Category: Reviews

Aidan Nichols, G.K. Chesterton, Theologian, Darton, Longman and Todd, London (209 pp. bibliography but no index) This is the first part of a multi-part series. I am going to first […]

A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, 1953 (reprinted  with additions, Penguin, 1982) This is Fermor’s account of his visit to two monasteries, and one burial […]

In 1845, Patrick Fairbairn, Professor of Divinity at the Free Church College, Glasgow, published a massive two-volume work, The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connection with the Whole Series of […]

Further to my favourable review of Stephen Prothero’s American Jesus, it might be useful to consider how the “American Jesus” came to be. The idea of the Lord as a […]

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, Stephen Prothero; Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2003 (364 pp., including index) In one of several enlightening passages, […]

Robert Hugh Benson, The Queen’s Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, London, 1906 (382 pages) This much under-rated novel, was written just after The King’s Achievement. It is basically a […]

Perhaps the most important chapter in the book is this one: “Logical Fallacies.” The first error is “false disjunctions.” For example, someone said that where St Matthew follows St Mark […]

We have almost finished chapter 2, on word-fallacies. Carson’s treatment of what I would call the mystical language of St John’s Gospel is worth reading, when one wants to study […]

Exegetical Fallacies, 2nd edition, D(onald) A(rthur) Carson, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1996 (142 pp. + indices) “Exegesis” is the interpretation and explanation of something. It is very often used […]

The Protestant Idea of Antichrist, in Essays Critical and Historical (two volumes), St J.H. Newman, vol. II, pp.133-223, written in October 1840. Part II St John Henry Newman opens his review […]