Book Review

Oliver O'Donovan. Self, World, and Time: Ethics as Theology, volume 1, An Induction . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. xiii + 138 pp. Oliver O'Donovan, the now-retired doyen of Christian ethics and political theology, has always posed a unique challenge to the would-be-reviewer. The reviewer's task,...

James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation . Cultural Liturgies, vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009, 240pp. $22.99/£12.99 In Desiring the Kingdom , James K. A. Smith sets forth a vision of Christian formation that seeks to challenge preconceived...

David P. Setran and Chris A. Kiesling, Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry . Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2013. v + 280pp. Paperback $21.99. According to Setran and Kiesling, the years between 18 and 30 are "the time when the fabric...

Recovering What Exactly? A Review of Gregory Thornbury's Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry He was the founder of Christianity Today , he wrote The Uneasy Conscience of American Fundamentalism (1947), and whenever you see his six-volume God,...

Thomas Nagel. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 130 pp. Hardcover: $24.95. There are basically three types of modern atheists: soft atheists, hard atheists, and conflicted atheists. Soft...

K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith . Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013, 277pp. $19.99 In his latest work, Covenantal Apologetics , K. Scott Oliphint seeks to recast Cornelius Van Til's presuppositional apologetics as "covenantal apologetics" - a...

Douglas H. Shantz, An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 520 pp. $32.00 "The ideologies and institutions of modernity are...the tangled continuation, development, and extension of late medieval and...

William T. Cavanaugh. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 208 pp. $18.00. Few political theologians over the past fifteen years have been as consistently stimulating or provocative as William T. Cavanaugh. Our author burst onto...

Rowan Williams, The Lion's World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia . Oxford :Oxford University Press, 2012, 168 pp. $16.95/£11.00 (hardcover) When the film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe first hit screens in December of 2005, a gaggle of secular movie critics gleefully pilloried...

Tomás Halík, Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Image, 2012), 223pp. £7.00/$13.00 Indisputably, no theologian in the Czech Republic or Slovakia today is anywhere near as influential as Tomás Halík, Catholic priest and psychotherapist, sociologist and...