Category: book reviews
-
The Universe Bends Toward Justice
I recently reviewed The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic by Obery M. Hendricks for The Englewood Review of Books. A couple miles from my home on Chicago’s South Side is the burned out shell of Pilgrim Baptist Church. As impressive as its building was before…
-
5 Favorite Books in 2011
I read a few books in 2011 and, as in past years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), I have somewhat haphazardly chosen five favorites. How about you? What books most impacted how you think and live this year? ——————– The Pastor, Eugene Peterson. In recent years Eugene Peterson has become, entirely through his many books, one…
-
The King Jesus Gospel
Scot McKnight’s latest book, The King Jesus Gospel, has already been sufficiently reviewed and debated in print and online. Of interest to many (and consternation to some) is the definition at the center of the book: “The gospel, I am arguing, is declaring the Story of Israel as resolved in the Story of Jesus.” The…
-
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
In 1995 Mark Noll wrote The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, a book directed towards Christian academics that was, thankfully, read widely beyond academia. The book’s hook came in a phrase often quoted over the past 15 years: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. A…
-
Clouds of Witnesses
My review of Clouds of Witnesses by Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom has been posted on Out of Ur. I’m seated at the front of a university lecture hall with representatives of five other religious traditions. Listening intently to the brief descriptions of our faiths are seventy undergraduate and graduate students, many hailing from other…
David W. Swanson 