Giving our differing theological commitments, our mutual admiration of John Williamson Nevin never motivated me to by Wentz’s book on Nevin. But, in writing my reiew of Hart’s study of Nevin, I had reason to glance at the Amazon page and found a stellar review written by a PCA Pastor who got impatient waiting for Hart’s book. His last words must be remembered:

If Wentz’s conclusion does not get you to buy either his book or the Hart one you have no soul: “The worship of American churches is found wanting because it gives no evidence of the sacramental character of the mystical presence of Christ. It focuses instead on private experience, private judgment, and bibliocism. The radical catholicity of the Incarnation is sacramental and liturgical……… the heart of that challenge [against American religious thought of his day] beats with concern for the community of faith, for the body that represents the presence of a new creation in the midst of the old.”

Great stuff.