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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Reviewed by Matthew Hill, History, Liberty University Much ink has been spilled in recent years rediscovering many “forgotten founders” and arguing for a more diversified range of ideas of the founders on church and state issues. Excessive devotion to the likes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison as well…

Reviewed by Michael Buratovich, Biochemistry, Spring Arbor University Stephen C. Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, is one of the most prolific and articulate proponents of the theory of Intelligent Design (ID), which holds that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause…