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Graveside Praise
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons ? by Lucy Bregman? Baylor, 263 pages, $24.95 n If thirty years ago my seminary classmates and I had any notion...
Review of The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate
The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science & Religion Debate by Adam Frank University of California Press, 304 pages, $24.95 n Frank finds his spirituality in science, spirituality being the...
Review of Paths Not Taken: Fates of Theology from Luther Through Leibniz
Paths Not Taken: Fates of Theology from Luther Through Leibniz by Paul R. Hinlicky Eerdmans, 400 pages, $50 n Broadly, Hinlicky is on a rescue mission to save theology...
Review of Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra HarperOne, 288 pages, $24.95 n The problem with the gospels, says Chopra, is that they give us a “static” Jesus”a Jesus...
Review of Life in Space
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix Harvard, 344 pages, $29.95 n Mix is an Episcopal priest with a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, and the...
Review of Who Killed the Constitution?
Who Killed the Constitution? by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman Crown Forum, 272 pages, $25.95 n Maybe you didn’t know the Constitution was dead; hence, this...
Here He Stood
A year after Richard John Neuhaus left Martin Luther’s Wittenberg for St. Peter’s Rome, he was interviewed for an Australian publication. He noted the Roman turbulence into which he...