The Religion That Remade the World

Feb 12, 2024 by

by John F Doherty, Public Discourse: Tom Holland raises many important questions about the connection between Christianity and contemporary Western civilization. All Westerners, be they Christian or not, would do well to consider his...

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The Protestant Reformation: upending England

Feb 10, 2024 by

Book Review by Tim O’Sullivan, Mercator. A People’s Tragedy: Studies in Reformation By Eamon Duffy. Bloomsbury Continuum. London, 2020. 272 pages In 1992, Eamon Duffy wrote his acclaimed history of the English Reformation, The...

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A defence of classic stories for children

Jan 24, 2024 by

By David Gibney, Mercator. Book Review: Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination, Vigen Guroian. The world of children’s literature has grown increasingly formalised and lucrative in recent...

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Losing Our Religion­ and the Fracturing of American Evangelicalism

Jan 19, 2024 by

By Micah Watson, Public Discourse: Moore’s writing is something of a memoir and a testimony, in good evangelical fashion, taking us back to the heartfelt and fervent faith of his youth and through what can only be described as a painful...

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Tom Wright corrects Western misinterpretations of St Paul

Jan 18, 2024 by

Book Review of Into the Heart of Romans, Tom Wright, SPCK, 2023. £20.  234pp. The apostle Paul had an agenda and so does Professor Wright. Dr Wright brings a Pauline corrective to some western misrepresentations of Christian faith....

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Navigating in the wrong direction – a review of Stephen Cox ‘Navigating by the Son.’

Jan 16, 2024 by

by Martin Davie: What lies behind the book. The Revd Stephen Cox is an ordained minister in the Church of England. His 2021 book Navigating by the Son[1] has been well received with one reviewer writing, for instance: ‘This is such an...

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