Archive Spotlight – April 26, 2024

DOMINION AND DYNASTY: A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, by Stephen G. Dempster

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance By Steve West   About the Author Stephen Dempster is a professor at Crandall University in Moncton New Brunswick, Canada.   Introduction This contribution to the New Studies in Biblical Theology…

PANDORA'S BOX OPENED: An Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners, by Roy Harrisville

Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner Introduction John Wesley once said, “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” But the historical sequence usually does not terminate after the second generation. The third generation typically reacts and pushes away what has…

Michael Bird, ed., HOW GOD BECAME JESUS: THE REAL ORIGINS OF BELIEF IN JESUS' DIVINE NATURE - A RESPONSE TO BART EHRMAN

It is not often that a book appears on the very same day as the book to which it is responding, but such is the case with Michael Bird’s (ed.) new How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief…

Book Notices: The Puritans on Spiritual Depression

The Puritans on Spiritual Depression: A Brief Bibliography from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel   Many years ago I picked up the (then new) book, The Genius of Puritanism, by Peter Lewis. It was a rather early introduction…

Book Notice: DAILY READINGS FROM ALL FOUR GOSPELS, by J. C. Ryle

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel   What a great idea this book was! J.C. Ryle’s multi-volume Expository Thoughts on the Gospels is famous for its rich insights and applications, and Robert Sheehan had…

WHEN SANTA LEARNED THE GOSPEL, by Simon Camilleri

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Kristin Stiles   Let me be frank. Those Christmas cards that depict Santa kneeling at the manger make me cringe. There’s something about blending the icon of the secular, materialistic holiday…