Archive for the ‘Non-fiction’ Category

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, by Elaine Pagels; published 2003 by Random House, New York; reviewed by Frank Thomas Smith. Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University, became famous – well, at least well known – with the publication of her book, The Gnostic Gospels, in 1979. She has written several other […]

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The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins; review by Valdemar W. Setzer Original: May 10, 2009. This version (2.5): Jan.2, 2010 Published in the electronic magazine Southern Cross Review, No. 68, Jan. 2010 1. Introduction Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion provoked many discussions. Many people made reviews of it, either praising or detracting it. Typically, the […]

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The Gnostic Gospels, by Eileen Pagels; review by Frank Thomas Smith In December 1945 an Arab peasant was digging around a massive boulder in Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt looking for sabakh, a soil for fertilizing crops, when he found an large earthen jar almost a meter high. He hesitated to break it for fear an […]

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HOW TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN AND STUDENTS FROM THE INTERNET How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers, by Gregory S. Smith; published by Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2007; review by Valdemar W. Setzer 1. Introduction This paper is a review of the book by Gregory S. Smith How […]

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A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz; Review by Frank Thomas Smith This is a memoir, an autobiography written by a novelist who admits his disdain for footnotes, so they are few and far between. This, however, is not the book’s only virtue. Love and darkness as the two powerful forces running through […]

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