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Dever's "The Lives Of Ordinary People In Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology And The Bible Intersect" (Book Review), Kathleen Kempa

The Christian Librarian

A review of Dever, W. G. (2012). The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 436 pp. $17.05. ISBN 9780802867018

Sweet's "Me And We: God’S New Social Gospel" (Book Review), Craighton Hippenhammer

The Christian Librarian

A review of Sweet, L. (2014). Me and we: God’s new social gospel. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 173 pp. $17.99. ISBN 9781426757761

Harton's "Orthodoxy And Heresy In Early Christian Contexts: Reconsidering The Bauer Thesis" (Book Review), Mark Hanson

The Christian Librarian

A review of Harton, P. A. (Ed.). (2015). Orthodoxy and heresy in early Christian contexts: Reconsidering the Bauer thesis. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications. 288 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781610975049

Utter's "The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook" (Book Review), Armand T. Ternak

The Christian Librarian

A review of Utter, G.H., Storey, J.W. (2007). The Religious Right: A reference handbook. 3rd edition. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing. 503 pp. ISBN 9781592371136

Hauerwas And Willimon's "Resident Aliens: Life In The Christian Colony" (Book Review), Seth Allen

The Christian Librarian

A review of Hauerwas, S., & Willimon, W.H. (2014). Resident aliens: Life in the Christian colony (25th Anniversary ed.). Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 172 pp. $19.99. ISBN 9781426781902

Witherington's "The Rest Of Life: Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex From A Kingdom Perspective" (Book Review), Kathleen Kempa

The Christian Librarian

A review of Witherington III, B. (2012). The rest of life: Rest, play, eating, studying, sex from a Kingdom perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans. 168 pp. $18.00. ISBN 9780802867377

Sinitiere's "Salvation With A Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, And American Christianity" (Book Review), Mark Tubbs

The Christian Librarian

A review of Sinitiere, P. L. (2015). Salvation with a smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity. New York: New York University Press. 305 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780814723883

Akala's "The Son-Father Relationship And Christological Symbolism In The Gospel Of John" (Book Review), John E. Palmer

The Christian Librarian

A review of Akala, A. J. (2014). The Son-Father relationship and Christological symbolism in the Gospel of John. NY: Bloombury T&T Clark. 248 pp. $112.00 (Hardback); $39.95 (Paperback). ISBN 9780567374141

Truesday's "Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren’T Fundamentalists" (Book Review), Craighton Hippenhammer

The Christian Librarian

A review of Truesday, A. (Ed.). (2012). Square peg: Why Wesleyans aren’t fundamentalists. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press. 158 pp. $15.99. ISBN 9780834127937

Fox's "A Way To God: Thomas Merton’S Creation Spirituality" (Book Review), Kathleen F. Kempa

The Christian Librarian

A review of Fox, M. (2016). A way to God: Thomas Merton’s creation spirituality. Novato, CA: New World Library. 308 pp. $18.95. ISBN 9781608684205

Story And Schuchmann's " When God Doesn’T Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted To Learn, Truths You Can’T Live Without" (Book Review), Lindsay Van Sicklen

The Christian Librarian

A review of Story, L., & Schuchmann, J. (2015). When God doesn’t fix it: Lessons you never wanted to learn, truths you can’t live without. Nashville, TN: Nelson. 280 pp. $16.99. ISBN 9780718036973

Huss's "Where’S Jesus? American Christianity In Crisis" (Book Review), Dale R. Jensen

The Christian Librarian

A review of Huss, S. F. (2015). Where’s Jesus? American Christianity in crisis. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press. 183 pp. $17.95. ISBN 978512714593

Yaghjian's "Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric For Theological And Biblical Writers" (Book Review), Mark Tubbs

The Christian Librarian

A review of Yaghjian, L. B. (2015). Writing theology well: A rhetoric for theological and biblical writers. (2nd ed.). New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. 441 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780567499172

When God Was A Bird: Contemplating Divine Presence Around Us, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

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1919 Conference Report, Buffalo, Ny, Christian Endeavor Society

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If I Were Young Again, Amos R. Wells Litt.D.,Ll.D.

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No More Mr. Nice Angel, Scott Culpepper

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Angels have occupied a prominent role in world religions and Western culture for centuries. The existence of multiple supernatural beings with varying degrees of hierarchical standing was a given for the polytheistic cultures that represented the majority of religious expressions in the ancient world. The inclusion of these supernatural beings in the three great monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was significant because these faiths sought in every way to emphasize the supremacy of the one God in contrast to the crowded spiritual field of polytheistic faiths. Angels could be problematic because they potentially provided a host of supernatural …

Book Review: The Ethics Of Attention In An Age Of Distraction: Why You Need To Get Out Of Your Own Head, Brian Dijkema

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2015.

