Reviews & Summaries

Alasdair MacIntyre’s Postcript to After Virtue

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

This is my summary of MacIntyre’s postcript to this classic work in which he seeks to respond to some of the criticisms his account of the virtues evoked. Postscript to the Second Edition of After Virtue Posted February 26, 2011 www.facetofaceintercultural.com.au

Alasdair MacIntyre on After Virtue

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

This is my summary of the final chapter, Chapter 18, of MacIntyre’s classic work After Virtue. MacIntyre Chapter 18 Posted February 22, 2011 www.facetofaceintercultural.com.au

Alasdair MacIntyre on Justice as a Virtue

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

This is my summary of Chapter 17 of MacIntyre’s classic work After Virtue. MacIntyre Chapter 17 Posted February 19, 2010 www.facetofaceintercultural.com.au

Alasdair MacIntyre on Surviving Versions of Traditional Virtues

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

This is my summary of Chapter 16 of After Virtue. The chapter is actually entitled From the Virtues to Virtue and After Virtue. MacIntyre Chapter 16

Stephen Rhodes / Where the Nations Meet. The Church in a Multicultural World

Friday, December 24th, 2010

This is my summary of Stephen Rhodes’ very helpful book, packed full of illustrations often drawn from the lives of members of his multicultural church. Rhodes Where Nations Meet

David Livermore / Cultural Intelligence. Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

This is my summary of Livermore’s helpful book. Livermore Cultural Intelligence www.facetofaceintercultural.com.au

Hendrik Kraemer / The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Welcome to one of the classics in missiology. This book extends to 445 pages and is so dense that my summary runs for 65 pages. Although this book was first written in 1938 it is not dated. Even Kraemer’s portrait of where the Church currently stands is very much “on the money.” Speaking from an [...]

Alasdair MacIntyre on the Nature of the Virtues

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

This is my summary of Chapter 14 of MacIntyre’s book After Virtue. MacIntyre Chapter 14

Alvin Plantinga / God, Freedom, and Evil

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

My summary and comments on this book focus almost solely on Part 1, in which Plantinga presents four propositions and argues (1) that they involve no explicit, formal or implicit contradiction; and (2) that they are logically consistent. The four propositions are: God is omnipotent God is wholly good God is omniscient Evil exists [...]