book reviews

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The...

Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...

Esther D. Reed, Theology for International Law . London and New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013. 350pp. $26.99/£19.99 The big issue which this book addresses is: what does theology have to say to those who argue that international relations are nothing more than the realm of Realpolitik? Reed...

Esther D. Reed, Theology for International Law . London and New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013. 350pp. $26.99/£19.99 The big issue which this book addresses is: what does theology have to say to those who argue that international relations are nothing more than the realm of Realpolitik? Reed...

Annette G. Aubert. The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology . New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 402 pp. $74.00. In this volume, a revision of her doctoral dissertation at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), Annette Aubert aims to recover the central influence...