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The Lion’s World

Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia. Oxford :Oxford University Press, 2012, 168 pp. $16.95 (hardcover) When the film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe first hit screens in December of 2005,…

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Night of the Confessor

Tomás Halík, Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Image, 2012), 223pp. £7.00 Indisputably, no theologian in the Czech Republic or Slovakia today is anywhere near as influential as Tomás Halík, Catholic priest and…

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Engaging with Keller

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…

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How the West Really Lost God

Mary Eberstadt. How the West Really Lost God (West Conshohocken, Pa.: Templeton Press, 2013), x + 257 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Mary Eberstadt. How the West Really Lost God (West Conshohocken, Pa.: Templeton Press, 2013), x + 257 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Conservative Protestants…

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iPod, YouTube, Wii Play

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…

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The Myth of Persecution

Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (New York: HarperOne 2013), 320 pp., $25.99  This is an entertaining, at times thought-provoking, but deeply flawed book. For all of its underlying scholarship, it is…

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The Myth of Persecution

Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom (New York: HarperOne 2013), 320 pp., $25.99  This is an entertaining, at times thought-provoking, but deeply flawed book. For all of its underlying scholarship, it is…

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God So Loved, He Gave

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…

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A Faith Worth Teaching

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…