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December 1998

 

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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science.
By Alan D. Sokal & Jean Bricmont.
San Francisco: St Martin, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2

  • this book exposes the ignorance and charlatanism of the French postmoderns concerning their criticism of natural science and mathematics
  • unfortunately the authors espouse the naive view of "scientism" (they think that knowledge is only what is empirically testable) and are unable to refute postmodernism at the philosophical level
  • the book is great fun reading because of its many hilarious citations of postmodern craze...

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The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology.
Edited by John Greco & Ernest Sosa.
London: Blackwell, 1998.

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The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics.
By Peter Van Inwagen.
Boulder, Col.: Westview, 1998.

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The Last Crusade : Spain: 1936.
By Warren H. Carroll.
Christendom, 1998

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  • A catholic view on this controversial part of history

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The Master's Perspective on Contemporary Issues.
Edited by Robert L. Thomas.
Master's Perspective Series, Vol 2
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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Difficulty: 3

  • apologetic exegetical contributions on prophecy (against Grudem), healing (against Deere), freemasonery, feminism... 

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The Return of Credibility: Scientific Discoveries support Belief in the Bible's Creation Account.
By Joe T. Ator.
Vantage, 1998.

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  • not concerned about natural history (concording the sequence of events of Gen. 1 with the paleontological chronology), but rather about the confirmation for the idea of creation (Big Bang)
  • also some apologetics against (macro-)evolution and young earth creationism

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November 1998

 

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities.
By William A. Dembski.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.

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Difficulty: 5 (research)
  • Philosophical breakthrough arguing for design instead of materialism

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The Genesis Question : Scientific Advances and the Accuracy of Genesis.
By Hugh Ross.
Colorado Springs, Col.: Navpress, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2 (popular)
  • a clear and sound harmonization between the most recent results of the natural sciences and the Genesis account
  • neither materialist/liberal nor fundamentalist (young earth, flood geologies), but more directed at convincing fundamentalists than liberals

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The God Who Would Be Known: Revelations of the Divine in Contemporary Science..
By John M. Templeton and Robert L. Herrmann.
Templeton Foundation, 1998.

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The Double-Edged Sword : How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton.
By Robert Shogan.
Wesstview, 1998.

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Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts.
By Philip W. Comfort.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up : A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan.
By William L. Craig and John D. Crossan.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2 (popular)
  • Excellent debate between two scholars: a Christian (Craig, philosopher and Biblical historian) and a naturalist (Crossan, the famous leader of the Jesus Seminar)
  • also available in audio
  • the book contains the responses of Miller, Blomberg, Borg and Witherington

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Praying with C.S. Lewis : Companions for the Journey.
Edited by Charles C. Taliaferro and Carl Koch.
St Mary, 1998.

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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha & the New Testament .
By James H. Charlesworth .
Trinity, 1998.

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  • authoritative work on the relation between theses books and the books of the New Testament

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The City of God Against the Pagans.
By Saint Augustine.
Trans. and ed. by R. W. Dyson.
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.

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  • a new translation in fluent English, with notes appendices, etc.

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The Lesson of Carl Schmitt : Four Chapters on the Distinction Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy
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By .Heinrich Meier
Tr. by M. Brainard. 
University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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  • a seminal work on the tought of Schmitt, and his view of the relationship between theology and politics

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Law As Politics : Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism.
Ed. by David Dyzenhaus.
Duke Univ Pr, 1998.

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C.S. Lewis : Memories and Reflections.
By John Lawlor.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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Branches to Heaven : The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis.
By James T. Como.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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October 1998

 

 

 

Christianity and European Culture : Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson.
By Christopher Dawson.
Edited by Gerald J. Russello.
Washington D. C;: Catholic U. of America, 1998.

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The New Tolerance: How a Cultural Movement Threatens to Destroy You, Your Faith, and Your Children.
By Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler.
Tyndale, 1998.

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The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses.
By Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate.
New York: Free Press, 1998.

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  • about the secretive abuse and intolerance on campus by means of "political correctness", by the leftist extremists who pretend to be defenders of free speech

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The Culture of Critique .
By Kevin B. MacDonald.
Praeger, 1998.

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  • unmasks leftist agenda's in psychology and other human sciences

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Disputed Questions on Virtue: Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus in Commune & Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus Cardinalibus.
By St.Thomas Aquinas.
Intr. and ed.. by Ralph McInerny
St Augustine, 1998.

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Domestic Tranquility : A Brief Against Feminism.
By F. Carolyn Graglia.
Spence, 1997.

