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Books Reviewed in this Article: History of the Church. Edited by Hubert Jedin and John Dolan. 10 volumes, London, Burns and Oates, 1980 and 1981, £27.50 or £25.00 per volume. Die Synoden in China, Japan und Korea 1570–1931. By Josef Metzler. Pp. xviii, 324, Paderborn, Ferdinand Schoningh, 1980,85 DM. The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys. By Andrew Louth. Pp.xvii, 215, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £12.50. The Middle English Mystics. By Wolfgang Riehle, translated by Bernard Standring. Pp.xi, 244, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, £12.95. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, Vol. 1. Edited by Marjorie Chibnall. Pp.xvi, 386, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £35.00. Luther: A Biography. By E.G. Haile. Pp.xxxi, 422, London, Sheldon Press, 1981, £9.95. Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England. By C.C. Weston and J.R. Greenberg. Pp.viii, 430, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, £24.00. The Popes and European Revolution. By Owen Chadwick. Pp.x, 646, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £28.00). Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere. By Edward Norman. Pp.vi, 230, Oxford, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1981, £12.50. Letters from a ‘Modernist’: The Letters of George Tyrrell to Wilfrid Ward 1893–1908. Introduced and annotated by Mary Jo Weaver. Shepherdstown, The Patmos Press; London, Sheed and Ward, 1981, £17.60. Red Tape and the Gospel. By Eleanor M. Jackson. Pp.409, Birmingham, Phlogiston, 1980, £15.00. The Papacy in Transition. By Patrick Granfield. Pp.xi, 228, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan Ltd, 1981, £5.50. The Pope's Divisions. By Peter Nichols. Pp.382, London, Faber and Faber, 1981, £10.00. The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250–1050 B.C.E. By Norman K. Gottwald. Pp.xxv, 916, London, SCM Press, 1980, £12.95. Redating the Exodus and Conquest. By John J. Bimson. Pp.351, Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, 1978, £7.45. The Royal Son of God: The Christology of Matthew 1–2 in the Setting of The Gospel. By Brian M. Nolan. Pp.282, Fribourg, Editions Universitaires; Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1979, no price given. The Gene sis of John. By A.Q.Morton and J. McLeman. Pp.xi, 219, Edinburgh, The Saint Andrew Press, 1980, £8.75. The Militant Gospel. By Alfredo Fierro. Pp.xv, 459, London, SCM Press, 1977, £4.50. Fundamental Theology. By Gerald O'Collins. Pp.283, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £5.95. The Atonement: the Origins of the Doctrine in the New Testament. By Martin Hengel. Pp.xii, 112, London, SCM Press, 1981, £3.95. The Theology of Penance. By Margaret Hebblethwaite and Kevin Donovan. Pp. 115, Cork, The Mercier Press, 1981, £1.80. Holiness. By Donald Nicholl. Pp.viii, 158, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981, £3.99. The Holy Spirit. By Eduard Schweizer, translated by Reginald H. and Ilse Fuller. Pp.138, London, SCM Press, 1981, £3.95. Towards a World Theology: Faith and the Comparative History of Religion. By Wilfred Cantwell Smith. Pp.vi, 206, London, MacMillan Press, 1981, £15.00. The Expansion of God. By Leslie G. Howard. Pp.ix, 452, London, SCM Press, 1981, £12.50. The Unknown Christ of Hinduism. By Raimundo Panikkar. Pp.xii, 195, London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1981, £5.95. Rationality and Religious Belief. Edited by C.F. Delaney. Pp.viii, 168, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, £7.70, £2.80. A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Towards a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions. By Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma. PP.xvii, 341, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, $19.95. Myth, Symbol, and Reality. Edited by Alan M. Olson. Pp.xiv, 189, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1980, £9.00. The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists. By Mason I. Lowance, Jr. Pp.xi, 335, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1980, £12.00. Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry. By Isabel Rivers. Pp.vii, 231, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1979, £4.95.