book reviews

Some Matters of Usage

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 10, 2020 | Book (& Other) Reviews, English Usage, Off-Topic, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 14 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Some random commentary and other updates follow. Rather than cram all new updates and commentary into a single post, I’ll spread the latest updates over a few posts. I began...

Brief Notice: New Old Paper Uploaded to My Academia Account

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 12, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Brief Notices, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Resources

I just uploaded a paper to my Academia account. Find it...

Will, Sensibility, and Tangents

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources

Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...

Visit (to Library) Prompts Letter (to Publisher): Sikh Edition

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 14, 2018 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 This is a letter I just wrote to an organization promoting Sikhism, the youngest of the so-called “world religions.” Encountering some Sikh beliefs in a recent editing...

Worth Reading…with Healthy Skepticism: Carrin’s Spirit-Empowered Theology

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 6, 2017 | Book (& Other) Reviews

👁 Most recently revised on 7 August 2017 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Carrin, Charles, D.D. Spirit-Empowered Theology. Minneapolis: Chosen, 2007. 351 pages. $19.99 retail. ISBN 978-0-8007-9817-8. I am not part of the signs-and-wonders (Pentecostal,...

Good Motives, Middling Result: Hambrick’s Do Ask, Do Tell, Let’s Talk

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 18, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News

👁 Most recently revised on 8 August 2017 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) modification and combination of images showing support of and opposition to homosexuality, acquired through Wikimedia Commons under Creative...

The Materialist Face of Bouw: Do Omnipotence, Omnipresence Make God a Plenum?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 15, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Image: Mysterious galaxy abstract, released to the public domain by its creator, Lynn Greyling, through the Public Domain Pictures site. I’ve recently started reading an...

Pentecostal Outpourings…the Reformed Way

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 22, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Smart, Robert Davis, Michael A. G. Haykin, and Ian High Clary, editors. Pentecostal Outpourings: Revival and the Reformed Tradition. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books,...

Reordering the Trinity: Unconvincing Thesis, but Still Worth Reading

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 22, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Durst, Rodrick K. Reordering the Trinity: Six Movements of God in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2005. Paperback, 369 pages. ISBN 978-0-8254-4378-7. Rodrick K....

Gifted Mind: Engaging, Worthwhile…Unfinished

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 2, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews

👁 Most recently revised on 20 July 2020 by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) 👁 Kinley, Jeff, with Raymond Damadian. Gifted Mind: The Dr. Raymond Damadian Story, Inventor of the MRI. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2015. Hard cover. Pp. 240. ISBN...