Most of us think of distraction as a mere annoyance— a mild humming in the background while you work, a fly landing on your book while you read. We do not usually think of it carrying the weight of a serious moral problem. In his new book, The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford argues that our inability to pay attention does carry such moral weight, and he argues this precisely because it dissolves our individuality and …

Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, And The Problematics Of The Argument From Evil, Lance E. Nelson

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The problem of evil--as opposed to the argument from evil--is an ancient one, but it was not initially formulated as an argument in support of atheism. God's existence was taken for granted, and on that basis thinkers like Augustine engaged an serious intellectual struggle with deep questions about the divine raised by the presence of evil in the world: the unicity of God, the knowability of God, the possibility of Divine providence.⁴ The atheist argument from evil--especially as expounded of late by the New Atheists--tends to reduce this history to a caricature.

The Limits Of Theodicy: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective On Evil And Interreligious Theology, Rico G. Monge

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

This essay is written from the vantage point of a comparative theologian who is personally steeped in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and who primarily specializes in Christian-Muslim comparative theology. It might seems curious, then, that the present essay employs the comparative theological method in order to focus on questions of theodicy in the Christian and Hindu traditions. Perhaps even more curious, however, is that I aim not at articulating a comparative Christian-Hindu theodicy, but rather at suggesting that the most productive path forward is a comparative theological rejection of theodicy as a productive enterprise. Drawing from resources within my …

Agency In The Subaltern Encounter Of Evil: Subverting The Dominant And Appropriating The Indigenous, James Ponniah

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

This essay focuses on subaltern encounter of evil that occurred in two different religious orbits, namely, Hinduism and Christianity in India. The Hindu phenomenon to be studied is Ayya Vaḻi1 (henceforth, AV) founded by Ayya Vaikundar (1809-1851) and the Christian phenomenon, Bible Mission (henceforth, BM) established by Devadas Ayyagaru (1840-1960). While attempts have been made earlier in the writings of Chad Bauman, Zoe Sherinian, Eleanor Zeliott, Sathianathan Clarke and G.Patick2 to study the relation between religion and subaltern agency in India, this work has a different focus in that it employs the idea of subaltern agency to discuss the parallel …

Practice And The Comparative Study Of Mysticism: The Yoga Sūtra And The Cloud Of Unknowing, Glenn Young

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard McGinn similarly claims that many studies of mysticism “so emphasize the moment of mystical contact . . . that they neglect the study of the fullness of the via mystica, particularly the ascetical and moral preparation for such contact.”2 Following from suggestions such as these, this article will do a comparative reading of two mystical texts: the Yoga Sūtra, a third-century …

Book Review: Sacred Matters: Material Religion In South Asian Traditions, Lloyd W. Pflueger

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Sacred Matters: Material Religion in South Asian Traditions. Edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015, xi + 221 pp.

Book Review: Meeting Of Opposites? Hindus And Christians In The West, Francis X. Clooney Sj

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Meeting of Opposites? Hindus and Christians in the West. Andrew Wingate. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2015, x + 216 pp.

Book Review:Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy Of Being In Two Gītā Commentaries, Ankur Barua

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad. NY and London: Bloomsbury, 2013, x + 148pp.

Book Review:Pilgrimage Of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives Of Murray And Mary Rogers, Joseph Prabhu

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016, 421 pages.

Book Review: Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life And Thought Of BhaktisiddhāNta Sarasvatī, Michael Mclaughlin

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life and Thought of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. Ferdinando Sardella. Oxford University Press, 2013, xv + 342 pp.

Book Review: Hindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, And Indian Sainthood, Stephanie Corigliano

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Hindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood. Timothy S. Dobe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 363 + xiii pp.

Book Review: Ecclesial Identities In A Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) Among Hindus And Sikhs In Northwest India, Nadya Pohran

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Ecclesial Identities in a Multi-Faith Context: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India. Darren Todd Duerksen. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2015, xxiii + 292 pp.

Book Review: Sacred Groves And Local Gods: Religion And Environmentalism In South India, James Ponniah

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Book Review of Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in South India. Eliza F.Kent. Oxford University Press, 2013. 236 pages.