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December 1998

	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science. By Alan D. Sokal & Jean Bricmont. San Francisco: St Martin, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 16.10: you save $6.90 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 2	this book exposes the ignorance and charlatanism of the French postmoderns concerning their criticism of natural science and mathematics unfortunately the authors espouse the naive view of "scientism" (they think that knowledge is only what is empirically testable) and are unable to refute postmodernism at the philosophical level the book is great fun reading because of its many hilarious citations of postmodern craze...	Contents; review

The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology.
Edited by John Greco & Ernest Sosa.
London: Blackwell, 1998.

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	The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics. By Peter Van Inwagen. Boulder, Col.: Westview, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty: 4		Contents; review

The Last Crusade : Spain: 1936.
By Warren H. Carroll.
Christendom, 1998

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A catholic view on this controversial part of history

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The Master's Perspective on Contemporary Issues.
Edited by Robert L. Thomas.
Master's Perspective Series, Vol 2
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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apologetic exegetical contributions on prophecy (against Grudem), healing (against Deere), freemasonery, feminism...

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	The Return of Credibility: Scientific Discoveries support Belief in the Bible's Creation Account. By Joe T. Ator. Vantage, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $10.80 (Paperback)
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Difficulty:	not concerned about natural history (concording the sequence of events of Gen. 1 with the paleontological chronology), but rather about the confirmation for the idea of creation (Big Bang) also some apologetics against (macro-)evolution and young earth creationism	Contents; review

November 1998

	The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. By William A. Dembski. Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 54.95 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 5 (research)	Philosophical breakthrough arguing for design instead of materialism	Contents; review

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The Genesis Question : Scientific Advances and the Accuracy of Genesis.
By Hugh Ross.
Colorado Springs, Col.: Navpress, 1998.

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a clear and sound harmonization between the most recent results of the natural sciences and the Genesis account
neither materialist/liberal nor fundamentalist (young earth, flood geologies), but more directed at convincing fundamentalists than liberals

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	The God Who Would Be Known: Revelations of the Divine in Contemporary Science.. By John M. Templeton and Robert L. Herrmann. Templeton Foundation, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $14.95 (Paperback)
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	The Double-Edged Sword : How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton. By Robert Shogan. Wesstview, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $17.50: you save $7.50 (30%) (Hardback)
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	Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. By Philip W. Comfort. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $34.99: you save $15.00 (30%) (Hardback)
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	Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up : A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan. By William L. Craig and John D. Crossan. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 11.99: you save $3.00 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 2 (popular)	Excellent debate between two scholars: a Christian (Craig, philosopher and Biblical historian) and a naturalist (Crossan, the famous leader of the Jesus Seminar) also available in audio the book contains the responses of Miller, Blomberg, Borg and Witherington	Contents; review

	Praying with C.S. Lewis : Companions for the Journey. Edited by Charles C. Taliaferro and Carl Koch. St Mary, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 7.16: you save $1.79 (20%) (Paperback)
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The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha & the New Testament .
By James H. Charlesworth .
Trinity, 1998.

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authoritative work on the relation between theses books and the books of the New Testament

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	The City of God Against the Pagans. By Saint Augustine. Trans. and ed. by R. W. Dyson. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $64.95 (Hardback)
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Difficulty:	a new translation in fluent English, with notes appendices, etc.	Contents; review

	The Lesson of Carl Schmitt : Four Chapters on the Distinction Between Political Theology and Political Philosophy . By .Heinrich Meier Tr. by M. Brainard. University of Chicago Press, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty:	a seminal work on the tought of Schmitt, and his view of the relationship between theology and politics	Contents; review

Law As Politics : Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism.
Ed. by David Dyzenhaus.
Duke Univ Pr, 1998.

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	C.S. Lewis : Memories and Reflections. By John Lawlor. Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
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	Branches to Heaven : The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. By James T. Como. Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
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October 1998

Christianity and European Culture : Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson.
By Christopher Dawson.
Edited by Gerald J. Russello.
Washington D. C;: Catholic U. of America, 1998.

