book reviews

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...

Ed Shaw. Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life . Downer's Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015. 172 pages. $16.00. For far too long in this country it has seemed possible to enjoy both the Christian life and the American dream. Christians have conflated the...

Esther D. Reed, Theology for International Law . London and New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013. 350pp. $26.99/£19.99 The big issue which this book addresses is: what does theology have to say to those who argue that international relations are nothing more than the realm of Realpolitik? Reed...

Esther D. Reed, Theology for International Law . London and New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013. 350pp. $26.99/£19.99 The big issue which this book addresses is: what does theology have to say to those who argue that international relations are nothing more than the realm of Realpolitik? Reed...

Annette G. Aubert. The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology . New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 402 pp. $74.00. In this volume, a revision of her doctoral dissertation at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), Annette Aubert aims to recover the central influence...

Annette G. Aubert. The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology . New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 402 pp. $74.00. In this volume, a revision of her doctoral dissertation at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), Annette Aubert aims to recover the central influence...

N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God . London/Minneapolis: SPCK/Fortress, 2013. pp. 1658. $57.99 /£44.99 Let me begin by stating the fact that most obviously strikes the recipient of a copy of Paul and the Faithfulness of God (henceforth, PFG): it is 1658 pages long. At one point, probably...

N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God . London/Minneapolis: SPCK/Fortress, 2013. pp. 1658. $57.99 /£44.99 Let me begin by stating the fact that most obviously strikes the recipient of a copy of Paul and the Faithfulness of God (henceforth, PFG): it is 1658 pages long. At one point, probably...

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church . Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the different views of the Lord's Supper: Zwingli's...

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church . Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the different views of the Lord's Supper: Zwingli's...