Several books have been published recently that take as their topic one of the great, liberating teachings of grace, a topic that has been…
Denis Haack
Denis is the author of The Rest of Success: What the World Didn’t Tell You About Having It All and has written articles for such journals as Reformation & Revival Journal, Eternity, Covenant, and World. He holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis.
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…
Discernment Exercise: Cobelligerency without Belligerency – Loving Believers Who are Simply Wrong
In Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor notes, car ownership is a matter of faith. Lutherans drive Fords, bought from Bunsen Motors, the Lutheran car dealer,…
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…
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (Gilbert Meilaender, 1996)
One of the temptations of our modern age is to leave specialized areas of life to “experts” in that field. Most of the people…
The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family (Kilner, Cunningham, and Hager, 2000)
Bio-Engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today (Cameron, Daniels, and White, 2000)
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity has published two more volumes in their superb series of books on medical ethics. The Reproduction Revolution…