When I picked up Slaying Leviathan I wasn’t expecting to read a complete history of Western political thought and the resistance of the Christian Tradition to tyranny (or Leviathan, as the author calls a tyrannical state). This book is helpful is setting our perspective on a long history of development, and therefore helping usContinue reading “Slaying Leviathan Book Review”
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Learning to Lament Book Review
This book is a wonderful pastorally sensitive work on learning to grieve well. Is it permissible to grieve? And how do we do it? Paul Mallard answers these questions and more in Learning to Lament. Paul pastorally works through the difficulties of learning how to grieve in a Christ-like way. Lamentation is an expression ofContinue reading “Learning to Lament Book Review”
Scripture is Supreme Book Review
This is an important, easy to read book. It’s about why the Bible is important. In it, Tim Chester explains why the Bible is the supreme authority as a guide in life, a guide to God, and the authority over all other authorities. If you don’t know about what the Bible (Scripture) is or whyContinue reading “Scripture is Supreme Book Review”
A Review of “Global Humility”
I think this book sees the Bible primarily through a man-centric perspective, and does so under an attempt to be humble. This effort involves not having an arrogant ethnocentrism, or judgmental attitude (page 10). The core idea in the book is that reading the Bible (i.e. proper hermeneutics) involves putting on different “cultural lenses” toContinue reading “A Review of “Global Humility””
Standing Before God, This We Are and No More 