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	The New Tolerance: How a Cultural Movement Threatens to Destroy You, Your Faith, and Your Children. By Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler. Tyndale, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 11.19: you save $4.80 (30%) (audiocassette)
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	The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses. By Alan Charles Kors & Harvey A. Silverglate. New York: Free Press, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $19.25 you save $8.25 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty:	about the secretive abuse and intolerance on campus by means of "political correctness", by the leftist extremists who pretend to be defenders of free speech	Contents; review

	The Culture of Critique . By Kevin B. MacDonald. Praeger, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty:	unmasks leftist agenda's in psychology and other human sciences	Contents; review

	Disputed Questions on Virtue: Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus in Commune & Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus Cardinalibus. By St.Thomas Aquinas. Intr. and ed.. by Ralph McInerny St Augustine, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $24.95 (Hardback)
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	Domestic Tranquility : A Brief Against Feminism. By F. Carolyn Graglia. Spence, 1997.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $20.97: you save $8.98 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty:	profound analysis of feminism a women case that feminism is anti-female and anti-human and leads to misery instead of real fulfillment and happiness wide-ranging (marriage, sexuality, motherhood, domestic roles, etc.)	Contents; review

The Master's Perspective on Difficult Passages.
Edited by Robert L. Thomas.
Master's Perspective Series, Vol 1
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.

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among other, apologetic contributions of gifted anti-montanist exegetes such as Richard Mayhue and Robert Thomas

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	Jihad in the West : Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries. By Paul Fregosi. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty:	shows that Islamic has a murderous warrior character built-in and has been a religion of war and murder throughout the centuries, even right from the beginning	Contents; review

The Law.
By Frederic Bastiat.
Foundation for Economic Education, 1998.

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September 1998

	Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity : Essays in Conversation with Louis Dupré. Editted by Peter J. Casarella and George P. Schner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $28.00 (Hardback)
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	Mere Creation; Science, Faith and Intelligent Design Edited by William A. Dembski. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 19.99: you save $5.00 or 20% (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	A must for those interested in natural history with papers by Moreland, Craig, Behe, Johnson, Ross, Dembski, Meyer, Nelson and many others	Contents; review

	The Face that demonstrate the Farce of Evolution. By Hank Hanegraaff. Dallas: Word, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $11.89: you save $5.10 (30%) (Audiocassettes)
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Difficulty: 1 (very easy)		Contents; review

	The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Edited by Lee Strobel. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $11.89: you save $5.10 (30%) (Audiocasssettes)
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Difficulty: 1 (very easy)	contains interviews of the leading scholars about Jesus, representing what the overwhelming majority (a few thousands) of NT scholars really think bestselling answer to the allegations of the small dozen of teachers in Jesus Seminar who pretend to represent modern scholarship	Contents; review

	The Jesus Crisis : The Inroads of Historical Criticism into Evangelical Scholarship. By Robert L. Thomas and F. David Farnell. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $13.59: you save $3.40 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	analyses the roots of hist. crit., as well its fruits among evangelicals (incl. famous ones such as Blomberg, Boyd, Carson, Gundry, Marshall, Osborne, Wenham, Wilkins, etc.) "This is the best up-todate analysis of the dangerous drift of evangelical scholarship into negative higher criticism of the New Testament" Norman Geisler	Contents; review

	St. Augustine's City of God. By Terry Miethe. Nahsville: Broadman & Holman, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $4.76: you save $1.19 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Relativism: Feet firmly Planted in Mid-Air. By Francis J. Beckwith & Gregory Koukl. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $11.99: you save $3.00 (20x%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 1 (very easy)	exposition and refutation of relativism in general and in some special cases good arguments presented in a lively, practical manner	Contents; review

	Love Between Women : Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism . By Bernadette J. Brooten. The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society U. of Chicago, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $34.95: you save $24.47 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty:	a study in the antic world and the Christian response to lesbianism also an answer to Gay interpretations of Rom. 1.	Contents; review

August 1998

Metaphysics : The Big Questions.
Edited by Peter Van Inwagen & Dean W. Zimmerman.
London: Blackwell, 1998.

