Lee Harmon has reviewed What’s in a Version? at The Dubious Disciple. Choice quote: I found this book to be a practical and friendly guide, describing how translations are made, so we readers are better able to understand the arguments for or against various versions. Numerous examples manage to turn what I thought would be…
Michael Gorman, Professor of Sacred Scripture and Dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, reviews and strongly recommends The Politics of Witness, the latest volume in the Areopagus Critical Christian Issues series. His comment: It’s published by a small press but will, I hope, get some…
Elgin Hushbeck has reviewed Rite of Passage for the Home and Church. Here’s a sample: Thus Brown argues for a revolutionary course of action, but one that should be music to every believer’s ears: That we treat our teenagers following the biblical pattern. Most of the book is aimed at defending this view and then…
… and a very thorough review it is!
Lee Harmon says in his blog: …the nineteenth century introduced a way of thinking about historical studies which we call the historical method, which, if followed rigorously, simply cannot address supernatural claims. God is left out in the cold. Nevertheless, Vick gives us license to act as historians, encourages us to embrace today’s scientific age,…
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…
There’s a nice, and exceptionally readable, review of Why Four Gospels? at A Living Sacrifice. I don’t usually comment on our blog reviewers, because bloggers must be free to review as they see fit, but in this case I make an exception. I’m not talking about the review being positive (which it is), but about…
Extract: John Piper is the foremost evangelical catalyst for world missions, and Philip Hopkins is the foremost interpreter of Piper’s theology of missions. The convergence of these two facts makes Hopkins’ recent book, God’s Desire for the Nations: The Missionary Theology of John Piper (Gonzalez, FL: Energion, 2010) significant for pastors, missionaries, professors, and students…
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…
