Liberating the Gospel by David Smith (DLT, £12.99). The author, a former minister of Eden Chapel, Cambridge, now lectures in divinity at Aberdeen University. His theme is how to translate the message of Jesus in a “globalised world”. Just as the Gospel writers were not disconnected from the political, economic, social and cultural milieu of their time, the author argues that the message of Christ is still radical and liberating for today’s readers and that, in a post-Christian world, we have to rediscover the world-transforming power of the Gospels.