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Reviewed by Philip D. Byers, Graduate Student in History, Washington University in St. Louis For the latter half of the twentieth century, the ubiquity of the word “evangelical” in common parlance bore little correlation to the degree to which social commentators and water-cooler politicos actually understood the movement. Thankfully, diligent work by a generation of…

Reviewed by Jessica Hooten Wilson, English, John Brown University The human species is being threatened by a visible but unacknowledged enemy, which is not – as has been depicted so well by recent apocalyptic films – a contagious virus, a natural disaster, a mischievous Norse god, nor a potential nuclear war. The enemy is far…

Reviewed by Jillian Lederhouse, Education, Wheaton College Former Teach for America vice president of faith community relations and current founder of The Expectations Project, Nicole Baker Fulgham writes how her TFA experience and Christian faith have influenced her to advocate for education reform through a national platform. Although educational inequity has been a long-standing concern…

Reviewed by Jonathan Huggins, Chaplain, Berry College; Research Associate, Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Stellenbosch University Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat, by James D. Bratt, is a sizable and serious work of biographical scholarship. It is part of the Library of Religious Biography series, edited by Mark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch, and Allen C.…

Reviewed by Carol Sue Humphrey, History, Oklahoma Baptist University In Sarah Osborn’s World, Catherine Brekus presents readers with an excellent biography of an influential woman who is not often discussed in history books. Using Osborn’s memoir and letters, Brekus provides a good understanding of Osborn and the world in which she lived. Brekus also uses…

Reviewed by Stephen M. King, Political Science, Taylor University, and Michelle L. King, Student, John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University A new release by Joshua Hordern, University Lecturer in Christian Ethics at Oxford, titled Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology, is a significant addition to our conceptual understanding of the nature and role…

Reviewed by Rachel Pietka, English, Baylor University Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces takes its place among other similar projects that have been published in the last few years: Finding a Common Thread: Understanding Great Texts from Homer to O’Connor (2013), Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction (2013), Between Truth…

Reviewed by Gregory S. MaGee, Biblical Studies, Taylor University Is it possible that Reformation-inspired interpretations of Paul’s theology have diverted attention away from Paul’s interest in visual piety?This question may sound familiar to those who have followed discussions about the so-called New Perspective on Paul in recent decades. Advocates of the New Perspective on Paul…