Category: Reviews

Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians, Regnery Gateway, Washington DC, 2020, 184 pp. plus notes, index and biblical index. This is a strong book by […]

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Taylor Marshall’s The Catholic Perspective on Paul is a rare bird indeed: it is a solid, systematic treatment of the Apostle St Paul and his letters. It is written simply and […]

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Benson developed a rather simple but, I suggest, accurate view of the relationship between will and formatory thought (to use Gurdjieff’s phrase for the lower level of mind, the one […]

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My own view, for what it may be worth, is that most writers who dismiss Benson’s novels out of hand have simply not read them. I have already extracted some […]

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This is a very good book. It is most valuable of course, for the photographic reproductions of icons, but the text is also singularly helpful. Published in 2004 by SAQI, […]

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I thought it might be worthwhile taking a few more words for research today. Aback, must mean something to do with the back. But exactly what? Already by 1944, the […]

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Part Six: The Church and the Scrolls “Did St Paul write anything about the Church?”, Bergsma asks in chapter 14. It begins with some notes about the assumptions modern biblical […]

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I have just read the published volume, and I think it might be worthwhile to note some thoughts which have occurred to me. I shall update this page from time […]

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When the Lord presided at the Last Supper, He was discharging another priestly function, that of offering sacrifice (179). In Bergsma’s consciously literal alternative translation, the Lord says in Luke […]

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Part Five: Holy Orders and the Scrolls (I) Chapter 11 is titled “Priesthood and the Scrolls.” It opens by noting how diverse the views of different Christian groups are on […]

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