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Graveside Praise

Russell E. Saltzman

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

Russell E. Saltzman

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

Russell E. Saltzman

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

Russell E. Saltzman

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

Russell E. Saltzman

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?

Russell E. Saltzman

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

Russell E. Saltzman

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...