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Like the rest of the series (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life) this book is wellproduced and includes 72 plates. There are two useful maps, one showingthe relationship of Isiac sites to Paul's missionary journeys . It is good tosee imaginative use of maps, though doubtless many New Testamentspecialists will query the assumption that Paul in fact made three suchjourneys.

The author states that the book is `primarily intended' for the non-specialist reader . Certainly the scope and treatment of the material will beof interest to many, not excluding the specialist .

J.R.H .

TAYLOR, JOHN V . (et al .) `Face to Face' : Essays on Inter-Faith Dialogue.Highway Press, 1971 72 PP. 50 P.

The five essays which form this book were originally given as papers atthe 1970 Annual School of Mission organized by the Church MissionarySociety. Since then they have been revised in the light of discussion andexpanded to include new material .

The Society's General Secretary, John V . Taylor, writes on `ChristianMotivation in Dialogue', and there are also contributions from DavidBrown `Frontiers : A discussion of dialogue between Christians and Mus-lims' ; David Young `The Open Dialogue : Buddhist and Christian', andPaul Oestreicher `The Christian Dialogue with Communists' .

However, for the reviewer, the most interesting and important contri-bution is Max Warren's `A Theology of Attention' . Starting from a defini-tion of dialogue as essentially an activity of listening, the author avers thatthis is of a far greater depth and complexity than is usually realized . Notonly does it involve the courtesy of very active listening to the other but alsoan awareness of a dialogue within one's own listening self . `Unless I listento myself listening I will be likely to assume, quite wrongly, that a wordused in the context of my own experience means the same thing in the con-text of the other man's experience.' Quoting from Klaus Klostermaier'sHindu and Christian in Vrindaban and Eleanor Vandervort's A Leopard Tamed,Dr Warren shows how this works out in dialogue with a Hindu philosopherand an illiterate Sudanese peasant. Having highlighted Humility as theoutstanding precondition of the theology of attention, the bulk of the essayis a theological examination of humility under three aspects : Humilitybefore God ; Humility before other people ; Humility in understanding .There is not room in this review to trace the threads of discourse of eachaspect except to note that each (in Klostermaier's terms) is reviewed notonly in a temperature of 70'F but also tested at 12o°F .

This is a useful and stimulating collection of papers, copies of which maybe had from the publishers at 157 Waterloo Road, London, SE 1 8UU.

I.M.C .