Hot off the Press! (1999)

 

 

(this list is still under construction, more books will be added)

 

Navigation hints:

 

 

 

December 1999

 

 

 

Recovering Nature : Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny.
Edited by Ralph McInerny & al..
Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Against the Idols of the Age.
By David Stove.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Pub., 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics.
By Christopher Norris .
London: Routledge, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • clarifies the debates about quantum physics
  • shows that quantum-based anti-realism is self-refuting
  • argues for a realist interpretation maintaining the  scientific principles of causal reasoning and inference to the best explanation

Contents; review

 

 

 

Cosmology: The Science of the Universe.
By Edward R. Harrison.
2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Reasonableness of Christianity.
By John Locke.
Edited with an intr. by J. C. Higgins-Biddle.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • The text of this famous Christian classic is accompanied by abundant information

Contents; review

 

 

 

True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment .
By J. Budziszewski.
Transaction, 1992.
(paperback: Dec. 1999)

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • analysis and refutation of relativism disguised as tolerance
  • shows that tolerance requires moral absolutes and that real neutrality is logically impossible
  • deals much with virtue theory

Contents; review

 

 

 

November 1999

 

 

 

On Illustrious Men.
By St. Jerome.
Trans. & ed. by Thomas P. Halton.
Washington D. C.: Catholic U. of America, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • A indispensable text for patrology, as important as Eusebius 'Ecclesiastical History
  • with extensive footnotes, biographical data, etc.

Contents; review

 

 

 

Natural Law and Practical Reason : A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy.
By Martin Rhonheimer.
Tr. by  Gerald Malsbary.
New York: Fordham University, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Pilgrim's Guide; C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness.
Edited by David Mills.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $12.80: you save $3.20 (20%) (Paperback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £8.80: you save £0.98 (10%) (Paperback)

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation.
By Kenneth L. Gentry.
Amer. pub, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • argues that the book was written before 70 AD
  • preterist

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology : Theology Without Weapons.
By Gary J. Dorrien.
John Knox, 1999

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Intelligent Design.
By William A. Dembski.
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  • a collection of essays on the most interesting recent development in the natural sciences
  • also deals with natural theology

Contents; review

 

 

Earth Report 2000 : Revisiting the True State of the Planet .
Edited by Ronald Bailey
McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • an up-to-date book by a panel of researcher, exposing the truth hidden or distorted by the flood of environmentalist & New Age propaganda

Contents; review

 

 

 

October 1999

 

 

 

Christendom Awake : On Re-Energizing the Church in Culture.
By Aidan Nichols.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty: 4

  • written for Catholics, this book covers many areas that may be relevant for all Christians (liturgy, theology, philosophy, aesthetics, family, economics, politics...)
  • use many rare and foreign words, not an easy read, but truly for the Christian intellectuals

Contents; review

 

 

 

A Refutation of Moral Relativism : Interviews With an Absolutist .
By Peter Kreeft.
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Faith of the Fatherless : The Psychology of Atheism.
By Paul C. Vitz.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  • psychological explanation of atheism as the Defective Father Hypothesis
  • pschological analyses the different kinds of atheism, which are exemplified by the life of the major atheist thinkers; also some studies of theist thinkers

Contents; review

 

 

 

Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity : A History of New Testament Times .
By Paul Barnett.
Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • places these events in their context
  • interacts with liberal scholarship and shows that Jesus' resurrection in the flesh 

Contents; review

 

 

 

Is the Bible True? How Modern Debates and Discoveries Affirm the Essence of the Scriptures.
By Jeffery L. Sheler.
San Francisco: Harper, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty: 1

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
By Josh McDowell.
 Nashville: Nelson, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism : A Primer for  Suspicious Protestants.
By Daniel H. Williams.
Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Timeline Charts of the Western Church.
By .Susan L. Peterson
Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture--And Destruction of Planet Earth.
By Grace Halsell.
Crossroads, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • "Halsell exposes Falwell's Christian tours as having only one purpose: to raise money for Falwell and Israel, under the guise of preparing the pilgrims for the approaching Armageddon"
  • "explores the danger of a new religious doctrine sweeping America. Adherents to this doctrine are said to constitute the fastest growing movement in Christianity today. Its leaders proclaim that God wants--even demands--that Planet Earth be destroyed in our generation."

