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Reviewed by Daniel R. Miller, History, Calvin College This is a book about voices crying in the wilderness. It describes “progressive evangelicals,” more specifically a small but vocal group of writers and academics and popularizers such as Jim Wallis, James Skillen, Tony Campolo, John Anderson, and others who promoted their ideas in publications such as…

Reviewed by Jonathan Huggins, Chaplain, Berry College Kevin Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. His 2006 book, The Drama of Doctrine, was a well-received articulation of Christian theology that made use of the theatre as a controlling metaphor. That work was written for academic theologians and…

Reviewed by Kelly M. Kapic, Theological Studies, Covenant College How should one react to the following claims? “Jesus was an ingrate” (68); or “‘ingratitude’ is one of Christianity’s great contributions to Western civilization, precisely the contribution Christianity made to the formation of modernity” (225). Such lines, scattered through this volume, may strike the reader as…

Reviewed by Kent Dunnington, Philosophy and Religion, Greenville College The ideas in God and the Multiverse are important for thinking Christians to consider, but this book is written at a high level of specialization and picks up in the middle of a scholarly conversation. The conversation is about whether we have good reasons to think…

Reviewed by Gregory S. MaGee, Biblical Studies, Taylor University Richard Hays, Dean of Duke Divinity School, has a long track record of thinking creatively about the Apostle Paul’s appropriation of the Old Testament in his writings. In his latest book, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness, Hays explores similar tendencies among the…