David Berlinski’s “The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”

Just curious. Are you thinking of forthcoming and recently released books? Would older books be included?

There’s a new book by Richard Hughes called, Christian America and the Kingdom of God. Looks to be along the lines of Boyd’s Myth of a Christian Nation. I’d like to see it reviewed, or better yet, to review it if I could get a copy out of the deal!

Some I’d love to see reviewed:
Reimagining Church or Pagan Christianity – Frank Viola
Jesus of Nazareth: Millennarian Prophet – Dale Allison (if we’re including older works)
A New Kind of Christianity – Brian McLaren (when it comes out)
Any of Walter Wink’s stuff (again, if older stuff counts)
The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited – Beilby & Eddy
Paul and the Faithfulness of God – N. T. Wright (wink, wink)
Vintage Jesus – Mark Driscoll
What About Hitler? – Robert Brimlow
Christless Christianity – Michael Horton
The Next Evangelicalism – Soong-Chan Rah
As a side note, Hughes’ new book isn’t nearly as good as his earlier work Myths America Lives By. In some ways he just casts the net too wide, relying fairly uncritically on the work of Crossan on the historical Jesus. He says that our criterion for what we accept from both the OT and NT as faithful revelation of God’s character and will is that which lines up with what we see incarnated in the historical Jesus. Fair enough, but there are clearly a lot of issues that need serious fleshing out – which historical Jesus? to name one, as well as the implications for our “view of Scripture” – and he simply fails to do so (admittedly due to the nature of the book; one can’t expect every assumption to have a full defense, of course). He’s still great with any of the American history stuff (“Myths” is one of the best short works I’ve ever read on American history/identity/ideology), but less great on the rest. Anyhow, my two cents. Sorry for the unsolicited opinion!

Here are a few on my wish list that I’d like to see reviewed:
The Meaning of the Pentateuch, by John H. Sailhamer
A High View of Scripture? The Authority of the Bible and the Formation of the New Testament Canon, by Craig Allert
A Lover’s Quarrel with the Evangelical Church, by Warren Cole Smith
Patience with God, by Frank Schaeffer

What about:
The Historical Christ and Theological Jesus by Dale Allison
The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder (if you do older works)
Introducing Paul: The man, his mission, his message by Michael Bird

John Franke – Manifold Witness
Jamie Smith – Desiring the Kingdom
Al Roxburgh – Introducing the missional church (NYP)
While we all have our biases, it would be good to have reviews that are not all for/all against particular books, but have critical appreciation.
I enjoy the blog!
Blessings
Jared

I second the following…
The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited – Beilby & Eddy
Introducing Paul: The man, his mission, his message by Michael Bird
The Meaning of the Pentateuch, by John H. Sailhamer
A New Kind of Christianity – Brian McLaren
And suggest…
The Erosion of Inerrancy – Greg Beale
Reading the Bible Intertextually – Richard Hays
New Testament Theology: An Introduction – James Dunn

The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited – Beilby & Eddy

I’d like to read reviews of classic Christian books that perhaps we ignore because there are so many recent books distracting us. Books by authors like C.S. Lewis and D.L. Moody–books that might be accessible to the reader who doesn’t have a theology degree. I’ve been looking at my bookshelf and thinking I have too many new books and not enough of the old classics, but I need a little guidance in choosing books that will be readable in my life as a stay at home mom of three small children.

Michael Gorman’s – Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul?s Narrative Soteriology (Eerdmans, 2009)
http://www.michaeljgorman.net/my-books/

I’d love to see reviews (and the feedback!) from some of the Continental Philosophical work being done on Paul. Alain Badiou, Zizek, Agamben, even Caputo…It’s not easy to read, but I think the Jesus Creed community could have a different and meaningful voice in this conversation (or the implications of a conversation that’s been going on for a while, I guess.)

What about Philip Clayton’s “Transforming Christian Theology?”

The Sign Gospel

The Revelation of John: A Narrative Commentary ~ James Resseguie

Oh, I thought the annoucement was going to be that you decided to leave BeliefNet
How about “Whose Community, Which Interpretation”. Good book on hermeneutics.

The Naked Gospel by Andrew Farley. I’d be interested in hearing this group wrestle with his presentation of the gospel in light of all of our conversations about it. It’s a popular work, not academic.

Would a small publisher dare make a suggestion? I publish Dr. David Alan Black’s book “The Jesus Paradigm.” I think it might be of interest to other readers here.

Eric Seibert’s Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God (Fortress, 2009). Its frank look at a real problem stretches one’s paradigms!

anything by:
1. N.T. Wright
2. Richard Hayes
3. Michael Gorman
4. Larry Hurtado
5. John Stackhouse
6. Leslie Newbigen
7. Morna Hooker
Also I’d love to see reviews of any books dealing with the engagement of contemporary culture with Christianity
And finally anything about Lutheran Theology.