Each of these books is a collection of essays. Mystical Union contains five essays and a section of comments by each contributor. Louis Dupre sets the tone in the introduction by acknowledging an irreducible diversity among the three faiths while finding in the unio mystica a moment of convergence. The last essay, by David Merkur, addresses the accounts of unitive experiences by members of each faith from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and psychedelic experiment.

The editors no doubt wished to preserve a balance of space allotted to each tradition, but it is a deficiency in an otherwise very good book that Christianity is represented only by the Western tradition without a comparable essay for the Eastern Church. Besides its general interest, this book will be of value in raising necessary theological questions for those who, disillusioned with religious institutions, turn to more interior religion including some aspects of New Age practices.

For Jews, knowledge of Christianity has often been a matter of survival for a vulnerable minority in a culture dominated by Christians. Jewish Perspectives on Christianity contains a general introduction and selections from the writings of five well-known Jewish thinkers, Baeck, Buber, Rosenzweig, Herberg and Heschel, with a brief introductory essay for each author by a Christian theologian. The chief topics are the person and significance of Jesus, the relation of law and gospel, the Hebrew Bible in Christianity, and the Christian claim to have superseded the "Old" Israel.

Removing Anti-Judaism should be on the reading list in homiletics classes and in diocesan circulating libraries for clergy study groups. The purpose of this sixth and most recent volume in a series of interfaith studies co-published with Crossroads is primarily to heighten preachers' awareness of what they intentionally and unintentionally say in the pulpit about Jews. There are eight brief, easily accessible essays ranging in subject from self-examination to handling of difficult texts, five sermons and a commentary. Another stated intent of the book is "to foster mutual understanding between Jews and Christians." To do this, some essays should have been included to deal with misperceptions that come from Jewish pulpits and writers who speak about Christianity at the popular level. Perhaps a companion volume addressed to Jewish preachers will appear.

(The Rev.) Robert C. Walters

Worcester, Mass.