Contents; review

 

 

 

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.
By Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky.
Stylus, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Engaging the Closed Minded : Presenting Your Faith to the Confirmed Unbeliever.
By Dan Story.
 Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man.
By J. Budziszewski.
Dallas: TX: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:  

Difficulty: 3

  • analyzing the effects of original sin, shows how the corruption of conscience (through the illusion of moral neutrality vs good /evil) leads to nihilism
  • exposes the pitfalls of secular political views (communitarianism, liberalism and conservatism)
  • sees hope in Christianity and in stirring up people's suppressed memory of natural law

Contents; review

 

 

 

From Irenaeus to Grotius : A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625.
Ed. by Oliver O'Donovan & Joan L. O'Donovan
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Shows About Nothing : Nihilism in Popular Culture from the Exorcist to Seinfeld.
By Thomas S. Hibbs.
Dallas: TX: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  • analysis of Holliwood's philosophy, exposing its nihilist attacks on traditional, Republican values
  • many movies analyzed
  • follows the trajectory of evil in American film and television, linking it to the spread of nihilism

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
By Thomas Sowell.
New York: Free PRess, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • shows the bankrupcy of leftist concepts of justice (affirmative action, "redistribution", "social" justice)

Contents; review

 

 

 

Beyond Gay.
By David Morrison.
Our Sunday Visitor, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The End of Privacy.
By Charles J. Sykes.
St Martins, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • a cultural analysis of the loss of privacy (secrecy about personal data)

Contents; review

 

 

 

September 1999

 

 

 

Philosophy After Objectivity : Making Sense in Perspective.
By Paul K. Moser .
Oxford, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • shows that postmodern philosophy is not objective

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Rationality of Theism.
By Godehard Bruntrup & Ronald K. Tacelli.
Kluwer, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

C.S. Lewis' Miracles.
By Terry L. Miethe.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Theos, Anthropos, Christos : A Compendium of Modern Philosophical Theology.
Edited by Roy Abraham Varghese.
New York: Lang, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Doctrine of the Trinity.
Edited by Stephen T. Davis; Daniel Kendall, & Gerald O' Collins.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

How Now Shall We Live?.
By Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey.
Tyndale, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Audio version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Finite and Infinite Goods: a Framework for Ethics.
By Robert M. Adams.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • a theistically-based framework

Contents; review

 

 

 

Ambrose : Church and Society in the Late Roman World.
By John Moorhead.
London: Longman, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Invitation to the Apocrypha .
By Daniel J. Harrington .
Grtand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • The new authority on the subject, superseding Bruce Metzger's works (from the 50's)

Contents; review

 

 

 

Many Religions, One Covenant : Israel, the Church, and the World.
By Cardinal Ratzinger & Scott Hahn..
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Yves R. Simon : Real World Democracy.
Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers
By Vukan Kuic.
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

 

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Rise and Decline of the State.
By Martin van Creveld.
Cambridge U.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Challenge of Carl Schmitt.
Ed. by Chantal Mouffe.
1999

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Desire of the Nations : Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology.
By Oliver O'Donovan.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1996.
(Paperback 1999)

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

August 1999

 

 

 

Metaphysics and Its Task : The Search for the Categorical Foundation of Knowledge.
By Jorge J. E. Gracia.
New York: State U. of New York, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Against the Idols of the Age.
By Roger Kimball & David Stove.
Transaction, 1999

Order in the US with Amazon US for $39.95 (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £29.95 (Hardback)

Difficulty:

  • An anthology of texts of the Australian philosopher David Stove (against postmodernism, Darwinism, idealism, etc.)

