or justification, just live!’ (quoted by Guseynov, p. 381). This volume offers a singular inside view on the effervescent post-Stalinist debates, with some international input. The ‘selected bibliography (1953–1991)’ (pp. 399–413) shows that what is revealed here is but the tip of the iceberg. How current Russian philosophy relates to this backdrop is a question it would no doubt take another book to clarify. Joseph S. O’Leary Tokyo ★ ★ ★ The New Testament and Intellectual Humility , Grant Macaskill, Oxford University Press, 2018 (ISBN 978-0-19-879985-6), x+278 pp., hb £65 Theological studies of the virtues often focus on particular theologians and their conceptions of virtue. Strangely, the scriptural imaginary that shapes and informs such accounts only receives peripheral attention. This lacuna is perhaps even more curious given the broad normative status of the Scriptures for Christian theological discourse (however, ‘normative’ and ‘Scriptures’ are understood). Grant Macaskill’s new monograph, The New Testament and Intellectual Humility , speaks into this gap, analyzing the func- tion of the New Testament in the formation of intellectual humility within Christian communities. While Scripture does not yield straightforward propositional discourse about humility, Macaskill charts how Scripture generates representations about humility that cast it both in restrictive terms of human finitude or dependency and yet also in positive terms of relation to God and especially of participation in and union with Christ. His excellent monograph explores how intellectual humility is particular- ized and grounded by the Christian narrative. Macaskill skillfully shows how the way in which the lexical field around the notions of humility in the New Testament is placed in relation to the wider incarnational narra- tive generates an embodied and ostensive sense of intellectual humility somewhat different from abstracted theological and philosophical discus- sion. As such, this book is a timely and brilliant constructive theological exploration of intellectual virtue that speaks within and to a wider interdisciplinary interest in the virtues and intellectual humility. Macaskill divides the book into two halves. The first half (Chapters 1–5) discusses ‘the key concepts that inform our understanding of intellectual humility in the New Testament’ (p. 23). Chapter 1 considers the wider turn to virtue in moral philosophy and theology. Chapter 2 provides a general overview of the Old Testament accounts of humility as the © 2020 The Author. Reviews in Religion & Theology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Reviews 376