I am reviewing this 1923 book in our “Old Book Update” for a few reasons. First, it is a classic and every Christian ought to know about it. Machen was one of the Princeton theologians who, along with B. B. Warfield, fought encroaching liberalism in the first part of this century. This book has been […]
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What About Lewis and Chesterton?
This means open war between men, in which everyone is obliged to take sides, either with the dogmatists or with the skeptics, because anyone who imagines he can stay neutral is a skeptic par excellence. This neutrality is the essence of their clique. Anyone who is not against them is their staunch supporter, and that […]
Christian Reflections
I am going to review another book by Lewis because it also has a few chapters that are worth the price of the book. His chapter on culture is interesting because I find that other generations had to answer the same questions as ours. His chapters on ethics and reality speak volumes to our new […]
God’s Work Of Art
In our time most American Christians do not sense the precarious position of the church in their neo-pagan culture. The world is no longer willing to grant its traditional favors to the church. People will not become Christians by simply living within the country and watching television. In America today Christians are once again aliens, […]
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
This is a 1989 book in the Turning Point series put out by Crossway Books. This whole series has been very helpful to me in defining culture and putting it in the proper historical perspective. Myers deals primarily with popular culture as compared to high culture and folk culture. Myers writes, “Popular culture, like the […]
Get Real
How, then, it may be asked, can we either reach or avoid [God]? The avoiding, in many times and places, has proved so difficult that a very large part of the human race failed to achieve it. But in our own time and place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train […]
What’s Wrong with the World
I found another Chesterton book, written in 1910, in the Theology section of our Christian bookstore (that section is the smallest in the store so its not hard to spot things). The title is a good clue to the book’s contents. Written almost a century ago in another country, Chesterton offers unbiased yet entirely relevant […]
God in the Dock
I know that I have reviewed a lot of books by Lewis lately and I admit I enjoy traveling in Lewisiana. You must realize from the start that you are reading a philosopher (a fact you cannot miss) and you will enjoy the journey much better. The fact is, that few contemporary writers both think […]
Christianity That Counts
This was my first book by Groothuis, an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Denver Seminary. He has written three other books, all of which deal with the New Age movement. He writes, “My hope is that these essays and reviews, written over the last ten or so years, will equip the reader to […]
Change And Progress
In regard to culture, theories that hate beauty and order have undermined meaning, value, and conscience. Whether it is popular culture or high culture, they have led to ever stranger sins and more startling obscenities. Each year requires more baroque perversions to provoke society’s jaded capacity for outrage. Cal Thomas Cal Thomas was writing about […]