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Reviewed by Katie Kresser, Department of Art, Seattle Pacific University The title Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art is tantalizing. The subtitle, in particular, makes mental wheels turn. What does T. J. Gorringe mean by the “challenges of art”? Is he suggesting that “art” might be a worthy rival to theology – might…

Review by Jeanne Schindler, Humanities, Villanova University William T. Cavanaugh’s latest book, Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, explores perennial themes of political theology in the context of contemporary political and economic questions. The book consists of essays written between 2004 and 2007 on a variety of subjects,…

Reviewed by Tawa J. Anderson, Philosophy, Oklahoma Baptist University The discipline of contemporary Christian apologetics is rapidly gaining prominence. Earlier works by Cornelius Van Til, E. J. Carnell, John Warwick Montgomery, and Francis Schaeffer strongly influenced a new generation of Christian philosophers and apologetics.See, for example, Cornelius Van Til, Christian Apologetics (Phillipsburg, NJ: P &…

Reviewed by Jessica L. Rimmer, Student Life, Mid-America Christian University In Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Lauren Winner relates her own efforts and doubts during a faith struggle. The work is a personal account about what happens when a Christian leader faces the difficult choice of devotion to God and His scriptural ideals and…

Alan Wolfe once made the observation that among religious traditions, the intellectual standing of evangelicalism “ranks dead last.”Alan Wolfe, “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind,” Atlantic Monthly, October 2000, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/10/wolfe.htm, accessed March 1, 2012. In a somewhat bereaved tone, Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson contest the very nature of what stands for credible thinking among…

In my beginning years in Christian higher education, I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Eaton, current president of Seattle Pacific University (SPU). His desire to shape more fully and deeply the lives of college students directed our conversation. He recounted the strategies his institution was pursuing to prompt students to reflect on their lives…

In my beginning years in Christian higher education, I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Eaton, current president of Seattle Pacific University (SPU). His desire to shape more fully and deeply the lives of college students directed our conversation. He recounted the strategies his institution was pursuing to prompt students to reflect on their lives…

Transhumanism is a scientific-philosophical movement that desires to use biotechnological enhancement to bring humanity into a “posthuman” state. According to the movement’s website it “seek to make dreams come true in this world, by relying not on supernatural powers or divine intervention but on rational thinking and empiricism, through continued scientific, technological, economic, and human…

One of my favorite Far Side cartoons shows a young Patrick Henry pounding on the dinner table, exhorting his parents to “Give me the potatoes, or give me death!” The cartoon works because we so readily associate Henry’s name with his stirring speech on the eve of the American Revolution. Unfortunately, Henry’s call for “liberty…