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Can We Trust the Gospels?

Reviewed by Clark Bates, Fellow at the Text and Canon Institute, Phoenix Seminary Can We Trust the Gospels? is a concise, compelling and erudite compilation of multiple lines of evidence intended to demonstrate the reliability of the four New Testament Gospels, and ultimately the rationality of the Christian faith. At a brief 140 pages, the…
October 15, 2019
Extended Review

Balm in Gilead—An Extended Review

Michael Vander Weele is Professor of English Emeritus at Trinity Christian College. If you looked up this review, chances are good that you will want to read this collection of essays for yourself—unless you have not read anything by Marilynne Robinson yet, in which case do that first. When I read page 128, part of…
October 15, 2019
Book Review

Music, Theology, and Justice

Music, Theology, and Justice is a thought-provoking collection of case studies which invite the reader to contemplate how, when, and why music and musical practices are used to address the tension we feel between, in the words of contributor Don Saliers, “the world as it is and the world as it ought to be” (197,…
Benita Wolters-Fredlund
July 15, 2019
Extended Review

Anthropocene as Creator, Gaia as Creature

The title of this review essay should challenge Christians as much as Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia challenges nearly everything about modern society. Humanity has created a planet that is reacting very unfavorably toward its makers. Latour’s challenge—or rather, Gaia’s—is first to our belief that we are rational and second that our profound irrationality generates collective…
Randolph Haluza-DeLay
July 15, 2019
Article

“A Set Mind, Blessed by Doubt”: Phenomenologies of Misperception in Frost, Wilbur, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty

This essay interprets poems by Robert Frost and Richard Wilbur alongside illustrative anecdotes from philosophical works by Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The four texts have in common the attention they give to the human misperception of phenomena. Considered together, they make the case that occasional misperception is not a defeater for ordinary human confidence…
William Tate
July 15, 2019
Extended Review

Robert Boyd’s Theology of Religions — An Extended Review

Robert Boyd is a professor at Fresno City College, where he has taught philosophy and theology of religions since 1996. While Boyd has maintained his primary interest in the field of critical reasoning, much of his current research deals with issues connected to the philosophy and theology of religions. He recently published two impressive volumes…
David Thang Moe
July 15, 2019
Article

The Gift of Finitude: Wisdom from Ecclesiastes for a Theology of Education

As Christian educators and their institutions feel increasingly overwhelmed by unprecedented challenges yet champion ideal concepts, Daniel J. Treier highlights the neglect of human finitude in theological approaches to education. He briefly maps out the major approaches and sketches the theological history of finitude before exploring the concept in Ecclesiastes. In light of this biblical…
Daniel J. Treier
July 15, 2019
Book Review

Psychological Science and Christian Faith: Insights and Enrichments from Constructive Dialogue

In Psychological Science and Christian Faith, we have another excellent addition to the literature addressing the relationship of psychology to the Christian faith. Malcolm Jeeves, Emeritus Professor at the University of St. Andrews, and Thomas Ludwig, recently retired professor at Hope College (with one chapter by David G. Myers, also of Hope College), offer an…
Michael DeVries
July 15, 2019