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Creating God in the Image of Man?

Geisler, now the President of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC, makes a current (1997) critique of “neotheism,” the open view of God espoused by Clark Pinnock and others, and “panentheism” or “process theology,” the view that God is actually changing as He gains knowledge of how the world is unfolding. “This book warns of […]

The Openness of God

This is one of a number of books in which Clark Pinnock is involved in questioning orthodox Christianity. His denial of hell as a literal place of torment is well known. In this book (first printed in 1994 by IVP) Pinnock and others (Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, David Basinger) challenge the “traditional” view […]

Christianity and Culture

My mother, a former public high school English teacher, had this book on a shelf since she retired. The last time I was home I decided to put it back into circulation. It was well worth it! I have not read Eliot with any consistency but found him to be one of those sagacious, forward-looking […]

Dismissing God

Lockerbie is a British author and literary critic. In this book he shows how the British and American authors over the last two hundred years have dismissed God from the accepted literary circles. It is interesting to read how people such as Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others ended their search for […]

I Believe: Exploring the Apostle’s Creed

Alister McGrath is an Anglican who writes often on Reformation theology and related issues. This is a small book that reads like a primer on the Christian faith using the Apostle’s Creed as an outline. It is loaded with good illustrations about basic doctrines as well as simple explanations of the meaning of biblical words […]

Experiencing God

This is one of those books, because of its popularity, you have to read in order to answer the questions and comments about it.  Experiencing God is now a seminar course, a tape series, a workbook and even a study Bible.  My comments are in a positive and negative form. Positively.  Blackaby (the primary spokesman) […]

No Place For Truth

I had to order this book from Barnes & Noble after reading references to it in many books on culture and postmodernism.  It is a 1993 book by Wells (theology professor at Gordon-Conwell) subtitled “Or Whatever Happened To Evangelical Theology?”  Through historical perspective Wells displays the breakdown of interest in theology as truth.  Today we […]

The Christian Mind

This book was recommended to me by my friend, Dr. Myron Houghton and I was very glad that it was.  It is subtitled “How Should A Christian Think?”  Blamires’ proposition is that “there is no longer a Christian mind.”  Though he speaks of this generally, he is saying that Christians today (written in 1963) really […]

The Trivialization of God

At the beginning I thought I was going to really enjoy this book.  McCullough, President and Professor of Theology and Preaching at San Francisco Theological Seminary, has some very good points describing how we reduce God to fit within our own structured arena.  His sections on “loss of awe,” “rampant individualism,” and “God-Centered Worship,” among […]

Jacob’s Dozen

Will Varner is a well-known name in Israelite and prophetic studies.  This is a ‘87 book which does two valuable things.  Varner does a study on each of the twelve tribes of Israel according to Jacob’s blessing on each of them.  This would make a wonderful character study.  Also, Varner traces the present and future […]