Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Norman Cohn, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought Jean Bottero, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, and Jean‐Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam and Greece Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria G. Frank, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity B. Lonergan, Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas D. E. R. Watt, Medieval Church Councils in Scotland Robert Benedetto, Darrell L. Guder, and Donald K. McKim, Historical Dictionary of Reformed Churches Timothy C. F. Stunt, From Awakening to Secession: Radical Evangelicals in Switzerland and Britain, 1815–35 Timothy Larsen, Friends of Religious Equality: Nonconformist Politics in Mid‐Victorian England Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Krondstadt and the Russian People David I. Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Alex Bruce, The Cathedral “Open and Free”: Dean Bennett of Chester Alan Megahey, The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century Christopher J. Kauffman, Education and Transformation: Marianist Ministries in America Since 1849 Robert J. Allison, The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776–1815 Thomas Hummell, Kevork Hintlian, and Ulf Carmesund, (eds.) Patterns of the Past, Prospects for the Future: The ChristianHeritage in the Holy Land Beverley Zimmerman, The Making of a Diocese: Maitland, its Bishop, Priests and People, 1866–1909 Brian Dickey and Elaine Martin, Building Community: A History of the Port Adelaide Central Mission