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Reviewed by Jesse Scheuman Does God suffer? Does God experience emotion? These questions are complex and relate to intra-Trinitarian relations, Christology, God’s foreknowledge and more. Rob Lister explores all these areas and answers that God is both impassible (does not suffer)…
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Reviewed by William C. Pohl IV Introduction John Goldingay, David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, adds to his considerable contributions to Old Testament theology with this new volume, provocatively entitled Do We Need the New…
A quick search online reveals dozens of books with some variation of the phrase “how to read the Bible” in the title. By writing a book with this title, Harvey Cox joins a crowded field, but his take on the…
Reviewed by Brian Croft There exists an unprecedented need to help dying and struggling churches. Churches are closing their doors at an alarming rate, particularly in the Southern Baptist Convention. This is why I am grateful for the growing efforts…
Reviewed by Steve West When I received this book I was just finishing reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I was refining my lectures for a History of Western Thought course that I teach at Toronto Baptist Seminary. Kant—as…
Reviewed by Greg Cochran The first thing a reader may notice about this updated textbook from IVP Academic is its thickness. This volume is larger than the next two biblical ethics books combined. The size makes one think that the…
Reviewed by Bobbette Hatteberg Despite the difficult and serious topic of the book, On Guard is a wealth of information and it was very easy to assimilate the content into my local church’s Children’s Ministry. I am thankful that our…
Reviewed by May Young The Message of Lamentations by Christopher J. H. Wright provides insightful contemplation on the themes, imagery, as well as theology in this complex poetic book of the Old Testament. This volume is part of the “Bible…
Reviewed by Todd Wilson Forty years ago, the doyen of North American New Testament scholarship, George Eldon Ladd of Fuller Seminary, published his big book on the kingdom of God, The Presence of the Future (1974). In it he had…
Reviewed by Greg Cochran Years ago, I found myself at a ministry crossroad. I knew I wanted to pursue a Ph.D., but I was unsure of which area of further study was right for me. My desire was to make…
Reviewed by Andrew J. Spencer The contemporary age is one of information and ideas. Fragments of philosophy and theology are tossed about on the internet like so much flotsam waiting to wash up on the nearest shore to be viewed,…
Reviewed by Carsten Card-Hyatt Since the first edition of his Romans commentary, Karl Barth’s theology has been dogged by the charge that the absolute priority of divine action in his thought renders meaningful talk of ethics impossible. In more recent years, the…
Reviewed by Paul A. Sanchez Matthew Avery Sutton, Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University, argues that American premillennialist Christians bought and sold the narrative of an imminent apocalypse. Their urgent call for apocalyptic readiness drove…
Though written before the infamous 2015 SCOTUS decision on gay marriage this little book (that I came across only just recently) could scarcely be more up to date. There are doubtless more recent stats and such, but Lutzer’s The Truth…
Reviewed by Todd Scacewater The point of Mascord’s book is to assess the contribution of Alvin Plantinga’s work in the realm of apologetics and to make some slight adjustments to his epistemology to improve it for use in positive apologetics.…
