Contributor

Book Reviews

Filed under

Book Reviews

Patrick SchreinerBook Reviews

What the Four Senses of Scripture Are, and What They Are Not

The four senses remind us that Scripture was never meant to be read merely as an ancient text to be analyzed. It is God's Word that reveals Christ, forms disciples, and directs our hope toward the coming kingdom.

Joshua HeavinThe HeronBook ReviewsTheology

The Heron #2: Forthcoming Theology Books

Featuring books from Malcolm Guite, Michael C. Legaspi, Matthew Emerson, and Alexander Pierce amongst others

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Genetics of Vice

Though she has stumbled exactly onto the Christian question, unfortunately, Harden hasn’t given enough credit to the Christian answer.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

All the Way Home

In most books about loneliness, we receive recommendations for restoring institutions and communities. Yet Corbin looks beyond church membership and bowling leagues, to virtuous friendship and primordial experiences.

Thomas D. HowesJames M. PattersonBook Reviews

What Is Old Is the New World Order Again

We do not wish to see postliberal regimes come into being because we wish to see people live full lives both materially and spiritually, something we show that postliberalism cannot offer.

Tessa CarmanBook ReviewsCulture

Does Christian Fiction Exist?

There is only one plot: the Scheme of Redemption. All other plots, if they are any good, are splinters off this basic plot.

Brian AutenBook Reviews

Understanding the Origins of the Dissident Right

Sunshine's 'Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism' clearly establishes that the counterculture of the "long 1960s" is not merely a left-wing or so-called "cultural Marxist" story, but that its appropriation and its impact is also discerned on the political right.

Nadya WilliamsFormationBook ReviewsEducationFamily

Classical Education is for Everyone

Prioritizing an education in the virtues, therefore, is a political exercise of supreme importance for the wellbeing of any state. Classical Christian education today certainly aims to recover this mission—thus the emphasis in the book’s title on “the American Mind.”

Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews

What Type of Christian is J. D. Vance?

Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make him a loving husband and father. 

Bill DavisBook Reviews

Arnold's Car Keys

How do you care for an aging parent whose mental decline has caused significant changes to their sense of judgment?

Book ReviewsRalph Wood

Drastic Unalikes: Flannery O’Connor and Her Mother

A new study of O'Connor is flawed by its inexcusable indifference to matters theological.

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsFamily

Motherhood, Never Done

When the world inflicts injuries on children, mothers feel the hurts too. Motherhood sticks in our faces the incommensurateness of us all, our insufficiency for each other, our desire for others’ good, our causing harm by trying to help.