Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith. By Diana Butler Bass. HarperOne, 2006. 278 pages. $13.95. If change is central to Christ's message,…
Fidelity With Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century. By Wesley J. Wildman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 441 pages. "The message of the cross is foolishness…
The Post Evangelical (Revised North American Edition). By Dave Tomlinson. EmergentYS, a Zondervan publishing group, 2003. 146 pages. $11.00. Are you a discontented evangelical? Are you somehow left dissatisfied at…
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical Lament. By Randall Balmer. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Pp. xxvii, 242. This book is…
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture. By John Shelby Spong. Harper San Francisco, 1991. 249 pages. $11.00. Are there really two creation stories in…
Evangelical Disenchantment. By David Hempton. Yale University Press, 2008. 233 pp. $30.00 In his new book Evangelical Disenchantment, David Hempton, a religious historian at Harvard Divinity School, offers nine biographical…
American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction. By Mark A. Noll. Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 320 pages. Price, $38.00. Mark A. Noll, professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, has produced a book…
A Secular Age. By Charles Taylor. Harvard University Press, 2007. 874 pp. $39.95 That we live in a secular age is a fact that few can doubt. For individuals in…
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. By Mark A. Noll. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994. 274 pages. $22.00. There is a scandal plaguing the evangelical church. No, it is…
American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving By Christian Smith. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 324 pages. $18.00. If you thought traditional religion could not thrive in the pluralistic society we live…