SUMMARY Alfred Poirier’s The Peacemaking Pastor: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Church Conflict seeks to “ground peacemaking on a solid biblical and theological foundation.”[1] The book is divided into thirteen chapters with an introduction. In chapter one Poirier somewhat tongue-in-cheek claims to be a heretic who holds to the heresy of Docetism – “the belief…

Summary Part One This book is divided into two sections. Part one, which includes three chapters, deals with “Key Issues in Studying the Life of Christ.” In chapter one, Stein argues that any investigation of the life of Christ is doomed to an outcome which is directly related to the presuppositions held by the investigator…