 | | Dear Reader, Welcome to TGC’s Books newsletter! In this monthly newsletter, I’ll gather a number of our key book reviews (we publish 12 per month) as well as link to other publications’ pieces that I find most intriguing, insightful, amusing, and delightful. Since this is our inaugural email, I’ve picked articles from the past year or so that relate to the reading life. With the start of 2019, perhaps you’d like to pick up a book from our 2018 TGC Book Awards. And as I wrote there, with our attention spans decreasing and as we’re sucked into the social-media vortex with its trivialities and Outrage of the Day, one way we can quietly resist is by reading a book. Such a small act, when joined to an abiding walk with Jesus and a life of service in his church, makes a radical difference in our lives and those around us. Every bibliophile I meet is immediately a kindred spirit, so I hope this will be a welcome resource to you as a fellow book lover. Feel free to comment and let us know what you’d like to see in later versions of this newsletter at books@thegospelcoalition.org or just reply to this email. | | IVAN MESA | | Editorial Director | |  | | | | | Simply put, ‘Apologetics at the Cross’ is the best single-volume introduction to apologetics available today and is sure to become a standard textbook. | | REVIEWED BY TIMOTHY KLEISER | | | | | | | | Chapoutot tells the story of the gradual, logical, coherent corruption of an entire society in the service of great evil. In doing so it not only teaches us about the rise of Nazism. It also teaches us about the dynamics of moral thinking and behavior in a way that is a warning to us all, no matter how small and insignificant the little worlds we happen to inhabit. | | REVIEWED BY CARL TRUEMAN | | | | | | | | ‘No Place for Truth’ is so useful because it will equip you to spot the subtler symptoms of postmodernism in your own mind and heart, as well as in the culture around you. Ministers and shepherds of God’s people are to be wise in the Word. Otherwise, we will have nothing of lasting value to offer them. May we be on guard against any suggestion that caring for people means there is no place in our churches for truth. | | REVIEWED BY JON PENTECOST | | | | | | | | We might try to merge with the machines, download our brains to synthetic bodies, or reach the singularity, but nothing will change how we’ve been created and the irreducible dignity that comes from being made in the imago dei. | | REVIEWED BY JASON THACKER | | | | | | | | What Peter Williams has tackled he does well throughout, and at times he does it exceedingly well. This work deserves a wide audience. | | REVIEWED BY CRAIG BLOMBERG | | | | | | | | Through an overview of 400 years of American church history, Tisby—who has graduate training in both American history and Reformed Christian theology and is president of The Witness, a black Christian collective—demonstrates that white American Protestants in both the North and South repeatedly used their theology and church institutions to perpetuate racial power imbalances in the name of Christ. | | REVIEWED BY DANIEL K. WILLIAMS | | | | | | | | There is wisdom here for Christian parents, who must always be their children’s prime educators. If you’re a parent, read the Bible to your children from an early age, along with age-appropriate Bible storybooks and well-written (and well-illustrated) children’s books. As they grow, introduce them to classic literary works. Let them hear both biblical truth and also beautiful language. Through the exhausting early years of child-rearing, fight the terrible temptation to let a smartphone or tablet serve as a babysitter, much as parents a generation ago had to resist the siren song of TV. Keep books in your home for this purpose, whether owned | | REVIEWED BY GREG BAILEY | | | | | | | | As part of that journey I always confess, to the surprise of many students, that if it could be proven Christ didn’t rise from the dead, I’d abandon Christianity and become a Stoic. I mean that. If the resurrection didn’t happen, then Christianity is a hoax. If Christianity is a hoax, then God has not really spoken. And if God hasn’t really spoken, then the best plan of action is to rein in one’s passions, curb one’s desires, and conform to nature. In a word, play it safe. And nobody plays it safer than the Stoics. | | REVIEWED BY LOUIS MARKOS | | | |  | Wish you had a roundup of our best content?
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