Book Reviews

Atheism

Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning Life

Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning Life

a book by Alister McGrath, Reviewed by Dónal P. O’Mathúna

Turning Freud's Projection Theory of Religion on Its Head

Turning Freud's Projection Theory of Religion on Its Head

Paul C. Vitz, Faith of the Fatherless: the Psychology of Atheism. Review by Luke P. Wilson

Christian-related Movements

Whose Religion is Christianity? By Lamin Senneh

Whose Religion is Christianity? By Lamin Senneh

A review by Brandon Lamar Jackson. What is the difference between Post-American Christianity and a Post-Christian America? Is global Christianity comparable with Christendom? Furthermore, is the African church a sign of indigenous peoples discovery of Christ, or rather the Christian discovery of indigenous peoples? Who does Christianity belong to?

Book Reviews on Mormon Polygamy

Joseph Smith's UNCENSORED Diaries

Joseph Smith's UNCENSORED Diaries

Joseph's teaching regarding women and the priesthood, the Word of Wisdom, celestial marriage and other matters — without the "faith-promoting" veneer.

Cracks in The Da Vinci Code

Cracks in The Da Vinci Code

The author's claims that his novel is based on accurate scholarship don't hold up to scrutiny.

A Dispassionate Study of the Church Universal and Triumphant

A Dispassionate Study of the Church Universal and Triumphant

This is the most thorough and balanced study to date of the Church Universal and Triumphant. While Whitsel (a professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University - Fayette) provides a complete history of CUT, his most important contribution is in chronicling the increasing apocalyptic emphasis...

New Bible Dictionary — Book Review

New Bible Dictionary — Book Review

I have long considered the New Bible Dictionary (NBD) (1st ed., 1962; 2d ed., 1982) to be the best one-volume Bible dictionary available. It was a scholarly treasure-trove of information about almost every conceivable subject relating to the Bible. I have constantly used it for quick reference, as well as to compare information from longer entries in multi-volume Bible encyclopedias. Its list of contributors was a veritable "Who’s Who" in evangelicalism of the British Commonwealth.

Out of the Cults and into the Church

Out of the Cults and into the Church

by Janis Hutchison — A culmination of Hutchinson’s master’s thesis, as well as a product of the many lessons she learned first-hand during her years of struggling to replace her formerly held Mormon worldview with a biblical one.