ever-present "Why?".  These answers will prove equally attractive to today's readers who, after so many decades of failed isms, yearn for understanding and commitment even more than did their grandparents' generation.

The case for the questioning Christian is made with both incisive analysis and lively storytelling. Brief fictional interludes provide an alternate way of exploring topics at hand and vividly depict the real-life dilemmas reflective Christians often face.

Taylor affirms a call to throw off the paralysis of uncertainty and to risk commitment to God without forfeiting the God given gift of an inquiring mind. Throughout he demonstrates clearly how much the world and the church need question askers.

This one-of-a-kind book is meant to help Protestant Christians read and receive the early church fathers as an essential part of their faith.

Written primarily for the evangelical, independent, and free

Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is just beginning his demonic career and has been assigned to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.

explains succinctly the factors that have made religious pluralism a major challenge for Christian theology. Then he places the issue in the history of doctrine leading up to the present day.

Five chapters follow this introductory material and cover the field
very systematically: The first chapter deals with God's global reach in salvation and shows that God is concerned for all people in all nations; chapter two highlights the Christology through which God is know to be the God of grace; the third chapter shows how the Bible views other religions as they presently exist and how we can understand them; chapter four deals with religions as non-static entities and the object of divine power bringing in the kindgom; and the fifth chapter discusses eschatology, or how it is possible to understand salvation in generous and large terms. "A Wideness in God's Mercy" is one of the very few books to present a strong proposal on the issue of religious pluralism while maintaining a rock-solid evangelical stance. It will no doubt launch a decade of discussion on a higher level among Christians.

Clark H. Pinnock (PhD, Manchester) is a creative and highly respected theologian, apologist, teacher, and author of such books as "Theological Crossfire" (with Delwin Brown), he Grace of God," "The Will of Man" and "Tracking the Maze." He teachers theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario.