The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of my favorite works of fiction! J.R.R. Tolkien left us a masterful story that has captured the imagination of yet another generation since its first publication. However, I must disagree with these authors’ premise that one can “find God” therein. Even though the authors carefully avoid calling […]
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Book Genre: Theology - General
Why Us?
This book was written 20 years ago but is still one of the best on the subject, and carries the comfortable and yet scholarly style of its well-known author. Books on the subject of pain or loss in the believer’s life can range from psychological babble to theological rabble. This is a much more balanced […]
I Just Wanted More Land
I met Gary Gilley recently and became acquainted with his writings. He also wrote, This Little Church Went To Market: The church in the age of entertainment. I Just Wanted More Land is a critique of The Prayer Of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson (see my short review on our web site). Gilley is right in […]
The God Who Hears
Reviewed by Don Shrader If ever I teach a class on prayer, this would be my textbook. Of all the books I have read or perused on prayer, this was the most practical. Hunter forthrightly addresses those issues surrounding prayer that all of us have that inhibits our prayers and our prayer time. While his […]
The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus C...
Emmerich became a nun, at the age of 29, in the Convent of Agnetenberg, at Dulmen, Germany. She supposedly received the “favour from the Lord” (8) to receive “stigmas” or wounds in her flesh in order to bleed and suffer “to expiate the sin by suffering” (15) for others, as well as “to feel a […]
Christian Theology
We mostly read dead theologians. Millard Erickson is a contemporary theologian that many are using today because he gives current material on some old doctrines. Long time theology professor at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul (at the completion of his theology) he now is at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. This large volume of over 1200 […]
Why God Enjoys Baseball
A 7/8/02 Christianity Today article Neff is reviewing Richard Mouw’s new book, He Shines In All That’s Fair: Culture and Common Grace. In reference to the book title from the old song Neff writes, “That hymn welcomes all the good things in the world—regardless of their apparent origin. And it stands in contrast to an […]
Why Not Just Be Christians?
This 1964 book is probably more relevant today than when Havner wrote it. Though he would be counted irrelevant today as would many of his contemporaries, he speaks as the voice of a gray hero to us. “A worried airplane passenger asked a calm fellow traveler, ‘Are you a Christian Scientist?’ ‘No,’ was the reply, […]
The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
This book on the Holy Spirit was first written in 1940 and then revised by the author in 1970. I found that most of the major works on the Holy Spirit in the last century referred to Sanders in some way. It is a thorough study of the major areas of pneumatology and also includes […]
Western Atheism
In reviewing my reading lists at the end of the year, I realized I had not reviewed this very helpful book (Prometheus Books, 2000) on a common topic. Thrower is professor of history at the U. of Aberdeen, Scotland. His book is an outline of how the current climate of atheism came about in the […]