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James Michener’s Mexico (1992) borrows some of the characters, styles, and agendas from his other books, but does it well! A Christian review. Continue reading
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Understanding Four Views on Baptism John H. Armstrong, ed. (2007)
Zondervan’s Counterpoints series is the first of its kind that I have ever come across, a kind of textbook which mixes the best qualities of formal debates with the ease of a chapter book. Four authors who span the spectrum … Continue reading
The Reformers and their Stepchildren by Leonard Verduin (1964)
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The Reformers and their Stepchildren is not your classic pleasure-read. I picked it up as a classroom assignment, and “textbook” is the exact genre label I would give it. But while it was thick with facts and a drudgery at … Continue reading
The Story of Christianity, Volume II by Justo L. Gonzalez (1985)
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The Reformation to the Present Day During my first church history course, I found my textbook, Justo Gonzalez’s first volume of The Story of Christianity so enthralling that I actually found myself at times forgetting that it was a history … Continue reading
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya by Ruth Tucker (1983)
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A Biographical History of Christian Missions Ruth Tucker’s biographical masterpiece, From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, plates the vast and flavorful feast of missionary history so expertly that the reader, though entirely satisfied, still craves more. The only flaw of Tucker’s … Continue reading
Sola Scriptura by Reformation Trust Publishers (2009)
Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible by Reformation Trust Publishers (2009) As the subtitle suggests, this book is as much an apologetic for Protestantism’s stand on Scripture as it is an argument against Catholicism’s. The debates are full, … Continue reading