Review Essays

Book reviewed in this article: THE FIRST URBAN CHRISTIANS: THE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE APOSTLE PAUL By Wayne A. Meeks THE ORIGINS OF ANTI‐SEMITISM: ATTITUDES TOWARD JUDAISM IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY By John G. Gager JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE JEWS: RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE LATE FOURTH CENTURY By Robert L. Wilken Berkeley ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS Translated and edited by Paul W. Harkins THE ORIGINS OF ANTI‐SEMITISM: ATTITUDES TOWARD JUDAISM IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY By John G. Gager THE ORIGINS OF ANTI‐SEMITISM: ATTITUDES TOWARD JUDAISM IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY By John G. Gager New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983 Pp. viii + 312. $24.95 JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE JEWS: RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE LATE FOURTH CENTURY By Robert L. Wilken Berkeley NOVITAS MUNDI: PERCEPTION OF THE HISTORY OF BEING By D. G. Leahy GOD AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN SOME RECENT WORKS OF KARL RAHNER MEDITATIONS ON FREEDOM AND THE SPIRIT Translated by Rosaleen Ockenden PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE SPIRITUAL WRITINGS OF KARL RAHNER Edited by John Griffiths THEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Vol. 16, Experience of the Spirit: Source of Theology Translated by David Morhard A FINAL HARVEST: KARL RAHNER'S LAST THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, BRAINWASHING, AND DEPROGRAMMING—THE VIEW FROM THE LAW JOURNALS: A REVIEW ESSAY AND SURVEY