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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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John Eldredge launched a new phase of the Christian men’s movement with his 2001 publication of Wild at Heart. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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Paul’s gospel undercuts the ecstatic individualism of the Corinthian Christians in two ways. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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This outrageously corny 2000 flick manages to provide good laughs and some adrenaline, thanks to the on-field hits and the stormin’ music. Continue Reading »
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After the heart-rending nobility of Abraham Lincoln’s verbal tribute to Gettysburg’s fallen, there is not much else that could do those men justice.
Yet Gettysburg does so. Continue Reading »
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In the contest of love and Jennifer Connelly against the infinitude of chaos, the match goes to love and Connelly, 1-0. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 