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BOOKS
Beckwith, Francis J. 2009. Return
to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
Paper. 144 p.
$14.99.
Blum, Paul Richard, ed. 2010.
Philosophers of the Renaissance. Washington, DC:
Catholic University of America
Press. Paper. 323
p. $35.95.
Buruma, Ian. 2010. Taming the Gods: Religion
and Democracy on Three Continents.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press. Cloth. 132
p. $19.95.
Caldecott, Stratford. 2009. Beauty
for Truth's Sake: On the Re-Enchantment of Education.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
Paper. 156 p. $22.99.
Carroll, John. 2010. The
Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Paper. 270 p.
$22.95.
Charles, J. Daryl. 2008. Retrieving
the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 346 p.
$34.
DeYoung, Rebecca K., Colleen McCluskey & Christine Van Dyke.
2009. Aquinas's Ethics:
Metaphysical Foundations, Moral
Theory and Theological Context. Notre Dame,
IN:
University of Notre Dame Press.
Paper. 242 p. $30.
Dreisbach, Daniel L. & Mark David Hall, eds. 2009. The Sacred Rights of
Conscience: Selected
Readings on Religious Liberty and
Church-State Relations in the American Founding.
Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund.
Paper. 672 p. $14.50.
D'Souza, Dinesh. 2008. What's So Great About
Christianity. Carol Stream, IL:
Tyndale House Publishers. Paper.
348 p. $14.99.
Gairdner, William D. 2009. The Book of Absolutes:
A Critique of Relativism and a Defence
of Universals.
Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University
Press. Paper. 398 p. $29.95.
Gregor, Brian & Jens Zimmermann, eds. 2009. Bonhoeffer and Continental
Thought: Cruciform
Philosophy. Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press. Paper. 252 p. $24.95.
Gregory, Marshall. 2009. Shaped By Stories: The
Ethical Power of Narratives.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre
Dame Press. Paper. 223 p. $25.
Guerra, Marc D. 2010. Christians as Political Animals: Taking the
Measure of Modernity
and Modern Democracy. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Cloth. 216 p. $26.95.
Hankins, Barry. 2008. Francis
Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 272 p.
$20.
Holmes, Richard. 2009. The Age of Wonder:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered
the Beauty and Terror of Science.
New York: Pantheon Books. Cloth.
552 p. $40.
Jacoby, Susan. 2009. The Age of American
Unreason. Rev. ed. New
York: Vintage Books.
Paper.
357 p. $15.95.
Kupelian, David. 2010. How Evil Works:
Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces
That Are Transforming America.
New York: Simon & Schuster. Cloth.
289 p. $26.
Lichterman, Paul & C. Brady Potts, eds. 2009. The Civic Life of
American Religion.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Paper.
164 p. $19.95.
Livio, Mario. 2009. Is God a Mathematician? New York:
Simon & Schuster. Cloth. 308 p. $26.
Menand, Louis. 2010. The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance
in the American
University. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Cloth. 174 p. $24.95.
Merrigan, Terrence & Ian Kerr, eds. 2009. Newman and Truth.
Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans. Paper. 289 p. $50.
Mizzoni, John. 2010. Ethics: The Basics. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell. Paper. 223 p. $29.95.
Pottenger, John R. 2007. Reaping
the Whirlwind: Liberal Democracy and the Religious Axis.
Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press. Paper. 342
p. $29.95.
Root, Andrew. 2010. The
Children of Divorce: The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Paper. 171 p.
$19.99.
Schlabach, Gerald W. 2010. Unlearning
Protestantism: Sustaining Christian Community
in an Unstable Age.
Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press.
Paper. 272 p.
$24.99.
Schuman, Samuel. 2010. Seeing
the Light: Religious Colleges in Twenty-First Century America.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press. Cloth. 326
p. $50.
Senter, Mark H. III. 2010. When
God Shows Up: A History of Protestant Youth Ministry
in America. Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. Paper.
363 p. $26.99.
Smidt, Corwin E. et al. 2008. Pews,
Prayers and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility
in America. Washington,
DC: Georgetown University Press. Paper.
280 p. $26.95.
Ward, Bruce K. 2010. Redeeming
the Enlightenment: Christianity and the Liberal Virtues.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Paper. 230 p.
$26.
Webb, Adam K. 2009. A
Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books.
Cloth. 258 p.
$28.
Wuthnow, Robert. 2009. Boundless
Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches.
Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press. Cloth. 345
p. $26.95.
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