Archive Spotlight – May 14, 2021

THE WHOLE CHRIST: LEGALISM, ANTINOMIANISM, & GOSPEL ASSURANCE - WHY THE MARROW CONTROVERSY STILL MATTERS, by Sinclair B. Ferguson

About the Author Sinclair Ferguson (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is a professor of systematic theology at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, TX. He is the former senior minister of First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and the author of numerous…

DUMBING DOWN AMERICA: THE WAR ON OUR NATION'S BRIGHTEST YOUNG MINDS (AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO FIGHT BACK), by James Delisle

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance By Benjamin J. Montoya   About the Author James R. Delisle, PhD, is an internationally recognized educator of gifted children and the author of 21 books about understanding gifted kids as…

THE PRESENCE OF GOD: ITS PLACE IN THE STORYLINE OF SCRIPTURE AND THE STORY OF OUR LIVES, by J. Ryan Lister

Reviewed by Jonny Atkinson At times within the discipline of Biblical Theology people can get enticed (and distracted?) by subtle and tenuous thematic links and connections throughout Scripture that have no real practical pay-off. Not so with J. Ryan Lister’s…

Interview with Michael Haykin, author of REDISCOVERING THE CHURCH FATHERS: WHO THEY WERE AND HOW THEY SHAPED THE CHURCH

Many of our readers are already familiar with Michael Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also on our Board of Reference here at Books At a Glance and our Review Editor…

ATHEISM REMIX: A CHRISTIAN CONFRONTS THE NEW ATHEISTS, by R. Albert Mohler

A New Day for Atheism It marked a new day for Atheism in Western society when it no longer took a defensive but rather an offensive, even triumphalistic posture and began to enjoy a very comfortable cultural respectability. The “new…

Kristin Stiles' Review of JESUS AND THE LION'S DEN, by Alison Mitchell

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Kristin Stiles   I was an immediate fan of this book from the moment I saw the title. So often we present Old Testament Bible stories as moral tales that instruct…