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Reviewed by Justin Dunton Summary Herman Melville, the famous author of Moby Dick, once wrote that “the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.” Against the backdrop of an American church that…
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Reviewed by Andreas J. Kӧstenberger During the course of a busy academic year, I often find it difficult to read certain books that I am not required to read for my scholarly writing or teaching. So I put those aside…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille Greg Peters is an Anglican minister and a historian of Christian spirituality at Biola University. In The Story of Monasticism, he traces the monastic movement through four time periods: Anthony to Benedict, Benedict to Bernard,…
Reviewed by Ben Rogers Introduction I know of no book quite like Gerald’s Bray excellent new work entitled The Church: A Theological and Historical Account. It contains a remarkable mix of biblical exposition, church history, historical theology, and pastoral wisdom,…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille Introduction There’s growing interest among evangelicals in the subject of spirituality. One of the problems with this trend, however, is that most of the Christian spiritual classics weren’t written by evangelicals. This leads to several…
Reviewed by Jeff Spanogle Introduction Leviticus: this book is often considered one of the most difficult books of the Bible for several reasons. It is often a graveyard for through-the-Bible reading plans and misunderstood for its theological relevance or significance…
Reviewed by Mark Coppenger Introduction It was a privilege to serve alongside Steve Evans in a four-man philosophy department at Wheaton College (chaired by Arthur Holmes) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before I headed out for seminary, and…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd This is a great topic for a book. Most of us go through seasons of waiting for something, but do we wait well? The answer to that question often depends on what we are waiting for,…
Reviewed by Steve West For thousands of years people have debated fatalism, determinism, freedom, and responsibility. In the Christian church, these discussions have basically settled into predictable patterns. Arminians and Calvinists talk to each other (and over each other and…
Reviewed by Mark Farnham Introduction The number of well-written Christian books on the subject of homosexuality, sexual identity, sexual orientation, gender confusion, and related topics is thankfully keeping up with the sudden and radical changes taking place in American society.…
Reviewed by Andrew Spencer Introduction Vern Poythress is deep into his academic career and he seems to be hitting a peak in productivity. In one of his recent books, Reading the Word of God in the Presence of God: A…
Reviewed by Greg Cochran Introduction Most pastors and scholars I know have a favorite Bible—that one copy of the Sacred Scriptures in which the needed verse always seems to leap from the page for him. I have such a Bible.…
Reviewed by Mark Baker John Barclay’s ten-year project Paul and the Gift is a significant contribution to Pauline studies. If Paul is sometimes hard to understand, which even the apostle Peter claimed to be the case (2 Peter 3:16), then…
Reviewed by Kirk Wellum Introduction For the past few years, Brian Croft, with the help of some co-authors, has turned out a number of books on pastoral ministry as defined and shaped by the Bible, and I have had the…
Reviewed by Gene Haas James Brownson’s recent book, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships, joins the list of revisionist works on the topic of same-sex relations (SSR), extending back to D. Sherwin Bailey’s Homosexuality and the Western…
Reviewed by Edgar Johnston The commentary is another exciting new work by Eugene Merrill, professor emeritus of Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition to the commentary proper and the introductory section, Merrill has given us a whole list of useful charts:…
