Weekly Recap Jan 14

GOD'S WORD ALONE: THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE: WHAT THE REFORMERS TAUGHT AND WHY IT STILL MATTERS, by Matthew Barrett

  A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance   About the Author Matthew Barrett (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Tutor of systematic theology and church history at Oak Hill Theological College in London, executive editor of…

Interview with Brandon D. Crowe and Carl R. Trueman, editors of THE ESSENTIAL TRINITY: NEW TESTAMENT FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICAL RELEVANCE

What do you get when a New Testament Theologian and a Historical Theologian who is also a pastor team up to put together a book on the Trinity? Today we’ll find out! I’m Fred Zaspel, executive editor here at Books…

INTERPRETING THE PROPHETS: READING, UNDERSTANDING AND PREACHING FROM THE WORLDS OF THE PROPHETS, by Aaron Chalmers

Reviewed by Alex Gowler For many students of the Bible, the world of Old Testament prophecy feels like a vast and unfamiliar landscape. Not only does our uncertainty of the prophets’ historical context frustrate our attempts at interpretation, but the…

PAUL AND GENDER: RECLAIMING THE APOSTLE'S VISION FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN CHRIST, by Cynthia Long Westfall

Reviewed by Samuel D. Ferguson In her recent study on Paul and gender, Cynthia Long Westfall aptly concludes, “A number of issues that face Christianity and the church in contemporary society are embedded in the issue of gender” (315). She’s…

GOD AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF PAUL, edited by Christoph Heilig, J. Thomas Hewitt, and Michael F. Bird

Reviewed by Mark Baker N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (PFG) was released in 2013. At almost 1,700 pages, this two-volume work is of planetary size. The gravitational pull of PFG is so strong that it has already…