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City On A Hill: A History Of American Exceptionalism (Book Review), James C. Schaap
City On A Hill: A History Of American Exceptionalism (Book Review), James C. Schaap
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Reviewed Title: City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism by Abram C. Van Engen. Yale University Press, 2020. 379 pp. ISBN: 9780300229752.
Nibley Teams Up With Brigham Young To Look At Politics, Education, Leadership, And The Environment
Nibley Teams Up With Brigham Young To Look At Politics, Education, Leadership, And The Environment
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
As those who have read much Brigham Young know, the combination of this pioneer prophet's insight, articulateness, and candor is little short of stunning. Nibley calls him a "monumental figure," perhaps (after Joseph Smith), the most prominent mind of his century.
Several Significant Historical And Anthropological Essays Of John Sorenson Gathered In Two New Volumes
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Nearly two dozen essays by John L. Sorenson, professor emeritus of anthropology at Brigham Young University, have been conveniently gathered into two paperback volumes by a Salt Lake publisher, New Sage Books. Some of these essays will be familiar to FARMS readers, but many will be new. Both collections can be obtained at a discount from FARMS using the enclosed order form.
Thirteen Is Lucky For The Farms Review Of Books
Thirteen Is Lucky For The Farms Review Of Books
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
For the thirteenth time, FARMS has invited reviewers to examine books about the Book of Mormon, other scriptures, and related topics. The latest issue of the FARMS Review of Books (volume 9, number 2) covers eight books about the Book of Mormon and eight books on other topics. It also contains an editor's introduction that raises serious and stimulating questions about weaknesses in the methods of contemporary biblical scholarship.
Review Surveys Mixed Bag Of Publications
Review Surveys Mixed Bag Of Publications
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The newest issue of the FARMS Review of Books (volume 10, number 2) surveys a diverse crop of recent publications, some inviting high praise, others substantial refutation, and some a mixture of both.
Revised Book Extends Lds Scholar's Analysis Of Jesus' Immortal Sermon
Revised Book Extends Lds Scholar's Analysis Of Jesus' Immortal Sermon
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
John W. Welch has revised and updated his 1990 book The Sermon at the Temple and the Sermon on the Mount, which presented a thorough Latter-day Saint interpretation of Jesus' masterful sermon delivered to his disciples in New Testament Galilee and in New World Bountiful. The new FARMS paperback edition, titled Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount: An Approach to 3 Nephi 11-18 and Matthew 5-7, features a new chapter and several new sections that offer interesting support for viewing the Sermon as a ritual text.
Cultural Contours Of A Christian Worldview: A Review Of Biblical Critical Theory, Donald Roth
Cultural Contours Of A Christian Worldview: A Review Of Biblical Critical Theory, Donald Roth
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"Watkin is weaving together Biblical themes in the order that they develop, letting Scripture set the agenda for what will be considered, rather than some other approach."
Posting about the book Biblical Critical Theory from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
A Critical Review Of Brock And Sutano's Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, Eduardo Echeverria
A Critical Review Of Brock And Sutano's Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, Eduardo Echeverria
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Reviewed Title: Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction by Cory C. Brock and N. Gray Sutanto. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. 322 pp.
From Worldvision To Worldview: A Review Of Personality And Worldview, Donald Roth
From Worldvision To Worldview: A Review Of Personality And Worldview, Donald Roth
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"We should not underestimate the cumulative impact of generations of faithful communal commitment to a Christian worldview."
Posting about the book Personality and Worldview from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/from-worldvision-to-worldview-a-review-of-personality-and-worldview/
Growing In Global Perspectives: A Book Conversation Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Hannah Landman, Jaelyn Dragt, Eoghan Holdahl, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang
Growing In Global Perspectives: A Book Conversation Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Hannah Landman, Jaelyn Dragt, Eoghan Holdahl, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang
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"... God uses the oppressed to represent Jesus, the Savior, in [the Good Neighbor] story."
Posting about the book Reading the Bible Around the World from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
Growing In Global Perspectives: A Review Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman
Growing In Global Perspectives: A Review Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman
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"Effects of colonization, refuge seeking, and persecution affect how communities interpret meaning in Scripture."
Posting about the book Reading the Bible Around the World from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
Those Who Came Before Us: A Review Of Tell Her Story, Hannah Landman
Those Who Came Before Us: A Review Of Tell Her Story, Hannah Landman
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"Gupta’s book offers a refreshing look at women in ministry before, during, and after Jesus’s time on earth."
