Book Reviews
Book Review: The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying – Definitive Edition
The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying: Definitive Edition. By Jeremy Taylor. Edited by C. T. Sacred Standard Books, 2025. 425 pp. $30 (paper). My work here is not to please the speculative part of men, but to minister, to practice, to preach to the weary, to comfort the sick, to assist the penitent, to…
Book Review: “Give Us This Day Devotionals, Vol. 8 (Hebrews-Revelation)”
Give Us This Day Devotionals, Volume 8: Hebrews-Revelation. By Charles Erlandson. Resource Publications, 2025. 370 pp. $38.38 (paperback), $57.06 (hardcover). It has been many years since I regularly used a written daily devotional as part of my prayer or bible reading disciplines. In fact, my default position has been to be suspicious of written daily…
Book Review: “He Descended into Hell”
He Descended into Hell: An English Reformation Controversy. By Charles F. Camlin. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2025. 252 pp. $120 (hardback), $37.50 (paper). Article III of the Thirty-nine Articles affirms the doctrine of Christ’s descent into hell as an element of catholic theology, historically shared by Christians the world over. However, it is…
A World of Aesthetes
The Aesthete. By M. A. Colestock. Independently published, 2026. 427 pp. $28.99 (hardcover), $15.99 (paper). I imagine most people, if asked, would say they have never met an aesthete before. An aesthete is defined as “one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art,” and given that most people today do not deliberately…
Book Review: “Why Christians Should Be Leftists”
Why Christians Should Be Leftists. By Phil Christman. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025. 229 pp. $23.99 (hardcover). With some books, if you’re in the right state of mind—receptive and able to get outside your conditioning—you might just find yourself coming around to the author’s perspective, or at least become a more sympathetic reader. With this book,…
Book Review: “An Invitation to the Liberal Arts”
An Invitation to the Liberal Arts: The What and Why of Classical Christian Higher Education. By Benjamin P. Myers. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2025. 122 pp. $34 (hardcover), $19 (paper). One of the defining characteristics of the classical Christian school movement up to this point has been its focus on primary and secondary education (i.e.,…
Book Review: “Feasts for the Kingdom”
Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year. By Khaled Anatolios. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023. 318 pp. $19.99 (paper). In Feasts for the Kingdom, Khaled Anatolios offers the Church a gift that is increasingly rare: sustained, theologically rich, and genuinely liturgical preaching. Across forty-one homilies ordered to the feasts of the church year, Anatolios…
Review: The Lectionary of 1662
The Lectionary of 1662, Adapted and Supplemented: The Collects, Psalms, Epistles, Gospels for the Holy Eucharist adapted from the Books of Common Prayer of 1662, 1962, and 2019, with a Supplement of Old Testament Lessons. Edited by Benjamin von Bredow & Brandon Hughes. Prayer Book Society of Canada, 2025. 433 pp. $25 (hardcover). Between the…
Wherefore Beauty? A Review of Evangelical Theological Aesthetics
Evangelical Theological Aesthetics: A Theology of Beauty and Perception. By Ryan Currie. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2025. 300 pp. $45 (paper). The Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) once said of contemporary Protestant theology that it “nowhere deals with the beautiful as a theological category” (4). Although Balthasar’s statement rang true for many…
Review: A House for the Word
A House for the Word: A Treatise on Public Worship from Hooker’s Laws. By Richard Hooker. Modernized and edited by Patrick Timmis and Brad Littlejohn. Davenant Press, 2025. 188pp. Paperback, $12.95. About a month ago I was pleasantly surprised to receive a message from the Davenant Institute that another volume in their project to modernize…