Ruth Edwards, Discovering John (London: SPCK, 2003), pp. vix + 195. £14.99

According to Molnar, a proper distinction between the immanent and the economic trinity should lead us to recognize (1) that God is toward us what God is eternally in Godself, and (2) God remains the Lord of divine actions ad extra and cannot be identied with them. [...]the liberal commonplaces of republican freedom and self-government, of popular sovereignty and the rights of individuals and communities that tend to anchor so much contemporary Christian political theology come under scrutiny in these pages. [...]in an essay on proto-modern political thought, JLO traces the emergence of modern notions of freedom and right in the late medieval world in order to argue against contemporary theological apologists for modern liberal democracys economic anthropology that Christianity does not provide a positive foundation for modern inclusive democratic polities and rights. According to Edwards, Johns Jesus never asserts his equality with God (p. 134), and his statement I and the Father are one (John 10:30) is not clearly intended to dene a metaphysical unity (p. 132).