Book Reviews
Book Review: “The Second Adam and the New Birth”
The Second Adam and the New Birth. By M. F. Sadler. Monroe, LA: Athanasius Press, 2004. 288 pp. $21.95 (paper). Some years ago when a friend and I were both becoming interested in Anglicanism, I accompanied this friend on a visit with his Baptist family. My friend’s mother heard that I, like her son, was…
Book Review: “A Hymnal of the Heart”
A Hymnal of the Heart. Nashotah, WI: Nashotah House Press, 2022. 150 pp. $9.85 (cloth); $3.35 (paper). When I was first asked to review Nashotah House Press’s pocket hymnal—A Hymnal of the Heart—I was admittedly unsure where to begin. As I mentioned in my review of Nashotah’s A Catechism 1604 Redux, “I am often intimidated…
How Classical Is It? A Review of the Book of Common Prayer (2019) Traditional Language Edition
Book of Common Prayer (2019) ‒ Traditional Language Edition. Huntington Beach, CA: Anglican Liturgy Press, 2022. 802 pp. $24.95 (cloth). The last twelve months have been a dream for afficionados of Anglican liturgy in North America. Last year saw the release of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (1662IE) from InterVarsity Press. With…
Book Review: “Anglican Dogmatics”
Anglican Dogmatics: Francis J. Hall’s Dogmatic Theology, Abridged in Two Volumes. Edited and annotated by John A. Porter. Nashotah, WI: Nashotah House Press, 2021. 684 pp (Vol. 1); 710 pp (Vol. 2). $24.95 per volume (cloth); $19.74 per volume (paper). Writing as a priest in the Church of England, I am aware of the intense…
Book Review: “Anglicanism”
Anglicanism: The Thought and Practice of the Church of England, Illustrated from the Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Paul Elmer More and Frank Leslie Cross. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2009. 610 pp. $49.13 (paper). In a video titled “Why I Am Not Anglican,” Lutheran pastor and author Dr. Jordan B….
Book Review: “Being Human in a Technological Age: Rethinking Theological Anthropology”
Being Human in a Technological Age: Rethinking Theological Anthropology. Edited by Steven C. Van Den Heuvel. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020. 274 pp. $70 (paper). What does it mean to be a technologically advanced human? Building on an ancient question: “what does it mean to be human?” the authors of Being Human in a Technological…
Book Review: “Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy”
Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England: The Struggle for True Religion. By Simon Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp. $85 (cloth). Peter B. Nockles notes in The Oxford Movement in Context that there is a “myth” that the eighteenth-century Church of England saw a “collapse of High Churchmanship” (6). In a…
Book Review: “Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven”
Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven: Philosophical Problems, Thomistic Solutions. By Christopher M. Brown. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021. 464 pp. $75 (cloth). A favored strategy among skeptics and atheists to undermine Christianity—albeit less common than the problem of evil—is attempting to poke holes in the Christian understanding of heaven….
Book Review: “The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey”
The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey. By Tobias A. Karlowicz. New York: T&T Clark, 2021. 232 pp. $115 (cloth). To call a work “revisionist” usually suggests that it seeks to overturn a commonly held understanding of its subject in favor of an interpretation that is implausible or strained, often in the service of some…
Book Review: “The Apostles’ Creed: For All God’s Children”
The Apostles’ Creed: For All God’s Children. By Ben Myers. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2022. 48 pp. $17.99 (cloth). As a parent of three young children, I am regularly humbled, challenged, and hopeful about the work of catechizing my family to know, love, and serve our Lord. Teaching my children not only to recite the…