Book Reviews
Michaelmas 2009
Alan Jacobs's Original Sin: A Cultural History
Reviewed by Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, Houghton College
Reviewed by D. S. Martin
Paul Westermeyer's Rise, O Church: Reflections on the Church, It's Music, and Empire
Reviewed by Neil Elliott, United Theological Seminary
Trinity 2009
Destruction as Social Creation
A review essay on David Barber's A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed, Carl Oglesby's Ravens in the Storm, and Mark Rudd's Underground.
by Todd C. Ream and Cory M. Sprunger
Easter 2009
Symbol Drain and the "West Wing"
A review essay on Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane and Neil Postman's Technopoly.
by Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Lent 2009
William J. Baker's Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2007.
Reviewed by Alan Bloom
Advent/Christmas 2008
Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Reviewed by Kevin Ostoyich
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson's Liberating Tradition:Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Michaelmas 2008
Robert Jewett. Mission and Menance: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008.
Reviewed by Joe Creech
David F. Ford. Christian Widsom: Desiring God and Learning in Love; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Reviewed by Scott Huelin
Trinity 2008
Mother Theresa. Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta." Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Reviewed by Daniel Boerman
Easter 2008
Brian T. Johnson and Carolyn R. O'Grady, eds. The Spirit of Service: Exploring Faith, Service, and Social Justice in Higher Education. Bolton, Massachusetts: Anker, 2006.
Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Bouman
John Marson Dunaway, ed. Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach: Living Out One's Calling in the Twenty-First Century Academy. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005.
Reviewed by John Fea
Lent 2008
Sam Fentress. Bible Road: Signs of Faith in the American Landscape. Cincinatti: David and Charles, 2007.
Reviewed by Matthew S. Hedstrom
Martin E. Marty. The Mystery of the Child. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream
Advent/Christmas 2007
Mark A. Torgenson. An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
Reviewed by Peter W. Williams
Stanley Hauerwas. The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2007.
Reviewed by Scott Clyburn
Michaelmas 2007
Gilbert Meilaender. The Way that Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
Reviewed by James R. Peters
Arthur Peacocke. All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century. Philip Clayton, ed. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2007.
Reviewed by James F. Moore