||Book Summary|| “Parenting in the Pew” is a worthwhile book for those who want to help the youngest members of their church community join them as brothers and sisters in the faith.
Category Archive: Book Summaries
||Book Summary|| There will be very few readers who are eager to tackle hefty three volumes bearing the title “History of New Testament Research”.
||Book Summary|| An important new book re-examining the Anglican missionary endeavors to the Maori between 1814-1840.
||Extended Book Summary|| An intellectual history of the sexual revolution that still embroils western societies. It helps to answer questions such as, “Why do we celebrate the tearing down of traditional moral codes?” and “Why has sex education for ever-younger children become so important for social progressives?” and “how is it that the idea of ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ has come to make sense so suddenly to so many and ordinary people?”
||Book Summary|| I am not fan of Brian Tamaki. As an educated Reformed Evangelical it is unsurprising that I would be at odds with a fundamentalist Pentecostal, as many others are for many different reasons. But I think a man with such a high profile and public loathing deserves the dignity of being understood. Having read Peter Lineham’s “Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle”, I came away disagreeing no less with Tamaki’s teaching and practice than I did before, but with significantly more respect for the man. For that reason, I commend the book to fans and critics of Brian Tamaki alike. It need not change your own final assessment, but it allows you to think more intelligently about him.
||Book Summary|| Noted church historian Justo L. Gonzalez does what professional historians usually don’t – he tells a history in order to make a point about the present.
||Book Summary|| Children from families who have immigrated are often said to be caught between two cultures. They belong to their parents’ culture but grow up within another. It can be a tricky tension for them to navigate as they often wish to be faithful to their ‘home culture’ as well as fit in with their adopted culture at school and with their friends.
||Book Summary|| The contest of rights between women and their unborn is one of modern society’s fraught issues for which a Christian ethic that embraces both justice and care is needed. Gorman’s Abortion and the Early Church is an informative and worthwhile read for anyone wishing to survey the sources and contexts for Christianity’s first voices on the subject.
||Book Summary|| A seventh century monastic once wrote: “Time will fail me should I wish to exhibit all the doubts and deliberations… concerning the six days [of creation].” Andrew J. Brown manages to do a large chunk of these in less than three hundred pages.
||Book Summary|| Thompson’s book provides nine introductory tours into the history of interpretation of difficult parts of Bible, and gives directions for those who wish to strike out and explore the interpretive landscape of the past for themselves – and for their church.
Chris Northcott 