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The Paradox of Baptists’ Catholic Identity: A Response to Kimlyn J. Bender’s Review of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future

Steven R. Harmon is Visiting Associate Professor of Historical Theology, School of Divinity, Gardner-Webb University. I am grateful to Kimlyn Bender for his perceptive review of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future and to Christian Scholar’s Review for publishing not only such an extensive review of the book, but also my response to it along…
April 15, 2017
Reviews

Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture

From the very public transition of Caitlyn Jenner to Emmy Award-winning shows like Transparent and Oscar-nominated films like The Danish Girl, issues related to transgender have taken center stage in public discourse. For many Christians and Christian institutions, transgender issues pose a dilemma. This dilemma can be illustrated by the breadth of denominational responses to…
April 15, 2017
Reviews

Theology and Economics: A Christian Vision of the Common Good

Reviewed by Kent W. Seibert, Economics and Business, Gordon College What has theology to do with economics? No one doubts the importance of theology or economics, but the pair make for uncomfortable bedfellows. In an important collection of essays stemming from meetings of scholars from the Tyndale Fellowship Ethics and Social Theology Study Group and…
April 15, 2017
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Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision: A Case for Costly Discipleship and Life Together

Reviewed by Stephen L. Woodworth, Bible and Religion, Montreat College In recent years public interest in the person and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has grown exponentially. Due in part to the popularity of Eric Metaxas’s accessible work Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy,Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Nashville, TN: Thomas-Nelson Publishers, 2011). countless individuals…
January 15, 2017
Review Essays

Moral Injury: Narrating Life after War —A Review Essay

Jeremy S. Stirm is a military chaplain and independent scholar and taught most recently as an adjunct instructor for Truett Seminary. He served two tours of duty, one in Afghanistan with Special Forces and one in Iraq as a chaplain. Since the dawn of war, the physical wounds of war have been readily acknowledged, and…
January 15, 2017
Review and Response

Response to Paul Sullins

Paul Sullins raises interesting questions about my critical realist personalism. But his critique reflects some confusions. Let me answer his easier criticisms first. I indeed make no distinction between human soul and spirit, seeing no need for such a difference either theologically or psychologically. I also, in fact, do not theorize religion in the two…
January 15, 2017
Reviews

Fieldwork in Theology: Exploring the Social Context of God’s Work in the World

Reviewed by Joshua R. Sweeden, Theology, George Fox Evangelical Seminary Christian Scharen’s Fieldwork in Theology is a recent addition to Baker Academic’s The Church and Postmodern Culture series. It joins the series, which is largely dominated by perspectives from Radical Orthodoxy and MacIntyrean thought, by offering a clarion call for theological ethnography in ecclesiology. Scharen’s…
January 15, 2017
Reviews

Place, Ecology, and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities

Reviewed by Steven Bouma-Prediger, Religion, Hope College This new book from Michael Northcott is another gem. Author of numerous important works on environmental theology and ethics, such as The Environment and Christian Ethics and A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming,Michael Northcott, The Environment and Christian Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Michael…
January 15, 2017