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Spectrum
Online Reviews, 2002
Theology
and the New Face of War
A
Review of John L. Berquist, ed., Strike Terror No More: Theology,
Ethics and the New War (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2002)
By
David R. Larson
(December
24, 2002)
Understanding
Ourselves
A
Review of John B. Wong, Christian Wholism (Lanham, Md.:
University Press of America, 2002)
By
David R. Larson
(November
18, 2002)
God’s
Story in a Different Key
A
Review of Jack Miles, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
By
James Walters
(November
4, 2002)
Understanding
Islam and Terrorism
A
Review of John L. Esposito, Unholy War: Terror in the Name
of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
By
David R. Larson
(October
28, 2002)
Sustaining
Good Over Evil
A
Review of Mark Eddy Smith, Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues
(Downer’s Grove, Il.: Intervarsity Press, 2002)
By
David A. Pendleton
(September
23, 2002)
On
Human History and Human History
A
Review of Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last
Man (New York, 2002), and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences
of the Biotechnology Revolution (New York, 2002)
By
David R. Larson
(September
9, 2002)
The
Mind and the Brain:
Debating
their Relationship
Jean-Pierre
Changeux and Paul Ricoeur. What Makes Us Think?
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
By
David R. Larson
(August
19, 2002)
Are
We Really Free?
A
Review of Minority Report
By
Richard Rice
(July
22, 2002)
Requirements
of True Dialogue
Jacob
Neusner. Telling Tales: Making Sense of Christian and Judaic
Nonsense. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1993.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(July
15, 2002)
Adventist
History Made Easy
The
Adventist Girl Series. Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press, 2002.
Reviewed
by Daniel Giang
(July
1, 2002)
The
Meaning of Professional Life
William
F. May. Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the
Professional. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press,
2001.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(June
17, 2002)
"A
Beautiful Mind"
Three
Significant Scenes
By
David R. Larson
(May
20, 2002)
Understanding
Process Theology
A
Review of John B. Cobb and Clark H. Pinnock, eds., Searching
for an Adequate God, and Bryan P. Stone and Thomas J. Ord,
eds., Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love
By
David R. Larson
(May
13, 2002)
Rehabilitating
the Testimonial
Traveling
Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith. By Anne Lamott. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1999.
Reviewed
by Dennis Brand
(May
6, 2002)
Are
Christian Colleges and Universities Really Possible?
A
Review Essay by David R. Larson
(April
29, 2002)
Recommended
Spring Reading from Spectrum’s Book Review Advisors
Recommendations
from Gary Chartier, James Hayward, and Nancy Lecourt
(April
22, 2002)
Adventists,
Beasts, and America
Adventism
and the American Republic. By Douglas Morgan. Nashville:
University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Reviewed
by Terrie Dopp Aamodt
(April
15, 2002)
Condemning
the Evils of Our Time
Thinking
Straight in a Crooked World: A Christian Defense Manual.
By Gary DeMar. Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision, 2001.
Reviewed
by John B. Wong
(April
8, 2002)
The
Soul as an Integrated Whole
Whatever
Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits
of Human Nature. Edited by Warren S. Brown, et al. Minneapolis,
Minn.: Augsburg Fortress, 1998.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(April
1, 2002)
Rejoicing
in God’s Openness
Most
Moved Mover: A Theology of God's Openness. By Clark H. Pinnock.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 2001.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(March
25, 2002)
The
Issue Is Coercion
Terror
in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.
Updated ed. By Mark Juergensmeyer. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2001.
Reviewed
by Douglas Morgan
(March
18, 2002)
Lament
of a Wounded Lover
The
Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. By Mark A. Noll. Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994.
Reviewed
by Sasha Ross
(March
11, 2002)
A
Vision of What Lies Before
The
Story of Christian Spirituality: Two Thousand Years, from East
to West. Edited by Gordon Mursell. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress
Press, 2001.
Reviewed
by John B. Wong
(March
4, 2002)
Beyond
Difficult Decisions
Reinder
Bruinsma. Matters of Life and Death. Nampa, Idaho: Pacific
Press, 2000.
Reviewed
by Mark Carr
(February
25, 2002)
Serving
Hitler with a Wooden Gun
Susi
Hasel Mundy. A Thousand Shall Fall. Hagerstown, Md.:
Review and Herald, 2001.
Reviewed
by Janet S. Borisevich
(February
18, 2002)
Science
and "the Big Picture"
Huston
Smith. Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit
in an Age of Disbelief. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001.
Reviewed
by John B. Wong
(February
11, 2002)
In
Defense of Enlightenment
James
M. Byrne. Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes
to Kant. Louisville, Ky.: John Knox Westminster Press, 1997.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(February
4, 2002)
The
Measure of Our Manyness
Diana
L. Eck. A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country"
Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Reviewed
by David R. Larson
(January
28, 2002)
Walking—Sometimes
Driving Really Fast—Through the Bible
Bruce
Feiler. Walking the Bible. New York: William Morrow,
2001.
Reviewed
by Mike Mennard
(January
21, 2002)
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