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L. Michael White, Building God's House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians, reviewed by Peter Richardson Edgar W. Conrad, Reading Isaiah, reviewed by Gerald T. Sheppard Christopher R. Seitz, ed. Reading and Preaching the Book of Isaiah, reviewed by William H. Irwin David L. Balch, ed. Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches, reviewed by Alicia Batten David L. Balch, Everett Ferguson and Wayne A. Meeks, eds. Greeks, Romans, and Christians: Essays in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, reviewed by Wendy J. Cotter Jouette M. Bassler, ed. Pauline Theology, Vol. 1: Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, Philemon, reviewed by Jean-François Racine Mary Ann Beavis, Mark's Audience: The Literary and Social Setting of Mark 4:11-12. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, reviewed by Willi Braun Peter H. Davids, James., reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg James D.O. Dunn, Jesus, Paul, and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians, reviewed by Bradley H. McLean David B. Gowler, Host, Guest, Enemy, and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts, reviewed by Douglas E. Oakman Douglas R.A. Hare, The Son of Man Tradition, reviewed by Leif E. Vaage Craig C. Hill,Hellenists and Hebrews: Reappraising Division within the Earliest Church, reviewed by Terence L. Donaldson Eduard Lohse,Theological Ethics of the New Testament, reviewed by Michael P. Knowles Hyam Maccoby, Paul and Hellenism, reviewed by David Seeley Dale B. Martin, Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity, reviewed by Caroline F. Whelan Jerome H. Neyrey, Paul, in Other Words: A Cultural Reading of His Letters, reviewed by William E. Arnal Peter T. O'Brien, The Epistle to the Philippians: A Commentary on the Greek Text, reviewed by Kenneth A. Fox Earl Richard, ed., New Views on Luke and Acts, reviewed by Richard S. Ascough Alan F. Segal, Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee, reviewed by L. Ann Jervis Dwight Moody Smith, John among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research, reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg Gerd Theissen, The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition, reviewed by Shawn Carruth Robert L. Webb, John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socia-Historical Study, reviewed by Richard S. Ascough Roberta C. Bondi, To Pray and to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church., reviewed by Paul J. Fedwick Gerhard Brendler, Martin Luther: Theology and Revolution, reviewed by Gordon A. Jensen James M. Stayer, The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods, reviewed by Marvin L. Anderson Doris Jean Dyke, The Crucified Woman, reviewed by Lorna M.A. Bowman George E. Ganss, ed., Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works, reviewed by Keith Langstaff John M. Hull, What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning?, reviewed by Lorna M.A. Bowman Ellen Leonard, Unresting Transformation: The Theology and Spirituality of Maude Petre, reviewed by Annice Callahan H. Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology, reviewed by Mary Susan Ashbourne John W. de Gruchy, Liberating Reformed Theology: A South African Contribution to an Ecumenical Debate, reviewed by Harold Wells John A. Gallagher, Time Past, Time Future: An Historical Study of Catholic Moral Theology, reviewed by Ronald P. Fabbro Ron Hamel, Choosing Death: Active Euthanasia, Religion, and the Public Debate, reviewed by Alison Williams Michael Keeling, The Foundations of Christian Ethics, reviewed by W. James S. Farris Thomas J. Reese, Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church, reviewed by Paul Crunican Thomas J. Reese, ed., Episcopal Conferences: Historical, Canonical, and Theological Studies, reviewed by Jeffrey Gros

The emergence of religious liberty as a valid principle, as one of those axiomatic commitments that is almost universally rec ognized, is surely one of the major achievements of our time. In spite of the fact that there is overwhelming evidence to indicate that religious liberty is far from being a reality in much of today's world, perhaps nowhere fully realized, religious liberty has become a normative principle for almost all nations, and, conversely, the denial of religious liberty is virtually everywhere viewed as morally and legally invalid. Consequently, guarantees of religious liberty presently appear in most national constitu tions throughout the world, including those governments com mitted to atheism or irreligion. While religious liberty can hardly be said to be descriptive of conditions as they are in many countries throughout the world today, there is profound sig nificance to be found in that the concept of religious liberty has come almost universally to have normative value. Despite this universal commitment to religious liberty, there is no univeral consensus as to its basis, either between religion and secularism or among the great world religions themselves. Modern man while categorically advocating religious liberty has remained largely oblivious to its philosophical or religious bases, as well as its historical roots.