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John Foster and the Integration of Faith and Learning

The “integration of faith and learning” has become a touchstone of many Evangelical Protestant higher education institutions in recent decades. Martin Spence argues that modern Evangelical scholars and teachers have intellectual forbears who long ago raised similar questions about the relationship between faith and learning. The author introduces one such individual, the nineteenth-century British Baptist…
January 15, 2013
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Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

Reviewed by Louis Markos, English, Houston Baptist University C. S. Lewis knew his Aquinas well. Not only was he familiar with Aquinas’s proofs for the existence of God; he was well aware that the Angelic Doctor could only conceive of two possible reasons to doubt God’s existence. In Part I, Question 2, Article 3 of…
January 15, 2013
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Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

Reviewed by Edward C. Polson, Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Messiah College. In Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat examines some of the most significant changes that have occurred in U.S. religious life since the 1950s. He explores the impact that the declining significance of both…
January 15, 2013
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The Image in Mind Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination

Reviewed by David A. Hoekema, Philosophy, Calvin College “In spite of the indispensable use of images in our yearning to make sense of reality, there has not been sufficient attention to the aesthetic in the debate between theism and naturalism” (3). This opening comment conveys the motivation for a wide-ranging and provocative book by a…
January 15, 2013
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Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

Reviewed by Tom Lehman, Economics, Indiana Wesleyan University Imagine a situation in which someone you know to be innocent is wrongly accused of crimes she did not commit, and the prosecution in the case is the actual perpetrator of those crimes. However, the accused innocent is not particularly appealing, is not always cooperative, is easily…
January 15, 2013
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Introducing World Christianity

Reviewed by George F. Pickens, Theology and Mission, Messiah College Even though I have been a student of World Christianity since before that term was widely used, I confess that the idea of reviewing yet another volume which claimed to examine Christianity around the world was not initially appealing. For a myriad of reasons, interest…
January 15, 2013
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Bringing Sex Into Focus: The Quest for Sexual Integrity

Reviewed by Benjamin B. DeVan, Ethics and Theology, Durham University “Of making many books there is no end” (Ecclesiastes 12:12). This aphorism traditionally attributed to King Solomon especially applies to books about sex, which proliferate in print and online faster than the proverbial jackrabbit, and exponentially exceed in number Solomon’s “seven hundred wives of royal…
January 15, 2013