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Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide To Six Shakespeare Plays 3 reviews
Peter J. Leithart
Canon Press, 1996
eye-opening
I appreciated this book for its Christian perspective on a few of my favorite Shakespeare plays. The author explored not only the plots, but also the characters' relationships to Christ. The author made insightful parallels and comparisons between the characters and Christ and His church. I also appreciated the critiques of some of the film versions of the plays. I heartily recommend this ...
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Breath Marks: Haiku to Read in the Dark2 reviews
Gary Hotham
Canon Press, 1999
a slivered glimpse of haiku
I bought this book on a lark and found that one reading was not enough. I have read it many times over and seen varying images appear in each haiku. I have shared his haiku with others who also enjoy his breath. It is a beautiful slivered glimpse of haiku. Try reading it between an inhale and an exhale and feel the marks it leaves in your breath. A most appropriately titled book. I am looking ...
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Blessed Are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lord's Supper4 reviews
Peter J. Leithart
Canon Press, 2000
Best little book I've read all year!!!
"Years ago I got into the habit of trying to read one book on the topic of the Lord's Supper as part of my preparation for Communion. Since the church I attended at the time only celebrated quarterly it wasn't too difficult to dig up titles on the subject. Anyway, in preparing for Communion I picked up Peter Leithart's 'Blessed are the hungry' which is mostly a collection of 3-5 page meditations. ...
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Face to Face: Meditations on Friendship and Hospitality4 reviews
Steve Wilkins
Canon Press, 2002
Enlightening and Convicting
Steve Wilkins has once again hit a home run. So many people have forgotten the basic fundamentals of friendship and hospitality. We like to think we're friends to many and hospitable as well, but are we really? Wilkins calls us to examine the nature of biblical friendship and hospitality, both of which are sadly lacking in 21st century America. Are our shortcomings in these areas due to ...
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Easy Chairs, Hard Words: Conversations on the Liberty of God11 reviews
Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 1997
Love the Analogies
This is a solid book. Doug Wilson explains many of the common questions about Calvinism and Reformed thinking (beginning, of course, by stating his reticence to use these terms) in an engaging, informative manner. I have read assorted other books on Calvinism, and Doug Wilson here answers some questions in ways I've never seen them answered before, and gives great analogies to help understand ...
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To a Thousand Generations: Infant Baptism ~ Covenant Mercy to the Children of God4 reviews
Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 1996
Much light, little heat, and a sprinkling of water...
The debate over infant baptism has raged across the centuries, often causing rifts and wounds that won't heal. The tragic thing about these debates is that they often rest on misinformation and confusion. How many advocates of infant baptism attempt to appeal to the phantom children of the Philippian jailer? How many opponents of infant baptism equate it with baptismal regeneration? In both ...
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Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing6 reviews
Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 1997
The best Biblical book on child rearing I have ever read!
I could not stop reading this wonderful book, it is ballanced, and Biblical. I love the positive approach and the emphasis on loving children, and creating a pleasant atmosphere in the home. I have recommended this book to everyone I know who has children, and I highly recommend it to Amozon.com readers
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Trinity & Reality: An Introduction to the Christian Faith5 reviews
Ralph A. Smith
Canon Press, 2004
The Reality of Trinity
From our earliest years in Sunday School, we learn that God is one Being but three Persons. Unfortunately, that is as far as most Christians go in their understanding of the Trinity, the best known but least understood doctrine of the Christian faith. Thanks to Ralph Smith, there is now an introduction to the Trinity that is readable and accessible to the average lay person.
In Trinity & ...
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The Dragon and the Garden (Old Stories)3 reviews
N.D. Wilson
Canon Press, 2007
For kids from three to ninety-three
You'd think that it would be easy to dismiss 'The Dragon and the Garden' as yet another quaint retelling of a story that many of us have heard over and over again. Surprisingly however, N.D Wilson succeeds at giving us a fresh look at this old story and, combined with Peter Bentleys terrific illustrations, presents a picture of the Garden of Eden that will no-doubt spark the imaginations of kids ...
