Book Reviews

Wounded I Sing From Advent to Christmas with George Herbert By Richard Harries SPCK, 144 pages, $14.99 Each year around Michaelmas I begin building my Advent/Christmas to-do list,...

Nicked By M.T. Anderson Pantheon, 240 pages, $28 Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves...

This is an autobiographical book that shares the remarkable life and memories of this extraordinary theologian.

Bartholomew writes in a consistent register that drives home his care for the well-being of all parts of the global community in a common family.

What makes Baptizing America a distinctive contribution is the authors’ assertion that Christian nationalism is not limited to white evangelicals and Pentecostals, or to recent decades.

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

A Catholic German philosopher who lived from 1904 to 1997, Josef Pieper shaped theological luminaries like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.

Transforming Friendship Investing in the Next Generation Lessons from John Stott and Others By John Wyatt IVP, 176 pages, $13.99 John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...

Rowan Williams reflects on early Eastern monastics’ teaching about the principal interior obstacles to spiritual growth.

Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane introduce non-Anglican evangelicals to a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge.

Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.

Passions of the Soul By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury Continuum, 121 + xxxiv pages, $15 At the heart of this slender volume is a series of retreat addresses...

We begin with Bede, who for Peter Ackroyd marks the beginning of English faith.

This book is a user manual to the International Version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer published by InterVarsity Press in 2021, edited by Bray and Keane. Once that initial confusion is cleared up, the book’s intention becomes quite clear: it introduces non-Anglican evangelicals discovering liturgy for the first time to a venerable and time-tested expression of Christian worship, a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge. 

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.

Autism and Worship A Liturgical Theology By Armand Léon van Ommen Baylor, 263 pages, $44.99 In 2015, my wife and I were struggling to raise our two young...

The phrases “Praise and Worship” and “Contemporary Worship” have a great deal of explanatory power for understanding large swathes of the modern church.

The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church By Danielle Treweek IVP Academic, 336 pages, $35 This important book by Danielle Treweek, a deacon...

Fratelli Tutti A Global Commentary Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, Ikenna Ugochuwku Okafor, and Daniel Franklin Cascade Books, 360 pages, $64 Here a set of...