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Reviews 213 illustration of the need to use the right search terms, consider the 'Century' searchfield.Enter the word 'thirteen', and there are no hits; enter '13th ' and there are none; try the paleographer's 's.xiii' or just plain 'xiii' and there are no results. Only '13' produces the desired result - 72,500 of them. It m a y be objected that '13' is the most obvious entry for thefield,but the others are by no means improbable. Similarly, enter 'Troilus and Criseyde' in the subject field and no hits are returned, although the same term in the 'All Index Terms' field returns 390 hits. It is by no means clear w h y "Troilus and Criseyde' is not considered a subject term, but the result is that the browselists are only useful to the extent that one can anticipate the indexed terms. It seems likely that many users will fall back on the 'All Index Terms'fieldas a keyword search by default. It needs to be acknowledged, though, that these are technical difficulties that can readily be overcome, and though they detract at the moment from the ease with which this bibliography can be used, they do not call into question the splendid resource that the IMB-Online will be. And ifusing the bibliography, even briefly for a trial, causes some pangs of guilt at the treasures that remain unread, that is scarcely the fault of the treasury or of the treasurers. Peter Whiteford Victoria University of Wellington Johnson, Jeffrey, The Theology of John Donne (Studies in Renaissance Literature 1), Cambridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2001; paper; pp. xiv, 162; R R P US$29.95; ISBN 0859916200. First published in 1999, Jeffrey Johnson's study aims to fill a large gap in D scholarship. As Johnson remarks, 'critics have neglected Donne as a theologian in his own right who is worthy of study in the development of seventeenthcentury theology and in the history of the Church of England' (p. ix). Focusing on Donne's sermons, Johnson portrays Donne as a thinker both traditional and original, who sought to develop a tmly catholic theology within the embattled context of seventeenth-century English religion. The 'clear theological vision' which emerges from the whole body of sermons is, says Johnson, 'Donne's own eclectic via media' (p. x). Johnson's first and longest chapter, 'So Steepy a Place', forms the strongest part ofhis study. The chapter emphasizes the communal nature of the Trinity in Donne's thought, and in this respect Donne seems to anticipate certain 214 Reviews features of m o d e m Trinitarian theology. In the Church, human beings are able to participate in something akin to the divine community. Johnson explores Donne's Augustinian view of the vestigia Trinitatis in the human soul, contrasting Donne's thought on this point with that of Calvin. While Johnson shows that the doctrine of the Trinity is central to the whole of Donne's theology, one might have wished that this centrality was more consistently demonstrated throughout the later chapters. The second chapter examines Donne's theology of common and private prayer, and chapter 3, set against the background of the iconoclastic controversies, explores Donne's defence of the use of images in devotion. In chapter 4 Johnson shows that Donne develops a strongly liturgical doctrine of repentance. Here especially the communal element of Donne's thought is developed in some detail. The final chapter, 'O Taste and See', provides a fascinating discussion of Donne's theology of grace. Johnson argues that Donne's soteriology was shaped by his desire to foster ecclesiastical and theological unity. Thus Donne exhibits a rather eclectic doctrine of salvation, combining elements of Romanism, Calvinism and Arminianism. A minor flaw here, however, is that while Johnson everywhere seeks to portray Donne as a model of catholicity, he seems to fail to appreciate the fundamentally unorthodox nature of the doctrine ofjustification through both faith and works which he attributes to Donne. Nor is Johnson's argument that Donne accepts such a view sufficiently convincing. This weakness is amply compensated for in the concluding discussion of Donne's doctrine of the Real Presence, where the principal elements of...

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