Jun 9, 2006 | Book Reviews
Tony Campolo (Nashville: W Publishing, 2004) 240 pp. Review by Ken Deeks. That smell in the air is the odour of burning hair as Tony Campolo’s critics light their locks on fire. Always the black sheep of the evangelical family, Campolo really stirs things up...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Hugh McCullum. Toronto: ABC Publishing, 2004, 544 pages. Reviewed by Ron Dart. “Liberalism was, in origin, criticism of the old established order. Today, it is the voice of the establishment.” —George Grant The time has come, gratefully so, when the rich and varied...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Chalmers Johnson, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 268 pp. On the eve of the new bombing campaign against Iraq, President Bush said the United States had done nothing to deserve Iraqi hostility. This book begs to differ. The author is a specialist on Japan and Asia, and a...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Christopher D. Marshall, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001, 342 pages. Reviewed by Wayne Northey In 1965, noted New Testament scholar C.F.D. Moule published an article in a little known Swedish academic journal. Entitled “Punishment and Retribution: An...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Timothy Gorringe, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 280 pages Reviewed by Wayne Northey [Note: A version of this was first published in The Contemporary Justice Review] In 1978 Roman Catholic lay theologian Gerald McHugh wrote Christian Faith and Criminal Justice:...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Lee Griffith, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002, 399 pp. Reviewed by Wayne Northey “What would this mean if it were true that we love God only as much as the person we love least? Would it not mean that, when we have finally won the victory in our war on terrorism, when we...