The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. By Beryl Smalley, Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1941. Pp. xvi, 295. $4.50.) and Sachsenspiegel and Bible: Researches in the Source History of the Sachsenspiegel and the Influence of the Bible on Mediaeval German Law. By Guido Kisch, , Visiting Professor of History, Jewish Institute of Religion, Formerly Professor of Legal History at the Universities of Leipzig, Königsberg, Prague, and Halle. [Publications in Mediaeval Studies, the University of Notre Dame, Editor, Philip S. Moore.] (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame. 1941. Pp. ix, 198. Cloth $4.00, paper $3.25.)

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-753
Author(s):  
JEFFREY T. ZALAR

Postmodern communitarian theory insists that all knowledge is participant knowledge: who we are is at least if not more foundational to learning than any philosophy of what we can know. These two books, one written by Jesuit priests and professors of systematic theology at the Gregorian University in Rome and the other by non-Catholic professional historians working at the University of Reading, invite us to consider this assertion.


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