Shelf Life

Mary Eberstadt. How the West Really Lost God (West Conshohocken, Pa.: Templeton Press, 2013), x + 257 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Conservative Protestants are suspicious of fake Christianity. Liberal Protestants or Roman Catholics may set the bar lower for church membership, but conservatives will not be...

D. Brent Layham, iPod, YouTube, Wii Play: Theological Engagements with Entertainment (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012), x + 220 pp., $24.00 D. Brent Laytham, a professor of theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, has written a very thought-provoking, judicious, and insightful...

Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George, What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defens e (New York: Encounter, 2012), 168 pp., $ 15.99 This book is an expansion of a controversial article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy in 2011. Given the seemingly inexorable advance of...

Kelly M. Kapic with Justin Borger, God So Loved, He Gave: Entering the Moment of Divine Generosity . (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), 280 pp., $19.99 Kelly Kapic's God So Loved, He Gave is a compelling presentation of the Christian Gospel with a persistent emphasis upon the magnitude of God's...

Jon D. Payne and Sebastian Heck, eds., A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism's Enduring Heritage (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2013), 360pp If you can keep a secret, I will share it with you: I am falling in love with the Heidelberg Catechism. As a Presbyterian pastor, the...

Peter J. Leithart, Between Babel and Beast (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012) 200 pp. $24.00. ISBN 978-1-60899-817-3 (pbk.). Peter J. Leithart has established himself as a leading evangelical and Reformed voice on a dizzying array of subjects: just within the past couple of years he has published...

Ralph C. Wood, Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of God (Baylor University Press, 2011) $34.95, hardcover, 325 pages In Book eight, Chapter twelve of his Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle asserts a seemingly common-sense truth that has been progressively forgotten, ignored, or repressed over the...

Vern Sheridan Poythress, Logic: A God-Centered Approach to the Foundation of Western Thought (Wheaton: Crossway, 2013), 730pp., $45.00 I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Crossway for their gracious provision of a review copy of this book. The term "polymath" seems to have arrived in...

Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (New York: HarperOne, 2013), 240 pp., $16.00 "Detheologizing" Christianity For those who have read Rob Bell's other books (such as Love Wins and Velvet Elvis ), the tone, disposition, and content of this new book will sound all too familiar. In...

Richard A. Muller, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition: On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvatio n (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 288pp., paperback, $39.99 Richard Muller's latest book, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition , is the product of many decades of research and analysis regarding...