Book Reviews
Book Review: “The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law”
The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law. By Richard S. Kay. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014. 312 pp. $29.95 (paper). In the century-and-a-half following the English Reformation, the Church of England cemented its reputation for being markedly averse to political resistance and rebellion, laying great stress on the duty…
Book Review: “No Other Foundation” (2nd ed.)
No Other Foundation: Essays on Women’s Ordination in the Anglican Tradition, 2nd Edition. Edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies. Prolego Press. 463 pp. $25 (hardback), $14.99 (paper). Prolego Press has issued a second edition of the work No Other Foundation, edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies – both priests coming out of Nashotah…
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…