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theologically liberal movements for women's rights" (p. xii). Building upon assumptions that the nineteenth-century Wesleyan holiness movement was the foundation for evangelical feminism, Janette Hassey shows how early twentieth-century fundamentalism supported, rather than limited, women's ministries. At the beginning self-avowed fundamentalist leaders saw no conflict between their biblical literalism and their support of women preachers. Evangelical theology celebrated the sanctifying, empowering work ofthe Holy Spirit and encouraged women to share their gifts. The activism of the temperance movement heightened women's social and political awareness. And finally, revivalism and charis-matic church leadership downplayed formal education and urged women to prepare for "unprofessional ministry" through Bible Institute training. It was not until after World War I that the fundamentalist subculture hardened on the women's issue, squeezed women out of leadership roles, reacted against liberal social values and developed literalist exegesis to limit women's ministry. The book is strengthened by sixty pages of appendices to support the case. BARBARA BROWN ZIKMUND, Pacific School of Religion. BERRYMAN, PHILIP. Liberation Theology: Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Religious Movement in Latin America and Beyond. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. 231 pp. $24.95 (cloth). In the face of widespread misinformation about, and the surprisingly emotional response to, the mere mention of liberation theology, Phillip Berryman sets out "to get beyond the cliches and to explain (for the general reader) what liberation theology is,... how it arose, how it works in practice, and its implications" (p. 4). He accomplishes his purpose admirably. This is a clear, concise, yet nuanced presentation of the major themes of liberation theology, its roots in the experience of massive poverty, its biblical sources, and its historical development, brief though it may be. He provides enough ofthe cultural, social, and economic background of Latin America to enable the North American reader to understand and contrast this emergent indigenous theology with the black and feminist the-ologies of liberation in the north. Berryman is balanced and accurate in his presentation ofthe major critiques of Latin American liberation theology, especially the use of Marxist analysis and the sometimes confusing use of "ideology" by the liberation theologians. This little volume successfully meets the need for a general introduction to liberation theology which includes a critical evaluation of its development and possibilities for the future. T. HOWLAND SANK.S. fesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. CONGAR, YVES. Diversity and Communion. Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications , 1985. 240 pp. $9:95 (paper). The sixteen brief chapters of this book explore what measure and what kinds of diversity are compatible with unity in one church. They are not so much exhaustive explorations of the theme as efforts to uncover the basic issues. Five chapters explore diversity in time and space, illustrated historically in the New Testament and in the early church and thematically in terms of diversity in discipline , cultural ethos, and theology. The eleven central chapters look at more particular issues that arise in the conversations with the Orthodox churches ofthe East and the Protestant churches of the West. Two chapters offer Congar's own reflec-638

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