Other Books Received

Books that were sent to scholars for review but for which no review has been received are indicated by an asterisk.

Baert, Barbara (Ed.). Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts. [Lieven Gevaert Series, Vol. 8.] (Leuven: Leuven University Press. Distrib. in the United States by Cornell University Press. 2009. Pp. xvi, 126. $39.50 paperback.)

Bright, Pamela. The Book of Rules of Tyconius: Its Purpose and Inner Logic. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2009. Pp. 200. $30.00 paperback.) Originally published in 1988 and reviewed by Kenneth B. Steinhauser, ante, LXXVI (April, 1990), 330–31.

Burns, Marie-Patricia, V.H.M. Friendship, Forgiveness and the Founders of the Salesian Tradition: Essays on Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. (Stella Niagara, NY: DeSales Resource Center. 2009. Pp. vii, 102. $20.00 paperback.) This small book contains five previously published articles and a series of talks presented to Visitandine Sisters in formation.

Cullen, Christopher M., S.J., and Joseph Allan Clair. Maritain and America. (Washington, DC: American Maritain Association. Distrib. by The Catholic University of America Press. 2009. Pp. xxvi, 270. $24.95 paperback.) The first of the fifteen essays here published is “Catholicism and the Declaration of Independence: An American Dilemma about Natural Rights” by Robert P. Kraynak (pp. 1–30).

Daughrity, Dyron B. The Changing World of Christianity: The Global History of a Borderless Religion. (New York: Peter Lang. 2010. Pp. vii, 290. $34.95 paperback.)

Frost, Michael. Jesus the Fool: The Mission of the Unconventional Christ. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. 2010. Pp. xi, 208. $14.95 paperback.)

Hammer, Olav. Alternative Christs. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. x, 305. $90.00.)

Harrington, Joel F. The Unwanted Child: The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2009. Pp. xvii, 437. $45.00.)

Helmer, Christine (Ed.). The Global Luther: A Theologian for Modern Times. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, an imprint of Augsburg Fortress. 2009. Pp. v, 326. $39.00.)

Hubbard, Moyer V. Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: A Narrative Introduction. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers. 2010. Pp. xx, 320. $24.95 paperback.)

Janaro, John. Never Give Up: My Life and God’s Mercy. (Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press. 2010. Pp. xii, 164. $13.99 paperback.)

Lernout, Geert. Help My Unbelief: James Joyce and Religion. (New York: Continuum. 2010. Pp. vi, 239. $34.95 paperback.)

Loehr, Gina. The Four Teresas. (Cincinnati: Servant Books, an imprint of St. Anthony Messenger Press. 2010. Pp. ix, 128. $13.99 paperback.)

Loewen, Royden, and Gerald Friesen. Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2009. Pp. viii, 257. $27.95 paperback.)

McBride, Alfred, O. Praem. A Priest Forever: Nine Signs of Renewal and Hope. (Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press. 2010. Pp. ix, 118. $12.95 paperback.)

Meslier, Jean. Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier. Translated by Michael Shreve. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 2009. Pp. 595. $32.00.)

Moser, Paul K. The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. x, 280. $85.00 hardback; $24.99 paperback.)

O’Sullivan, Benedict,O.P. Medieval Irish Dominican Studies. Edited by Hugh Fenning, O.P. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distrib. in the United States by ISBS, Portland, OR. 2009. Pp. 237. $70.00.) The twenty-seven articles reprinted here were originally published in the monthly Irish Rosary between 1948 and 1953. Irish Rosary is now defunct and can scarcely be found. In this first collected edition, references to sources lacking in the original are supplied as well as bibliographical data on more recent historical work on several Dominican houses and various aspects of the whole subject.

Pasquini, John J. The Existence of God: Convincing and Converging Arguments. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 2010. Pp. ix, 130. $24.00 paperback.)

Petitfils, Roy. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me about the First Five Years of Marriage. (Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press. 2010. Pp. xviii, 106. $12.95 paperback.)

Powell, Mark Allan. Methods for Matthew. [Methods in Biblical Interpretation.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xvi. 261. $85.00 hardback. $24...