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Shelf Life

David A. Gilland
Alister E. McGrath. Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal . Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. XIV, 246 pp. $99.95/£45.99 The needs and purposes of scholarship, along with the peculiarities of the history of theology, have resulted in a hodge-podge collection of secondary literature on 20th century Swiss...
Ben Rhodes
Peter J. Leithart, Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor University Press, 2014), 340 pages. $49.95/₤29.99 The latest book from the prolific Peter Leithart is another installment of what we have come to expect: an accessibly written synthesis of specialist research advancing a deceptively...
Paul Helm Articles
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , translated from the first French Edition by Robert White. Edinburgh and Carlisle, Pa., Banner of Truth Trust, 2014, pp. xxxvi + 882. Not only is there the much-publicized question of Calvin and the Calvinists, there is also that of Calvin's...
William T. Cavanaugh
Gil Anidjar, Blood: A Critique of Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvii + 441pp. $36.99/₤24.99 Gil Anidjar's book is, as the subtitle indicates, a critique of Christianity: not some aspect of Christianity, or an inquiry into some part of Christian history, but a critique of...
Matt Manry
Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak. The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World . Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014. 201 pp. $18.00. Paul Copan and Kenneth Litwak have provided Christians with an interesting book describing the apostle Paul's Mars...
W. Bradford Littlejohn
At the end of one of Christopher Nolan's most memorable films, The Prestige , one of the duelling magicians, Robert Angier, lies dying, and reproaches his rival, "You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if...
John Halsey Wood
James D. Bratt. Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat . Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. 455 pages. $24.99/₤19.99 Abraham Kuyper must be one of the most quoted figures in Evangelical churches, and it is usually the same quote: "There is not a square inch...
Matthew Boyleston
Ian Ker. John Henry Newman: A Biography . 1988. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Due to his beatification by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, there is a renewed interest in the life and thought of John Henry Newman. Among Protestants especially John Henry Newman is enjoying something of a...
Blair Smith
John W. O'Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council. Cambridge, MA.: Belknap Press, 2013, 335pp. £20.00/$27.95 Trent looms. Trent looms over Roman Catholicism as a grand mother who bequeathed her enduring theological furniture. Trent looms among Protestant theology and spirituality as the abiding...
W. Bradford Littlejohn
Before beginning this review, I should make a confession. Prior to Noah , I had never seen a Darren Aronofsky film before. Not Pi , not Requiem for a Dream , not Black Swan --none of them (though several of his films are high on my watch list). There may be those of you, true film aficionados, who...

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