If you want a critical [and reasonably academic] look at what happened and how to reclaim positive psychology for good [and for God] then this is a great place to start.
Category: Book Reviews
Book: Gunning for God: Why The New Atheists are Missing the Target, by John Lennox.
Because they are led by a mistrust of religion which has spilled over into distaste and then blind-prejudice, the New Atheist literature if filled with misquotations, misrepresentations and unsupported assertions, which Lennox exposes and dismantles with some relish
Book: A Better Story: God, Sex & Human Flourishing
Harrison manages to achieve these aims with great skill, combining serious academic rigour, with remarkably accessible language; while coupling orthodoxy with pastoral sensitivity.
Book: Come and Behold Him, Christmas Through Different Eyes
David J. Randall has produced a helpful little book for anyone who wants to scratch below the surface of the Christmas story
Book: Am I Just My Brain? by Sharon Dirckx
In this short book, Sharon Dirckx provides a very helpful introduction to some extremely big topics. As she points out in the introduction, how we answer the question ‘Am I just my brain?’ has implications for free will, robotics, ethics and religion, so the stakes are high.
Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.
Whilst some readers might see the book as a condemnation of Christianity, and of the danger of a doctrine of revelation which requires submission to an ancient text. We note that in both these books Jesus isn’t mentioned and Bibles are locked up
Book Review: Why? Looking at God, evil and personal suffering by Sharon Dirckx
I particularly liked the focus on our personal role ('Am I responsible for anyone else's suffering?' is one chapter heading), and the constant pointers back to Jesus' work on the cross ('Can a broken story be fixed?')
Book: The Paradox of Happiness by René Breuel
The Bible, he notes, urges us to pursue goodness, not happiness - but it turns out that "goodness is deliciously happy!".
Book: A.S.K. (Real World Questions, Real Word Answers) by David Robertson
The questions that drive this book are clearly heartfelt ones, from young people wrestling with faith, doubt, ethics and some very difficult personal situations. The first thing to note and commend about A.S.K. is that these young people have been given the chance to ask these questions, and to engage with serious answers.
Book: God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God by John Lennox
As an expert in mathematics, including probability and chaos theory, Lennox analyses and explains the fine tuning of the physical forces and constants of the universe, and the information richness of the genetic code. These facts point to intelligent input