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God, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul Behaving Badly—A Review Essay

In his Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, the eighteenth-century founder of Methodism, John Wesley, strove for biblical commentary that penetrated deeply yet remained concise and clear. Discontent with mere intellectual insights, Wesley yearned to assist the “learned and unlearned” to understand better God’s ways so that they would progress in joy and character development…
Benjamin B. DeVan
January 15, 2018
Extended Review

From Bubble to Bridge —An Extended Review

Lauren Anders Visser teaches in the Communication Arts department at Trinity Christian College and serves co-pastor of Jacob’s Well Church Community in Evergreen Park, IL. In the foreword to From Bubble to Bridge: Educating Christians for a Multifaith World, Eboo Patel references an increasing diversity and tension in society, and he states, “All of us…
November 15, 2017
Extended Review

Making All Things New —An Extended Review

Adam Perez and Glenn Stallsmith are Th.D. students in liturgical studies at Duke Divinity School. One of us (Stallsmith) had a high school chemistry teacher who displayed a bumper sticker in her classroom: “What in the world ISN’T chemistry?” Benjamin L. Gladd and Matthew S. Harmon would like pastors to ask a similar question when…
November 15, 2017
Reflection

Toward a More Biblical (and Pneumatological) Model for Integration, Teaching, and Scholarship

R. Scott Smith is Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics at Biola University. In 2013, Amos Yong surveyed the status of evangelical higher education, in part with a focus on integration.Amos Yong, “Whence and Whither in Evangelical Higher Education? Dispatches from a Shifting Frontier—A Review Essay” Christian Scholar’s Review 42.2 (2013): 179–192 . As he…
November 15, 2017
Article

Christian Perspectives on Learning

David A. Hoekema is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. George Marsden was a professor of History at Calvin College (1965–1986), Duke Divinity School (1986–1992), and The University of Notre Dame (1992–2008). His publications include The Soul of the American University (1994) and Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003), winner of the Bancroft Prize. Richard Mouw…
George MarsdenRichard MouwNicholas WolterstorffAlvin Plantinga
November 15, 2017
Review Essays

Perspectives on Racial Segregation in Chicago—A Review Essay

Mackenzi Huyser serves as Executive Director of Chicago Semester. What is the Cost of Segregation in Chicago? This question was explored in a March 2017 report released by the Urban Institute in partnership with the Metropolitan Planning Council.Gregory Acs, Rolf Pendall, Mark Treskon, Amy Khare, “The Cost of Segregation: National Trends and the Case of…
November 15, 2017