In Conversing With God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings (University of Toronto Press $60) Hilmar M. Pabel, an assistant professor of history at SFU, examines Erasmus' understanding of prayer and how he taught western Christendom to pray in the Reformation era of the sixteenth century. Erasmus was a Dutch scholar, theologian and writer who lived from 1466 1536.

[BCBW 1997]