Jun 22, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit by Robert Macfarlane (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003) – Review by Ron Dart O the mind, mind has mountains – Gerard Manley Hopkins...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Violence Renounced: René Girard, Biblical Studies and Peacemaking, Edited by Willard M. Swartley, Telford, PA: Pandora Press, 2000, 343 pages. By Wayne Northey “René Girard is, in my opinion, the most significant theorist of violence in the twentieth century (p....
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Book Review of the executed god: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Mark Lewis Taylor, Fortress Press, 2001, 208 pp. By Wayne Northey “Is it a contradiction that Christians pray and adore their imprisoned and executed God while supporting or tolerating the...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey, James J. Megivern, New York/Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press 1997, 641 pages. By Wayne Northey “In this important study, James Megivern offers readers a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West. ...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Justice That Restores, Charles W. Colson, Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001; 172 pages. by Wayne Northey Charles Colson explains that the seeds for this book were sewn while preparing for a series of lectures on criminal justice in England. “I needed to...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Against The Death Penalty: Christian and Secular Arguments Against Capital Punishment, Gardner C. Hanks, Herald Press, 1997; 208 pages. by Wayne Northey Eleven years after the Canadian Parliament decisively voted against the return of the death penalty, the Reform...