Posting about the book Tell Her Story from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/those-who-came-before-us-a-review-of-tell-her-story/
Voicing The Gospel Story: A Review Of The Man Born To Be King, Laurel A. Koerner
Voicing The Gospel Story: A Review Of The Man Born To Be King, Laurel A. Koerner
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"Twin concepts threaded throughout the plays and highlighted by Wehr are the kingdom of God as antithetical to earthly power, and the rule of love."
Posting about the book The Man Born to Be King from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/voicing-the-gospel-story-a-review-of-the-man-born-to-be-king/
Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality Is Sabotaging Democracy And A World Of Three Zeros: The New Economics Of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, And Zero Net Carbon Emissions (Book Reviews), Marc L. Andreas
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Reviewed Titles: Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy by Carl Rhodes (Bristol University Press) 2021, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781528211665; and A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions by Muhammed Yunnus (New York: Public Affairs Press) 2017, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781610397575.
The Holy Spirit And Christian Experience (Book Review), Justin Bailey
The Holy Spirit And Christian Experience (Book Review), Justin Bailey
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Reviewed Title: The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl. Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780192882387.
Faith And Reason And The Reformations (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell
Faith And Reason And The Reformations (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell
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Reviewed Title: Faith and Reason and the Reformations by Terence J. Kleven. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2022. ISBN: 978179360688-4, 252 pp.
The Road: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Rose Postma
The Road: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Rose Postma
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"Touch the Earth draws heavily on the Black prophetic tradition, and the work bears witness to the injustices endured by marginalized people under the shadow of the American empire."
Posting about the book Touch the Earth from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/the-road-a-review-of-touch-the-earth/
Poetry To Break The Power Of The Empire: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Howard Schaap
Poetry To Break The Power Of The Empire: A Review Of Touch The Earth, Howard Schaap
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"To be clear, you should read this book because it’s good poetry. It’s musical and accessible, yet multivocal and idea-laden."
Posting about the book Touch the Earth from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/poetry-to-break-the-power-of-empire-a-review-of-touch-the-earth/
"Evangelizing Everything" Including Ourselves: A Review Of Chapters 8-9 Of Neo-Calvinism, Justin Bailey
"Evangelizing Everything" Including Ourselves: A Review Of Chapters 8-9 Of Neo-Calvinism, Justin Bailey
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"We are overly tolerant for what happens within the walls of the Christian community, and overly suspicious of what happens outside."
Posting about the book Neo-Calvinism from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
Do Modern Christians Know God Differently?: A Review Of Chapters 4-5 Of Neo-Calvinism, Geoffrey Fulkerson
Do Modern Christians Know God Differently?: A Review Of Chapters 4-5 Of Neo-Calvinism, Geoffrey Fulkerson
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"Brock and Sutanto synthesize wide bodies of content and an array of rather complex concepts and arguments into succinct summary chapters."
Posting about the book Neo-Calvinism from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
Embracing Ecology And Fantasy: A Review Of The Wonders Of Creation, Carl P. Fictorie
Embracing Ecology And Fantasy: A Review Of The Wonders Of Creation, Carl P. Fictorie
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"[Page] particularly promotes following the practice of 'slow' reading of nature, to stop and pay attention to the place and take in even the smallest details."
Posting about the book The Wonders of Creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/embracing-ecology-and-fantasy-a-review-of-the-wonders-of-creation/
Generationally Speaking: A Review Of Speaking Across Generations, Todd Zuidema
Generationally Speaking: A Review Of Speaking Across Generations, Todd Zuidema
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"Sermons need to be written and delivered with an awareness of the unique cultural characteristics and stage of life needs that reside within the hearts and minds of those who are listening."
Posting about the book Speaking Across Generations from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/generationally-speaking-a-review-of-speaking-across-generations/
Toward A Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review Of Politics After Christendom, Donald Roth
Toward A Covenantal Christian Political Theology: A Review Of Politics After Christendom, Donald Roth
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"If all authority derives from God, it’s necessary to look to covenant to understand the contours of the authority delegated to humans."
Posting about the book Politics after Christendom from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
Ghosts Of America's Past, Present, And Future: A Review Of Preparing For War, Scott Culpepper
Ghosts Of America's Past, Present, And Future: A Review Of Preparing For War, Scott Culpepper
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"Despite our theologies of human sinfulness, we somehow thought people would prove better than that. They didn’t. The stakes are too high for complacency."
Posting about the book Preparing for War from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/ghosts-of-americas-past-present-and-future-a-review-of-preparing-for-war/
Review Of Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments In Critical Petro-Theology, Rebecca Janzen
Review Of Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments In Critical Petro-Theology, Rebecca Janzen
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Terra Schwerin Rowe, Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology (New York: T&T Clark, 2023), 200 pp., $115 (hbk), ISBN: 9780567708342.