Brigham Young John G Turner Harvard, hb, £25.00 Talking With Mormons Richard J Mouw Eerdmans, pb, £7.99 Mormons are one of the fastest growing religious groups in the world. Mitt Romney’s bid for the White House cast light on their beliefs and raised the question of whether they can be described as ‘Christians’, [...]
Intended for Good The Providence of God Melvin Tinker IVP, pb, £8.99 If recession or post-retirement retrenchment means that you can only afford the occasional book, plump for Melvin Tinker’s latest work. You’ll find it a provident investment. The Puritans echoed the experience and belief of many centuries of Jewish and Christian history by saying [...]
Saints, Sacrilege, Sedition Eamon Duffy Bloomsbury, hb, £25.00 Anyone who studied the Tudors for ‘A’ level history in the 1960s as I did and looks at what contemporary historians are saying about the subject will find a sea change has taken place. The old consensus represented by the work of AG Dickens that saw the [...]
Theology in a Social Context Robin Gill Ashgate, pb, £19.99 This is the first of three books in which Robin Gill intends to examine the relationship between sociology and theology, the subject of his first book published nearly 40 years ago and long out of print. Inevitably Gill has to reckon with the work of [...]
Atheism’s New Clothes David H Glass IVP, pb, £16.99 In the ongoing argument between Christians and the New Atheists Christian apologists have one great advantage: they usually have a greater understanding than philosophy than Dawkins and his allies. The New Atheists do not see it this way because they believe they are basing their opposition [...]
Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue Benno van den Toren Continuum, pb, £70.00 At long last apologetics is being recognised as a respectable subject for serious theological study. Given the neglect apologetics has suffered in Western theological colleges, it is not surprising that insights are being sought from the work of missiologists and missionary theologians. Benno [...]
Church Growth in Britain, David Goodhew Ashgate, pb, £17.99; Fresh David Goodhew, Andrew Roberts, Michael Volland SCM, pb, £19.99 The pattern of religious belief and observance in Britain is complex. There is decline but there is also growth. The picture of the inevitable march of secularisation painted by Steve Bruce fails to reflect what has [...]
Every child is different and the books they enjoy vary. Thankfully then, for parents wanting to introduce their children to the Bible, there is a vast amount of choice to suit them. The Beginner’s Bible for Toddlers offers an indestructible, illustrated look at the key stories, in easy language the age group will understand. My [...]
How God Became King, Tom Wright SPCK, pb, £12.99 Has Tom Wright fallen into the same trap he accuses others of falling into? Quite possibly. But if so, he at least deserves congratulations for pointing to the way many Christians have used the New Testament to support one particular interpretation of the life of Jesus. [...]
Love Wins Rob Bell HarperCollins, pb, £8.99 After reading a couple of pages I felt I’d been transported from Kent to America, and was flicking through the TV channels to find something worth watching, and having my ears frequently battered by hot gospelling preachers pounding the pulpit. Rob (his folksy style suggests he’d hate the [...]
