During the late 18th Century the nation of France underwent a time of turmoil which is now known as the French Revolution. Many thinkers of the time gave their support to this revolution; one such thinker was Richard Price. Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is written as a rebuttal to Price, as … Continue reading Book Review: Reflections on the Revolution in France – By Edmund Burke
AJourney in Grace follows the progression of a young pastor as he is confronted with the question "Are You a Calvinist?" Not knowing the answer to the question, he goes out to discover whether or not he is. In his endeavor he is aided by fellow pastors, his friends, his professors and his fiance, as … Continue reading Book Review: A Journey in Grace – By Richard P. Belcher
Author James B. De Young's preface opens with the line "Western civilization has been undergoing as dramatic a shift in its ways of thinking and living as at any point in history." This book is his analysis of that shift. Yet De Young does not merely wish to analyze that shift on its own, but rather as the … Continue reading Book Review: Homosexuality ~ Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature And Law – By James B. DeYoung
In the realm of Christian eschatology there are three primary schools of thought: premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism (with dispensational premillennialism serving as a sort of fourth). In this short pamphlet (at ~56 pgs I hesitate to call it more than that) author Duane Garner makes his case regarding the issue. The argument being presented in … Continue reading Book Review: Why The End Is Not Near – By Duane Garner
In the wake of the Enlightenment it became more and more clear as people began to try and doubt everything that there was to doubt, that eventually one runs into a dilemma, either to doubt their-self away or to posit some first principles, some axiom, some presupposition. We have become more and more self-aware from … Continue reading Book Review: The Universe Next Door – By James W. Sire
Biblical Economics is, just as the title would lead you to believe, an explanation of just what Scripture puts forth as a guide for the economic process. The author notes that the Bible is not an economics textbook, yet the truths set forth therein still have some applicability to that realm of study. As the … Continue reading Book Review: Biblical Economics – By R.C. Sproul Jr.
In the realm of counseling books, Dr. Larry Crabb is quickly becoming a favorite author of mine. This is the second book which I've read by him. I picked it up one evening planning on doing some light reading before bed and ended reading the book through in one sitting, simply because I didn't want … Continue reading Book Review: Hope When You’re Hurting – By Larry Crabb & Dan Allender
My first exposure to Michael Horton came through reading essays of his online. This text counts as the first full book which I read by him, and it came highly recommended. Introducing Covenant Theology is, as the title so aptly puts it, Michael Horton's introductory text to the idea of Covenant Theology. Horton begins his … Continue reading Book Review: Introducing Covenant Theology – By Michael Horton
Christianity & Liberalism is what might be rightly called the pinnacle of the Christian defence for orthodoxy. The landscape in which the book falls into is one of increasing religious Liberalism, a movement which overtook Christianity in the years following the Enlightenment up through the early Twentieth Century (and even into the present) in the … Continue reading Book Review: Christianity & Liberalism – By J. Gresham Machen
The Case for Christianity is one of three books which would later be compiled into C.S. Lewis' classic exposition of the faith, Mere Christianity. On its own, the book is a discourse on morality, specifically the moral argument for God. Two snippets from the text serve well to sum up the argument being made by … Continue reading Book Review: The Case for Christianity – By C.S. Lewis
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