Title: Authorisms Author: Paul Dickson Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Release Date: April 22, 2014 Pages: 240 Sorting through the neologisms of such literary greats as Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott and William Shakespeare, this celebration of the English language presents the stories behind hundreds of words and phrases that have …
The Experience of God
Title: The Experience of God Author: David Bentley Hart Genre: Religion Publisher: Yale University Press Release Date: September 24, 2013 Pages: 376 Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion—God—frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In …
A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
Title: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons Author: John A. Broadus Genre: Religion Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: September 26, 1979 Pages: 368 Fully revised edition of the classic guide to the art of homiletics incorporates recent helpful developments in the field. Very fine book. I didn’t read this edition, but rather a very …
Preaching & Teaching With Imagination
Title: Preaching and Teaching with Imagination Author: Warren W. Wiersbe Genre: Religion Publisher: Baker Books Release Date: February 1, 1997 Pages: 400 No more dreary three-point sermon outlines! Wiersbe coaches preachers to creatively proclaim the living Word--so hearers experience God's truth changing their lives. This was a good book, with a lot of good points, …
Hard Green
Title: Hard Green Author: Peter Huber Genre: Nature Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 1999 Pages: 224 A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance. Peter Huber demonstrates that the green movement is mostly brown. The greatest threat to the environment would be your standard …
Lila
Title: Lila Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: October 7, 2014 Pages: 272 Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview. Wonderful description, …
The Dawning of Indestructible Joy
Title: The Dawning of Indestructible Joy Author: John Piper Genre: Religion Publisher: Crossway Books Release Date: August 31, 2014 Pages: 94 This book of 25 devotionals from John Piper helps readers refocus and meditate on the one thing that makes the Christmas season worth celebrating: the birth of Jesus, Israel's long-awaited Messiah. Nancy and I …
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems Author: William Butler Yeats Genre: Poetry Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: June 15, 2010 Pages: 576 The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the …
God the Poet
Title: God the Poet Author: Jeffrey Jay Niehaus Genre: God in literature Release Date: April 1, 2014 Pages: 159 In readable and nonscholarly fashion, Niehaus, who is both a theologian and poet, provides a theological and literary analysis of the epic poems of Dante (Divine Comedy), Milton (Paradise Lost), Cowper (The Task), and Wordsworth. Niehaus …
All Art Is Propaganda
Title: All Art Is Propaganda Author: George Orwell Genre: Literary Collections Release Date: 2009 Pages: 374 Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of 1984 includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books." This was …