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"Mentioning "spirituality" makes the typical conservative Christian think of meditation, saying the Jesus Prayer, and similar practices which sound suspiciously New-Age. But, this new "Dictionary of Christian Spirituality" should ...more"
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"This is an exciting book! I came to it with hardly any background knowledge on who the New Monastics are, and I think that served me well. I see this text as a healthy injection of ancient wisdom into the postmodern church. This book breathes a fr...more"
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"James Payton has produced a remarkable book. He is already cutting the legs out from under many standard Reformed evangelical lecture quotables. I don't know if this book will make many friends for Dr. Payton in the world of conservative Reformdom (o...more"
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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
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| This was an amazing book--amazing in Bauckham's detective work, and amazing in his careful academic spade-work. Because Bauckham is challenging the reigning paradigms of form criticism, he has to build his case step by step, which made for tedious r...more | |
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Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings
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| James Payton has produced a remarkable book. He is already cutting the legs out from under many standard Reformed evangelical lecture quotables. I don't know if this book will make many friends for Dr. Payton in the world of conservative Reformdom (o...more | |
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| Good introduction and overview of a standard Reformed view of the Lord's Supper. Especially refreshing was Phillips' view of the importance of the Supper, and his appreciation of Calvin's theology of communion. | |
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| Good source for a realistic picture of the problem of world hunger, and the possibilities for actually ending it. Although the book is a bit dated now, the fundamental problems have not changed much. I'm not convinced that government should be as i...more | |
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When Homosexuality Hits Home: What to Do When a Loved One Says They're Gay
by Joe Dallas
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| Very helpful resource for talking with loved ones about homosexuality. Joe Dallas is an ex-homosexual himself, and does a good job of dealing honest with the issues. | |
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Has God Spoken?: Memorable Proofs of the Bible's Divine Inspiration
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| Hanegraaf has produced yet another quality apologetic resource. While Hanegraaf is undoubtedly polemical, this comes with the territory of being the "Bible Answer Man." Readers will find a large range of questions addressed, ranging from textual cr...more | |
"Hi, Kelsey:
You can check out a blog I have devoted to this subject: http://weeklycommunion.wordpress.com/ - Weekly Communion Project" |
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| This was simply a fantastic book! It was also quite painful to read, because I've been such a poor parent in numerous ways. One can still "do it all right," and yet get it all wrong. Rachel (our friend from college-days) brings us back to the JOY ...more | |
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Principles of War: Thoughts on Strategic Evangelism
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| Kenneth Wieting's plea for weekly communion had many strengths, and also a few weaknesses. Wieting is a pastor, though I think this book was originally some form of a dissertation. At times, Wieting the pastor seemed at odds with Wieting-writing-a-...more | |
“[O]nly if the form of Christ can be lived out in the community of the church is the confession of the church true; only if Christ can be practiced is Jesus Lord. No matter how often the subsequent history of the church belied this confession, it is this presence within time of an eschatological and dvine peace, really incarnate in the person of Jesus and forever imparted to the body of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, that remains the very essence of the church's evangelical appeal to the world at large, and of the salvation it proclaims. (1-2)”
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
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― Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
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― Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
“For if indeed God became a man, then Truth condescended to became a truth, from whose historical contingency one cannot simply pass to categories of universal rationality; and this means that whatever Christians mean when they speak of truth, it cannot involve simply the dialectical wrestling of abstract principles from intractable facts. (5)”
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
“God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
― David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
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