This review was published by RBL ©2017 by the Society of Biblical Literature. For more information on obtaining a subscription to RBL, please visit http://www.bookreviews.org/subscribe.asp. RBL 04/2017 Richard A. Burridge Four Gospels, One Jesus? A Symbolic Reading 3rd edition Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. Pp. xvii + 217. Paper. $20.00. ISBN 9780802871015. Matthew C. Baldwin Mars Hill University Mars Hill, North Carolina Sitting in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, waiting for Francis to present him with the 2013 Ratzinger Prize in Catholic Theology, the Reverend Canon Professor Richard A. Burridge of King’s College in London held in his hands a copy of the second edition of his popular textbook, Four Gospels, One Jesus? A Symbolic Reading (London: SPCK; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). It was intended as a gift for the pope. “I found myself wondering,” he writes in the afterword to the third edition, “how I myself, the first non-Catholic to receive this honor, and this little ‘baby’ of a book, had ended up here, in all this pomp and circumstance” (183). Indeed, the award does seem like a small miracle of ecumenism. What explains it? Burridge, an Anglican priest, serves as Member, Chair of Biblical Interpretation, Director of New Testament Studies, and Dean of King’s. As Dean he exercises both academic and ecclesiastical functions for a school where the spiritual development of students is part of the mission. Burridge’s works, spanning nearly a quarter century, mirror this conjunction of institutional functions. His writings ply the boundary waters separating academy and church. He has published two popular books and two scholarly monographs on Jesus and the gospels, one popular commentary on John, and a number of liturgical and theological-interpretive texts.