Books

“The irony of Kautsky’s own story turns his book on its head when read from today. Karl Kautsky was wrong about Christianity, but his analysis, shifted to Marxism itself, rings true.” - Providence

“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

“Amid this flood of solid resources, these six recently published books on apologetics can help renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.” - TGC

“as helpful a correction as Radical is to a real problem in American Christianity, Platt nevertheless overcorrects and creates an unhealthy and unwarranted expectation…. In this article, I’m going to focus on three areas where I think Horton offers a helpful counter-correction to Platt.” - Christ Over All

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

“To claim ownership of one’s body without accepting the authority of anyone or anything else, including biology, could mean rejecting even the biological truths imprinted on one’s body since the womb. If you alone own your body, you can make it into anything you want” - Acton

“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 dozens of commentaries have been published on each of the gospels since the year 2000, we recommend these below because they have stood the test of time in an ‘evergreen’ way.” - Christ Over All

“The most dangerous ingredient in Rousseau’s ideas was an unbounded confidence in human ability. He scoffed at formal religion, assuming that through unaided reason, humans could discover all truth. In his view, we only need to be freed from the chains of superstition and authority.” - Breakpoint

“The book is a collection of sermon transcripts and essays by Kevin Bauder on the rationale behind Christian fundamentalism…. The book is really a philosophical statement rather than a theology or history of fundamentalism.” - Don Johnson