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  • profound analysis of feminism
  • a women case that feminism is anti-female and anti-human and leads to misery instead of real fulfillment and happiness
  • wide-ranging (marriage, sexuality, motherhood, domestic roles, etc.)

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The Master's Perspective on Difficult Passages.
Edited by Robert L. Thomas.
Master's Perspective Series, Vol 1
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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Difficulty: 3

  • among other, apologetic contributions of gifted anti-montanist exegetes such as Richard Mayhue and Robert Thomas 

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Jihad in the West : Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries.
By Paul Fregosi.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1998.

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  • shows that Islamic has a murderous warrior character built-in and has been a religion of war and murder throughout the centuries, even right from the beginning

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The Law.
By Frederic Bastiat.
Foundation for Economic Education, 1998.

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September 1998

 

 

 

Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity : Essays in Conversation with Louis Dupré.
Editted by Peter J. Casarella and George P. Schner.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

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Mere Creation; Science, Faith and Intelligent Design
Edited by William A. Dembski.
Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1998.

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Difficulty: 3 (academic)
  • A must for those interested in natural history
  • with papers by Moreland, Craig, Behe, Johnson, Ross, Dembski, Meyer, Nelson and many others

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The Face that demonstrate the Farce of Evolution.
By Hank Hanegraaff.
Dallas: Word, 1998.

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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus.
Edited by Lee Strobel.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

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Difficulty: 1 (very easy)

  • contains interviews of the leading scholars about Jesus, representing what the overwhelming majority (a few thousands) of NT scholars really think
  • bestselling answer to the allegations of the small dozen of teachers in Jesus Seminar who pretend to represent modern scholarship

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The Jesus Crisis : The Inroads of Historical Criticism into Evangelical Scholarship.
By Robert L. Thomas and F. David Farnell.
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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Difficulty: 3 (academic)
  • analyses the roots of hist. crit., as well its fruits among evangelicals (incl. famous ones such as Blomberg, Boyd, Carson, Gundry, Marshall, Osborne, Wenham, Wilkins, etc.)
  • "This is the best up-todate analysis of the dangerous drift of evangelical scholarship into negative higher criticism of the New Testament" Norman Geisler

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St. Augustine's City of God.
By Terry Miethe.
Nahsville: Broadman & Holman, 1998.

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Relativism: Feet firmly Planted in Mid-Air.
By Francis J. Beckwith & Gregory Koukl.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

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Difficulty: 1 (very easy)

  • exposition and refutation of relativism in general and in some special cases
  • good arguments presented in a lively, practical manner

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Love Between Women : Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism .
By Bernadette J. Brooten.
The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
U. of Chicago, 1998.

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  • a study in the antic world and the Christian response to lesbianism
  • also an answer to Gay interpretations of Rom. 1.

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August 1998

 

 

 

Metaphysics : The Big Questions.
Edited by Peter Van Inwagen & Dean W. Zimmerman.
London: Blackwell, 1998.

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Providence and the Problem of Evil..
By Richard Swinburne.
Oxford: Oxford U., 1998.

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Difficulty: 4 (difficult)
  • The final book by the famous Oxford  philosopher, with which he ends his career

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There's More to Life Than Politics.
By William P. Murchison.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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  • a collection of conservative columns on many issues

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July 1998

 

 

Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity : the Thought of Louis Dupré.
Editted by Peter J. Casarella and George P. Schner.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

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Christianity on the Offense : Responding to the Beliefs and Assumptions of Spiritual Seekers.
By Dan Story.
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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Out of a Kantian Chrysalis?: A Maritainian Critique of Fr. Maréchal.
By Ronald McCamy.
New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

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Difficulty: 5 (research)

  • a fresh defense of Thomist realism (such as Maritain's) against the Kantian idealism of the "Neothomists" (such as Maréchal's)
  • important contribution to epistemology
  • vital contribution for Thomism

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Goddess Unmasked : The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality.
By Philip G. Davis.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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Legislating Morality: Is it Wise, is it Legal? Is It Possible? .
By Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek.
Minneapolis, Min.: Bethany House, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2 (popular)
  • The must book about politics, law and morality

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Tenured Radicals : How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education.
By Roger Kimball.
Rev. ed.
Ivan R. Dee, 1998.

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  • a lucid analysis of the postmodern perversion of what used to by academical

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Action and Conduct : Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action.
By Stephen L. Brock
Edinburgh: T&T Clard, 1998.

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The Authority of Reason.
By Jean E. Hampton.
Ed. by R. A. Healey.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.

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  • argues that ethics is as much scientific as the natural sciences

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Nature's Destiny : How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe..
By Michael Denton.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998

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Difficulty: 3 (academic)
  • "From the laws of physic to chemistry to biology, (...) he [Denton] shows the goal of the cosmos to be human life." M. Behe.

