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Journal of Early Christian Studies 9.3 (2001) 403



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Book Reviews


Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. has now published the second volume of its English translation of Henri de Lubac's Exégese Médiévale under the title Medieval Exegesis, Volume 2: The Four Senses of Scripture (ISBN 0-8028-4146-5) in paperback for $45.00. In spite of the title, the book deals heavily with patristic exegetes, especially Augustine, Gregory, Jerome, and Origen. This is a remarkable work of scholarship, and thanks to Eerdmans for making it available in an affordable, more usable format.

The indefatigable Alister McGrath has produced a third edition of his Christian Theology: An Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 0-631-22528-5) which approaches the subject topically and gives early Christian writers as much prominence as medieval and modern ones, especially on topics like theodicy and the Trinity. The accompanying volume is a collection of primary sources entitled The Christian Theology Reader (Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 0-631-20637-X). It follows the same format. Again the patristic emphasis is generous, for example, more than one-third of the excerpts on "The Person of Christ" are patristic. Both volumes are paperbacks priced at $36.95.

Eerdmans has published a paperback version of the second, expanded edition of Charles Hill's Regnum Caeolorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity (ISBN 0-8028-4634-3, $30.00).

Joseph F. Kelly

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