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	Providence and the Problem of Evil.. By Richard Swinburne. Oxford: Oxford U., 1998.	Order the HARDback edition in the US with Amazon US for $ 65.95
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Difficulty: 4 (difficult)	The final book by the famous Oxford philosopher, with which he ends his career	Contents; review

	There's More to Life Than Politics. By William P. Murchison. Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty:	a collection of conservative columns on many issues	Contents; review

July 1998

	Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity : the Thought of Louis Dupré. Editted by Peter J. Casarella and George P. Schner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $22.40: you save $5.60 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Christianity on the Offense : Responding to the Beliefs and Assumptions of Spiritual Seekers. By Dan Story. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $7.99: you save $2.00 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Out of a Kantian Chrysalis?: A Maritainian Critique of Fr. Maréchal. By Ronald McCamy. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 24.95 (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 5 (research)	a fresh defense of Thomist realism (such as Maritain's) against the Kantian idealism of the "Neothomists" (such as Maréchal's) important contribution to epistemology vital contribution for Thomism	Contents; Review by W. Corduan

Goddess Unmasked : The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality.
By Philip G. Davis.
Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.

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Legislating Morality: Is it Wise, is it Legal? Is It Possible? .
By Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek.
Minneapolis, Min.: Bethany House, 1998.

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The must book about politics, law and morality

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	Tenured Radicals : How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education. By Roger Kimball. Rev. ed. Ivan R. Dee, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $10.36: you save $2.59 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty:	a lucid analysis of the postmodern perversion of what used to by academical	Contents; review

	Action and Conduct : Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action. By Stephen L. Brock Edinburgh: T&T Clard, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 44.95 (Hardback)
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The Authority of Reason.
By Jean E. Hampton.
Ed. by R. A. Healey.
Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.

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argues that ethics is as much scientific as the natural sciences

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	Nature's Destiny : How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe.. By Michael Denton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 19.25: you save $8.25 or 30% (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	"From the laws of physic to chemistry to biology, (...) he [Denton] shows the goal of the cosmos to be human life." M. Behe.	Contents; review

	A House built on Sand. Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science. Edited by Noretta Koertge. Oxford: Oxford Univ. , 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 35.00 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: ?	answers the criticism of the social "scientists" and postmoderns who claim that natural science is more a sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist... endoctrination that it is a study of the natural world.	Contents; review

June 1998

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Objections Sustained : Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture..
By Phillip E. Johnson.
Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998.

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a collection of essays on Darwinism, postmodernism and politics, the university and law

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	The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New Scientific Evidence. By John C. Iannone. Alba, 1998	Order in the US with Amazon US for $14.95 (Paperback)
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	Archaeology and the Old Testament. By Alfred J. Hoerth Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 31.49: you save $13.50 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	comprehensive and rather up-to-date unfortunately does not integrate the latest contributions (such as David Rohl's or James Hoffmeier's)	Contents; review

Selected Philosophical Writings.
By Thomas Aquinas.
Trans. by T. McDermott.
Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1998.

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	Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory. Edited by John Finnis. Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought. Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 52.00 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: ?	historically-informed account of Aquinas'work on these issues, with an assessment of his central ideas and arguments shows how Aquinas makes clear and profound contribution to present debates	Contents; review by Name

Getting What You Want : A Critique of Liberal Morality.
By Robert Brecher, Bob Brecher
London : Routledge, 1997.
(paperback 1998.)

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	What if the Bible had never been written? By D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 13.99: you save $6.00 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 2	a calvinist study of the impact of the Bible not so objective, e. g. does not cover the negative influence of fundamentalism (Franciscan nominalism, Young-Earth Creationism, past religious intolerance in Europe, etc.) the case is much weaker than in the similar book by the authors (What if Jesus had never been born?)	Contents; review

The Laughing Revival from Azusa to Pensacola .
By David W. Cloud.
2nd ed.
Way of Life, 1998

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a historical and apologetics book on (against) "holy" laughter

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	The C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia. Edited by Jeffrey D.Schultz, & John G. West. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 16.09: you save $6.90 (30%) (Hardback)
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	Te Deum : The Church and Music. By Paul Westermeyer. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
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May 1998

	The Age of Consent : The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture. By Robert H. Knight. Dallas, TX: Spence, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty: 2	exposes the disastrous impact of relativism on popular culture (TV, movies, newspapers, music, etc.)	Contents; review

The City of Man.
By Pierre Manent.
Tr. by M. A. Lepain.
Princeton U., 1998.

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	Einstein's Miraculous Year : Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics. By John J. Stachel. Princeton U., 1998	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
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Moral Dilemmas : Biblical Perspectives on Contemporary Ethical Issues.
By J. Kerby Anderson.
Dallas: Word, 1998.

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covers many issues in a conservative way

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	Jacques Maritain : The Philosopher in Society. By James V. Schall. 20th Century Political Thinkers. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $58.00 (Hardback)
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The March of Freedom : Modern Classics in Conservative Thought.
By Edwin J. Feulner.
Dallas, Tx: Spence, 1998.

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exposes the recent, strong return of convervatism in American
with texts by the makers of this modern conservatism

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April 1998

	Staring into Chaos : Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization. By Bruce G. Brander. Spence, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty: 3	introduces the major studies, from authors like Tolstoy, Burckhardt, Berdyaev... and especially the monumental works of Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin still too politically correct	Contents; review

	Rationality and Religion : Does Faith Need Reason? By Roger Trigg.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $54.95 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	argues that religion should have a rational basis, and other issues important for Christianity	Contents; review

	Masquerade of the Dream Walkers. Prophetic Theology from the Cartesians to Hegel. By Peter A. Redpath. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 97 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	Redpath's third volume in his Gilsonian analysis of the history of philosophy argues that modern philosophy is deconstructed Augustinian theology, with elements of animism, nominalism, sophistry, spirits of Protagoras and Augustine, Christianized Heracliteanism	Contents; review

	Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements : A Translation and Interpretation of the De Principiis Naturae and the De Mixtione Elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Josef Bobik. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 39 (Hardback)
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	The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real. By Ian Wilson. New York: Free Press, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $17.50: you save $7.50 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	a convincing case for the authenticity of the shroud also answering the carbon-dating with the very recent work of Garza-Valdes on bacterial coatings	Contents; review

Women in the Days of Cathedrals.
By Regine Pernoud.
Tr. by A. Cote-Harriss.
San Francisco : Ignatius, 1998.

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The Spanish Inquisition : A Historical Revision.
By Henry Kamen.
Yale Univ. 1998.

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C. S. Lewis & Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a Century from the most Influential Apologists of our Time.
By Scott F. Burson & Jerry L. Walls.
Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1998.

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an analyse of their motivation, methodologies and of the consistency of their ideas
does not really deal with philosophical foundation of their works or the validity of the arguments, but mainly with the theological consistency of their ideas and their orthodoxy.

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	Moral Virtue or Mental Health? By Mark S. Pestana. San Francisco State Univ. Series in Philosophy, Vol. 10. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $39.95 (Hardback)
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	Beyond Death : Exploring the Evidence for Immortality. By Gary Habermas & James P. Moreland Wheaton, IL: Crossways, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 22.00 (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	Evidence for immortality, as well as its nature and implications Considerable revision and expansion of the former book by these authors (Immortality: the Other Side of Death)	Contents; review

	Natural Law and Moral Inquiry : Ethics, Metaphysics, and Politics in the Work of Germain Grisez. By Robert P. George. Georgetown Univ., 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $55.00 (Paperback)
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	The Western Church in the Middle Ages. By John A. F. Thompson. London: Arnold, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $60.00 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	Another interesting book on the medieval church, with somewhat more emphasis on England	Contents; review

March 1998

	The Embarrassed Believer : Reviving Christian Witness in an Age of Unbelief. By Hugh Hewitt. Dallas: Word, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $13.99: you save $6.00 (30%) (Hardback)
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	Truth and Religious Belief : Conversations on Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Curtis L. Hancock, Brendan Sweetman & Randolph M. Feezell. Sharpe, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $54.95 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 1 (fun)	dialogues between characters introducing the topics of the philosophy of religion (about God, religious experience, meaning of life, etc.)	Contents; review

	The Shroud of Turin; An Adventure of Discovery. By Mary & Alan Whanger. Providence, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $13.56: you save $3.39 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions. By Winfried Corduan. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity , 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 17.49: you save $7.50 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 2 (popular)	introduction to the major religions (history, doctrine and practice) with advices for thougthful cross-cultural communication	Contents; review

Jesus Only Churches.
By E. Calvin Beisner.
Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements Series.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1998.

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An exposition and refutation of some "charismatic"/ Pentacostal churches.

