James M. Gustafson

Between the Sexes

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Cahill's book is a welcome contribution to current discussion of sexual morality; its argument cuts a path between the extreme positions of popular current polemics and established grounds for a solid Christian ethics of sexuality, substantively and methodologically. Subsequent writings, if they are competent, will have to deal with her argument. That is the highest tribute a review can, I think, give to any book.”

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This book develops a pattern of ethics into which biblical concerns are brought coherently.”

Christian Faith as Religion

Theology

“Captez's book is very instructive in three dimensions. It is a historical study that compares the theologies of Calvin and Schleiermacher, and demonstrates the thorough scholarly knowledge Capetz has of these pivotal contributors to the Reformed theological tradition. The historical dimensions, secondly, are analyzed in the framework of a systematic issue, i.e., the relation of religion to faith. Capetz formulates this issue by outlining the form it took between 'Neo-orthodox' (e.g., Karl Barth) and Liberal theology in the Twentieth Century. Thirdly, a historical theme poses a crucial matter for contemporary theology, namely, how twenty-first century theology will deal with the historical shift in the religious question, from the concern with personal salvation from sin and guilt in the Reformation to 'the place and significance of human life within the comprehensive order of nature' after the Enlightenment. Only a scholar with broad and deep historical knowledge and an acutely probing intellect can write such a profound book.”

Good and Evil

Theology

“... a creative synthetic account of human existence. Readers of traditional theology will find ways to relate their interest to a store of contemporary knowledge; non-theological readers will see how traditional religious symbols can deepen a secular understanding of human life.”