Other Books Received

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Bayne, Tim. Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. Pp. xii, 133. $11.95 paperback.)

Bellabarba, Marco, and Gustavo Corni (eds.). Il Trentino e trentini nella Grande guerra. Nuove prospettive di ricerca. [Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trent, Quaderni, 100.] (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2017. Pp. 201. €19,00 paperback.)

Bernardini, Giovanni et al. (eds.). L’età costituente. Italia 1945–1948. [Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trent, Quaderni, 99.] (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2017. Pp. 424. €35,00 paperback.) One of the eighteen essays published in this volume is “La Chiesa cattolica e la democrazia costituente” by Enrico Galavotti (pp. 237–57).

Boin, Douglas. A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity. [Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World.] (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell. 2018. Pp. xx, 285. $44.95 paperback.)

Bucci, Onorato. Le origini e lo sviluppo della famiglia e del matrimonio fra matrilinearità e patrilinearità. Un itinerario storico-giuridico e un percorso storiografico. [Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche, Atti e documenti, vol. 42.] (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2017. Pp. 261. €32,00 cloth.)

Cefalu, Paul. The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2017. Pp. xiv, 352. $80.00 cloth.)

Collins, Paul. Absolute Power: How the Pope became the Most Influential Man in the World. (New York: Public Affairs. 2018. Pp. xvi, 366. $28.00 cloth.) The nineteenth century is covered in seventy-seven pages, and the next fifty-eight years in eighty-nine pages. The author has selected events and documents that allow him to criticize the popes and express his own liberal views. He considers John XXIII to be “probably the most important [pope] since the Reformation” and Humanae Vitae “the most disastrous papal statement of modern times” and “an act of papal arrogance.” This book should be regarded as propaganda rather than history.

Crooks, James. We Find Ourselves Put to the Test: A Reading of the Book of Job. (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2018. Pp. xiv, 167. $29.95 cloth.)

Davis, Stephen J. Monasticism: A Very Short Introduction. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. Pp. xx, 142. $11.95 paperback.)

Magocsi, Paul Robert. Carpathian Rus’: A Historical Atlas. (Grand Isle, VT: Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center; distributed by University of Toronto Press. 2017. Pp. vi, 80. $45.00 cloth.)

Mölich, Georg, et al. (eds.). Die Zisterzienser im Mittelalter. (Köln: Böhlau Verlag. 2017. Pp. 393. €50,00 cloth.)

Reynolds, Gabriel Said. The Qur’ān & the Bible: Text and Commentary. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2018. Pp. xx, 1008. $40.00 cloth.)

Rutherford, Janet E., and David Woods (eds.). The Mystery of Christ in the Fathers of the Church: Essays in Honour of D. Vincent Twomey SVD. (Dublin: Four Courts Press; distributed by International Specialized Book Services. 2012. Pp. 244. $74.50 cloth.) Among the thirteen essays published here are 7. “Bede, Annus Domini, and the Historica ecclesiastica gentis anglorum,” by Máirín Mac Carron (pp. 116–34), and 12. “Augustine, sixteenth-century reformations and escaping predestination,” by Janet E. Rutherford (pp. 192–206).

Sullivan, Karen. The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018. Pp. viii, 299. $35.00 paperback.)

Wimpfheimer, Barry Scott. The Talmud: A Biography. [Lives of Great Religious Books.] (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2018. Pp. xiv, 299. $26.95 cloth.)

Wood, Ian. The Transformation of the Roman West. [Past Imperfect.] (Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities Press. 2018. Pp. x, 160. $14.95 paperback.)

Wu, John C. H. Beyond East & West. Foreword by John Wu, Jr. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2018. Pp. xxv, 384. $27.00 paperback.) Originally published in 1951, John C. H. Wu’s spiritual autobiography was praised for its moving description of his conversion in 1937 and his early years as a Catholic. This new edition includes a foreword written by his son, John Wu, Jr.