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A House built on Sand. Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science.
Edited by Noretta Koertge.
Oxford: Oxford Univ. , 1998.

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  • answers the criticism of the social "scientists" and postmoderns who claim that natural science is more a sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist... endoctrination that it is a study of the natural world.

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June 1998

 

 

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Objections Sustained : Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture..
By Phillip E. Johnson.
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998.

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  • a collection of essays on Darwinism, postmodernism and politics, the university and law

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The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New Scientific Evidence.
By John C. Iannone.
Alba, 1998

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Archaeology and the Old Testament.
By Alfred J. Hoerth
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

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Difficulty: 3 (academic)
  • comprehensive and rather up-to-date
  • unfortunately does not integrate the latest contributions (such as David Rohl's or James Hoffmeier's)

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Selected Philosophical Writings.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Trans. by T. McDermott.
Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1998.

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Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory.
Edited by John Finnis.
Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought.
Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1998.

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  • historically-informed account of Aquinas'work on these issues, with an assessment of his central ideas and arguments
  • shows how Aquinas makes clear and profound contribution to present debates

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Getting What You Want : A Critique of Liberal Morality.
By Robert Brecher, Bob Brecher
London : Routledge, 1997.
(paperback 1998.)

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What if the Bible had never been written?
By D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe.
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2
  • a calvinist study of the impact of the Bible
  • not so objective, e. g. does not cover the negative influence of fundamentalism (Franciscan nominalism, Young-Earth Creationism, past religious intolerance in Europe, etc.)
  • the case is much weaker than in the similar book by the authors (What if Jesus had never been born?)

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The Laughing Revival from Azusa to Pensacola .
By David W. Cloud.
2nd ed.
Way of Life, 1998

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Difficulty: 1

  • a historical and apologetics book on (against) "holy" laughter

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The C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia.
Edited by Jeffrey D.Schultz, & John G. West.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

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Te Deum : The Church and Music.
By Paul Westermeyer.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1998.

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May 1998

 

 

The Age of Consent : The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture.
By Robert H. Knight.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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Difficulty: 2

  • exposes the disastrous impact of relativism on popular culture (TV, movies, newspapers, music, etc.)

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The City of Man.
By Pierre Manent.
Tr. by M. A. Lepain.
Princeton U., 1998.

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Einstein's Miraculous Year : Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics.
By John J. Stachel.
Princeton U., 1998

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Moral Dilemmas : Biblical Perspectives on Contemporary Ethical Issues.
By J. Kerby Anderson.
Dallas: Word, 1998.

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  • covers many issues in a conservative way

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Jacques Maritain : The Philosopher in Society.
By James V. Schall.
20th Century Political Thinkers.
Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

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The March of Freedom : Modern Classics in Conservative Thought.
By Edwin J. Feulner.
Dallas, Tx: Spence, 1998.

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  • exposes the recent, strong return of convervatism in American
  • with texts by the makers of this modern conservatism

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April 1998

 

 

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Staring into Chaos : Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization.
By Bruce G. Brander.
Spence, 1998.

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  • introduces the major studies, from authors like Tolstoy, Burckhardt, Berdyaev... and especially the monumental works of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin
  • still too politically correct

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Rationality and Religion : Does Faith Need Reason?
By Roger Trigg.

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  • argues that religion should have a rational basis, and other issues important for Christianity

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Masquerade of the Dream Walkers. Prophetic Theology from the Cartesians to Hegel.
By Peter A. Redpath.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

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  • Redpath's third volume in his Gilsonian analysis of the history of philosophy
  • argues that modern philosophy is deconstructed Augustinian theology, with elements of animism, nominalism, sophistry, spirits of Protagoras and Augustine, Christianized Heracliteanism

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Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements : A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas.
By Josef Bobik.
Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1998.

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The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real.
By Ian Wilson.
New York: Free Press, 1998.

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  • a convincing case for the authenticity of the shroud
  • also answering the carbon-dating with the very recent work of Garza-Valdes on bacterial coatings

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Women in the Days of Cathedrals.
By Regine Pernoud.
Tr. by A. Cote-Harriss.
San Francisco :  Ignatius, 1998.

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The Spanish Inquisition : A Historical Revision.
By Henry Kamen.
Yale Univ. 1998.

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C. S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a Century from the most Influential Apologists of our Time.
By Scott F. Burson & Jerry L. Walls.
Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1998.

