Book Reviews

“There’s nothing wrong with being intrigued by lost gospels…. But we always have to make sure we aren’t studying any gospel—including the canonical gospels—merely to satisfy or justify our preexisting preferences about the way we want Jesus to be. We don’t simply get to create the Jesus we like or the Jesus we prefer.” - TGC

Mark Ward discusses Gavin Ortlund’s book, What It Means to be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church and evaluates its arguments defending Protestantism against Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. - Ward on Words

“Something is indeed wrong in the West, yet it’s not clear that Franklin fully appreciates what it would mean to restore the civilization of the High Middle Ages.” - TGC

“We are what we read, shaped intellectually and spiritually and relationally over the course of a lifetime…. we are formed even by books we merely heard of and have an inkling about their contents. As they marinate in our memory for years and decades, these books become part of our own invisible inner libraries.” - Providence

“While I agree with some of Gifford’s concerns, I’m grateful that counseling and medical interventions are more readily available. If humans are both body and soul, and both are broken, then we need holistic help, which sometimes isn’t available within the local church.” - TGC

“Teaching the Virtues is not only a fine introduction to a conservative tradition animated by a regard for the Permanent Things, but also a promise of more to come. It is the first book published by a new imprint of the Russell Kirk Center, Mecosta House.” - Providence

Review: ‘The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic’ by Steven D. Smith… “While Smith grants that Christianity often provided the form and content of this providentialism, he argues that American providentialism was and is not dependent on Christianity.