Book Reviews

Thomas C. Oden, After Modernity ... What? Agenda for Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990), 201 pp., cloth, $14.99.Clark H. Pinnock, Tracking the Maze: Finding Our Way Through Modern Theology from an Evangel... Continue Reading...

Fredrick Houk Borsch, Many Things in Parables: Extravagant Stories of New Community (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988), 167 pp., paper, $12.95.Robert Farrar Capon, The Parables of Grace (Grand Rapids: Eerdman... Continue Reading...

Thomas G. Long, The Witness of Preaching (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989), 216 pp., paper.Princeton Theological Seminary has long been a center for homiletics and the teaching of preaching. P... Continue Reading...

Choosing a "Book of the Year" out of the crowded field of recent releases is not an easy task. In the course of any publishing year several titles are worthy of special recognition and appreciation. The current... Continue Reading...

Calvin Miller, Spirit, Word, and Story: A Philosophy of Preaching (Dallas: Word Books, 1989), 237 pp.Evangelical publishing houses have experienced a renaissance of vitality in recent years, and Calvin Miller h... Continue Reading...

Haddon W. Robinson, ed. Biblical Sermons: How Twelve Preachers Apply the Principles of Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989), 262 pp., $11.95, cloth.Most teachers look with pride upon the pr... Continue Reading...

Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 360 pp., $25.00, cloth.David W. Lotz, editor, Altered Landscapes: Chri... Continue Reading...

Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 341 pp., $12.95, paper.The modern period has been marked by the dramati... Continue Reading...

The renewal of the pulpit over the past several years has produced some of the best works on preaching to be seen in any period. Major works by James W. Cox, John Killinger, David Buttrick, Fred Craddock and ot... Continue Reading...

James W. Cox, ed. Best Sermons 1 (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988), 384 pp., $16.95, cloth.Geoffrey W. Bromiley, the prolific theologian/translator of Kittel's Theological Wordbook of the New Testament and ... Continue Reading...