Divided into four sections and twelve chapters with an epilogue, Mystery Without Magic is as lucid and accessible an apologetic for process theology as we are likely ever to see. In the course of its presentation, the volume also becomes a brilliant apologist for raw belief and an articulate antidote for the despair of post-modernism. Pregeant is both an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church and a Professor of religion and Philosophy at Curry College. As suck he brings to his words an engaging mix of pastoral concern and informed intellect. Many Christians will object strongly to Pregeant's studied omission of trinitarianism, especially of the Fatherhood of God; of bell, Satan, and the dead; and of the doctrine of Incarnation. These objections will, by thinking readers, have to be placed, however, at the door of process theology and not of Pregeant's volume. Those who are searching for so simple a dying as an explication of contemporary Christian theology, and those who are searching for so intricate a dying as a reason to continue will find this book to be intelligent~ graceful, and a powerful assertion of faith. It is an effective addition to the current literature of religion in our times.