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Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics (Pueblo Books)
2 reviews
John F. Baldovin
Liturgical Press
, 2009
Reflection on Reforming the Liturgy by John Baldovin
John is a great scholar who has offered in his book a positive critique of the critics and helped me to put the criticism in a perspective that enables be to understand them better. I found the book very insightful and helpful to me.
Reforming or Conforming?: Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church
2 reviews
Gary L. W. Johnson
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Ronald N. Gleason
Crossway Books
, 2008
The New Antipomo Apologists Overruling Modern False Prophets
David F Wells, Foreword 'The Reformed have always been uneasy about the post-WWII evangelical alliance that brought together so many ministries and viewpoints into a working relationship around a small core of commonly held beliefs. The church set about selling itself and its gospel...and the major casualty was biblical truth.' I have eagerly anticipated another book edited by Gary L W ...
Re-Forming Gifted Education: How Parents and Teachers Can Match the Program to the Child
11 reviews
Karen B. Rogers
Great Potential Press
, 2002
Step-by-step guide to needs of gifted children
Karen B. Rogers, Re-forming Gifted Education. Matching the Program to the Child. Great Potential Press, Scottsdale, AZ, www.giftedbooks.com This book is a step-by-step guide to evaluating the needs and characteristics of a gifted child and understanding the educational options that might be appropriate for him or her based on an individual profile. The book has surveys and instruments that ...
Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology (Acadia Studies in Bible ...
4 reviews
Roger Olson
Baker Academic
, 2007
Book Review: Reformed and Always Reforming
I just read Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology by Roger Olson. Throughout the whole book I was nodding my head and shouting amen. Roger is a theology professor at Treutt Seminary-- Baylor University. Essentially Roger articulated an evangelicalism that may be suited for the 21st century. I believe that Roger has been involved in conservative ...
Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care
Ecw Press
, 2002
Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer ( Code Blue ) edits and introduces this collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating an open-minded approach to such concepts as privatization, two-tier health care, and user fees. Gratzer has assembled a stellar list of authors who invite Canadians to question their confidence in government-managed public health. Contributors include Order of Canada member and University ...
Reforming Child Welfare
Olivia Golden
Urban Inst
, 2009
As director of the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in federal receivership. Now, in Reforming Child Welfare, she uses her expertise as an administrator, an academic, and an advocate to pinpoint the factors that lead to success. ''Writing from the inside,'' she maintains, ''makes it possible to analyze, in retrospect, what we thought we were doing, what it felt like, and what led us to ...
Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limitations to the Pains of Imprisonment (Law and Public Policy: ...
Craig Haney
American Psychological Association (APA)
, 2005
In "Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment", author Craig Haney argues that the United States justice and prison system suffers from fatal structural and legal flaws that cause pain to the imprisoned and ultimately increase crime. Today the U.S. imprisons more people than any other nation. Prisons cause prisoners to make adaptations so they can take the long-term exposure to pain and these adaptations cause ...
Reforming Marriage
44 reviews
Douglas Wilson
Canon Press
, 1995
Must read!
A must read for anyone who wishes to view marriage through God's eyes and who isn't afraid to reshape his or her worldview on the matter. My fiance and I have been reading this together, and aside from God's Word and the solid counseling we have received from our pastor, this book has better prepared us to approach our upcoming union through the lens of Scripture than any other we have read.
Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality
5 reviews
Mr. F. LeRon Shults
Eerdmans Publishing Company
, 2003
Through a glass darkly...
I Corinthian 13:12 says that "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known." Yet oddly, it seems that many who have theological interests seem to think that we can see all of theology in a crystal-clear way, and now that we 'have' this perfect knowledge, all we need to do is pass it down. LeRon's ...
Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism
2 reviews
Mr. George Marsden
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
, 1995
FASCINATING INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
A history of an organizations is often boring--filled with facts and figures and just plain puff. This breaks all the rules. It goes far beyond Fuller Theological Seminary, to catch the trade winds of the broader evangelical/fundamentalist movement. And, it's anything but a puff piece. It captures wonderful behind-the-scenes stories and scandals that no one before dared tell. It's a book that ...
Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology
1 review
Gerald Bray
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Stephen Williams
, ...
IVP Academic
, 2007
The Blessedness Of Theological Deliberations
I recommend it in all confidence. Flawless theology. The authors, wise theologians in the Reformed tradition, have surely touched on an epistemological truth: they should always seek to uphold the normative nature of truth, yet as theologians, they need to be able to explore and develop Reformed assertions within parameters respectful of their commitment to Reformational principles. To this ...
Reforming a Rake (With This Ring, Book 1)
42 reviews
Suzanne Enoch
Avon
, 2000
Reforming a Reader
First of all, let me just say that I have only been reading historical romances for about 5 months. I would always make fun of my friend for reading them, until she finally convinced me to try "just one." "Reforming a Rake" is the first book she loaned me. It took me about 6 hours to read it and I immediately called her. I couldn't stop talking about Lucien and Alexandra and how amazing these ...
Growing the Church, Resisting the Powers, Reforming the World: A Theological Analysis of Three Options for ...
Matthew Bates
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
, 2009
Three admonitions for ecclesial faithfulness are frequently presented to North American Protestants in their current context. These are: the church ought to grow, the church ought to be an alternative community to the world, and the church ought to reform the world. This book provides an analysis of the theological rationales that support these admonitions by examining the works of three writers, each of whom is widely recognized as an ...
De-Spamming Health Reforming the Health System from the Bottom Up: The Unintended Consequences of the Lack of ...
2 reviews
James D. Felsen
American Book Publishing
, 2008
Brilliant!
This is a book full of concepts that need to be employed by the Public Health Service asap. Dr. James Felsen has the right idea. Now if only we could get the proper channels to take this on...
Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship : Celebrating the Legacy of James Montgomery Boice
3 reviews
P & R Publishing
, 2003
Fantastic resource for understanding biblical aspects of worship
This book is a very well-written and thoughtful examination of the various aspects of worship, written from a Reformed perspective. Before you begin, it's important to know that this book does not define "worship" narrowly to mean "the singing time of the service," but the entire Lord's day service. Each chapter touches on a different topic, beginning with the very foundational question: Does ...
Reforming Lord Ragsdale (Signet Regency Romance)
6 reviews
Carla Kelly
Signet
, 1995
When opposites attract each other
John Staples is a rake of the worst kind. He gambles, drinks and keeps a mistress of whom he's tired. He doesn't enjoy his life, but doesn't find the courage to take the necessary steps to change it. When Emma Costello steps into his life, as the servant of his American cousins, he loathes her on the sole purpose that she is Irish; losing his father and his eye in a battle against her people ...
Reforming the World Bank: Twenty Years of Trial - and Error
David A. Phillips
Cambridge University Press
, 2009
In the many studies of the World Bank a critical issue has been missed. While writers have looked at the Bank's political economy, lending, conditions, advice, ownership and accounting for issues such as the environment, this study looks at the Bank as an organization - whether it is set up to do the job it is supposed to do and, if not, what should be done about it. The book is about the problems of organization and reorganization as much as it ...
Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era (Urban Life)
Mordecai Lee
Marquette University Press
, 2008
Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & ...
Mr Philip A Mellor
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Professor Chris Shilling
Sage Publications Ltd
, 1997
Through an analysis of successive re-formations of the body, this innovative and penetrating book constructs a fascinating and wide-ranging account of how the creation and evolution of different patterns of human community are intimately related to the somatic experience of the sacred. The book places the relationship between the embodiment and the sacred at the crux of social theory, and casts a fresh light on the emergence and transformation ...
Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands
Ann Forsyth
University of California Press
, 2005
The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Columbia in Maryland, and ...
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