This is an unusual, beautiful entry in the world of cooking and cookbooks!

This hardcover volume features a color cover that will look as good on your coffee table as in your kitchen.

Enjoy Southern favorites such as dishes featuring Green Tomatoes and Vidalia Onions, and a recipe for curried shrimp for forty!

The section on "Moveable Feasts" includes Saint Timothy's Cake, and Wild Rice and Chicken Salad. Pork Barbecue for 50 men? It's there, along with Venison Burgundy, and Low Country Quail, in "Men's Gatherings."

From Receptions and Celebrations to "Deadly Sins" - it's all here: "Death by Chocolate," and "Bishop's Pudding", with recipes to serve from four to forty! Try the recipe for "Gumbo for a Crowd" - you'll have 60 quarts of delicious soup.

This volume even includes a heavenly choral blessing to be sung before meals by groups large and small.

"Past & Repast" also includes remembrances and photos from the life of Saint Paul's Church, the Mother Church of Augusta. Founded in 1750 by the Church of England, this Episcopal Church has been called "the symbol of Augusta" by noted historian Edward J. Cashin, who wrote the forward to the book.

Culinary sections are introduced with historical overviews from the Colonial Period, Post-Revolutionary Period, the Victorian Era, and "New beginnings", the period following the Great Fire of 1916 which consumed much of downtown Augusta.

Visit the Garden City and golf capital through the eyes of the more than 200 contributors to this beautiful book who capture the flavor of Augusta.

Veteran cookbook editor and published food critic Julie Badger has outdone herself with this one!

As a Christian campus minister, I often hear students' questions about salvation. "What is salvation?" "How does Jesus save?" "How can something that happened 2000 years ago affect me now?" "What does it mean that Jesus died for my sins, and he could he have when I wasn't even around then?" When my own responses fail to satisfy them, I always recommend Fiddes' book, and I am grateful that it remains in print twelve years after its first publication.

Fiddes does a good job in distinguishing between "objective" theories of atonement/salvation that describe what believers claim God has done to change the way things are in the universe, and "subjective" theories that stress an individual's appropriation of divine activity. He then synthesizes them well. Along with Michael Winter's "The Atonement" (Liturgical Press), I think this book is excellent background reading for anyone wanting to seriously explore Christian atonement theory, and it is free enough of academic jargon to be read by the general educated public.

Once I heard a food professional writer comment that if she reviewed a cookbook and found three recipes she wanted to try it was a successful book. With this book it would be difficult to find three recipes you would not want to try. The fresh and imaginative recipes are easy to follow with many taking 30 minutes or less to prepare. Every recipe is illustrated in glorious color. The book is in a large ring binding that opens flat for kitchen convenience. Many of the recipes are vegetarian.

Farmer is both an MD and anthropologist, and his writings of disease and the poor (topics unfortunately remote to most westerners) are very personal and interesting. He is a hands-on care giver in Haiti and also a powerful influence in the world politics of third world medical care. Please read this book.

This is a great book for anyone who is truthfully looking for an account of the new testament, especially on Paul, in light of Judaism. The book is a compilation of a few essays in which Mr. Stendahl, a bishop from Sweden, displays an unusually gifted insight and discernment between Paul and the introspective Western conscience, which unfortunately plagues Christianity in America today. Anyone who reads this book will definitely be enlightened and will acquire a new, authoritative way of looking at Scripture.

Paul and Jesus: The True Story by the Reverend David Wenham (an Anglican parish priest and a researcher/teacher at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England) is an informed and commendable attempt to address common negative views of the apostle Paul, who is often credited with changing or modifying Jesus' original ideas, messages and teachings, especially with regard to the role and status of women and sex. Presenting the true story of Paul and Jesus, and what the scriptures themselves tell a modern readership, Paul and Jesus is a straightforward, highly recommended, scholarly interpretation offering a wealth of documented and supported insights into the "Apostle to the Gentiles" and the true story of the two most influential figures in the establishment of Christianity into what would become one of the major religious movements the world would ever know.

