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The Terrible Speed of Mercy

Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O’Connor’s hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of…

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Contesting Catholicity

Curtis W. Freeman. Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2014, 466 pp. $49.95. Curtis Freeman claims to be an “Other Baptist.”  In his new book, Contesting Catholicity, Freeman seeks to fill out the theological content of…

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Synopsis Purioris Theologiae

Synopsis Purioris Theologiae, Latin Text and English Translation, Volume 1/Disputations 1-23 edited by Dolf te Velde, et al. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xv + 659. $154.00 The Synopsis Purioris Theologicae, popularly called the Leiden Synopsis, was originally published in 1625…

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A Stone of Hope

David L. Chappell. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of Chapel Hill Press, 2004. 344 pages. $27.95. David L. Chappell’s A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim…

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Renaissance

Os Guinness, Renaissance: The Power Of The Gospel However Dark The Times. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2014. 187pp. $16-00. What has Reformation (21) to do with Renaissance? It is the wrong question, at least if Os Guinness’ latest book is…

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Mere Believers

Marc Baer, Mere Believers: How Eight Faithful Lives Changed the Course of History. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013. 190 pages. $22.00 Although I double-majored in English and history as an undergraduate, when I moved on to graduate school, I narrowed…

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Kingdom Conspiracy

Scot McKnight, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2014. x + 289pp. $21.99 The Kingdom of God has captured the attention and imagination of many recent evangelical writers. Even so, nothing resembling…

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Rejoicing in Lament

J. Todd Billings, Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015. $14.99 Much of life in a fallen world consists of navigating through the fog of tragedy and suffering. Any pastor who…

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Atonement, Law and Justice

Adonis Vidu, Atonement, Law and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2014. $24.99 Theology does not occur in a vacuum, we are constantly reminded. The Church’s doctrines do not develop in isolation from the…

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Boyhood

It is rarely possible to predict with any certainty which of today’s crowd-pleasers or critic-pleasers will secure for themselves a place as classics in the annals of film history–which will be taken as the defining films of their era, not…