Becoming Neighbors” – Kinship with Refugee Claimants – Anika Bauman with Ron Dart
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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...
The Other Side of the Good News: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges to Jesus’ Teachings on Hell
Larry Dixon, Wheaton: BridgePoint, 1992, 216 pp. Reviewed by Wayne Northey I knew I would eventually review this book… But it took me seven years after its publication to do so. I will explain why below. But first a description of the book. There is a “Foreword” by...
Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment
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...
God’s Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
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:...
The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God
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...
No Future Without Forgiveness by Bishop Desmond Tutu – Review by Wayne Northey
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, New York: Doubleday, 1999, 294 pp. Reviewed by Wayne Northey [Please Note: A version of this was first published in The Catholic New Times.] Many Canadian (and indeed international) readers of this book well remember the frequent radio interviews...
Just War Against Terror by JB Elshtain – Review by Wayne Northey
The book is a compelling apologia and call for America to be the police force for the world. The Author and Book Jean Bethke Elshtain has published or edited about twenty books, several of which have won prestigious awards. She has also written over 400 scholarly...
For a Culture of Co-suffering Love: The Theology of Archbishop Lazar Puhalo by Andrew Sopko – Review by Ron Dart
There has been a great deal of interest, in the last decade, by many Christians, in returning to the Classic phase of the Christian Tradition. The Patristic heritage (of the Latin West and Greek East) is held high and warmly honoured and respected. This turn comes as...
No Other Gods Before Me by J. Stackhouse – Review by K. Miller
John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Editor (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001) When an editor begins an anthology by saying he doesn’t agree with much of what is written in the essays that follow his preface, readers immediately suspect that they are in for a rough ride. But...
The Image of God in the Face of Longing by Derek Weiss
“We have taught our images to be free ; are we glad? are we glad to have brought convenient heresy to Logres?” -Charles Williams, “Bors to Elayne: on the King’s Coins,” in Taliessin Through Logres A Christian response to popular culture must touch on the...