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A GRANDER STORY: AN INVITATION TO CHRISTIAN PROFESSORS, by Rick Hove and Heather Holleman

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By D. Keith Campbell   Rick Hove, Executive Director of Faculty Commons with Cru’s faculty and graduate student ministry, and Heather Holleman, English Instructor at The Pennsylvania State University, invite Christian professors…

HOSEA: A HANDBOOK ON THE HEBREW TEXT, by Eric J. Tully

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Michael P.V. Barrett   In my book, Love Divine and Unfailing: The Gospel According to Hosea (P&R, 2008), I made the comment that I was concerned with the big picture of…

ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCIPLESHIP: LEADING CHRISTIANS TO UNDERSTAND THEIR HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT, by Trevin Wax

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Mark Warnock   We live in interesting times. The digital revolution has broken out with ferocity, disrupting everything from retail to finance to dating. The overripe sexual revolution staggers onward like…

INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE WITH THE GREAT TRADITION: RECOVERING THE GENIUS OF PREMODERN EXEGESIS, by Craig A. Carter

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Kenny Silva   In this work, Craig Carter—Professor of Theology at Tyndale University College and Seminary—takes aim at the current state of biblical interpretation in the academy. Biblical scholarship, he argues,…

WHAT IS MAN?: ADAM, ALIEN, OR APE?, by Edgar Andrews

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By David J. Tyler   In this book, Professor Edgar Andrews distils a lifetime of meditation on the question “What is Man?” into fourteen rich and readable chapters. He unpacks the issues…

21 SERVANTS OF SOVEREIGN JOY: FAITHFUL, FLAWED, AND FRUITFUL, by John Piper

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Gary Steward   From 1988 to 2014, John Piper gave twenty-seven biographical addresses to the attendees of the Bethlehem/Desiring God Conference for Pastors. Piper presented these addresses with the needs and…

JAMES: A COMMENTARY ON THE GREEK TEXT, by William Varner

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Robbie Booth   William Varner is a professor of Bible exposition and Greek exegesis at The Master’s University located in Santa Clarita, California. He has pastored the Sojourners fellowship in Grace…

ECHOES OF EXODUS: TRACING THEMES OF REDEMPTION THROUGH SCRIPTURE, by Alastair J. Roberts and Andrew Wilson

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Josh Philpot   When Jesus comes down from the Mount of Transfiguration to meet with his disciples, they are rightly afraid and prostrate on the ground. After all, like Moses before…

THE ABSURDITY OF UNBELIEF, by Jeffrey D. Johnson

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Paul Wilkinson   In an era of specialization and popular, trivia-style understandings of knowledge, Jeffrey D. Johnson’s The Absurdity of Unbelief offers an apologetic that incorporates wholistic thinking. In that sense,…

A REDEMPTIVE THEOLOGY OF ART: RESTORING GODLY AESTHETICS TO DOCTRINE AND CULTURE, by David A. Covington

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Matthew Raley     The problem with studying aesthetics is that sooner or later you have to read books about it. I would rather look at designs, listen for how music…

HUGH LATIMER: THE FOREMOST PREACHER OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION, by Richard M. Hannula

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Andrew Ballitch   Hugh Latimer proved to be the foremost preacher of the English Reformation. So goes Richard Hannula’s argument. He claims, “Of all the English reformers, Latimer was the most…

PROVERBS (THE STORY OF GOD BIBLE COMMENTARY), by Ryan P. O’Dowd

A Book Review from Books At a Glance by Russell D. Taylor Jr.   Ryan P. O’Dowd’s commentary on the book of Proverbs in the Story of God Bible Commentary series is a welcome addition to my bookshelf that is…

EXPOSITORY EXULTATION: CHRISTIAN PREACHING AS WORSHIP, by John Piper

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Ryan McGraw   Preaching has been, is, and always will be, the primary means that God uses to bring his elect to salvation through faith in Christ by his word and…

BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: HOW THE CHURCH FAITHFULLY TEACHES THE GOSPEL, by Nick Roark and Robert Cline

A Book Review from Books At a Glance by Timothy Spears   Introduction Biblical Theology, which is written by Nick Roark and Robert Cline, is the eleventh volume of the 9 Marks Building Healthy Churches series. The primary purpose of…

KEEP UP YOUR ARAMAIC IN TWO MINUTES A DAY, by Jonathan G. Kline

A Book Review from Books At a Glance by Anthony Lipscomb   The biblical languages are the badges of honor of your seminary or college education, not so much because you mastered them, but because you survived them. Verb charts…

THE LORD IS GOOD: SEEKING THE GOD OF THE PSALTER, by Christopher R. J. Holmes

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Stephanie Juliot   Christopher R. J. Holmes’s The Lord is Good: Seeking the God of the Psalter is an investigation into the divine attribute of goodness which takes its cues from…