ECH volume 27 issue 3 Cover and Back matter Bare Ruined Choirs The Dissolution of the English Monastries The late DAVID KNOWLES An abridged and illustrated edition, prepared for press by the author himself, of Volume III of the late David Knowles' monumental history The Religious Orders in England. Over 50 illustrations—engravings and photo- graphs of monastic buildings and treasures—heighten the author's descrip- tions of the splendours of the monastic setting and the desolation that followed so swiftly upon the Suppression. £6.50 net The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI DALE E. HOAK This book describes the membership, business and procedure of the privy council during the royal minority of Edward VI. 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Berkouwer In this fourteenth volume of the Studies in Dogmatics series, Berk- ouwer discusses the attributes of the church as they are expressed in the Nicene Creed. "(Berkouwer's work) approaches the magnitude of the work of Barth and Brunner in Europe and Ferre in Amer- ica. It unquestionably marks the author as one of the genuinely significant leaders o/ Christian thought in our day." —E. T. Ramsdel! 0-8028-3433-7 Cloth, 350 pages, $10.95 POET AND PEASANT A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke by Kenneth E. Bailey Concentrating on Luke's record, the chairman of the Biblical Depart- ment at the Near Eastern School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon, draws on 20 years of experience with Middle Eastern culture to study the most sig- nificant parables of Jesus. 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MICH 49502 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 06 Apr 2021 at 01:39:36, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. https://www.cambridge.org/core The Volume 8, No. Articles Justin Taylor, s.m.: G. E. Gorman: Russell E. Richey: M. J. Lynch: Maurice French: Wendy Davis: Conference Report: Book Reviews Journal of Religious History 4 December, 1975 CONTENTS THE EARLY PAPACY AT WORK: GELASIUS I (492-6) A LAUDIAN ATTEMPT TO 'TUNE THE PULPIT': PETER HEYLYN A N D HIS SERMON AGAINST THE FEOFFEES FOR THE PURCHASE OF IMPROPRIATIONS EFFECTS OF TOLERATION ON 18TH CENTURY DISSENT WAS GLADSTONE A TRACTARIAN? W. E. 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