Weekly Recap, Feb. 10

POSSESSED BY GOD: A NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY OF SANCTIFICATION AND HOLINESS, by David Peterson

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance   About the Author David Peterson was senior research fellow and lecturer in New Testament at Moore Theological College, Sydney, where he still teaches part time. He served as principal of…

Interview with Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain, editors of RETRIEVING ETERNAL GENERATION

Fred Zaspel: The Eternal Generation of the Son is likely one of the most important doctrines you’ve never heard much about, but our guests today want to change that. Hi, I’m Fred Zaspel, editor here at Books At a Glance,…

PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE, by Charles Octavius Boothe

Reviewed by Andrew J. Spencer Charles Octavius Boothe was born in Alabama in 1845. He was, therefore, born a slave—the property of another human. Boothe was fortunate to learn to read and to be encouraged to do so. Eventually, he…

Book Notice: THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: THE 19TH CENTURY DEBATE OVER THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION, by J.V. Fesko

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance   Presbyterians at the turn of the twentieth century, both in American and abroad, were in theological turmoil, and demands for revision of the Westminster Confession were increasing. Voices such as…

Book Notice: KISS THE WAVE, by Dave Furman

“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” What does it mean to “kiss the wave?” These words, attributed to nineteenth-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon, speak to the Christian’s only hope for perseverance…

First Update to Divine Simplicity: A Bibliography of Reviews of and Responses to Reviews of James Dolezal's ALL THAT IS IN GOD: EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN THEISM

Introduction James Dolezal, Assistant Professor in Cairn University’s School of Divinity, published a previous work on this area of theology, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011), his 2011 Ph.D. dissertation at…