Book Reviews, ‘Notices’ and Conversation
The many changes happening around us call for some change in our ‘Books’ section.
I hope to include more short ‘notices’ of books that members have found useful. These will give sufficient detail to enable easy access to additional information, both via traditional routes and also via AI - for those bold enough! I welcome your suggestions.
I would also like to see a change of emphasis in our reviews. In addition to information and critique we would welcome the questions that arise for reviewers. Our hope is that reviews come to be understood as one member’s perceptions and, as such, are available for ‘kickstarting’ conversations. These conversations could promptly be continued in the forum on the Sofia website - to do so, an initial response would first be posted to:
David Lambourn
Book notices
- Nicholas Spencer, Magisteria: the Entangled Histories of Science and Religion (One World, 2023).
- Lamorna Ash, Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: a New Generation’s Search for Religion (Bloomsbury, 2025).
- George van Kooten, Reverberations of Good News: the Gospels in Context Then and Now (SCM, 2026).
- Alice Roberts, Domination: the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
- Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: the History and Future of Societal Collapse (Penguin, 2025).
- J. Brian Tucker & Aaron Kuecker, Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament (T&T Clark, 2025).
- Fara Dabhoiwala, What is Free Speech?: the History of a Dangerous Idea (Allen Lane, 2025).
- Georgios Varouxakis, The West: the History of an Idea (Princeton, 2025).