Extended Review

Matthew DeLong is Professor of Mathematics at Taylor University. The transition to modernity was shaped by changes in science, politics, religion, economics, and culture. Such changes were contested, and from them emerged a new way of perceiving the world. As the subtitle to Infinitesimal suggests, Amir Alexander makes the startling assertion that ground zero of…

John Lunn is Professor of Economics at Hope College. The Extended Review is a new book review feature that on occasion will appear in future CSR issues. It will provide an extended review from a Christian perspective of a scholarly book intended for a wide audience. The thesis of Felix Martin’s book is that money…

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. Matthew Stewart is upset. It seems there have been many attempts, “most of them misinformed, some shamelessly deceitful,” to deny the “basic fact” that America’s founders embraced a version of deism that…

Kurt C. Schaefer is Professor of Economics at Calvin College. A young economist working at a new school writes a 696-page book. It is based on fifteen years of research codifying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century probate and tax records. This does not sound like a recipe for commercial success. Yet within a month Capital in the…

Adam Perez graduated from Trinity Christian College in May 2013, and Mark Peters is Professor of Music at Trinity Christian College. Student Review – Adam Perez Liberal Arts for the Christian Life is a collaborative and self-reflective view of the liberal arts from the colleagues of Leland Ryken, distinguished scholar and professor at Wheaton College.…