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Ever Illuminating Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.
By Peter Kreeft, Ralph McInerny & al.
San Francisco: Ignastius, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

July 1999

 

 

 

Faith on Trial.
By Pamela B. Ewen.
Broadman & Holman, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty: 2

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

What Sort of Human Nature? : Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology
(Aquinas Lecture, 1999) 
By Marilyn McCord Adams.
Milwaukee: Marquette Univ , 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Evidential Force of Religious Experience.
By Caroline F. Davis.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Religion : The Classical Theories .
By James Thrower.
 Washington D. C.: Georgetown U., 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Chosen but Free.
By Norman L. Geisler.
Minneapolis, MN: Bethany, 1999

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $11.89: you save $5.10 (30%) (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £9.35: you save £1.04 (10%) (Hardback)

Difficulty: 2 (popular)

  • deals with the issue of God's attributes and human freedom
  • a refutation of extreme calvinism and extreme armenianism, mostly with Biblical arguments, but also with consideration of inconsistency and church history
  • "Once again Geisler has written a thorough and thought-provoking masterpiece", Bibliotheca Sacra, Jan. 2000, p107

Contents; review

 

 

Contingency and Fortune in Aquina's Ethics.
By John R. Bowlin.
Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought, 6
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • explains Aquinas'ethics in the light of his understanding of the problem of fortune and contingency
  • situate Aquinas in relation to Aristotle, St. Augustine and the Stoics
  • in particular levels several critics against the exponents of the new natural law theory 

Contents; review

 

 

 

Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity.
Edited by Polymnia Athanassiadi & Michael Frede.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Springtime of Evangelization.
By Pope John Paul II.
San Francisco: Ignatius, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Desecularization of the World : Resurgent Religion and World Politics.
Edited by Peter L. Berger & al.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

June 1999

 

 

 

The metaphysics of Creation: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa contra Gentiles, vol. 2.
By Norman Kretzmann.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism .
By Jacques Maritain .
Trans. by J. G. Andison.
Notre Dame: Notre Dame U., 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $35.00 (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £21.40: you save £y.y (y%) (Hardback)

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Apologetics in the Roman Empire : Pagans, Jews, and Christians.
Edited by M. J. Edwards, Martin Goodman and S. R.
F. Price.
Oxford: Oxford U., 1999

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $x.x: you save $x.x (x%) (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £35.00 (Hardback)

Difficulty: 3 (academic)

  • essays covering the apologetics exchanges between Christians, Jews and Pagans from the NT until the 4th century AD
  • does not cover the apologetics against heresies (gnosticism, montanism...)
  • much attention is given to the literary genres of the different types of apologetics (not so much to the arguments and their value)
  • the chapter "The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic text" by L. Alexander may be interesting for many of those interested in the NT 

Contents; review

 

 

 

Spiritworks : Contemporary Views on the Gifts of the Spirit and the Bible .
By Jerry Vines.
Nashville, TN : Broadman & Holman, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty: 1

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Bioethics : A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age.
By  Scott B. Rae, Paul Cox.
Critical Issues in Bioethics
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for  $19.20: you Save: $4.80 (20%) (Paperback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £y.y: you save £y.y (y%) (Paperback)

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

May 1999

 

 

 

Metaphysics and the Idea of God.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg.
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Anthropology in Theological Perspective.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg .
Trans. by M. J. O Connell
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Introduction to Systematic Theology.
By Wolfhart Pannenberg .
London: T & t Clark, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Understanding Spiritual Gifts : A Verse-By-Verse Study of 1 Corinthians 12-14.
By Robert L. Thomas.
2nd ed.
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

 

Difficulty: 3 (academic)

  • A sound exegesis, at a time where the Bible is misused to justify occult experiences.
  • this new edition answers recent charismatic books (by Carson, Grudem...)

Contents; review

 

 

 

Aquinas's Moral Theory : Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann.
Edited by Norman Kretzmann et al.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U., 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 49.95 (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £ 29.71; you save £ 7.81   (20%)  (Hardback)

Difficulty: ?

