We have an active blogger review program here at Energion, so we like to post something about book reviews from time to time. Today’s note comes from the blog Ancient Hebrew Grammar, and discusses the importance of reviewing books on their own terms.
We really have not had a problem with this in our review program, but there are certainly enough examples of reviewers ignoring the intended audience of a book in printed reviews.
Blogger review copies are free books that you get in exchange for providing an honest review. There are only two requirements: 1) You do review the book and 2) You include a note that you received a free copy from us. You can request a copy by e-mailing pubs@energion.com. Please include a link to your…
Author Joel Watts offers an insightful review of Dr Robert Cornwall’s book, Worshiping with Charles Darwin on his blogsite, Unsettled Christianity. This is a pastoral account, almost like an autobiography, of bringing forth God’s message out of the two books, Scripture and Nature. As one who has read Cornwall considerably, I am neither surprised nor let down at…
I hope that the Energion Publications book review program, while obviously designed to help publicize our books, generates discussion on blogs regarding issues that are important to Christianity. We not only don’t have any requirement that you produce favorable reviews, we hope that people will accept books that they expect to disagree with and provide…
Dr Bob Cornwall posted on Goodreads his review of Dr David Cartwright‘s new book, Wounded by Faith, Healed by Love: As any preacher knows, Jesus’ teachings can be quite challenging. They often call us to consider matters we would rather ignore. They challenge what “common sense” would deem appropriate. The Gospels can be manipulated in all…
Eric Carpenter reviewed Dave Black’s latest, Seven Marks of a New Testament Church. The reality in the USA these days is that churches are all over the place in how they function. There’s what amounts to an idea that “anything goes.” This idea has led to the church in America being in a heap of…
