Archive for the ‘Book Reviews’ Category

Getting the Reformation Wrong

September 12th, 2010  No Comments »

James R. Payton Jr. Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings, (IVP, 2010), 272 pages. Of the books I’ve read this year, Getting the Reformation Wrong is among the most thought provoking. The reason: James Payton Jr. does something in this volume that few other

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Worshiping with the Church Fathers

August 5th, 2010  No Comments »

Christopher A. Hall. Worshiping with the Church Fathers. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009. 280 pages. Christopher A. Hall. Worshiping with the Church Fathers. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009. 280 pages. Jerome, Augustine, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom, Athanasius, Origen, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Ambrose—names that

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The Art of Dying

August 3rd, 2010  No Comments »

Rob Moll. The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009. 192 pages. “For Christians in most times and places, death has been a routine part of life. But during the last century, Americans have embraced an unprecedented

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The Legacy of Packer

July 28th, 2010  No Comments »

Timothy George ed. J. I. Packer and the Evangelical Future: The Impact of His Life and Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. 253 pp. When historians look back on the life of J. I. Packer, this volume may serve as a useful starting point. An

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God’s Lyrics

June 29th, 2010  No Comments »

Douglas Sean O’Donnell. God’s Lyrics: Rediscovering Worship Through Old Testament Songs. Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing Company, 2010. 240 pages. “Let me write the songs of a nation – I don’t care who writes its laws,” said the Scottish author and politician Andrew Fletcher (1653 -1716). Songs shape

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Handling the Biblical Text

June 9th, 2010  No Comments »

Robert L. Plummer. 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible. Ed. Benjamin L. Merkle. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2010. 347 pages. There is a certain irony associated with books on biblical interpretation. They are arguably among the most important works in print (insofar as they shed light

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To Change the World

May 18th, 2010  No Comments »

James Davison Hunter. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 358 pages. James Davison Hunter is the Labrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia.

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