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The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose

Reviewed By Henry Hyunsuk Kim, Sociology and Anthropology, Wheaton College Most people regardless of their religious affiliations are familiar with aphorisms such as “the giver is more blessed than the receiver” and “it is better to give than to receive.” Perhaps for some persons whether biblical exegesis or eisegesis was employed is a salient issue.…
July 15, 2015
Reviews

Beginning with the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief

Reviewed by Chris Willerton, Language and Literature, Abilene Christian University Lundin’s Beginning with the Word will serve both experienced and less-experienced readers who work at connecting modern literature and theology with modern theories of art, language, and culture. Lundin links theorists like Ferdinand de Saussure, Jean-François Lyotard, and Hans-Georg Gadamer with writers such as Frederick…
July 15, 2015
Article

Remembering Hiroshima: The Construction of Communal Memory

The survivors of the first atomic bomb used in war, which was dropped in Hiroshima, have been telling their survival stories for many decades. Many of them have found that telling their experiences is empowering, as it gives them a purpose to live and allows them to share their knowledge worldwide with people of all…
July 15, 2015
Reflection

Determining the Truth of Abuse in Mission Communities: A Rejoinder and New Agenda

A previous article, “Christian Communities and ‘Recovered Memories’ of Abuse” (CSR 41.4 : 381-400) by Robert J. Priest and Esther E. Cordill, examines the problem of individuals wrongfully found to have committed abuse against minors in a mission context. However, James Evinger and Rich Darr argue the article erroneously describes the methodology of one denomination’s…
July 15, 2015
Review Essays

Whatever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?—A Review Essay

Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University. Introduction Whatever happened to nuclear weapons? Once a regular feature of popular culture and news coverage, they seem to have disappeared. News junkies born before the mid-1970s will easily recall controversies surrounding the novel On the Beach, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film Dr. Strangelove,…
July 15, 2015
Extended Review

Money: The Unauthorized Biography —An Extended Review

John Lunn is Professor of Economics at Hope College. The Extended Review is a new book review feature that on occasion will appear in future CSR issues. It will provide an extended review from a Christian perspective of a scholarly book intended for a wide audience. The thesis of Felix Martin’s book is that money…
July 15, 2015
Article

The Only Way to Win: The Enduring Problem of Nuclear Deterrence

In this essay Daniel R. Allen reviews nuclear deterrence, the most crucial theoretic construct for nuclear weapons policy. A wide range of positions exists with respect to belief in the deterrent utility of nuclear weapons. The positions of deterrence optimists rely entirely on a presumption that human rationality undercuts the motive for nuclear weapon use.…
July 15, 2015
Reviews

In Search of Moral Knowledge: Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy

Reviewed by Dennis L. Sansom, Philosophy, Samford University R. Scott Smith primarily argues that the supposed fact-value split (that is, between scientific truths and religious-ethical truths) is philosophically unfounded because it rests on the mistaken notion that we do not have direct cognitive access to reality. Consequently, the many ethical theories and approaches that presume…
July 15, 2015