By: Trevor Laurence & Derek E. Radney (Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2013). Summary: Discipleship is a work from two pastors in North Carolina writing about how the gospel applies to all people in all areas of life. They write, “We hope to bring this gospel to...
By: John Sommerville (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Summary: Are American universities equipped to answer life’s big questions? Not in their present state, historian C. John Sommerville argues. Tracing a line from the Middle Ages, when theology was “queen of...
By: James K.A. Smith (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009) Summary: What letter is to the left of the “F” on a keyboard? It’s likely you have to pause to think or put your fingers on an imaginary keyboard—but you know it. And you can easily type it. Your hands know...
By: Truman Capote (New York: Random House, 1966). Summary: “Clutter, his wife, and their two teen-age children were found murdered in their farm near Garden City early last Sunday morning. Each had been bound, gagged, and shot through the head with a .12-gauge...
By: Augustine of Hippo, trans. R.W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Summary: “Most glorious is the City of God,” begins Augustine’s greatest work, The City of God, written from 413-426 AD. A different city, however—Rome—had recently been sacked by...
Editor: Leland Ryken (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2002) Summary: “The great sin of most of the stories of popular culture…is not that they are violent or obscene or godless, but that they waste our time.” Leland Ryken has edited The Christian Imagination, an...
By: James Davison Hunter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) Summary: Dr. Hunter is a sociology professor at UVA, and his vocational expertise certainly comes out in this book, though not enough to over-burden the reader with distracting jargon, for his writing...
By: Graeme Goldsworthy (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 1991) Summary: “How do you interpret Scripture?” This is a much more revealing question than “What is your view of Scripture?” Graeme Goldsworthy, an Australian Anglican who is an Old Testament scholar, offers...
