Book Review: The Last Christian on Earth

Pages: 254 Pub­lisher: Regal Pub­lish­ers Year: 2010 Author: Os Guinness For­merly known as the Gravedig­ger File, The Last Chris­t­ian on Earth is a Screw­tape Let­ters “style” book (though it did not draw its inspi­ra­tion from C.S. Lewis’ work), which comes through as a series of let­ters between a direc­tor of the “gravedig­ger the­sis” and one of his top oper­a­tives. The “gravedig­ger the­sis” is an out­line... Read More

Book Review: Rediscovering Holiness

Pages: 282 Pub­lisher: Regal Year: 1992 (2009) Author: J.I. Packer Liv­ing a life which is pleas­ing to God is a dif­fi­cult task for many Chris­tians, who find them­selves liv­ing in a world which teaches the supremacy of desire, and the exal­ta­tion of self. It’s extremely unfor­tu­nate that many in the church have been so open to accept­ing and adopt­ing many of the teach­ings of their (rel­a­tive) soci­ety, inte­grat­ing... Read More

Book Review: On Guard

Pages: 286 Pub­lisher: David C. Cook Year: 2010 Author: William Lane Craig What an unex­pected sur­prise. This is a book I really wish I could have read when I first became inter­ested in apolo­get­ics, as Craig has writ­ten an extremely acces­si­ble and easy to under­stand guide to defend­ing and explain­ing the truth­ful­ness of the Chris­t­ian faith, as well as the rea­sons one might have for believing. The first apolo­get­ics... Read More

Book Review: Bioethics and the Christian Life

Pages: 254 Pub­lisher: Cross­way Year: 2009 Author: David Vandrunen This past semes­ter I had the oppor­tu­nity to take a course on a sub­ject I’ve been inter­ested in for a long time–bioethics. It was a very inter­est­ing course for what it offered, but suf­fered from the same prob­lem which plagues most con­tem­po­rary courses on ethics, and that is that an act is only viewed in a cer­tain moral light rel­a­tive to the per­spec­tive... Read More

Book Review: Beyond the Shadowlands

Pages: 237 Pub­lisher: Zon­der­van Year: 2009 Author: Wayne Martindale I’ve always been a fan of C.S. Lewis’ writ­ing, though I’ve never read any­thing about Lewis’ views, as shown through his writ­ing, until now. Admit­tedly, I was at some what of a slight dis­ad­van­tage with this book, as three of the most quoted books, Lewis’ Space Tril­ogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Pere­landa, That Hideous Strength), are ones that I haven’t... Read More

Book Review: God is Great, God is Good

Pages: 258 Pub­lisher: Inter­var­sity Press Year: 2009 Edi­tors: William Lane Craig | Chad Meister A cou­ple of weeks ago I reviewed Athe­ism Remix, describ­ing it as an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to the move­ment known as the New Athe­ism, but not­ing that it did not deal with the argu­ments pre­sented by new athe­ists. This week I’ll be review­ing God is Great, God is Good (gra­ciously sent to me by the nice peo­ple over at Inter­var­sity... Read More

Book Review: The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World

Pages: 179 Pub­lisher: Cross­way Year: 2007 Edi­tors: John Piper & Justin Tay­lor Authors: David Wells, Vod­die Baucham Jr., John Piper, D.A. Car­son, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll ——————————————————————- I’m really not sure what to think of this book. I think it’s because I was expect­ing some­thing other than what I found; some­thing with a bit more post­mod­ernism in it. What I was expect­ing... Read More

Book Review: Between Heaven and Hell

Pages: 142 Pub­lisher: Inter­var­sity Press Year: 1982 (2008) Author: Peter Kreeft I believe this is the first major Socratic dia­logue Kreeft pub­lished (1982) and, unlike the oth­ers pub­lished by Inter­var­sity Press, does not fea­ture Socrates as the cen­tral char­ac­ter. But, instead, fea­ture Lewis as the main char­ac­ter. Between Heaven and Hell is a dia­logue between Chris­t­ian author and apol­o­gist C.S. Lewis, Amer­i­can... Read More

Book Review: The Making of an Atheist

Pages: 130 Pub­lisher: Moody Pub­lish­ers Year: 2010 Author: James S. Spiegel I first heard of James Spiegel’s book while brows­ing the EPS blog (Evan­gel­i­cal Philo­soph­i­cal Soci­ety) and com­ing across an inter­view he had done with them. The con­cept of the book is fairly unique amidst the recent spat of new athe­ist books (and the­ist replies). Where those books tend to focus on the intel­lec­tual and ratio­nal rea­sons... Read More

Book Review: How Should We Then Live?

Pages: 265 Pub­lisher: Cross­way Year: 1976 (2005) Author: Fran­cis Schaeffer I wasn’t intro­duced to Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer until a few years ago (it seems it never crossed my par­ents mind to tell me about him) when on a par­tic­u­lar forum his name was brought up with a rec­om­men­da­tion to read the The Fran­cis Scha­ef­fer Tril­ogy, even­tu­ally lead­ing me to read How Should We Then Live? I sus­pect I’ll review the for­mer... Read More

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