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Christian Book Reviews
Nancy Pearcey is well equipped to write this classic work on a biblical worldview. The late Francis Schaeffer personally trained her. She also wrote a classic worldview text with Chuck Colson entitled, How Then Shall We Live? So it is fitting that she now authored one of the best worldview texts of the modern era. This work by Pearcey combines her own personal testimony in which she ended up at Schaeffer's L'Abri in Switzerland where she learned her the importance of a biblical worldview with keen insights into the pathology of the present culture. She draws heavily from Schaeffer's classic illustration of the culture in which he compares it to a two-story building, the lower story containing the cognitive stuff that counts as real knowledge such as science, reason, date, etc. and the upper story the non-cognitive stuff (such as religion). She thoroughly dismantles this cultural myth demonstrating that religion belongs in the cognitive realm every bit as much as science and data. Having personally used this as a text for my students, I have seen its value. For those with little or no training in worldview this book clearly and precisely describes the main components of a biblical worldview as well as explains the difference between it and every other worldview. I highly recommend it as a primer for those wanting to be adequately prepared to defend the Christian message in a postmodern world. Available at Amazon
This classic work by Neil Silverberg follows the movements of the ancient ark of the covenant through its wilderness wanderings and draws from that history relevant principles for church life today. The overriding passion of this message is the supremacy of God's testimony in His Son. This work demonstrates those principles which are always evident in God's restoration of the testimony of His Son in his house. Available at www.ezraproject.org
Once in a while a book comes along that stands as a classic on a certain topic. Gordon Fee's ‘God's Empowering Presence’ is one of those works. This exhaustive work examines every reference in the Pauline corpus to the Holy Spirit. But for many of us this massive tome (as Fee himself described it) is far to large to tackle. Thankfully, Fee has crystallized the basic essence of that book in his work entitled ‘Paul, the Spirit and the People of God.” The result is another classic work on the topic of the Holy Spirit that is both instructive and readable. I highly recommend this work by Fee. Available at Amazon |
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Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God