… and a very thorough review it is!
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…
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…
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…
Brian LePort has a review of Herold Weiss’s book Creation in Scripture. It’s a nice review along with a summary of the contents. LePort is quite correct in noting that this is not an academic book. That’s not it’s purpose. In fact, it’s purpose is precisely what he recommends it for: Overall it was a…
John Byron wonders, prompted by an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both articles refer specifically to scholarly book reviews, but book reviews by bloggers can have the same problems. I like to see some analysis in a review, along with some direction. Where might this study have done better? Where might it have…
