The title of this book interested me along with the sub-title: How modern thinking about God went wrong. Placher follows the thinking about God from before the modern period to after the modern period. He agrees with the post-modern refutation of new theology, especially in the area (as the title implies) of reducing God’s awe […]
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Spiritual Power
I have enjoyed the Moody Classics series that includes a number of devotional type books from great men of God. These books take us back to a practical level of our Christianity and remind us of priorities such as soul-winning, Bible reading, prayer and sanctification. And no one was better at it than Moody! You […]
Five Views on Apologetics
If you are interested in knowing whether you are Classical, Evidential, Cumulative, Presuppositional or Reformed in your apologetical approach to evangelism, you might try this book. This is one of the Counterpoints series edited by Stanley Gundry. Can you appeal to a lost man’s ability to reason spiritual things? Your answer to that question might […]
Heretics / Orthodoxy
I had read Orthodoxy years ago but had not read the earlier Heretics. This volume also contains a helpful time-line of Chesterton’s life and when he wrote his books. G.K.C. is one of the most quoted British writers and was instrumental in the conversion of C.S. Lewis. He argues for Christianity in the face of […]
The Case for Faith
After having thoroughly enjoyed Stobel’s first book, The Case For Christ, I was eager to tackle this second one. These are apologetically laced with arguments for the validity of the Biblical record. I enjoy the interview style with some great American thinkers. The disappointment in the book is the interview with J.P. Moreland in which […]
The Postmodern Turn
Yet another book by two U. of Texas professors of philosophy. Very informative from a secular point of view. RCS
Preaching to a Dying Nation
As I said in the article, I just met Dr. Hymers and read his book on my way to California. It is a book full of quotes and stats which make for good illustration material. Hymers is concerned about what he calls “decisionism.” That is his word for evangelism aimed at decisions rather than conversion. […]
Unriddling Our Times
I read all the books by Os Guinness that I see. This book is sub-titled “Reflections on the Gathering Cultural Crisis.” It is a trilogy of stories that reflect the words of twentieth century voices that have cried out to our generation to heed the dangers. Reinhold Schneider, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Shirley Jackson are three […]
Positions
The only thing worse than those who evaluate postmodernism is postmodernism itself. Derrida has been the leading postmodern thinker of our time, especially in France and Europe. His “Grammatology” is the foundation for saying that language, written or spoken, never passes on to the reader or listener anything that can be called “fact” because words […]
Postmodernism and Social Inquiry
Twelve sociology and humanity professors from ten major universities contributed to this book. You find this kind of book in the philosophy section at Barnes & Noble. After having read many Christian men write on postmodernism, I am in the process of reading both the original sources and also non-Christians who are evaluating them. There […]