Book Reviews
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Almost Atonement & The Wood Between the Worlds
Some years ago, self-deprecating comedian Martin Short joked with talk show host Conan O’Brien that his family would write the word “Almost” on his tombstone.[1] “Almost” because he had, in his mind, never quite fully made it in Hollywood with a smash hit. While it’s hardly true of Short, that’s the line that kept ringing…
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Book Review: “American Heretics”
American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order. By Jerome E. Copulsky. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $40 (hardcover). “The concept of heresy,” Jerome Copulsky observes, “is…relational—it is a term deployed by a group to mark out its boundaries, define its foes, and police deviance within its ranks” (3). That is to…
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Book Review: “Island Cross-Talk”
Island Cross-Talk: Pages from a Blasket Island Diary. By Tomás O’Crohan. Translated by Tim Enright. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 208 pp. $19.99 (paper). “The sun was high when I wandered out. The way the day had cleared would make you reflect that it was not the end of the world yet,…
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Book Review: Delighting in the Old Testament: Through Christ and for Christ
Delighting in the Old Testament: Through Christ and for Christ. By Jason S. DeRouchie. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2024. 368 pp. $32.99 (hardcover). Several years ago, Baptist pastor and author Dr. John Piper responded to a question about whether he found the Federal Vision theology of Douglas Wilson to be a different gospel by saying, in…
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Book Review: Re-Formed Catholic Anglicanism
Re-Formed Catholic Anglicanism. Edited by Charles F. Camlin, Charles D. Erlandson, and Joshua L. Harper. Anglican Way Institute, 2024. 478 pp. $29.99 (paper). In a recent review of the Nashotah House Press edition of Bishop A. P. Forbes’s Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Gerald McDermott describes Forbes as “reformed catholic.” A critical response to this…
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Book Review: “Images of Pilgrimage”
Images of Pilgrimage: Paradise and Wilderness in Christian Spirituality. By R. D. Crouse. London, UK: Darton, Longman, and Todd Ltd. 96 pp. $24.99 CAD (paper). Christian thinkers past and present have often considered our relationship with place—the lands and cities that we dwell or sojourn in. Often, these considerations reflect larger theological questions: Are our…
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Book Review: “An Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles”
An Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles. By Alexander Penrose Forbes, with a new Foreword by C. P. Collister. Nashotah, WI: Nashotah House Press, 2024. 874 pp. $32.11 (paper). When Anglican seminarians ask me how to study theology, I tell them to pick one of the great theologians and burrow into his corpus. But make sure…
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Book Review: “Mad about Belief”
Mad about Belief: Religion in the Life and Thought of Bertrand Russell. By Larry D. Harwood. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024. 362 pp. $66 (hardback), $46 (paper). Bertrand Russell is often analyzed in terms of his philosophical ideas, logic, and critiques of religion. In fact, he is often taken to be a despiser of religion…
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Book Review – “Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought”
Protestantism, Revolution and Scottish Political Thought: The European Context, 1637‒1651. By Karie Schultz. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 208 pp. $110 (hardback). Historians have often assumed that “political concepts traditionally associated with the modern state ‒ such as consent of the governed, parliamentary sovereignty or the election of magistrates” are correlated with “a process of…
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Book Review: “The Triumph of the Slippers”
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World. By Pascal Bruckner. Translated by Cory Stockwell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024. 118 pp. $19.95 (hardback). The thesis of this book is presented on the second page: “This generation is in no way ready to face adversity.” The author contends that some of the…