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Review of A History of Contemporary Praise and Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church, 2021
Lester Ruth, Lim Swee Hong. A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5409-6753-4 By Christine Longhurst, DWS In A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: … Continue reading
Review of Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in Its Grip, 2023
Partington, Andy. (2023). Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in the Grip, Moody Publishers, Chicago. By Estera Boldut, PsyD What does it mean to be the church in a world where addiction reaches epidemic proportions? How can loved … Continue reading
Review of The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission, 2023
Christopher J.H. Wright, The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. ISBN: 9781540966162. $31.99. By Blayne A. Banting, DMin, PhD The Great Story and the Great Commission is … Continue reading
Review of Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations, 2023
Irving, Justin A., Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. 242 pp. ISBN 9781540964809 By Grant McMillan, MA Justin A. Irving, Professor of Christian Leadership at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and coauthor of Leadership in Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical leadership, Grant McMillan, Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organzations, Justin A Irving, leader's character, leadership priorities, leading with love, organizational culture, organizational leadership of Christian organizations, teams and organizational leadership, wisdom in organizaztional leadership
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Review Essay: A Christian Theology of Science, 2020
Tyson, Paul. A Christian Theology of Science, Baker Academic, 2020. ISBN 9781540965516 By Howard Andersen, PhD Introduction The title, A Christian Theology of Science is, to this reviewer, a very promising undertaking and a serious potential contribution to the entire … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christian Theology of Science, Christian theology and empiricism, Christian theology and nominalism, Christian theology and rationalism, history of science and Christian theology, Howard Andersen, Paul Tyson, theological epistemology, volunteerism and pure matter
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Review Essay: Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Change, 2022
Britt Wray, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis. New York: Morgan James Publishing, 2023. ISBN: 9780735280724 Brian M. Rapske, PhD Britt Wray’s award-winning Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis[1] is written for readers experiencing … Continue reading
Review of Sam D. Kim, A Holy Haunting: Why Faith Isn’t a Leap but a Series of Staggers from One Safe Place to Another, 2023.
Sam D. Kim, A Holy Haunting: Why Faith Isn’t a Leap but a Series of Staggers from One Safe Place to Another. New York: Morgan James Publishing, 2023. ISBN 978-1631959905 By Paul Chamberlain, PhD Why are so many people who … Continue reading
Review of Hiemstra, Rick and Lindsay Callaway, “Significant Church: Understanding the Value of the Small Evangelical Church in Canada,” 2023 (Research Study)
Hiemstra, Rick and Lindsay Callaway. “Significant Church: Understanding the Value of the Small Evangelical Church in Canada,” 2023. (Research Study) By Tim Stewart, MDiv “Is it ok for a church to be small?” Rick Hiemstra and Lindsay Callaway, authors of … Continue reading
Review of Rory Noland, Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered, 2022
Rory Noland. Transforming Worship: Planning and Leading Sunday Services as If Spiritual Formation Mattered. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2022. By Herbert H. Tsang, PEng, PhD, DWS Most Christians who plan and lead worship tend to focus on the expressive dimension, … Continue reading
Review of Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches, 2021
Jones, Peyton. Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2021. 415 pp. ISBN 9780310135883 By Bernard Mukwavi, DMin Peyton Jones, the author of Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches, is a … Continue reading
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Tagged apostles planting churches, art and science of planting churches, Bernard Mukwavi, Church Pantology, church planting missiology, early church church planting, model for church planting, planting churches
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Review of The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services, 2nd. ed., 2021
Constance M. Cherry. The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services. 2nd edition, 2021. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 340 pp. ISBN 978-1-5409-6388-8 By Jay Dyrland, DWS With the rise of the church growth movement … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing worship songs, confession in worship, Constance Cherry, designing worship, Jay Dyrland, planning singing, planning worship, repentance in worship, The Worship Architect
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Review of Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics, 2022
Fredrico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith. Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics. Downers Grove: IVP Press Academic, 2022. 151 pages. By Mark Naylor, DTh Overview … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian hermeneutics, Diaspora hermeneutics, European and uro-American hermeneutics, Latin American hermeneutics, Mark Naylor, non Western approaches to reading the Bible, Reading the Bible Around the World, sub-Sahara Africa hermeneutics, world hermeneutics
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Review of Elias Hofer, Weltanschauung and Apologia: A Study in C.S. Lewis , 2022
Hofer, Elias. Weltanschauung and Apologia: A Study in C.S. Lewis. Wipf and Stock, 2022. ISBN 9781666739527 By Howard G. Andersen, PhD Elias Hofer lives in Victoria, BC, and took an opportunity for early retirement from his financial sector career to pursue … Continue reading
Review of Reading Evangelicals: How Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith, 2021
Sillimon, Daniel, Reading Evangelicals: How Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith. Grand Rapids: Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. ISBN 9780802879356 By Elsie Froment, PhD What tied together the identity of American evangelicalism in the latter half of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian bookstore, cultural evangelical identity, Daniel Sillimon, Elsie Froment Northwest, evangelical identity, evangelical publishing, Oke Love Comes Softly, Peretti This Present Darkness, Tim LaHaye Left Behind, what evangelicals read, Young The Shack
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