Find me in the Stars, by Jules Larimore Another fascinating tale set among the tensions between the Catholic authorities and the Huguenot recluses in southern France during the seventeenth century reign of the Sun King Louis XIV. This second book in the The Huguenot Trilogy introduces new aspects: romance and the dangers and vicissitudes of…
This is a lengthy, complex, but very human book about relationships between normal, dysfunctional people. We discover how the two primary players, Paige and Nicholas, are very much influenced by their respective mothers, both of whom abandoned their families in different ways and for different reasons.
A variety of meditations on the Bible passages relating to the period just before Jesus’ death, some quite thought-provoking.
Untertitel: Signs of emergence in the urban church Ein Buch, das ich nicht ohne weiteres empfehlen kann. Brewin erkannt richtig einige Mängel und Versagen des Christentums, und behauptet, wir sind auf einem ‘lokalen Gipfel’ gelandet, anstatt zuoberst auf dem Berg. Um weiter zu kommen, müssen wir uns ins finstere, dreckige Tal wagen, uns einmischen in…
I have listened to this as an audiobook and hardly dare to say anything which might sound negative about such a distinguished author or this book in particular. It is totally biblically based, expounding many passages very literally, but reinterpreting others metaphorically (e.g. “all things” in Rom. 8:32); I have trouble with that kind of ambivalence….
I’ve recently read several books about the wives of Christian reformers. They led me to ponder on the way the Church’s emphasis and lifestyle have changed throughout history. Here is a very superficial summary of my analysis, concentrating on the European situation: