Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition By D. C. Schindler. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 550 Pages, $60. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Around 2014, pundits and Washington, D.C.-based journalists announced the arrival...
The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 By Dominic Green. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chilton Williamson, Jr. “We live,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in 1963, “in an unbelieving age but one which is...
Reading as a Spiritual Practice
Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice By Jessica Hooten Wilson. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 208 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “Until very recent years, civilized folk took it for granted that literature exists to form the...
Constantine versus the U.S. Constitution
The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past By Paul J. Gutacker. Oxford University Press, 2023. Paperback, 264 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Glenn A. Moots. Paul Gutacker’s The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.