This book, first printed in 1970, was just reprinted in 1994. Rookmaaker was a life-long friend of Francis Schaeffer who also wrote in this area. This is an evaluation of art from the middle ages through the 1960’s. He says, ‘‘My aim in this book is to show the relationship between the great cultural revolution […]
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Vision and Revision
Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart Nought be all else to me, save that Thou art; Thou my best thought, by day or by night; Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Irish hymn, c. 8th century Vance Havner said, ‘‘A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart […]
Can Man Live Without God?
Ravi Zacharias is fast becoming the Josh McDowell of the 90’s. He is in constant demand at the world’s leading educational institutions. This book (his first, A Shattered Visage: the real face of atheism, should also be read) is the result of lectures given at Harvard and Ohio State universities arguing Christianity’s unique answer to […]
Fit Bodies, Fat Minds
Os Guinness is becoming a well-known speaker and writer. He is enjoyable to read and targets today’s Evangelicalism with wit and insight. The sub-title of this book is, ‘‘Why Evangelicals don’t think and what to do about it.’’ If that suggests an air of sarcasm toward evangelical Christianity in general, it should. He says, ‘‘Failing […]
The Abolition of Man
Six Spiritual Classics Rather than apologizing for quoting so much from C.S. Lewis over the past few months I decided to recommend a set of his books (some of which I have reviewed). This last year I decided to read a whole set (plus a biography) and have not at all regretted the project. As […]
State of the Arts
This is the third book I have read by Gene Veith and I have yet to be disappointed. They are always informative and have a unique Christian insight. This book is for the layman in the field of art. It is not until we at least attempt to understand what God intended for art to […]
The Things That Matter Most
I have always appreciated Cal Thomas for being in the main stream media and yet speaking out for his obvious faith in Christ. In this book he even gets Rush Limbaugh to admit the same in the foreword. The slant of this book is unique. As he puts it, ‘‘This is a book that recalls […]
The Vanishing Conscience
This is a well written book on an important subject. Regardless of your view of the author’s previous books, this is a subject on which every Christian should read. MacArthur has little time for the self-help and self-esteem teachings and believes we already think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think and that […]
The Church at the End of the 20th Centur...
I read this 1970 book along with the previous book. I give Schaeffer credit for consistency of conviction over the years. This is more of a historical and cultural study of our generation. Schaeffer calls for a cultural revolution built on truth. ‘‘But we must not align ourselves as though we are in any camp […]
The Great Evangelical Disaster
This 1984 book by Schaeffer is a needed book, especially for the generation to whom he writes. I think that the last ten years would not make the author glad if he were still alive. In ‘84 he called the great evangelical disaster ‘‘the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. […]