I’d like to take this opportunity to recommend a book that I am more than halfway through. The book is The Last Disciple, written by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer, and is an fictional preterist counterpart to the enormously popular (and futurist) Left Behind series. The novel is set in the years of the Neronian …
Cobelligerents
I am currently reading The Next Reformation, by Carl Raschke. The subtitle not only gives away the store, but also the point — “Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity.” The proliferation of books like this help to highlight why I am interested in attacking postmodernism, and all its demon spawn, while howling in the grip of …
No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It’s Still Baloney
I am working my way through a new book, and I cannot wait until I am done before recommending it. Entitled Reclaiming the Center, this book does a number on all the postmodern hooey that is afflicting contemporary evangelical types. The subtitle is “Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times.” The hooey is decked out in …
Feminist Misogyny
I just recently finished reading Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven Rhoads. Certain irritating features of the book have to be discounted, like his ongoing evolutionary assumptions, but in the main the book is a dispassionate and careful look at what everybody in the history of the world has always known, until the feminists of …
The Inescapable Trinity
Just finished Ralph Smith’s new book called Trinity and Reality. The subtitle says that it is an introduction to the Christian faith, which is quite true. But if I were trying to figure out what shelf to put it on, it would probably land on the “Christian worldview” shelf. And quite a cottage industry along …
Sweet Purple Doctrine
The Poems of Rowan Williams (Eerdmans, 2002, 111 pp. Rowan Williams is the current Archbishop of Canterbury. This is the second book of his I have read, and the first that I have finished. The first book, his treatment of the heretic Arius, was scholarly and well-written, but it lost me somewhere and I ditched. …
Common Law Wives and Concubines
Just finished reading an outstanding book by Stephen Perks, a British theologian and writer. The book is entitled Common Law Wives and Concubines, and is a collection of essays by Perks on a number of issues relating to covenantal Christianity and the current state of Western culture. It is really a worthwhile read. A couple …