Reviews of The Deliverance of God

Loren Rosson III did an excellect review of Douglass Campbell’s The Deliverance of God. Other reviews are  here and here .

John H. Walton and Genesis One

Today I received my copy of John H. Walton’s “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”. Prophetically speaking, this book will change  the way we read Genesis 1. As I begin reading it today I quickly discovered that the book is is nothing short of  mind-blowing. This is a stimulating, thought-provoking and [...]

A Review of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

 
A Review of Adam Smith’s  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 (orig. 1776).
Adam Smith was a Sottish economist and an influential philosopher of the  Scottish Enlightment or Scottish School of Commonsense. Smith published two majors works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), a [...]

On God Creating this world or God and the world, and the problem of God and evil (Part I)

A short review of William Hasker’s   The Triumph of God over Evil (2008) (Thanks to Heather Mascarello of IVP  for the review copy)

As I’m working my way through William Hasker’s thought provoking book,  The Triumph of God over Evil, I thought I would do a brief review of chapter 3, which I think is one of the most important [...]

Review of John Locke’s An Essay On Human Understanding

John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding (1690): A Brief Review 
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (AECHU) is perhaps John Locke’s most influential work. Arguably this essay has contributed to the establishment of the modern school of empiricism.[1] Below we will survey briefly the work in question.
As well argued in AECHU and equally by empiricists, “sense experience” [...]

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: A review

 

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings, Tremper Longman III & Peter Enns (eds). $ 37.80. pp.967.
A book review
Product Details

Hardcover: 967 pages
Publisher:IVP Academic (June 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830817832
ISBN-13: 978-0830817832
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 2.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds

 Below I present a short review with an emphasis of the unique features of this reference [...]

Jim West Reviews Dunn’s Beginning From Jerusalem (Vol.2)

Dr. Jim West already posted  Part Six  –  ‘Writing A History of Christianity’s Beginnings’ and Part Seven  –  ‘The First Phase’, respectively,  of Dunn’s new book Beginning from Jerusalem: Christianity in the Making, Volume 2
 on his blog.  As much I would like to get a copy it seems like it is not going to happen at the moment. The [...]

Review of Being and Event by Alain Badiou

 

Being and Event by Alain Badiou
Both Jean Francois Lyotard and Cornell West hailed Alain Badiou  as one of France’s most original and important contemporary intellectuals and philosophers. They’re perhaps correct! One simply has to read “Being and Event” to see the breadth of Badiou’s intellectuality and the surpassing dimension of his philosophical knowledge. L’Être et l’événement, the original [...]

New Book Received

Today I received the African American Religious Thought: An Anthology  (pp. 1054) from Westminster John Knox Press/WJKP. The book is a monumental achievement! It is edited by Cornell West and Eddie. S. Glaude Jr. Thanks to the good folk at John Knox Press for sending this piece for review.  A forthcoming review will be posted in [...]

Review: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
 
Using a dramaturgical approach, Goffman studies the interactive process by/through which the self is presented, yet within the means of ordinary life situations, interactions with people and the established social systems. He asserts that these dynamics, in turn,  collaborately define, and sustain the self. In exploring [...]