Per Crucem ad Lucem features regular book reviews. Books for consideration should be addressed to:
Rev Dr Jason Goroncy
Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership
Arden Street, Opoho
Dunedin, 9010
New Zealand
Jason is also the reviews editor for Candour, a magazine for ministers and leaders of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Books, films or music for possible review in Candour can also be posted to the above address, with a note specifying that the item is intended for review in that forum.
BOOKS
- Ashcroft, Bill and Frances Devlin-Glass, and Lyn McCredden. Intimate Horizons: The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature (ATF Press, 2009)
- Baab, Lynne. Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual World (IVP, 2011)
- Baylies, Peter. The Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook (Chicago Review Press, 2004)
- Bebbington, David. Victorian Nonconformity (Paternoster, 2007)
- Boyd, Gregory A. & Paul R. Eddy. Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology (Baker Academic, 2006)
- Bradley, W.L. P.T. Forsyth: The Man and His Work (Independent Press, 1952)
- Brewer, Christopher R. Art that Tells the Story (Gospel through Shared Experience, 2011)
- Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (University of California Press, 2000)
- Brown, Robert McAfee. P. T. Forsyth, Prophet for Today (Westminister Press, 1952)
- Busch, Eberhard. Barth (Abingdon Press, 2008)
- Cairns, Scott. The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain (Paraclete Press, 2009)
- Carr, Simonetta. John Calvin (Reformation Heritage Books, 2008)
- Chesterton, G.K. The Dumb Ox (Doubleday, 1956)
- Dawson, Gerrit Scott (ed). An Introduction to Torrance Theology: Discovering the Incarnate Saviour (T&T Clark, 2007)
- Deddo, Gary W. Karl Barth’s Theology of Relations: Trinitarian, Christological, and Human: Towards an Ethic of the Family (P. Lang, 1999)
- Dekar, Paul R. Community of the Transfiguration: The Journey of a New Monastic Community (Cascade Books, 2008)
- Donovan, Vincent J. The Church in the Midst of Creation (Orbis, 1989)
- Driel, Edwin Christian van. Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Forsyth, Peter T. Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (Hodder & Stoughton, 1907)
- ———-. This Life and the Next (Independent Press, 1918)
- Fergusson, David. ‘Will the Love of God Finally Triumph?’, pages 186–202 in Nothing Greater, Nothing Better: Theological Essays on the Love of God (Eerdmans, 2001)
- Gibson, David. Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth (T&T Clark, 2009)
- Gibson, David and Daniel Strange (eds). Engaging with Barth: Contemporary Evangelical Critiques (Apollos, 2008)
- Gockel, Matthias. Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- Gossai, Hemchand. Barrenness and Blessing: Abraham, Sarah, and the Journey of Faith (Cascade Books, 2008)
- Gunton, Colin E. A Brief Theology of Revelation (T&T Clark, 1999)
- ———-. The Barth Lectures (T&T Clark, 2007)
- Habets, Myk. Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance (Ashgate, 2009)
- Hample, Stuart and Eric Marshall. Children’s Letters to God (Workman Publications, 1991)
- Hart, Trevor (ed). Justice the True and Only Mercy: Essays on the Life and Theology of Peter Taylor Forsyth, (T&T Clark, 1994)
- Hazel, Harry. The Joy of Teaching: Effective Strategies for the Classroom (Pickwick Publications, 2010)
- Higton, Mike. SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine (SCM Press, 2008)
- Hill, Bartha. Trust God, Keep the Faith: The Story of Guido de Bres (Inheritance Publications, 2011)
- Holmen, R.W. A Wretched Man: A Novel of Paul the Apostle (Bascom Hill, 2009)
- Holmes, Christopher R.J. Ethics in the Presence of Christ (T&T Clark, 2012)
- Holmes, Stephen R. The Wondrous Cross: Atonement and Penal Substituion in the Bible and History (Paternoster, 2007)
- Houlden, J. L. Jesus: A Question of Identity (Continuum, 2006)
- Jenson, Robert W. and Solveig Lucia Gold. Conversations with Poppi about God: An Eight-Year-Old and Her Theologian Grandfather Trade Questions (Brazos Press, 2006)
- Jones, Joe R. On Being the Church of Jesus Christ in Tumultuous Times (Cascade Books, 2005)
- Kelly, Geoffrey B. and F. Burton Nelson. The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Eerdmans, 2003)
- Kennedy, Geoffrey A. Studdert. After War, Is Faith Possible?: The Life and Message of Geoffrey “Woodbine Willie” Studdert Kennedy (ed. Kerry Walters; Cascade, 2008).
- Kyle, Richard G. & Dale W. Johnson. John Knox: An Introduction to His Life and Works (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
- Langford, Thomas A. Reflections on Grace (Cascade Books, 2007)
- Lorenzen, Thorwald. Toward a Culture of Freedom: Reflections on the Ten Commandments Today (Cascade Books, 2008)
- Mackintosh, Hugh Ross. The Person of Jesus Christ (T&T Clark, 2000)
- Madsen, Anna M. The Theology of the Cross in Historical Perspective (Pickwick Publications, 2007)
- Mariña, Jacqueline. Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- McCormack, Bruce L. (ed). Justification in Perspective: historical developments and contemporary challenges (Baker Academic/Rutherford House, 2006)
- McGlasson, Paul C. Invitation to Dogmatic Theology: A Canonical Approach (Brazos Press, 2006)
- McGrath, Alister E. The Life of John Calvin(Blackwell, 1993)
- Newton, John. The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune (Victoria University Press, 2009)
- Payne, Don J. The Theology of the Christian Life in J. I. Packer’s Thought (Paternoster, 2006)
- Preuschoff, Gisela. Raising Girls (Ten Speed Press, 2006)
- Reader, John and Christopher R. Baker. (eds). Entering the New Theological Space: Blurred Encounters of Faith, Politics and Community (Ashgate, 2009)
- Robbins, Anna M. Ecumenical and Eclectic: The Unity of the Church in the Contemporary World: Essays in Honour of Alan P. F. Sell (Paternoster, 2007)
- Robinson, Anthony B. Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008)
- Sell, Alan P.F. Hinterland Theology: A Stimulus to Theological Construction (Paternoster, 2008)
- ———-. Nonconformist Theology in the Twentieth Century (Paternoster, 2006)
- Sell, Alan P.F. and Anthony R. Cross (eds). Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century (Paternoster, 2003)
- Severson, Eric R. (ed). The Least of These: Selected Readings in Christian History (Cascade, 2007)
- Stackhouse Jr., John G. (ed). What Does It Mean To Be Saved?: Broadening Evangelical Horizons of Salvation (Baker Academic, 2002)
- Stringfellow, William. Free in Obedience (Wipf and Stock, 2006)
- ———-. Imposters of God: Inquiries into Favorite Idols (Wipf and Stock, 2006); Parts I, II, III, IV
- ———-. Instead of Death (Wipf and Stock, 2004); Parts I, II, III, IV
- Talbott, Thomas. The Inescapable Love of God (Universal Publishers, 1999)
- Terry, Justyn, The Justifying Judgement of God (Paternoster, 2007)
- The Rutba House (ed). School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (Cascade Books, 2005)
- Wilson, John E. Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition (Westminster John Knox, 2007)
- Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan. The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture (Paraclete Press, 2010)
- York, Tripp. The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom (Herald Press, 2007)
- Young, William P. The Shack (Windblown Media, 2007)
FILM
MUSIC
- Theology, by Sinéad O’Connor
- Free Running, by Richard Maegraith Band
- One Voice, by Malcolm Gordon
