Reviews

Every Man’s Bible

by Eddie 31.08.2010

Men face different challenges than women do, and it is important for men to have a deep understanding of the Holy Scriptures. So the features and notes of this edition were written specifically for men. God created men and women with different strengths and different roles. Our desire in presenting the Every Man’s Bible is [...]

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Remaking a Broken World

by Eddie 30.08.2010
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Anyone who sets out to write an overview of the Bible has to find some sort of theme to tie to the work together, otherwise the whole thing will just spiral out of control.  Remaking a Broken World by Christopher Ash revolves around the themes of gathering and scattering. The thesis of this chapter, indeed [...]

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2159 AD

by Eddie 17.08.2010

2159 AD: A History of Christianity by Craig Borlase is a fascinating little book. It is a church history which purports to be written in the year 2159 (hence the title) and which covers the next 150 years of history as well as the last 2,000. It is witty, well written and fun to read [...]

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D-Day

by Eddie 15.08.2010

Many good and some not so good books have been written about the Battle for Normandy, but Antony Beevor’s D-Day: The Battle for Normandy must rank as one of the best. The book is well written and easy to read; which is always a good start with a history book. The main thing to note [...]

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Collins Bible Companion

by Eddie 05.08.2010
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Collins Bible Companion The only book you need beside the Bible Martin Manser (Editor) ISBN 9780007339808 (0007339801) HarperCollins, 2009 (720pp) £25 Category: Bibles and Bible Guides Reviewed by: Eddie Arthur If you are looking for an introductory guide to the Bible, you could do far worse than get hold of the Collins Bible Companion. In a little over [...]

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Holiday Reading

by Eddie 01.08.2010

It will be a few weeks yet before we have our annual pilgrimage to the Lake District, but I’m already gathering a little pile of books that I want to read while we are away. I can’t actually recommend these because I’ve not read them (or at least not finished them – I have started [...]

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Learning from the Stranger

by Eddie 17.07.2010

There is a disturbing tendency within Christian mission circles to organise activities purely on a pragmatic basis. We do things because they can be demonstrated to produce certain results. In and of itself, pragmatism isn’t necessarily a bad thing, we don’t want to waste our time in ineffective and futile action. However, I would identify [...]

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Jesus and the Land

by Eddie 27.06.2010

Gary M. Burge’s Jesus and the Land: How the New Testament transformed ‘holy land’ theology is a short book, only 130 or so pages, but its value far outweighs its size. This is a truly excellent book and one which anyone who is interested in questions about the political and theological status of the land [...]

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Participating in God

by Eddie 25.06.2010

I’ve been ploughing through Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity by Paul Fiddes for some time now. In common with many books on Trinitarian theology (even those which call themselves pastoral) it is pretty hard going. It does, however, make very rewarding reading. There is much about this book that I thoroughly [...]

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Worshipping Jesus

by Eddie 25.05.2010

I’ve just finished Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence by James Dunn. To be honest, it’s not a book that would have been top of my reading list, but I was in a bookshop (this one) and I had some book tokens… Well, you know how it is! There are a [...]

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Kingdom Without Borders

by Eddie 24.05.2010

Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity by Mirian Adeney is an absolute cracking book and one that everyone interested in the development of the Church around the world must read. It isn’t a book about statistics, graphs and projections; it is simply a book of stories. Sometimes books of this sort can [...]

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Joining in with the Spirit

by Eddie 20.04.2010

Joining in with the Spirit: Connecting World Church and Local Mission by Kirsteen Kim is an excellent introduction to a broad range of missiological thinking. The publisher’s blurb says: “Joining in with the Spirit is an accessible introduction to mission studies – the history, theology and issues of mission, which is up-to-date and supported by [...]

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