Slavery in Early Christianity by Jennifer A. Glancy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good book, a wealth of information. Jennifer Glancy is at times hindered in her analysis by assuming too much purported differences between different authors of Scripture, and this gets in the way at times. She doesn’t reason with any expectation …
Review: Piers the Ploughman
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 …