Ted Grimsrud

BOOK REVIEW INDEX

Alpert, Rebecca. Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism

Alterman, Eric. What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News

Bacevich, Andrew. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Bacevich, Andrew. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War

Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization

Bassler, Jouette M. Navigating Paul: A Theological to Key Theological Concepts

Bauckham, Richard. Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World

Bess, Michael. Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II*

Beale. G. K. We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry

Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More

Breton, Denise and Stephen Lehman. The Mystic Heart of Justice: Restoring Wholeness in a Broken World

Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Buchanan, Patrick J. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. Crown Publishers, 2008.

Caputo, John D. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church

Chomsky, Noam. The Chomsky Reader

Chomsky, Noam. Interventions

Claiborne, Shane, and Chris Haws. Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

Clough, David L. and Brian Stiltner. Faith and Force: A Christian Debate About War*

Davis, Mike. In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire

Ellul, Jacques. Anarchy and Christianity

Fox, Richard Wrightman. Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography

Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

Gorman, Michael J. Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology*

Gorringe, Timothy J. Salvation

Goudzwaard, Bob. Idols of Our Time

Guyatt, Nicholas. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking Forward to the End of the World

Hall, Douglas John. Bound and Free: A Theologian’s Journey

Hankins, Barry. Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America

Herman, Arthur. Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Hitchcock, William I. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe

Hobsbawm, Eric. On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy

Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Holloway, Richard. On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgiven the Unforgivable

Horsley, Richard A., ed. In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance

Jacobs, Jane. Dark Age Ahead

Jeffery, Steve, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach. Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution

Kauffman, Bill. Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism

Kirsch, Jonathan. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization

Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Kosek, Joseph Kip. Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy

Kovac, Jeffrey. Refusing War, Affirming Peace

Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Leithart, Peter J. Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom

Leiter, David A. Neglected Voices: Peace in the Old Testament

Levine, Amy-Jill. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

Lind, Millard. The Sound of Sheer Silence and the Killing State: The Death Penalty and the Bible

Loconte, Joseph, ed. The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler’s Gathering Storm

Logan, James Samuel. Good Punishment: Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment

Marshall, Christopher D. Crowned with Glory and Honor: Human Rights in the Biblical Tradition

McElvaine, Robert S. Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America

McLaren, Brian. Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope

Miller, Lawrence McK. Witness to Humanity: A Biography of Clarence E. Pickett

Mojtabai, A. G. Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas

Odent, Michel. The Scientification of Love

Prejean, Sister Helen. The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions

Redekop, Paul. Changing Paradigms: Punishment and Restorative Discipline

Schaeffer, Frank. Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of it Back

Schlabach, Theron F. War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics

Segal, Jerome M. Joseph’s Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible

Seiple, D. and Frederick W. Wiedmann, eds. Enigmas and Powers: Engaging the Work of Walter Wink for Classroom, Church, and World

Sharlet, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe

Shuck, Glenn W. Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity

Skotnicki, Andrew. Criminal Justice and the Catholic Church

Standaert, Michael. Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire

Slaughter, Thomas P. The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition

Stout, Harry S. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

Swartley, Willard M. Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment [full review]

Swartley, Willard M. Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment [critical notes]

Taubes, Jacob. The Political Theology of Paul

Van Wijk-Bos, Johanna. Making Wise the Simple: The Torah in Christian Faith and Practice

Weaver, J. Denny. The Nonviolent Atonement

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Wicker, Christine. The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church

Wills, Garry. What Paul Meant

Wolf, Naomi. The End of America: Letters of Warning to a Young Patriot

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Justice: Rights and Wrongs

Wright, N.T. Evil and the Justice of God

Wright, N.T. Paul: In Fresh Perspective

Wright, Tom. Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision

Young, Jeremy. The Violence of God and the War on Terror

Zizek, Slavoj. Violence

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