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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...

Spoiler alert: This review details key scenes in the movie and its ending. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. (Ps. 147:4) Movies like Gravity gave birth to terms like groundbreaking . After audiences were wowed by Alfonso Cuarón's near-perfect, Children of...

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...

Iain D. Campbell and William M. Schweitzer, eds., Engaging with Keller: Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 2013), 240pp. paperback, £9.99/ $15.99 This fascinating volume is something of an in-house discussion into which, because of the nature...