  • explores Aquinas' ethics in relation to his metaphysics, his philosophy of language, his philosophical psychology, etc.

Contents; review

 

 

 

Aquinas's Moral Theory : Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann.
Edited by Norman Kretzmann et al.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U., 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • explores Aquinas' ethics in relation to his metaphysics, his philosophy of language, his philosophical psychology, etc.

Contents; review

 

 

The American Myth of Religious Freedom.
By Kenneth R. Craycraft.
Dallas, Tx.: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • a critic of the deist view of subordinating religion to politics, which is shown to hinder religion
  • proposes an alternative based on the Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae personae

Contents; review

 

 

 

Other Losses : The Shocking Truth Behind the Mass Deaths of Disarmed German Soldiers and Civilians Under General Eisenhower's Command.
By James Bacque.
Little Brown, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

April 1999

 

 

The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism.
Edited by Brendan Sweetman
Washington, D.C.: Catholic U. of America, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • a wide-ranging contemporary critique of modernism, from epistemology to ethics and politics
  • many  contributors make use of the classical or thomistic thought

Contents; review

 

 

 

God, Religion and Reality : The Case of Christian Theism.
By Stephen R. L. Clark.
SPCK, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $26.36: you save $6.59 (20%) (Paperback)

Difficulty:

  • also engages with people like Dawkins

Contents; review

 

 

 

A Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima.
By St. Thomas Aquinas.
Intr., ed., annot. and trans. by Robert Passau.
New Haven: Yale U., 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $50 (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £29.71 (Hardback)

Difficulty:

  • uses an improved latin text (1984)

Contents; review

 

 

 

Great Thinkers on Great Questions.
Edited by Roy Abraham Varghese.
Oneworkd, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • collects the views of some mainline contemporary protestant and catholic philosophers on some basic philosophical issues

Contents; review

 

 

 

How to Stay Christian in College : An Interactive Guide to Keeping the Faith.
By J. Budziszewski.
Colorado Spring, Col.: Navpress, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

 

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The Routledge Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology .
Edited by Peter Coles.
London: Routledge, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

God Crucified : Monotheism and the Christology in the New Testament.
By Richard Bauckhan.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • clarifies Judaism's monotheistic concept of God
  • shows that the highest christology was central to the earliest church, from the very beginnings
  • this short work (79 p.) anounces Bauckham's  coming more academic treatment (tentative title: Jesus and the Identity of God: Jewish Monotheism and New Testament Christology.)

Contents; review

 

 

The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality.
By Marion Montgomery.
Dallas, Tx.: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  • shows that the deep roots of the educational crisis are not so recent, but were laid down in the 14th century in a flight from realism
  • covers many disciplines, in particular literary theory

Contents; review

 

 

The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education.
Edited by Daniel McInerny.
Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of america, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • critics contemporary education, esp. its too common limitation to the useful
  • defends a return to an emphasis towards the basic truths that transcends cultures and utility

Contents; review

 

 

The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley .
Edited by David Wienir & Marc Berley.
Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • essays by students about the intellectual tyranny of the political correctness program of the leftist now running the public  universities

Contents; review

 

 

 

Augustine's City of God: a Reader's Guide.
By Gerald O'Daly.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

March 1999

 

 

The Devil Knows Latin : Why America Needs the Classical Tradition.
By E. Christian Kopff.
Intercollegiate Studies Inst, 1999.

