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Book Review: When Athens Met Jerusalem, by John Mark Reynolds

May 6, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: The Christian message advanced in a Greco-Roman World prepared in many ways by both the failure of the Homeric gods and the classic philosophers. This book explores the intellectual antecedents to the gospel in pre-Socratic, Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian thought, culminating when Jerusalem meets Athens when Paul preaches on Mars Hill.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Aristotle, Book Review, christ and culture, christianity, classical thought, culture, intervarsity press, John Mark Reynolds, Plato, Socrates, Tertullian

Book Response: Christ and Culture Revisited, by D. A. Carson

March 22, 2016 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

D.A. Carson summarizes and critiques H. Richard Niebuhr’s typology in an excellent manner. By doing such he sets up the importance of biblical theology as the lens for the Evangelical culture engagement.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: biblical theology, Book Review, christ and culture, Christ and Culture Revisited, culture, d. a. carson, Evangelicalism, H. Richard Niebuhr, ministry to emerging generations, ministry to emerging generations series, secularism

Book Review: Renaissance, by Os Guinness

March 18, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Against the doomsayers speaking of the darkness of the times, Guinness remains hopeful for a spiritual and cultural renaissance in the west, rooted in the power of the Christian message; and he charts the tasks of faithful witness that precede this and the contours of such a renaissance.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: Book Review, christ and culture, Cultural Renewal, culture, Evangelical Manifesto, intervarsity press, Os Guinness, Renaissance, Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times

Book Response: Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr

March 17, 2016 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Christ and Culture’s ideal-typical method offers a platform to begin a conversation about “The Enduring Problem” regarding “the relations of Christianity and civilization” (1).

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice, Ministry to Emerging Generations Tagged With: Book Review, christ and culture, culture, george marsden, H. Richard Niebuhr, James M. Gustafson, ministry to emerging generations, ministry to emerging generations series

Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power

May 26, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Tonight, as part of Biblical Seminary’s Conversations on Christianity & Culture lecture series, Andy Crouch speaks on Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power. What are your thoughts on the topic? Any questions I should ask the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (InterVarsity Press, 2008), winner of Christianity […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, andy crouch, christ and culture, culture, culture-making, power, Richard Mouw

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