Another small and readable book in the Moody Classics series is this study on the Vine and Branches from John 15 by Andrew Murray. I would not shy away from Murray because of his early (1828-1917) holiness background. This study is rich in the kind of self-examination that believers today shy away from due to […]
You are browsing archives for
Archives: Book Reviews
Aletheia Baptist Ministries Book Reviews
The Discarded Image
This was Lewis’ last book, a printing of his lectures on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It is a fascinating account (the “Discarded Image”) of the Medieval world view of theology and belief. Their view of the world was “a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe.” From the Unmoved Mover, to the Four Temperments […]
The Weigh Down Diet
This is one of those books that becomes popular because people like dieting, not because they like to be biblical. Pastors need to read this book before they invite the program into the church! Actually, the diet is fine, if she would just leave the Bible out of it. Shamblin denies the Trinity, and while […]
The Fourth Turning
This is not a Christian book (it is published by Broadway, 1997) but neither is it a non-Christian book. The authors trace 500 years of Western history in generations of 80-90 years. Within each generation there are four “turnings.” It is their proposition that our history has run in repeated and predictable cycles both by […]
Measuring the Music
I met John this month at Central Seminary in Minneapolis. He teaches in the area of Old Testament and Semitic Languages. That background prepares his thinking to enter this controversial area of the CCM musical debate. He answers the most recent defenses of CCM in a detailed way that is greatly appreciated. For example, John […]
Character Counts
I have enjoyed the books I have read by Os Guinness. In this one, he is merely the editor and introduces four biographers who write on George Washington, William Wilberforce, Abraham Lincoln and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The four biographies are divided among about 150 pages. I enjoyed the book for two reasons: You get a quick […]
The Imitation of Christ
I have been recommending the Moody Classics, a series of smaller paperback books which are reprints of great writers. This is by the Dutch writer (1380-1471) Thomas of the city of Kempen near Cologne. His journey is one of self-reflection and denial—a subject which may be of distaste today. But these things ought not to be […]
The Restitution of Man
It was actually the sub-title that caught my eye: C.S. Lewis and the case against scientism. The author traces Lewis’ fight (as well as other theistic defenders) against the cold, scientific approach of the last two hundred years. One example is the comparison between scientia (as homo sciens man is only a knower of facts) […]
From Modernism to Postmodernism
This large book (over 700 pages) is called “an anthology” because it contains 42 articles by various authors from Modern through Postmodern times. If you would like to read actual postmodern writers (and not just those who write about them) but don’t have time to wade through their individual books, this is a great place […]
Blinded By Might
Here is an interesting look back at the Moral Majority days in which both of these men were involved. With no malice toward those in charge, it is their opinion that direct involvement in politics by Evangelicals and Fundamentalists basically failed. For all of the work for more than a decade, that work was overturned […]