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Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene4 reviews
Edmund Spenser
Canon Press, 1999
Transcendental (but not the Emerson type)
Roy Maynard ought to be commended for aiding us in reading Spenser. Personally, I think Spenser tells a better yarn than Shakespeare, with all due respect to the Bard. This book was written by a Christian, with powerful Christian overtones, and Christians will benefit the most from it. The language is archaic, the story is...well...schockingly relevant. I said in the title that the book is ...
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Deep Comedy: Trinity, Tragedy, & Hope In Western Literature1 review
Peter J. Leithart
Canon Press, 2006
The Hilarity of the Gospel
This book aims at joy--nothing else. Joy is intensified in the despair of (post)modern life. Leithart also neatly connects joy (think comedy) with the Trinity. Leithart aims to show eschatological moments within the Trinity. And if these moments take place within space-time, then this book also aims at eschatology. An eschatology of hope.
The short thesis of this book is that Western ...
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At the Edge of the Village: Musings of a Missionary Wife1 review
Lisa Leidenfrost
Canon Press, 2004
My kids howled...then they prayed
Lisa Leidenfrost brought the joys and trials of missionary life into my living room as I read this book aloud to my wife and children. It's got all the great stories told without a hint of self-pity...no matter how many ants are present...that endeared the Leidenfrosts to my family such that my children are motivated to pray for them all the time.
These people are first rate!
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Repairing the Ruins: The Classical and Christian Challenge to Modern Education2 reviews
Canon Press, 1996
Repairing the Ruins
This is an excellent volume of essays by various authors presenting the philosophy and practical "how to's" of Christian classical education. Anyone interested in recovering excellence in education should read this book.
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The Christian in Complete Armour1 review
Canon Press, 1999
Life Changing
This book will change your life.It is so powerful and will really shake you to the core.Thsi will seperate the mice from the men.If you are a christian this will challenge you to continue to fight the Lords battle.I highly recommend this book
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How To Be Free From Bitterness2 reviews
Jim Wilson
Canon Press, 1995
This book will change your life, get it right now!
I found this book when I was searching for a Latin Primer for my eight year old daughter last year. I got it because the title was interesting. I have given this book to family, friends and members of my church. Everyone I know needs to read this book at lease once in their life. Even if you feel that this does not apply to you what do you have to lose if you read it. You may also know someone ...
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Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy1 review
Peter J. Leithart
Canon Press, 2001
Ascent to Understanding Dante!
Unless you are a literature professor or certified theologian, do not attempt to read Dante's Divine Comedy without this book!(My understanding is that Leithart happens to be both!) My teenage daughter and I attempted to work our way through the trilogy without Leithart's excellent guide. Finally, I just set it aside until Leithart's book was published. What a difference some guidance makes. ...
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Cantus Christi1 review
Canon Press, 2004
Not Kum Ba Yah
This is a hefty 450 pages full of both Psalms and Hymns.
The Psalms are divided into: musical style-metrical (for beginners), chant (Gregorian and Anglican), and through-composed (actual Psalm text rather than a metrical version).
The hymns have five categories: Sacraments, Festivals, Adoration, Supplication, and Evening Hymns.
But wait, there's more! Louis Shuler gives an excellent ...
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Evangelical Heathenism: Examining Contemporary Revivalism1 review
E. Calvin Beisner
Canon Press, 1999
Good Critique of the Moral Government Theory of the Atonement
This book is not so much a critique of American revivalism as it is a critique of the Moral Government theory of the atonement of Christ. Beisner takes the adherents of this theory to task for denying the complete foreknowledge of God, the total depravity of sinful humanity, and the substitutionary atonement of Christ to pay the price for our sins.
The MGT theory is that Christ died to satisfy ...
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Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Ex on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America1 review
Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 2005
Black and Tan, a new view of the causes of the Civil War
Douglas Wilson writes as a well informed Christian rather than as an academic. As a result, his book is very readable. Three lessons may be learned from this excellent book:
That both the North and the South acted under grave misconceptions about the problem of slavery, and that both mistakenly looked for a political rather than a Christian solution;
That the major sins of the North were their ...
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Beyond Promises: A Biblical Challenge to Promise Keepers1 review
David Hagopian, Douglas Wilson
Canon Press, 1996
Former PK staffer offer high praise for Beyond Promises
This is an excellent book that shares the Biblical problems with the PK movement, which should lead readers to ask questions about the inner workings of PK. Where there's smoke, there is fire.
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