By: Jason|16 April, 2013|Categories: Books|Tags: christian morality . Heath A Thomas . Jeremy Evans . matthew flannagan . Old Testament wars . Paul Copan . religious violence
Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem comes out next month. Edited by Heath A Thomas, Jeremy Evans, and Paul Copan, the book offers a constructive response to the issue of divine judgment and religious violence by drawing upon biblical, ethical, philosophical and theological insights. We’re excited to see the collection of essays also includes…
Read more »By: Jason|30 May, 2012|Categories: Books|Tags: david h. glass . inerrancy . Mitch Stokes . new atheism . ravi zacharias . Vern Poythress
A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists by Mitch Stokes (Thomas Nelson, 2012). 272 pages. “. . . A Shot of Faith to the Head takes the best tools of top-notch apologetics and philosophy and puts them in the hands of every believer. Even better, it’s easy and fun to…
Read more »By: Jason|01 November, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: Jesus . Jesus Christ . N.T. Wright . Tom Wright
Whatever your views on his theology, it’s hard to deny the fact that N.T. Wright presents theology in a gripping and fascinating way. Whether he is addressing the nature of heaven in Surprised by Hope or the attractiveness of the Christian life in Simply Christian, Wright finds it impossible to write a boring sentence. One of the most influential and prolific…
Read more »By: Jason|13 October, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: Christian thought . Garry DeWeese . Joseph E. Gorra . Philosophy . wisdom
Joseph E. Gorra interviews Garry DeWeese, Professor of Philosophy of Religion & Ethics at Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology and author of the new book, Doing Philosophy as a Christian.
Read more »By: Jason|05 October, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: audiobook . John Piper . life of the mind
Christian Audio is offering John Piper’s great book about the importance of Christian thinking as its free download of the month: Piper urges us to think for the glory of God. He demonstrates from Scripture that glorifying God with our minds and hearts is not either-or, but both-and. Thinking carefully about God fuels passion and affections for God. Likewise, Christ-exalting…
Read more »By: Jason|26 September, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: historical apologetics . scott oliphint . William Edgar
A new book collects important texts in the history of apologetics.
Read more »Carolyn Weber talks to Trevin Wax about her new book Surprised by Oxford, a memoir describing how she became a Christian during her time at Oxford University.
Read more »Here are a few notable book reviews published in the last week or so. For more reading, check out the latest issue of Themelios, which has a nice collection of reviews. Apologetics Philosophy Science Theology
Read more »By: Jason|17 August, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: Doctrine . Erik Thoennes . Systematic Theology
G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.” He was right; there is nothing more basic to humanity than the desire to unriddle the mystery of life. Life’s Biggest Questions is a new book intended to help readers do…
Read more »By: Jason|01 August, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: anti-intellectualism . christology . evangelical mind . Evangelicalism . life of the mind . mark noll . Reason . scandal of the evangelical mind . scholarship
Few sentences have had as great an impact on evangelicalism in the late twentieth century than the opening of Mark Noll’s 1994 book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. “The scandal of the evangelical mind,” he wrote, “is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” For many, the book was a wake-up call to the anti-intellectualism of the…
Read more »By: Jason|19 July, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: exclusivism . externalism . Joseph Kim . Reformed Epistemology . religious diversity . Warrant
An individual confronted with the vast diversity of religious beliefs and practices in the world has four possible ways of making sense of this situation. The first is naturalism, the position that all religious beliefs are merely the product of human projection and therefore false. The second is pluralism, the idea that there is a single ultimate religious reality and all…
Read more »In a new book, John Lennox sets out to answer one of the most fiercely debated questions of our day.
Read more »By: Stuart|14 July, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: C. S. Lewis . Harry Potter . Incantational . Invocational . John Granger . Magic . occult . Witchcraft
The following is an excerpt from an excellent book How Harry Cast his Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling’s Bestselling Books, by John Granger. This book I recommend everyone should read. Sharing this particular excert was inspired by a discussion on the witchcraft and magic that features in the Harry Potter stories, and why Christians should avoid it.
Read more »By: Jason|17 March, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: God . Matt Flannagan . Old Testament ethics . Paul Copan
Matt has posted his review of Paul Copan’s new book Is God a Moral Monster?: “Overall, Paul Copan’s Is God a Moral Monster? is a must read for anyone interested in Old Testament ethics. It brings together important material that is otherwise scattered and demonstrates how this material responds to a line of moral criticism that has, by and large, been…
Read more »By: Jason|15 March, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: doctrine of judgment . eternal punishment . Hell . Kevin DeYoung . Rob Bell . universalism
Even before its release, Rob Bell’s book Love Wins has been drawing controversy. In questioning many of the traditional Christian views of heaven, hell, and eternal punishment, the popular megachurch pastor seemed to be abandoning the doctrine of God’s judgment and advocating a brand of universalism. Now that the book has been published, several reviews and responses have became available.…
Read more »By: Jason|08 December, 2010|Categories: Books|Tags: Bradley Green . God . intellectual life . intellectualism . John Piper . life of the mind . love of God . renewed mind . the mind . theology of thinking . worship
Crossway has just published two helpful new books on the place of the mind in the life of the Christian and how believers should think about thinking.
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