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The Church for the World – A Review Essay

Jacob L. Goodson is Professor of Religious Studies, College of William & Mary, and Quinn T. McDowell is a recent graduate of the College of William & Mary with degrees in Religious Studies and Economics. Jennifer McBride’s book The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness draws from the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer…
October 15, 2012
Review Essays

Whence and Whither in Evangelical Higher Education? Dispatches from a Shifting Frontier – A Review Essay

Amos Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Evangelical higher education appears to be a booming business in the twenty-first century. Enrollment and expansion have persisted at much higher rates over the last two decades for schools affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges…
October 15, 2012
Review and Response

Response to Review of The Church for the World

Jennifer M. McBride is Board of Regents Chair in Ethics and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wartburg College. I am grateful for Professor Goodson and Mr. McDowell’s engagement with my book and grateful for the opportunity for conversation in this journal with its roots in evangelical institutions. The driving questions of the book – including…
October 15, 2012
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Recovering the Christian Practice of Dying: A Response to Stanley Hauerwas’ “Finite Care in a World of Infinite Need”

In his 2009 essay, “Finite Care in a World of Infinite Need” (CSR 38.3 : 327-333), Stanley Hauerwas suggests that, given the unlimited health care needs and limited health care resources in the U.S., Christians need to imagine an integrally Christian practice of medicine, which may include refusing potentially life-saving treatments. In this response essay,…
July 15, 2012
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Pietism and Postmodernism: Points of Congeniality

While it would seem that Pietism and Postmodernism share little to no common ground, Roger E. Olson notes that in fact there are several points where they are congenial with each other. Pietism was a movement for church renewal among German Lutherans in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. Its ethos of conversional piety eventually became…
July 15, 2012
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Christian Communities and “Recovered Memories” of Abuse

In the 1980s the idea emerged that psychological problems are often caused by unremembered sexual abuse, and that healing requires retrieval of memory. While much of main-stream psychology later questioned the validity and/or reliability of such memories, many evangelical therapists and ministry leaders have continued to be “carriers” of recovered memory approaches. Using case study…
July 15, 2012
Reviews

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art.

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…
July 15, 2012
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Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith.

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 &…
July 15, 2012