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** Missing the Mercy
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Review by Neil Dhingra
This erudite yet accessible book explores many different religious tradition's attempts to make a coherent account of the story of Noah, diving into Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of this deeply important story.
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** A Substantial Alternative to Retiring
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Review by J. Peter Pham
"In this book, Biggar—a priest of the Church of England and ex officio as Regius Professor, canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford—delivers a damning tally of what he forthrightly labels the evils of the centuries-long British colonial enterprise meriting moral condemnation.
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** Artist John La Forge's Complex Legacy
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Article by Greta Gaffin
Gaffin explores the complex legacy of the prolific artist of stained glass windows. A champion of a wholly new and uniquely American style of ecclesiastical decoration, his life's work is worthy of review.
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** Remaking the English Church
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Review by Calvin Lane
The product of decades of careful research, this lengthy and highly detailed book argues that Laudianism was a "second reformation"— a remaking of the English church.
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** Monks of Another Kind
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Review by Greg Peters
In this wonderful book full of wisdom, Guiver offers an examination of the history and structure of monasticism, a reflection on the nature of Christian community and shared Christian practices, like prayer.
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** A Word About Christian Hermeneutics
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Article by Garwood Anderson
Christian readers of scripture, the Old and New Testaments, have to wrestle with tensions across the canon. How do we reconcile them?
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