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Reviewed by Holly Catterton Allen, Child and Family Studies, John Brown University Justin Barrett’s basic claim in Born Believers is that due to unique features of the developing human mind, children from a very young age are naturally receptive to the idea that there is at least one god—that is, they are “born believers.” Barrett…

Reviewed by Stephen N. Bretsen, Business and Economics, Wheaton College The cover art on Andrew Skotnicki’s book The Last Judgment: Christian Ethics in a Legal Culture is disconcerting. The simple black and white drawing, called Judge Jesus by Mike Gregg, depicts a hollow-eyed Jesus with a beard and long hair bearing the crown of thorns…

Reviewed by Christine A. Colón, English, Wheaton College Recently, I read a post by a Christian blogger who, in response to harsh criticism, was trying to defend his use of language regarding women’s roles in marriage. He argued that he never meant to victimize women with his words and then tried to defend himself by…

Reviewed by Matthew J. Milliner, Art, Wheaton College What is “theology and art,” this hybrid category of inquiry that has sprung up like bamboo in and across neatly divided academic plots? Should it be categorized as art practice, art history or musicology, philosophy, theology, or something different still? Whatever the answer (and there may not…

Reviewed by Kenneth L. Waters, Sr., Theology, Azusa Pacific University As a phenomenon of the African American church, Afro-Pentecostalism is expressive of an African heritage, a Holiness-liberationist perspective, the pivotal leadership of W. J. Seymour, and the enduring legacy of the Azusa Street Revival. Fourteen scholars come together in an edited volume to explore various…

Reviewed by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Theology, Boston University Harvard philosopher George Santayana once wrote regarding religion: “The vistas it opens and the mysteries it propounds are another world to live in.”George Santayana, The Life of Reason; or, The Phases of Human Progress, vol. 3: Reason in Religion (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906), 6;…

Reviewed by Perry L. Glanzer, Educational Foundations, Baylor University Do not let the title of this book fool you. Mike Higton, Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, and Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter, has not written this book for scholars working in Christian colleges and universities. Instead, he penned his…

Reviewed by Karen S. Buchanan, Academic Affairs, George Fox University In Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, David S. Dockery, President of Union University, and his twenty-four co-essayists explore the “place of Christian faith” on the university campus. Dockery asserts that the “calling of Christian higher education is to “reflect the life…