Books

Books

The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes

Dean H. Hamer

The God Gene:

May 31, 2005 reviewed by Carl Keener
Is spirituality genetically based? A behavior geneticist discusses the VMAT2 gene.

Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham

D. G. Hart

Deconstructing Evangelicalism

May 31, 2005 reviewed by Donald G. Bloesch
Hart paints a bleak picture of evangelicalism, a movement he believes is increasingly lacking in theological depth and substance.

The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells, eds.

The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics

William K. Schweiker, ed.

Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present

Oliver O'Donovan and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan

Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law

Jean Porter

The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II

Charles E. Curran

Defending Human Dignity: John Paul II and Political Realism

Derek S. Jeffreys

Bioethics: A Primer for Christians

Gilbert Meilaender

Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia

Nigel Biggar

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

Cornel West

Arguing About War

Michael Walzer

Take and read

May 17, 2005
These two important new reference works provide comprehensive guides to the field of ethics.

The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch

Christopher H. Evans

Kingdom coming

May 17, 2005 reviewed by Max L. Stackhouse
We have needed a good biography of Walter Rauschenbusch for some time, and Christopher Evans has provided us with the best one so far.

Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.

Rainer Albertz

The Ten Commandments: The Reciprocity of Faithfulness

William P. Brown, ed.

There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible

Leslie J. Hoppe

The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible

James L. Kugel

The God You Have: Politics, Religion, and the First Commandment

Patrick D. Miller

Rise Up, O Judge: A Study of Justice in the Biblical World

Enrique Nardoni

The Book of Job

A Contest of Moral Imaginations

by Carol A. Newsom

Jeremiah (Chalice Commentaries for Today)

Jorge Pixley

Theory and Practice in Old Testament Ethics

Mark Daniel Carroll R. and John W. Rogerson

How Are the Mighty Fallen? A Dialogical Study of King Saul in 1 Samuel

Barbara Green

Take and read

May 17, 2005
The most important historian of Israelite religion probes the sources and issues of the 6th century BCE, now a focus of the most generative work on the production of the Hebrew Bible.