Fred Van Geest

Awaiting the King is the third installment in James K. A. Smith’s Cultural Liturgies series. In this book, as in the previous two, Smith impresses upon the reader the importance of liturgies, or rituals and practices, that form and shape us. Smith is clear in explaining how the liturgies of the church compete with the…

Reviewed by Fred Van Geest, Political Science, Bethel University The essays in Christian Political Witness were presented at the 2013 Wheaton Theology Conference at Wheaton College in Illinois. Of the twelve contributors, eleven have a background in theology and one is an historian (Mark Noll). Not surprisingly, the essays are largely theological in nature and…