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Empirical Theology: A Handbook
By Randolph Crump Miller, Editor
Birmingham, Religious Education Press, 1992. 304 pp. $18.95.

This volume is testimony to the resurgence of empirical theology that is shaping the contemporary development of American religious thought. It provides a strong historical understanding of the empirical theological movement, its themes and development, with added treatments of naturalism and process theology. These themes are related to both classical

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theology and science. While the volume is a collection of essays, the essays are well connected under the keen guidance of Miller. The essays are authored by Tyron Inbody, Nancy Frankenberry, Karl Peters, Marjorie Suchocki, Bernard Lee, Gerard Sloyan, William Tremmel, Robert Corrington, Frederick Ferre, John Cobb, and Randolph Miller. In a collection of essays there are usually some weak papers, but all the essays in this volume are strong, scholarly works. Anyone interested in understanding American theology, and especially its relation to American philosophy, must read this volume.

W. Creighton Peden
Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought
Highlands, NC