Book reviewed in this issue

The seeds of genesis and creation
Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
Francisco J. Ayala
Reviewed by Ernan McMullin

The Home We Build Together: recreating society
Jonathan Sacks
Reviewed by David Martin

Saints in the Landscape
Graham Jones
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

John Paul II’s Book of Saints
Matthew and Margaret Bunson
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

The End and the Beginning
Sister Giles
Reviewed by Christopher Herdon

The Nature of Biblical Criticism
John Barton
Reviewed by Nicholas King

No Place for God: the denial of the transcendent in modern church architecture
Moyra Doorly
Reviewed by Patrick Reyntiens

Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c. 600-900
Sarah Foot
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent

The Book of Psalms
Robert Alter
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Previous weeks reviews

Fruitful tension of extremes
Head and Heart: American Christianities
Garry Wills
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Enslaved: the new British slavery
Rahila Gupta
Reviewed by Paul Donovan

Britain’s Lost Cities
Gavin Stamp
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Nadine Gordimer
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

Kipling Sahib: India and the making of Rudyard Kipling
Charles Allen
Reviewed by Mark Tully

Eagles’ nest in a tin hut
Birds, Bees and Beasts
John Bradburne (ed. David Crystal)
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Christianity and the Secular
Robert A. Markus
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

Out of Breath
Julie Myerson
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Algeria: anger of the dispossessed
Martin Evans and John Phillips
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Poet as a ‘country healer’
The Letters of Ted Hughes
Selected and edited by Christopher Reid
Reviewed by Robert Nye

The Second Crusade: extending the frontiers of Christendom
Jonathan Phillips
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

The Children’s Crusade: medieval history, modern mythistory
Gary Dickson
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Forgotten Continent: the battle for Latin America’s soul
Michael Reid
Reviewed by James Painter

On Fire: a novel of the 1950s
John Ogden
Reviewed by Desmond Seward

Persia: through writers’ eyes
ed. David Blow
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander

Egypt: through writers’ eyes
ed. Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander

Reaching beyond the easily said
The Contagion of Jesus: doing theology as if it mattered
Sebastian Moore
Reviewed by Timothy Radcliffe

The English Cardinals
Nicholas Schofield and Gerard Skinner
Reviewed by Aidan Bellenger

Where Three Roads Meet
Salley Vickers
Reviewed by Noonie Minogue

Rosslyn Chapel Revealed
Michael T.R.B. Turnbull
Reviewed by John Haldane

The CTS New Catholic Bible
Henry Wansbrough OSB
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: climate change – is time running out?
Elizabeth Kolbert
Reviewed by James Painter

Climate Change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren
Eds Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
Reviewed by James Painter

Scottish Piety: a miscellany from five centuries
Ed. A.C. Cheyne
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

New battle for the soul of Europe
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s religious crisis
Philip Jenkins
Reviewed by Christian W. Troll

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