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a completely different flight: Flight 93. The Movie (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This fine A&E reenactment of one slice of the confusing events of September 11, 2001 succeeds in showing the combination of ad hoc citizen response and highly professional management that greeted the high-speed unfolding of those incomprehensible events. (more…)

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too hungry for it all: Educating Rita (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| 2 Comments »

This jewel of a film ought to be seen by all who teach, learn, or wish they were doing either.

Julie Walters turns in the Oscar-nominated performance of a lifetime as an Open University working-class student turning up at Michael Caine’s (also Oscar nominated) Oxford rooms for tutoring in literature.

The results are hilarious but – more important – deeply revealing of the pretensions on both sides of the class gap that separates these two stars of this low-budget 1983 production. (more…)

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‘Something relatively devastating’: United 93 (Widescreen Edition)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The lives of the crew and passengers of United Flight 93 were extinguished when the Boeing 757 in which they were traveling plowed into Pennsylvania farmland on September 11, 2001. United 93 pays them apt tribute. (more…)

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Is there a Christian mind?: Books and Culture. A Christian Review

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

One of American evangelicalism’s sympathetic critics once asked whether there is such a thing as a Christian mind. For all sorts of reasons—some more than justified—questioners, skeptics, and malnourished pilgrims have produced negative responses to the query.

But perhaps things are better than all that. (more…)

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Great ROI: Matthew Bishop, Essential Economics (Economist Essentials)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This badly named but invaluable book is vintage Economist style, method, and theory. If it is not what its title leads one to believe, this is pardonable on the grounds that it is perhaps better than that. (more…)

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Cry, the beloved country! (take two): Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa

Posted in reseña on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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2000 was a rough year for publishing a history of South Africa, even one as superbly written and brilliantly researched as Leonard Thompson’s far too blandly titled A History of South Africa. (more…)

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Be da’ man: John Eldredge, Wild at Heart. Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul

Posted in denkschrift, paterfamilias, reseña on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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John Eldredge launched a new phase of the Christian men’s movement with his 2001 publication of Wild at Heart. (more…)

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Reviewing A.A. Macintosh, Hosea (ICC)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The review that follows was originally published in The Churchman, 1999.

HOSEA. The International Critical Commentary
A.A. Macintosh
Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark. 1997 600pp ISBN 0 567 08545 7

Andrew Macintosh’s Hosea offers its reader the judiciously critical stance, the attention to detail, and the craftsmanship which have characterised the ICC in its best moments. It then adds to this package a reverent dialogue with an ancient interpretative tradition that rarely finds a voice in the circles frequented by readers of such commentaries, that of Medieval Jewish exegetes like David Kimchi, Rashi, and Nachmanides. The result is extraordinarily rich. (more…)

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clarity over ecstasy, community over me: 1 Corinthians 14

Posted in missio dei, textures on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Paul’s gospel undercuts the ecstatic individualism of the Corinthian Christians in two ways. (more…)

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Reviewing D.J.A. Clines, ed., The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Volume II

Posted in denkschrift, reseña on August 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The review that follows was originally published in The Churchman, 1999.

THE DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL HEBREW, Volume II: beth—waw
David J.A. Clines, editor; John Elwolde, executive editor
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press 1995 660pp £65 hb ISBN 1 85075 544 2

The modern English-speaking reader of the Old Testament floats happily in a sea of lexical tools which would have been unimaginable only a generation ago. The DCH (Dictionary of Classical Hebrew) contributes usefully to the modern upsurge of philological activity. The volume under review is the second of eight projected volumes. In all, three of these are now in print, encompassing words from aleph to tet. (more…)

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