Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Ag man (as they say in South Africa), Stackhouse (Making the Best of It) writes about some seminal thinkers … CS Lewis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I began reading Bonhoeffer in college, read three more of his books the summer after college, and have since begun purchasing and reading his collected works. When I…

John Stackhouse has a goal: to construct a Christian realism when it comes to how we should relate to and participate in culture. He sketches this view in his excellent book, Making the Best of It. After sketching the famous five categories of H. Richard Niebuhr (see our earliest post in this series), Stackhouse goes…

I don’t know what you think is the best book on Christ and Culture, but I’d be interested in hearing. We are looking at John Stackhouse, Making the Best of It , and we turn to his first resource for how he builds his own version of Christian realism. He starts with CS Lewis.

John Stackhouse, one in a growing group of blogging professors, has a new book that I want to read carefully and slowly because it challenges one of my fundamental orientations: an Anabaptist perception of the relationship of the disciple and the world or the church and culture. Christian realism, Stackhouse’s view, forms a middle ground…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners