Category: Book reviews

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  27.11.08

  A book for our time

  By J.P. Thackway

  An extended review, with comment, of Reinventing English Evangelicalism 1966-2001, A Theological and Sociological Study. Dr. Rob Warner. Paternoster (2007), paperback, 284 pages. £19.95. Those of us who remember the...

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  27.03.08

  A rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion 1

  By Robert Slane

  Opening Remarks In the last couple of years, Christianity has come under increasingly hostile attacks from fundamentalist atheists. In America, three books in particular – Letter to a Christian Nation...

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  08.06.07

  The believer’s Daily Remembrancer

  By Margaret E. Thackway

  A review and appreciation Imagine you are at home, and there is a knock at the door. Your pastor is standing there, and delighted, you invite him in. After exchanging...

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  11.12.04

  Three modern versions – a review

  By J.P. Thackway

  No one can deny that we live in the midst of a propaganda war. Publishing houses aggressively promote their Bible translations to persuade the Christian reader that a given version...

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  08.11.04

  The new Christian Hymns

  By J.P. Thackway

  Preface Neil Pfeiffer It was in the mid­eighties that I was divinely convinced of the Doctrines of Grace. I saw that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in...

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  08.03.04

  The Praise! hymnbook: an open letter to David G. Preston

  By Alan Macgregor

  This letter, written by Rev. Alan Macgregor, minister of Wickford Reformed Baptist Church, is a response to David Preston’s article on the Praise! Web site (www.praise.org.uk). Although not originally intended...

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  27.08.03

  The sad saga of Praise!

  By J.P. Thackway

  The words “sad” and “praise” in the above title do not normally sit together. Biblically, they are mutually exclusive. If we are sad, we are not praising God who rejoices...

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  08.07.03

  Praise!

  By J.P. Thackway

  This is the title of the new, much-awaited hymn book. No new collection of this size for UK evangelical/reformed churches has appeared since Grace Hymns and Christian Hymns in the...

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