Bilbro, J. “The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity. By Joseph R. Wiebe” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity” By Joseph R. Wiebe.
Bilbro, J. “If God meant to interfere: American literature and the rise of the Christian Right.” Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries 54, no. 4 (December 2016): 536.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right” by Christopher Douglas.
Edwards, Mark. “American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea.” Journal Of Church And State no. 3 (2016): 580.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea” by John D. Wilsey.
Widstrom, Laura. “Redefining the Role of the Youth Worker: A Manifesto of Integration.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 15, no. 1 (Fall2016): 143-145.
Abstract: The article reviews the book “Redefining the Role of the Youth Worker: A Manifesto of Integration,” by April Diaz.
Widstrom, Laura. “Washed and Still Waiting: An Evangelical Approach to Homosexuality.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 15, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 111-114.
Abstract: A review is offered for the article “Washed and Still Waiting: An Evangelical Approach to Homosexuality” by Wesley Hill published in a 2016 issue of “Journal of Evangelical Theological Society.”
Bilbro, Jeffrey. “This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems.” Christianity & Literature 65, no. 4 (September 2016): 524-528.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems” by Wendell Berry.
Rinck, Jonathan. “Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin.” Sixteenth Century Journal 47, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 522-524.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin” edited by Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes.
Widstrom, Laura. “Hopecasting.” Journal Of Youth Ministry 14, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 116-118.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “Hopecasting: Finding, Keeping and Sharing the Things Unseen” b Mark Oestreicher.
Hawthorne, John W. “New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism.” American Journal Of Sociology 121, no. 5 (March 2016): 1647-1649.
Abstract: The article reviews the book, “New Monasticism and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism” by Wes Markofski.
Hawthorne, John W. “Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Perils/The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons.” Christian Scholar’s Review 45, no. 2 (2016): 187-191.
Abstract: Christian scholarship offers both positive and negative outcomes for the Christian scholar. […]it would have been helpful if the authors had been asked to address similar themes from their various perspectives. The editors had a substantive teleological aim: [I]f there are Christian approaches to the various academic disciplines, it might be that bj’ approaching them in these ways, we can better manifest the gospel, better image the manifold wisdom and beauty of God, better serve a suffering world.
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