Books Reviewed The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions edited by Arthur Bennett (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust;…
Christianity & Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas and Movements, Vol. 2 Faith and Reason in the 19th Century (Wilkens and Padgett, 2000)
Though many people fancy themselves to be independent thinkers, the truth of the matter is that we are all products of our culture, and…
The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships (Kilner, Orr, and Shelly, 1998)
Book Reviewed: The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships edited by John F. Kilner,…
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Os Guiness, 1998)
Several books have been published recently that take as their topic one of the great, liberating teachings of grace, a topic that has been…
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is and Jesus and the Restoration of Israel (N.T. Wright, 1999)
If some books are difficult to market, I would suspect The Challenge of Jesus might fall into the marketing department category for “nightmare.” For…
Caesar’s Coin Revisited: Christians and the Limits of Government (Michael Cromartie, 1996)
Caesar’s Coin Revisited is another in a series of books containing papers, responses, and transcripts of the discussion from a symposium of scholars and…
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays (Peter Leithar, 1996)
Rev. Leithart, a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America, wrote this book for high school students, but Brightest Heaven of Invention will be…
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 (Diana Preston, 2000)
In 1900, The Boxer Rebellion rippled like a violent earthquake through China. For years there had been simmering discontent over the flood of Westerners…
Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular Culture and Public Affairs
One of the ways to be discerning about what magazine articles to read (compared to what to skip, skim, or merely file), is to…
Bioethics and the Future of Medicine: A Christian Appraisal (eds. Kilmer, Cameron, and Schiedermayer, 1995)
Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists,” Richard John Neuhaus says, “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to…