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Book Review – Ethics (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer – among others – lecturer at the preacher seminary in Stettin-Finkenwalde. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics, trans. Reinhard Krauss, Charles C. West, and Douglas...

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Book Review (actually, video) Bonhoeffer – Agent of Grace (Gateway Films,...

Deutsch: Wilhelm Rott und Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I am always a little timid about watching movies or videos about real life events. Hollywood can do a lot of things well, and...

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Book Review – You Lost Me (David Kinnaman)

03.365 (02.08.2009) Faith (Photo credit: hannahclark) You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church…and Rethinking Faith by David Kinnaman, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2011. At the outset I must...

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Book Review: “Living the Sermon on the Mount” (Glen H. Stassen)

Many of you have followed my series of articles on the Sermon on the Mount, and several have commented on one or more of the entries. I realize that there are many who would like a more in-depth...

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Book Review –“Just Peacemaking”– (Glen H. Stassen, ed.)

  Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and War (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2008) 234 pages including end notes.   I have not mastered the art of making proficient book...

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Book Review –“The Seven Storey Mountain” (Thomas Merton)

Thomas Merton (Photo credit: jimforest) Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain Fiftieth anniversary edition (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1998), 462 pages. I have a weird library collection....

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Book Review –“The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer” (Edited by Isabel...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer edited and introduced by Isabel Best (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012), 210 pages.   There are so many...

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Book Review –“Hurt 2.0″ (Chap Clark)

Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers by Chap Clark. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011) 202 pages of text with an appendix explaining research methodology, extensive endnotes and...

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Book Review – Soul Searching (Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton)

Cover via Amazon Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) 271 pages of text, with...

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Book Review – One Bible, Many Versions (Dave Brunn)

KJV Bible (Photo credit: knowhimonline) One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal? by Dave Brunn (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013), 193 pages. Ever since I took a class in the...

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Credulity Crisis – Critiquing Christian Themed Entertainment

test (Photo credit: DaveBleasdale) This post is a continuation of my last post. In this installment I will be making a careful examination of the claims of the book and soon to be released movie,...

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Book Review –“Dissident Discipleship” (David Augsburger)

I have not been posting much this summer (and probably will not, except for a stray column now and then). I am working on finishing my dissertation for my Doctor of Ministry program and I am up to my...

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Book Review – Hearing God’s Voice (Tom Olbricht)

Tom Olbricht, Hearing God’s Voice: My Life with Scripture in the Churches of Christ (Abilene: ACU Press,1996). I just finished writing my dissertation for my Doctor of Ministry degree. I learned so...

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Book Review – The Church According to Paul (James W. Thompson)

The Church According to Paul: Rediscovering the Community Conformed to Christ James W. Thompson, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014), 289 pages including bibliography and indices. I’ve noticed that...

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Book Review –“Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker” (Andrew Root)

Andrew Root, Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014) I am a Bonhoefferophile. Happiness to me (if I cannot be fly...

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Book Review – The Juvenilization of American Christianity (Thomas E. Bergler)

The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thoms E. Bergler (Grand Rapids: William E. Eerdmans, 2012) 229 pages and 37 pages of endnotes.  I’m not exactly sure the process that encouraged me to read...

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Book Review – Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ...

As promised, a review of the book that spurred my last post. Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ, Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright, eds., (Nashville: B&H Academic...

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Book Review – Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision (Paul R. House)

Bonhoeffer’s Seminary Vision: A Case for Costly Discipleship and Life Together. Paul R. House (Crossway:Wheaton, Illinois, 2015) 197 pages. One thing that you can say about my book reviews is that I am...

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Not Quite a Full Book Review – The Pastoral Epistles (George W. Knight III)...

I am diving into some long-neglected textual studies, and the book I selected to serve as my first effort is George W. Knight’s The Pastoral Epistles in the New International Greek Testament Commentary...

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Book Review: The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey’s...

The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century: Homer Hailey’s Personal Journey of Faith, David Edwin Harrell, Jr. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000) 388 pages of text with an additional 63...

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