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Preface

Notes from the Editor

Since assuming the general editorship of the Christian Scholar’s Review in 1999, I have been blessed to work with dozens of wonderful associate editors, scores of expert reviewers, Kim McMurtry, our formatter, and Elaine Friedberg, our copy editor. I have especially enjoyed working with David Hoekema, our publisher, Jerry Pattengale, our associate publisher, and Todd…
October 15, 2014
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Irrigating Deserts: Thinking with C. S. Lewis about Educating for Emotional Formation

Many liberal arts colleges express a commitment to educate the whole person; yet, educating for emotional formation rarely receives explicit attention. In The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis argues that proper moral education essentially involves emotional formation informed by an understanding of emotions as recognitions of objective values that function together with reason to yield…
October 15, 2014
Reviews

Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry

Reviewed by Stephen L. Woodworth, Spiritual Formation, Toccoa Falls College In the past decade a number of authors have centered their gaze on attempting to understand the spiritual lives of emerging adults.Most notable are the often referenced works produced by Christian Smith, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (New York,…
October 15, 2014
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

Reviewed by Nathan Jones, Doctoral Candidate in Theology and Music, Duke University Divinity School When you see the names “Bach” and “John Eliot Gardiner” together on the cover of a superb work of art, it hardly comes as a surprise. After all, Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors, whose recordings of Bach’s vocal…
October 15, 2014
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Spirit and Beauty: A Reappraisal

Writings in theological discussions of beauty evince certain problematic tendencies with respect to “spirit” language. Whether it is the paucity of such language or an idiosyncratic usage of it, “spirit” language is often evacuated of specifically pneumatological content. In this essay W. David O. Taylor attempts to re-conceptualize the Holy Spirit’s role with respect to…
October 15, 2014
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The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology

Reviewed by Alexander Jech, Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nicholas Wolterstorff’s new book, The Mighty and the Almighty: An Essay in Political Theology, aims to provide an original contribution to the long Western theological tradition of political thought and to show thereby that this tradition remains capable of making original and significant…
July 15, 2014