A Forum for Scholarship and Discussion
Posted in Book Previews, Books, Philosophy on May 18th, 2012
I enjoy pointing out titles that may have otherwise gone unnoticed. A while back I pointed out a book from Eerdmans called Ordering Love: The Memory of God in Liberal Societies which explored the ontological ground of reality as love and then demonstrated how modern culture marginalizes this relationship. Today, I am drawing your attention to [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Philosophy, Theology on Dec 23rd, 2011
As many of you are no doubt aware, Craig Keener is one of the most prolific, dedicated, and exemplary NT scholars of our time. His most recent book, Miracles: The Reliability of the New Testament Accounts, 2 Vols, is somewhat of a departure from Keener’s normal focus and shows the ways in which we can [...]
Posted in Interview, Philosophy, Politics/Political Theory on Sep 12th, 2011
I have been reading Nicholas Wolterstorff since my earliest days as a graduate student. I was first exposed to him after reading Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason through the discovery his little book Reason within the Bounds of Religion (Eerdmans: 1984), a book that addresses many of the same epistemological questions as Kant and whose [...]
Posted in Interview, Philosophy, Theology on Aug 29th, 2011
Eerdmans Publishing Company has been for the last 100 years a staple and leader in religious publishing. 2011 marks the company’s anniversary and here at Christianbook.com we not only want to congratulate Eerdmans on their outstanding record of publishing, but want to discuss some of their recent titles. Beginning today and running through the 24th [...]
Posted in Book Previews, Books, Philosophy on Mar 29th, 2011
Most Christians are quite familiar with evidentialist apologetics. “Apologetics”, as the evidentialist type of apologetics is commonly taken to refer to, is extremely appealing to and actively practiced by the vast majority of lay Christians. It is the type of apologetics presented in about 95% of all books published in the genre (McDowell, Strobel, etc., [...]
Posted in Ethics, Hermeneutics, Philosophy, Science, Systematic Theology, Theology on Nov 15th, 2010
If theology is to continue to have a voice in our academic and cultural dialogue, it must learn to engage and dialogue with other scientific disciplines. In the latter half of the 20th Century a number of theologians came to realize this reality, and began building bridges between disciplines such as Science, Sociology, Psychology, and [...]
Posted in History, Philosophy, Theology on Oct 22nd, 2010
I often wonder if Karl Barth would have found images like this one humorous. To me, pictures of Barth seem to indicate a genuine warmth coupled with a likeable playfulness and energy uncommon to many would call themselves theologians. Nevertheless, many pictures of Barth also convey a rugged fiestyness that plainly indicates what his writing [...]
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, Science, Systematic Theology, Theology on Oct 19th, 2010
Jonathan Warren, a friend of mine, and an outstanding young theologian from Vanderbilt University, has written a clear, critical, and very useful review of Thomas Oord’s latest book, Defining Love. I would like to thank Jonathan for his efforts here, and hope that you will find this review as helpful as I have. Defining Love: [...]
Posted in Pentecostalism, Philosophy, Politics/Political Theory, Systematic Theology, Theology on Oct 15th, 2010
In part one of our series on Eerdmans’ Pentecostal Manifestos, I provided a detailed outline of Jamie Smith’s Speaking in Tongues. Today, I will outline the remaining two volumes in the series, and also draw attention to a Amos Yong’s new book In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology. But before diving in, [...]
Posted in Creation, Philosophy, Science, Theology on Sep 20th, 2010
Most of the time when I pick up a book that seeks to provide an “apologetic” I can be fairly certain that what I am about to read will be highly polemical, negative, and often times, tends towards state its case by making propositional and negative statements about other views. This is not a critique [...]