Justice in Love, Nicholas Wolterstorff (Eerdmans) Often, the Christian themes of justice and love are held in tension. Philosophers have posited them as incompatible starting points for thinking about ethics while the rest of us have often wondered if the…
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Allah: A Christian Response, Miroslav Volf (HarperOne) Theologian Miroslav Volf grew up in war-ravaged Croatia, a nation wrecked by ethnic and religious violence between Christians and Muslims. As a result, this question of how Christians interact with Muslims comes from…
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Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community, Charles Marsh and John Perkins (IVP) Through his prolific pen, Marsh, professor and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, has sketched historical accounts, a memoir and a…
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To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Hunter (Oxford) In the early 1990s, James Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, coined the phrase “culture wars” to describe the…
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The Republic of Grace: Augustinian Thoughts for Dark Times, Charles Mathewes (Eerdmans) St. Augustine lived in a time when the empire was crumbling and the world was convulsing with rapid change. Old values were being demolished while new religious beliefs…