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	Alien Obsession: What Lies Behind Abductions, Sightings, and the Attraction to the Paranormal. By Ron Rhodes. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $7.99: you save $2.00 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Alone in the Universe? : Aliens, the X-Files & God. By David Wilkinson. Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $7.99: you save $x2.00 (20%) (Paperback)
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	Science, Religion and Authority : Lessons from the Galileo Affair. By Richard J. Blackwell. Aquinas Lecture 62. Milwauke, Wis: Marquette U., 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 15.00 (Hardback)
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William Harvey and the Use of Purpose in the Scientific Revolution : Cosmos by Chance or Universe by Design?
By Emerson T. McMullen .
Lanham: U. of America, 1998

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shows how his Christian worldview was a major source of inspiration for his ground-breaking discoveries

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	The Dark Side of the Left : Illiberal Egalitarianism in America. By Richard J. Ellis. American Political Thought University Press of Kansas, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $24.50: you save $10.50 (30%) (Hardback)
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February 1998

	Epistemology : A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. . By Robert Audi. London: Routledge, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 70.00 (Hardback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	a fresh and detailed introduction to epistemology, from a moderate foundationalist viewpoint	Contents; review

	Light of Faith: The Compendium of Theology. By Saint Thomas Aquinas. Trans. by C. Vollert. Rev. ed. Manchester, NH: Sophia Inst.,1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 17.60; you save $4.40 or 20% (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 4 (difficult)	An overview of theology, written by the greatest Christian philosopher (this text is not adequate as an introduction to Aquinas) Even many open-minded protestants who may not agree with certain Catholic ideas, find Thomas' though very enriching	Contents; review

	The Ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Two Courses. Ed. by Ignatius T. Eschmann & Edward A. Synan. Toronto: Pont. Inst. of Mediaeval Studies, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 37.99 (Hardback)
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Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism: Strong State, Free Economy.
By Renato Cristi
Univ of Wales Pr ., 1998.

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	Paul Dirac : The Man and His Work. Edited by Abraham Pais & al. Cambridge: Cambridge U., 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
Difficulty:	about one of the most important physicists of the 20th century	Contents; review

	The False Gospel of Mormonism : The Great Divide Between Mormonism and Christianity. Edited by Norman L. Geisler. Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 7.99: you save $2.00 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 3 (academic)	The best book ever written about (and against) mormon history, theology and philosophy	Contents; review by Name

	Mind Games. By Andre Kole, Jerry MacGregor.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $8.79: you save $2.20 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty:	exposes the fraud of parapsychology, astrology, etc.	Contents; review

	Freud vs. God. By Dan G. Blazer. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998	Order in the US with Amazon US for $16.09: you save $6.90 (30%) (Hardback)
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Difficulty:	argues against Freud, but also against the fundamentalist rejection of psychology	Contents; review

	Manufacturing Victims : What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People. By Tana Dineen. Davies, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $16.99 (Paperback)
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January 1998

	The g Factor. By Arthur Robert Jensen. Praeger, 1998.	Order the Hardback version with: Amazon UK Amazon US B & N (US) Proxis (Europe)
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Jesus and the Logic of History.
By Paul Barnett.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998.

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scientific approach to christology, using all the relevant sources

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	Defending Your Faith : Reliable Answers for a New Generation of Seekers and Skeptics. By Dan Story. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $9.59: you save $2.40 (20%) (Paperback)
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	The Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures.. By John Locke. Intr., ed., comm. and annot. by G. W. Ewing. Washington, D.C: Regnery, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $ 10.36: you save $2.59 (20%) (Paperback)
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Difficulty: 4 (difficult)	besides being an apologetics for Christianity (why did not Jesus say more overtly that is was God, why general revelation is not enough...), this book contains a lengthy and intelligent analysis of the gospels, and of what gospel was preached by Jesus and the apostles (also considering Acts and the epistles) Lutherans, Calvinists and Evangelicals may especially benefit from this book by realizing what are the essentials of the Christian gospel and avoiding an unncessary division with Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodoxes	Contents; review

Nemesis at Postdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans.
By Alfred-Maurice de Zayas.
Rev. ed.
Picton, 1998.

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Over the ethnic cleansing of 15 millions Germans after the war

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	Christianity and Imperial Culture : Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century and Their Latin Patristic Equivalent. By Xiaocho Wang. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1998.	Order in the US with Amazon US for $87.50 (Hardback)
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