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Evangelii Gaudium: A Personal Response

Posted on January 5, 2014 by review_ed

“I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ.” (#3) “Every Christian is challenged, here and now, to be actively engaged in evangelization. Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that … Continue reading →

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Darwin’s Pious Idea

Posted on November 10, 2012 by review_ed

Conor Cunningham, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. xx + 543. Reviewed by Norm Klassen. Introduction This is an important book. It models a Christian engagement of biology that thoroughly … Continue reading →

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Unlearning Protestantism

Posted on July 19, 2011 by review_ed

Just finished Unlearning Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community in an Unstable Age (Brazos Press, 2010) by Gerald W. Schlabach, the founder of “Bridgefolk” an organization of Catholics and Mennonites who hope to learn from one another’s traditions. The thrust of the … Continue reading →

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Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

Posted on March 25, 2011 by review_ed

by James K.A. Smith Baker Academic (2009), Volume 1 of Cultural Liturgies, Paperback, 238 pages. This book is not (as its author is first to admit) theoretically ground-breaking, but Smith provides a first-rate application of theory to Christian practice. The … Continue reading →

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Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times

Posted on December 27, 2010 by review_ed

Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times – A Conversation with Peter Seewald, Michael J. Miller & Adrian J. Walker, trans. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010). Before being elected as … Continue reading →

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Romantic Orthodoxy, Militant Atheism, and a Question of Style

Posted on December 27, 2010 by review_ed

In a recent article, “The New Divide: Romantic versus Classical Orthodoxy,” Modern Theology 26 (2010), the Anglican theologian John Milbank, has identified a new divide between “romantic” and “classical” orthodoxy, one which replaces the older divide between theological orthodoxy and … Continue reading →

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The Wound of Knowledge

Posted on November 4, 2010 by review_ed

Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge, 2nd rev. ed., London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990. The title of this spiritually nourishing and academically challenging book its author draws from the poetry of R.S. Thomas. The Wound of Knowledge offers us … Continue reading →

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Human Rights, Social Justice, and Theology

Posted on November 3, 2010 by review_ed

At a meeting of the International Summer School in Venice, held this September Cardinal Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice and well-known to Communio readers, addressed the meeting on the topic “The “New Rights” in the European and American Public Space: … Continue reading →

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Beauty for Truth’s Sake

Posted on September 27, 2010 by review_ed

Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education, Stratford Caldecott, Brazos Press, 2009. As a Secondary Religious Education and Philosophy teacher I have given some thought and study to the question of Catholic Education. Sometimes in my more leisurely … Continue reading →

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Newman Biographies

Posted on September 27, 2010 by review_ed

For those of you caught up by our Newman Day seminar on September 18 and/or the beatification ceremonies of September 19 and  asking what Newman introductions and biographies are available, here are some rambling notes; The best books on Newman … Continue reading →

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