Order in the US with Amazon US for $17.47: you save $7.48 (30%) (Hardback)

Difficulty:

  • a plea for reintroducing the study of the classical language

Contents; review

 

 

 

Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Edited by Thomas S. Hibbs.
Hackett, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • compilation of texts by Aquinas

Contents; review

 

 

 

Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Edited by Stephen F. Brown.
Hackett, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • compilation of texts by Aquinas

Contents; review

 

 

Three Views on Creation and Evolution .
Edited by James P. Moreland , John Mark Reynolds and Paul Nelson.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999

Order the Paperback version with:

 

Difficulty: 2 (popular)

  • exposition of 3 Christian views on origins by their proponents, each presentation being followed by a critic by the four commentators (each times the same four)
  • does not so much deal with the natural sciences but rather with the theological and philosophical sciences
  • nothing really new, but mostly interesting for revealing the paradigms: one specific interpretation of Genesis for Young Earth Creationism, theism for Old Earth Creationism. and deism (!) for "Theistic" Evolution

Contents; review

 

 

 

Speaking in Tongues and Public Worship : First Corinthians 14 .
(Exegetical Commentary Series)
By Spiros Zodhiates.
Reprint.
Chattanooga, TN: AMG, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

The New World Religion..
By Gary H. Kah.
Hope Intl, 1999

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Carl Schmitt.
By William E. Scheuerman
Rowman & Littlefield.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • over the Catholic philosopher Schmitt and his influence on American political theorists

Contents; review

 

 

 

Send In The Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 .
By Vin Suprynowicz 
Mountain Media, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  • exposes the growing goverment hypocrisy and tiranny under the Clinton administration

Contents; review

 

 

 

February 1999

 

 

Geisler_Baker_enc_0801021510.jpg (3895 bytes)

Baker Dictionary of Christian Apologetics
By Norman L. Geisler.
Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3 (academic)
  • entirely written by the leading apologist, this work represents the culmination of the American protestant apologetic revival at the end of the 20th century

Contents; review

 

 

Garza_DNA_0385488505.jpg (5319 bytes)

The DNA of God.
By Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes.
New York: Doubleday, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $21 (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £11.23: you save £1.25 (10%) (Hardback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £7.99: you save £2.00 (20%) (Paperback)

Difficulty:

  • explains why radiocarbondating is not reliable for the shroud and other ancient similar textiles (Mayan, etc.)
  • reveal new clues about the shroud...

Contents; review

 

 

 

Iberian Fathers : Pacian of Barcelona and Orosius of Braga : Writings
Edited by Craig L. Hanson.
The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 99.
Catholic Univ. of America, 1999

 Pre-Order in the US with Amazon US (Hardback)

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

In Defense of Natural Law.
By Robert. P. George.
Oxford: Oxford University, 1999.

 Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • not only a defense of natural law but also a refutation of some regnant liberal beliefs (about abortion, sexuality, religion, etc.)

Contents; review

 

 

Homosexuality and American Public Life.
Edited by Christopher Wolfe.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty: 3

  • an integrated study of homosexuality by biologists, psychologists, philosophers, etc.

Contents; review

 

 

 

Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen.
By James Bovard .
St Martin, 1999.

Order the Hardback version with:

Difficulty:

  • against the excesses of statism and bureaucracy leading to totalitarism

Contents; review

 

 

 

January 1999

 

 

 

The Degrees of Knowledge.
By Jacques Maritain.
Edited by Ralph McInerny.
The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain.
Notre Dame, Ind.: U. of Notre Dame, 1999.

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

 

Redirecting Philosophy : Reflections on the Nature of Knowledge from Plato to Lonergan.
By Hugo A. Meynell .
Univ of Toronto, 1999

Order the Hardback version with:

Order the Paperback version with:

Difficulty:

  •  

Contents; review

 

 

Means to Message; a Treatise on Truth.
By Stanley L. Jaki.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $17.60: you save $4.40 (20%) (Paperback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £11.97: you save £1.33 (10%) (Paperback)

Difficulty: 3
  • sound philosophy (mostly metaphysics, but also mind, ethics, etc.) by a gifted historian and philosopher of natural science

Contents; review

 

 

 

Selected Writings.
By St. Thomas Aquinas.
Ed. by Ralph McInerny
New York: Penguin, 1999.

 Order in the US with Amazon US for $11.96: you save $2.99 (20%) (Paperback)
Order in the UK with Amazon UK for £7.99: you save £0.89 (10%) (Paperback)