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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…

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…

Reviewed by Steven D. Mason, Old Testament Studies, LeTourneau University There may be no more important component to the future credibility of Christian higher education than the ability of scholars and educators to offer an authentic account of modern science alongside a true commitment to scripture and traditional Christian theology. While the enterprise we call…

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…

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…