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John Bowker, Religion Hurts: Why Religions Do Harm as Well as Good

and Rembrandt), but this emphasis is consonant with the substance of Brown’s more notable published works. Four essays focus on the biblical text, including a satisfying study of the place of Pilate’s wife in Christian tradition by Ian Boxall. Three essays explore the area of literature, discussing a range of writers. Theology may be found – as contributor Jon Greenaway suggests – in unexpected places, including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The Moving Text is an interesting and diverse collection. It is enhanced by discussion, including Brown’s extensive ‘Reply’ to the contributors’ essays, and by the inclusion of a handful of Brown’s actual sermons where his approach to Scripture is put to work in the service of public ministry and proclamation. Within modern, liberal Anglo-Catholicism, it is already commonplace for preachers to use literary, cultural and artistic insights and references to throw light on the Bible text, so this is nothing new. The writers of these essays have extended themselves to celebrate their recognition of Brown as a particularly diligent, well-informed and popular exemplar of this approach. The Bible text may ‘move’ as it is coloured by tradition and human imagination (this book shows us how), but preachers know that people who sit in congregations need ‘moving’ as well.