Category Archives: Book Reviews

A Further Look at “Silence”

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Leroy Seat

Over the last couple of weeks I have read a number of reviews about Martin Scorsese’s movie “Silence,” based on the 1966 (Eng., 1969) novel by the same name written by Endo Shusaku. Endo (1923-96) was a Catholic Christian who … Continue reading →

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“The New Left and Christian Radicalism”

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Leroy Seat

[Rather than a summary of the book as such, the following is mainly a compilation of what I found to be the most important statements made in this powerful book.] Gish, Arthur G. The New Left and Christian Radicalism. Eerdmans, … Continue reading →

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Review of Leroy Barber’s “Embrace”

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Leroy Seat

This is a review I wrote for Missiology: An International Review, which will be published sometime next year. Barber, Leroy. Embrace: God’s Radical Shalom for a Divided World. IVP Books, 2016. 140 pp. $16.00, paperback. For many years one of my … Continue reading →

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Finished Reading “Lila”

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Leroy Seat

April 19, 2016 Finished reading the large print edition of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila (2014), the third of her Gilead novels. Shame is one of the themes of the book, and at one point in the first half of the book, … Continue reading →

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