Piers the Ploughman by William Langland My rating: 4 of 5 stars Fascinating glimpse of a very different mental world. I was particularly struck by this very medieval assumption that the Antichrist was going to form in the papacy. View all my reviews
Review: The Kingdom of Speech
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe My rating: 4 of 5 stars A great entertaining read. Wolfe gets off some magnificent and irreverent lines, aimed at the neo-Darwinian hand-wavers. Moreover, he is largely invulnerable to any counter attack from them because the one place he does his own hand-waving is a place where none …
Book of the Month/September 2016
This is a very encouraging little book, pointing to two words that function as the hinge of all gospel living. There is a problem, a dilemma, a crisis, a trouble, and God’s people are up against it. This happens time and again in the Scriptures. And the next two words are but God . . …
Review: The Visionary Christian
The Visionary Christian by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Selections from the works of C.S. Lewis. Nancy and I read this together, and it was quite good. View all my reviews
Review: Advise and Consent
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this book one other time, many decades ago, probably in high school or when I was in the Navy. All I remembered about it was that I had read it once, and that it was a political novel about a Senate …
Review: Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches
Eutaxia, Or, the Presbyterian Liturgies : Historical Sketches by Baird My rating: 4 of 5 stars A helpful compendium of historical Reformed liturgies, and their genealogical connections. The author Baird, given the nature of his subject, is not exactly a barrel of laughs, but he does have a little bit of fun with the high …
Review: The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1
The Works Of Thomas Reid: Volume 1 by Thomas Reid My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really informative. Reid was the road not taken, and subsequent centuries paid a heavy price for it. The founder of the sturdy Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Reid attempted to transplant plain sense into the vagaries of philosophy. Unfortunately, the …
Review: The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth
The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth by R.A. Torrey My rating: 4 of 5 stars In the early part of the twentieth century a controversy in the church erupted between the modernists and the fundamentalists. The fundamentalists got their name from the fact that they published an enormous number of booklets defending “the fundamentals,” …
History and Meaning/Eighth Decade of Psalms: Psalm 78
Introduction: In this psalm of covenantal remembrance, Asaph gives us inspired commentary on the history of Israel, from the Exodus down to the time of David. It is largely a story of God and man contending, God with blessing and man with sinning. It is also a history full of lessons and dark meanings for …
Review: Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems by Robert Wrigley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Decent stuff. Some good images here. View all my reviews