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The article reviews the book "Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers 1977-2007," by David C. Parker.

Marian veneration is a vital dimension in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, growing in significance from its origins in the early Christian centuries. This development has been particularly important in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the era termed the “Age of Mary.” The four books reviewed in this paper approach the subject of Marian veneration and pilgrimage to Marian shrines from a variety of perspectives. Significant themes covered include the evidence for Marian apparitions, traditional religious pilgrimage, and the changes the Internet has brought to pilgrimage and Marian devotion. Stafford Poole, CM's The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), Robert Maniura's Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century: The Origins of the Cult of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Woodbridge: Boyell Press, 2004), and Paolo Apolito's The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005) all treat specific sites of Marian pilgrimage and are reviewed at length. In contrast, Swanson's edited volume, The Church and Mary: Papers Read at the 2001 Summer Meeting and the 2002 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), contains a large number of papers on a range of issues relating to the cult of Mary including music, relics, visions, and the spread of Marian veneration. A selection of these papers is referred to throughout this essay, where relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Swedenborg and his Influence," edited by Erland J. Brock.

The article reviews the book "Institution de la religion chrétienne," by Jean Calvin.

The article reviews the book "The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology," edited by Richard Bauckham, Daniel R. Driver, Trevor A. Hart and Nathan MacDonald.

Reviews the book "Theology After Freud," by Peter Homans.

The article reviews the book "Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology," edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Michael C. Rea.

Reviews the book "Christ, Providence and History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology," by Mike Higton.

Reviews the book "Father, Son, & Holy Spirit: Toward a Truly Trinitarian Theology," by Colin E. Gunton.

The article reviews the book "The Speeches of Outsiders in Acts: Poetics, Theology and Historiography," by Osvaldo Padilla.

The article reviews the book "The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church," by Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand.

The article reviews the book "Signs of God's Promises; Thomas Cranmer's Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer," by Gordon P. Jeanes.

The article reviews the book "John, Jesus and History: Critical Appraisals of Critical Views," Vol. 1," edited by Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just and Tom Thatcher

The article reviews the book "Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason," Second Edition, by John Milbank.

The article reviews the book "The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology," by Amos Yong.

Reviews the book "Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon," by John Milbank.

Reviews the book "Jan Van Ruusbroec, Mystical Theologian of the Trinity," by Rik Van Nieuwenhove.

Reviews the book "Theologie Als Kritik: Ausgewählte Rezensionen Und Forschungs-Berichte," by Rudolf Bultmann and edited by Matthias Dreher and Klaus W. Müller.

The article reviews the book "Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue With N. T. Wright," edited by Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays.

The article reviews the book "Luther: A Guide for the Perplexed," by David M. Whitford.

The article reviews the book "Paul and Epictetus on Law: A Comparison," by Niko Huttunen.

The article reviews the book "Encountering Paul: Understanding the Man and His Message," by Tatha Wiley.

The article reviews the book "Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: A Theological Commentary," by Philip Peter Jenson.

The article reviews the book "Theology and the Victorian Novel," by J. Russell Perkin.

The article reviews the book "The Depth and Destiny of Work: An African Theological Interpretation," by Nimi Warikobo.

The article reviews the book "Augustine's Early Theology of the Church: Emergence and Implications, 386-391," by David C. Alexander.

The article reviews the book "Hugh of Saint Victor," by Paul Rorem.

The article reviews the book "The Gospel of John and Christian Theology," edited by Richard Bauckham and Carl Mosser.

The article reviews the book "Divine Light: The Theology of Denys the Areopagite," by William K. Riordan.

The article reviews the book "Trinitarian Theology in the Medieval West," edited by Pekka Kärkkäinen.

The article reviews the book "The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and the Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages," by Deeana Copeland Klepper.

Reviews the book "The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology," by Mark C. Mattes.

Reviews the book "John Macquarrie's Natural Theology: The Grace of Being," by Georgina Morley.