultural affairs, 1945–1965. Pp. vii+432. Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. $75. 978 0 268 03109 1

Leniaud, Jean-Michel, La Basilique royale de Saint-Denis. De Napoléon à la république. (Librairie de l'architecture et de la ville.) Pp. 208 incl. 58 black-and-white and 50 colour plates. Paris: Picard, 2012. €48 (paper). 978 2 7084 0919 4

McGrath, Francis J. (ed.), John Henry Newman sermons, 1824–1843, V: Sermons preached at St Clement's, Oxford, 1824–1826 and two charity sermons, 1827. Pp. xxxviii+567 incl. frontispiece. Oxford: Clarendon, 2012. £120. 978 0 19 920092 4

MacSwain, Robert and Taylor Worley (eds), Theology, aesthetics, and culture. Responses to the work of David Brown. Pp. xiii+313+4 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £65. 978 0 19 964682 1

Oden, Thomas C., John Wesley's teachings, I: God and providence; II: Christ and salvation. Pp. 240; 320. Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan, 2012. $22.99(paper) (each). 978 0 310 32815 5; 978 0 310 49267 2

Africa, Asia and Australasia

Carson, Penelope, The East India Company and religion, 1698–1858. (Worlds of the East India Company, 7.) Pp. xii+279 incl. map. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. £65. 978 1 84383 732 9; 1752 5667

Keith, Charles, Catholic Vietnam. A Church from empire to nation. (From Indochina to Vietnam. Revolution and War in a Global Perspective, 5.) Pp. xiv+312 incl. 14 ills. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2012. £34.95. 978 0 520 27247 7

Weltecke, Dorothea (ed.), Geschichte, Theologie, Liturgie und Gegenwartslage der syrischen Kirchen. (Göttinger Orientforschungen. Syriaca, 40.) Pp. ix+154. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. €48 (paper). 978 3 447 06732 4; 0340 6326

The Americas

Cho, Hyun-Jin, Jonathan Edwards on justification. Reformed development of the doctrine in eighteenth-century New England. Pp. vii+154. Lanham: University Press of America, 2012. £16.95 (paper). 978 0 7618 5619 1

Crisp, Oliver D. and Douglas A. Sweeney (eds), After Jonathan Edwards. The courses of the New England theology. Pp. xvii+339. New York–Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £22.50 (paper). 978 0 19 975629 2; 978 0 19 975630 8

Story, Ronald, Jonathan Edwards and the gospel of love. Pp. xiii+167. Amherst–Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. $22.95 (paper). 978 1 55849 983 6

General: Modern world

Aguilar, Mario I., Church, liberation and world religions. Towards a Christian-Buddhist dialogue. (Ecclesiological Investigations, 14.) Pp. ix+166. London–New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2012. £60. 978 0 567 27324 6

Crisp, Oliver D., Gavin D'Costa, Mervyn Davies and Peter Hampson (eds) (foreword Rowan Williams), Christianity and the disciples. The transformation of the university. (T&T Clark Religion and the University, 2.) Pp. xiii+286. London: T&T Clark, 2012. £65. 978 0 567 04045 9

Green, Abigail and Vincent Viaene (eds), Religious internationals in the modern world. Globalization and faith communities since 1750. (Palgrave MacMillan Transnational History Ser.) Pp. xiv+383. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. £65. 978 0 230 31950 9

Heft, James L. (ed.) (with John O'Malley), After Vatican II. Trajectories and hermeneutics. Pp. xxii+194. Grand Rapids, Mi–Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2012. £26.99 ($40) (paper). 978 0 8028 6731 5

Salenson, Christian (trans. Nada Conic, foreword Jean-Marc Aveline), Christian de Chergé. A theology of hope. (Cistercian Studies, 247.) Pp. xiii+208. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 2009. $19.95 (paper). 978 0 87907 247 6

Skira, Jaroslav Z. (trans.), Karim Schelkens, (anno.), The Second Vatican Council diaries of Met. Maxim Hermaniuk, C.SS.R. (1960–1965). (Eastern Christian Studies, 15.) Pp. 333+ CD. Leuven–Paris–Walpole, Ma: Peeters, 2012. €42 (paper). 978 90 429 2580 9

Trzebiatowska, Marta and Steve Bruce, Why are women more religious than men? Pp. viii+205. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. £25. 978 0 19 960810 2

Turner, Graham, The power of silence. The riches that lie within. Pp. x+254. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. £16.99. 978 1 4411 8223 4