Description
Write a 800-word critical review for the following book:
Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (any edition).
Students are required to set out their book review assignment according to the below criteria. The Turabian bibliographical reference to your reviewed book must appear at the top of the page where your review assignment begins (on the page after your cover sheet). Using the structure set out below, write your book review (without any subheadings):
• Open your review with a brief (1-2 sentence), general observation about the area of study the book addresses
• Introduce the author and book, explaining the book’s context (e.g., the intended audience, the author’s cultural background, etc.)
• Explain the main argument of the book
• Outline the author’s main arguments (including how these are developed throughout and contribute towards the book’s thesis)
• Summarise the strengths of the book
• Summarise the shortcomings of the book – suggest how these might be rectified (note: make sure to critique the author’s arguments and methodology)
• Briefly reflect on your personal response to the text and how it might be applied in your context
• Outline any unique contributions this book makes to the area of study
• Conclude your review by summing up the merits and faults of the book, ending with some words about what the author has achieved with this book – not yourself or the area of study.
• In this task, you are not required to refer to other sources (though if you feel it adds to a point you are making, this is fine – just make sure to reference correctly, as noted below)
• Do not use subheadings
• For your reviewed book, only direct quotes need to reference, done so using Turabian footnoting. You do not need to put your reviewed book in the bibliography, as you should have the bibliographical reference at the start of your assessment (as noted above).
• If you refer to any other sources besides your reviewed book (either directly or indirectly), you must reference these with Turabian footnoting, as well as a Turabian-style bibliography at the end of your assessment
Recommended Referee’s
Albrecht, Daniel. Rites in the Spirit. Sheffield UK : Sheffield Academic Press, 1999
Chan, Simon. Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Foster, Richard. “The discipline of meditation.” In Celebration of Discipline, 13-29. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.
Holder, Arthur, ed. Christian Spirituality: the classics. London: Routledge, 2009.
Mars Hill. Lectio Divina for Individuals. Washington: Mars Hill Bible Church, n.d.