Anyone who is interested in a more balanced and Biblical understanding of "eternal security" or "perseverance of the saints" should consult this book. Gundry-Volf does an excellent job presenting the traditional Reformed view of perseverance and security through the writings of Paul. The exegesis and detailed analysis of difficult warning passages are outstanding. The book is divided into four sections that deal with Paul's perspective on how believers continue in the salvation already given to them through faith in Christ. The first section deals with the various passages that speak of Paul's understanding of soteriological security. Passages that are examined include: Romans 8:29-30; Philippians 1:6; 1 Corinthians 1:8-9, and several others. According to Gundry-Volf, Paul strongly argued FOR eternal security throughout his letters. The second section deals with how immoral conduct affects Christians' security according to Paul. According to Gundry-Volf, ethical failure among true believers does NOT jeopardize their salvation as proven by passages in Romans 14:1-23; 1 Corinthians 8:7-13; 11:27-34, but can lead to spiritual impoverishment and divine chastisement (even leading to physical death). However, certain more "grievous" sins practiced as a lifestyle can call into question the reality of salvation among certain members of the visible church (1 Corinthians 5:1-5; 6:9-11; and Galatians 5:19-21). Therefore, sin cannot interrupt the continuance of a believer's salvation, but serious sins practiced as a lifestyle demonstrate an unregenerate heart. The third section deals with Paul's understanding of Israel's election and how Israel fits into Paul's understanding of eternal security, and how professing Christians show themselves to be unsaved by abandoning the true Gospel. Gundry-Volf does an excellent job showing that Paul believed that Israel as a whole would someday convert to Christ before the Parousia (Romans 11:26), and that Paul doesn't hold out hope for salvation to those who turn away from or resist the Gospel presenting by him (Galatians 5:1-4). The last section deals with how Paul understood his calling as an Apostle and how his readers would be affected by his Apostolic mission. According to Gundry-Volf, Paul wished to "win the race" for approval, not for salvation (1 Corinthians 9:27). He wanted to successfully bring as many people into the Kingdom so that he may receive an eschatological reward on top of his salvation. He didn't question his salvation, but only his effectiveness as an Apostle. However, he feared that his labour would be in vain if his readers didn't respond to the Gospel he presented in a favourable way. Yet, he didn't question the salvation of those who responded positively; only those who rejected the Gospel and his Apostleship were in danger of proving themselves as unregenerate. Gundry-Volf's book lacks the shallow proof-texting of some who have written books on the same topic (e.g., Dan Corner). This book is very scholarly and thoroughly exegetical. Every difficult passage is examined and explained. However, I would recommend readers to learn some Biblical Greek and modern German before tackling this book since Gundry-Volf tends to use many Greek phrases and cite many German scholars. Overall, this is an excellent book for those wanting a better understanding of this very important issue.

Donaldson sets out on an ambitious enterprise: to reexamine Paul's conception of the role Gentiles should be given and what their relationship to Judaism should be. Drawing upon an impressive range of scholarly work from Luther to Schweitzer to Bultmann to the history of religions school to E.P. Sanders, the author offers a way beyond the traditional scholarly renderings of Paul's mission and core convictions. The traditional way placed judicial language of faith and works as central; it saw Paul's Damascus experience as a turning away from Judaism to the Gentiles; it understood "Israel" in Romans 11 as nonethnic and universal. Donaldson calls into question all the old assumptions and, to put it crudely, puts the Jew back into Paul. This is an outstanding book and I believe will be referred to as the standard for understanding Paul's relationship to the Gentile world for many years. I highly recommend it. Thomas Jay Oord

Raisanen's study, Paul and the Law, is an extraordinarily insightful
analysis of the coherence of Paul's rhetoric as it relates to the Torah. One outcome of Raisanen's careful work is that Paul's formal statements tend to contradict one another; perhaps, therefore, Paul had other, functional reasons motivating his statements concerning the Jewish law. The reader should consider that Raisanen works basically with the Lutheran paradigm in his understanding of Paul's letters; as a result, his work may well show that it is the Lutheran position itself that undermines Paul's coherence. However, Paul's rhetoric, grasped in its first century environment, probably hung together considerably better than the paradoxes that Protestant tradition has found in him.

Thielman's book is one of the most helpful treatments on this crucial area of biblical studies. His introduction, wherein he gives a thorough and concise treatment on the history of the debates, is alone worth the price of the book. He then takes the reader through all of the Pauline letters, examining their background, presuppositions, and arguments as it relates to Paul's both positive and negative view of the law. Thielman is a master at arguing convincingly for his position without wasting ink--and he is almost always a sure-footed guide through much rocky terrain. In my opinion, this is the best book available today on Paul's view of the law (with Tom Schreiner's _The Law and Its Fulfillment_ as a close second).