||Book Summary|| Ten short studies on Christian identity
Category Archive: Book Summaries
||Book Summary|| A survey of how early Christianity was distinctive from the religions of the Roman Empire
||Book Summary|| This book highlights the fundamental features of the nature of the church—a family, on a mission, in a place, together—and challenges all Christians to ensure that these things are clearly built into the way we spend our time together
||Book Summary|| A history of how it is that western culture has come to accept and defend the idea of a man trapped in a woman’s body, and the role of the church in such a context.
||Book Summary|| This book is a work historical fiction. It purports to be a collection of ancient letters recently discovered, translated and published for the reading public. Through this fictional collection of letters, a story emerges which provides an imaginative reconstruction of church and daily life for people of the NT era as well as the impact that can be made by the story of Jesus.
||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.
||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 a 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.
Chris Northcott 