||Book Summary|| Johnson’s book tells the story of evangelicalism’s shift from a paradigm of “care” to one of “cure”, and the failure and damage caused by the latter.
Category Archive: Book Summaries
||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.
||Book Summary|| Ten short studies on Christian identity
||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.