Category: Gospel and Culture

Disciples of All Nations, Lamin Sanneh's New Book

Posted on December 10, 2007

I was thrilled to open my post box today to find a package from Oxford University Press (blog) containing a complimentary copy of Lamin Sanneh’s Disciples of All Nations. Sanneh is a Gambian scholar whose understanding of World Christianity has richly contributed to stimulating thoughtful, post-colonial, indigenous theologies.

His book Translating the Message has immensely influenced the way I think about theology and culture. Look for more posts on this book; it will surely strengthen honest thinking about the nature and impact of global Christianity.

Review of Keller's The Reason for God

Posted on December 7, 2007

Click here for my first post on Keller’s book re: secularism and religion.

Publisher’s Weekly has given Tim Keller’s book, The Reason for God, an great advance review Here is an excerpt:

In this apologia for Christian faith, Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God…One of Keller’s most provocative arguments is that “all doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs.” Drawing on sources as diverse as 19th-century author Robert Louis Stevenson and contemporary New Testament theologian N.T. Wright, Keller attempts to deconstruct everyone he finds in his way, from the evolutionary psychologist Richard Dawkins to popular author Dan Brown.

The New n +1

Posted on December 7, 2007

The new n + 1 is out. A twice-yearly print journal of politics, literature, and culture, this issue has:

“We have a masterly novella by Caleb Crain; we have a history of the cubicle, that wretched device, born, it turns out, in the revolutionary maelstrom of 1968; poems by our favorite Russian poet, Kirill Medvedev; pieces on the new ideology of indie bookselling; post-apocalyptic novels; and five years of Gawker.com. There is a symposium on the left-wing “politics of fear.” And finally, the centerpiece of the issue, a very powerful essay on Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, by Wesley Yang.”