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  • an analyse of their motivation, methodologies and of the consistency of their ideas
  • does not really deal with philosophical foundation of their works or the validity of the arguments, but mainly with the theological consistency of their ideas and their orthodoxy.

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Moral Virtue or Mental Health?
By Mark S. Pestana.
San Francisco State Univ. Series in Philosophy, Vol. 10.
New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

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Beyond Death : Exploring the Evidence for Immortality.
By Gary Habermas & James P. Moreland
Wheaton, IL: Crossways, 1998.

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  • Evidence for immortality, as well as its nature and implications
  • Considerable revision and expansion of the former book by these authors (Immortality: the Other Side of Death)

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Natural Law and Moral Inquiry : Ethics, Metaphysics, and Politics in the Work of Germain Grisez.
By Robert P. George.
Georgetown Univ., 1998.

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The Western Church in the Middle Ages.
By John A. F. Thompson.
London: Arnold, 1998.

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  • Another interesting book on the medieval church, with somewhat more emphasis on England

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March 1998

 

 

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The Embarrassed Believer : Reviving Christian Witness in an Age of Unbelief.
By Hugh Hewitt.
Dallas: Word, 1998.

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Truth and Religious Belief : Conversations on Philosophy of Religion.
Edited by Curtis L. Hancock, Brendan Sweetman & Randolph M. Feezell.
Sharpe, 1998.

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  • dialogues between characters introducing the topics of the philosophy of religion (about God, religious experience, meaning of life, etc.)

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The Shroud of Turin; An Adventure of Discovery.
By Mary & Alan Whanger.
Providence, 1998.

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Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions.
By Winfried Corduan.
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity , 1998.

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  • introduction to the major religions (history, doctrine and practice)
  • with advices for thougthful cross-cultural communication

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Jesus Only Churches.
By E. Calvin Beisner.
Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements Series.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1998.

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  • An exposition and refutation of some "charismatic"/ Pentacostal churches.

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Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings, and the Attraction to the Paranormal.
By Ron Rhodes.
Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1998.

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Alone in the Universe? : Aliens, the X-Files & God.
By David Wilkinson.
Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity, 1998.

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Science, Religion and Authority : Lessons from the Galileo Affair.
By Richard J. Blackwell.
Aquinas Lecture 62.
Milwauke, Wis: Marquette U., 1998.

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  • 1998's edition of the prestigious yearly lecture...

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William Harvey and the Use of Purpose in the Scientific Revolution : Cosmos by Chance or Universe by Design?
By  Emerson T. McMullen .
Lanham: U. of America, 1998

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  • shows how his Christian worldview was a major source of inspiration for his ground-breaking discoveries

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The Dark Side of the Left : Illiberal Egalitarianism in America.
By Richard J. Ellis.
American Political Thought
University Press of Kansas, 1998.

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February 1998

 

 

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Epistemology : A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. .
By Robert Audi.
London: Routledge, 1998.

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  • a fresh and detailed introduction to epistemology, from a moderate foundationalist viewpoint

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Light of Faith: The Compendium of Theology.
By Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Trans. by C. Vollert. Rev. ed.
Manchester, NH: Sophia Inst.,1998.

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  • An overview of theology, written by the greatest Christian philosopher (this text is not adequate as an introduction to Aquinas)
  • Even many open-minded protestants who may not agree with certain Catholic ideas, find Thomas' though very enriching

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The Ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Two Courses.
Ed. by Ignatius T. Eschmann & Edward A. Synan.
Toronto: Pont. Inst. of Mediaeval Studies, 1998.

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Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism: Strong State, Free Economy.
By Renato Cristi
Univ of Wales Pr ., 1998.

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Paul Dirac : The Man and His Work.
Edited by Abraham Pais & al.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.

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  • about one of the most important physicists of the 20th century

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The False Gospel of Mormonism : The Great Divide Between Mormonism and Christianity.
Edited by Norman L. Geisler.
Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1998.

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  • The best book ever written about (and against)  mormon history, theology and philosophy

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Mind Games.
By Andre Kole, Jerry MacGregor.

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  • exposes the fraud of parapsychology, astrology, etc.

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Freud vs. God.
By Dan G. Blazer.
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998

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  • argues against Freud, but also against the fundamentalist rejection of psychology

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Manufacturing Victims : What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People.
By Tana Dineen.
Davies, 1998.

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  • shows that many "therapies"employed by psychologists have a destructive effect on patients, their families, the justice system, business and even the American nation 

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January 1998

 

 

 

The g Factor.
By Arthur Robert Jensen.
Praeger, 1998.

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  • Breakthrough in psychology, destroying leftist dogmas

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Jesus and the Logic of History.
By Paul Barnett.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998.

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