Category: Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight (D.G. Hart and John Muether)

    The founding and subsequent growth of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church is the story of a denomination’s sincere desire to maintain faithfulness to the Scriptures and their Reformed summation as contained in the Westminster Standards. It’s a story of how this desire was born, as it were, through a period of intense pangs. D.G. Hart and…

  • Book Review: Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning

     Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson This is not a book about homeschooling. In fact, Mr. Wilson would likely tell you,  if given the choice between a strong, classical Christian school and homeschooling, to choose the school. Instead, this book is about education. Every parent desires…

  • Book Review: The Word of God in English

     Fifty years ago, Eugene Nida developed a theory of Bible translation which came to be called dynamic equivalence theory; replacing the contemporary “word-for-word” translation technique with “thought-for-thought” methodology. This theory makes basic assumptions about the Bible and Bible readers. In his book, The Word of God in English: Criteria for Excellence in Bible Translation, Dr.…