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.
Bob Cornwall reviews The River of Life, a recent release. While not agreeing entirely with the author, Bob appreciates the call for dialogue leading, we hope, to less division. He concludes: The world is fragmented – as noted by my own denomination (we call ourselves a “movement of wholeness in a fragmented world”). If the…
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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…
