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What the Bible Says About Marriage really is what the Bible says about marriage! Though Selvaggio limits the scope of his study to the Song of Songs and what that book has to say about marriage, romantic love, and sex, he fills in gaps by drawing from a host of other Scripture texts. The result is...

Ever since Augustine penned the classic City of God, City of Man, the Church has wrestled with the question of how to be the Church in the world. Throughout the ages, the pendulum swings along a predictable trajectory. At one end, what might be called the Antithetical Church stresses that the...

I have to declare my interest in this type of book up front. It is just the kind of book I like to read: puritan history, intricate debates on predestination, the subtle nuances of the lapsarian controversy (it barely occasions a yawn in today's seminaries and gatherings of ministers), the extent...

Once again, author and biblical counselor Martha Peace (along with pastor John Crotts) has delivered up a resource that is worth close examination, this time for Christian couples. Tying the Knot Tighter: Because Marriage Lasts a Lifetime could be useful in a variety of settings. The authors...

Holed up in the Applied Electronics Laboratory on the Stanford campus with several hundred other students, Stafford protested the secret research being done by the Defense Department to advance the Vietnam War. Though his motivations, as he admits, were at least partially selfish (he didn't want to...

A.N. Whitehead famously remarked that 'The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato'. This volume of 'New Essays' (some, in fact, are not new) is avowedly footnotes to Cornelius Van Til. I suspect that some of the...

Most collections disappoint; this one does not. Open Finding God at Harvard anywhere and you will find intelligence, inspiration, challenge, and--preeminently--Christ proclaimed. The contributors all have, of course, some connection to Harvard: students, alumni, professors, and guest speakers. It...

For some, far too many school children and public leaders still believe in a Creator. With their creeds of intolerance now bestsellers, noted atheists decry the "flagrantly irrational" idea of a God-created universe. One such atheist, Sam Harris, laments the "failure of many brilliant attacks upon...

This substantial book will be of considerable interest to those who have a concern for Christian social ethics and for the economic policies that may underlie it. It is also revealing for the way in which some Roman Catholics currently approaching the pronouncements of the magisterium on these...

The role of the Holy Spirit in the economy of salvation is to take the benefits of Christ and apply them to the elect of God and the world that Christ has redeemed. If that be the case, one might be tempted to think that the biblical revelation about the Holy Spirit is nearly exclusively found in...