Richard Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences at Westmont College, Michael Van Dyke is Professor of English at Cornerstone University, Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University, and Mark Yuly is Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Houghton…
Reviewed by Alice L. Laffey, Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross In the past 35 years this reviewer has read many books in the field of biblical studies and many books on the environment. There has been an occasional book that has combined biblical studies and the environmental crisis, but these usually have been…
Alice L. LaffeyJuly 15, 2015
Reviewed by Sean F. Evans, Political Science, Union University In The Good of Politics, James Skillen argues that politics is not a necessary evil in our fallen world but an essential component of our Christian calling and a means to create a more just social order. By promoting a more positive view of politics, Skillen…
Sean F. EvansJuly 15, 2015
Reviewed by Douglas V. Henry, Great Texts Program, Baylor University Imagine that most of the major achievements of the modern age grew out of a fundamentally flawed assumption about human understanding. Suppose that the assumption in question, for all the evident successes built upon it, gave rise to circumstances in which alienation from nature, isolation…
Douglas V. HenryJuly 15, 2015
Steven McMullen notes that in recent years, a number of theologians and philosophers, following John Milbank, have drawn on continental post-modern philosophy to form a critique of capitalism and modern economics. Often called the “Radical Orthodoxy” movement, these scholars argue that the problems with capitalism lie not with its results, but its underlying metaphysics and…
Steven McMullenJuly 15, 2015
Reviewed by Paul R. House, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University Editing a good festschrift is analogous to integrating faith and learning in a university context. Both must balance research and application. They must show deference to the past while holding out hope for the future. Milestones must be duly noted without leaving the impression that…
Paul R. HouseJuly 15, 2015
Christians have been active in philosophy of mathematics in recent years, but Steven D. Boyer and Walter B. Huddell III argue that the classical work of Augustine of Hippo in this field has been largely misunderstood or distorted even by its supposed advocates. This essay corrects that distortion and shows how the traditional Augustinian awareness…
Steven D. Boyer and Walter B. Huddell IIIApril 15, 2015
Reviewed by Todd C. Ream, Higher Education and Student Development, Taylor University and Aaron Morrison, Student Development, Nebraska Wesleyan University Power is not what it used to be. At a point in time we now vaguely remember, a handful of newspapers provided an authoritative look at the affairs of the day. Such details were then…
Todd C. Ream and Aaron MorrisonApril 15, 2015
Reviewed by Robert C. Bishop, Philosophy and History of Science, Wheaton College Shaun Henson’s God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy and Theology should be praised for pursuing science-theology relations from a thoroughly Trinitarian perspective rather than the usual bland, generic monotheism. As Colin Gunton has diagnosed, many problems in Christian engagement with creation and the…
Robert C. BishopApril 15, 2015
Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. Matthew Stewart is upset. It seems there have been many attempts, “most of them misinformed, some shamelessly deceitful,” to deny the “basic fact” that America’s founders embraced a version of deism that…
Mark David HallApril 15, 2015
