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Reviewed by Frederic Clarke Putnam In the past four decades, Professor Leland Ryken (Wheaton College) has offered a number of works that demonstrate the contribution of literary studies to reading and understanding the Bible. Literary Forms in the Bible: A…
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Reviewed by Aimee Byrd I have two teenage daughters. Two! So purity is definitely a Christian value that my husband and I want to guard, promote, and teach on a continual basis. And yet between technology advancing further than we…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel The thesis that biblical revelation hinges on a succession of historical covenants is not new, but just how that successive revelation is to be understood and how those covenants relate to each other, of…
Reviewed by Bradley Green Who is God and how do we speak of Him? Peter Sanlon has written what is essentially an introduction to classical Christian theism. He notes that his goal in the book is “to interpret classical Augustinian…
Reviewed by Jason Duesing If I could, I would love to find and sit with the 21st century Baptist equivalent of the Inklings. Regularly meeting with gifted colleagues at a local coffee shop (this is the Baptist version of course)…
Reviewed by Steve Modugno The Zondervan Counterpoints series offers readers a valuable resource for evaluating difficult passages and subjects. The strength of the series is that each position is argued by a scholar who is committed to it. This avoids…
Reviewed by Daniel J. Hurst Misconceptions about what it truly means to be created in the imago Dei, or image of God, abound. Though this doctrine is a central tenet of Judeo-Christian theology, it is pierced with gross misinterpretations and…
Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer Adam Edward Hollowell serves as adjunct professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and director of student ministry at Duke University Chapel. This book is a revision of Hollowell’s doctoral dissertation, completed…
Reviewed by Eric Tully Sound biblical exegesis requires that we know something about many different things: the historical and literary contexts of the passage, the genre, the structure, and the significance of certain details. Before we consider those issues, however,…
Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer Oliver O’Donovan has rightly earned a reputation as “one of the pre-eminent Protestant Christian ethicists of the present time” (xi). His Resurrection and Moral Order, Desire of the Nations, and Ways of Judgment demonstrate his significance,…
Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer In this second volume of his “Ethics as Theology” series, Oliver O’Donovan seeks “to follow moral thought from self-awareness to decision through the sequence of virtues from faith to hope” (ix). While it seems simple at…
Reviewed by Samuel Emadi My introduction to academic biblical theology came through reading G. K. Beale’s The Temple and the Church’s Mission. A prospective seminarian at the time, I was overwhelmed with Beale’s attention to textual detail, exegetical ability in…
Reviewed by Jonny Atkinson At times within the discipline of Biblical Theology people can get enticed (and distracted?) by subtle and tenuous thematic links and connections throughout Scripture that have no real practical pay-off. Not so with J. Ryan Lister’s…
Reviewed by Jesse Scheumann John Cook and Robert Holmstedt make a remarkable contribution to Hebrew pedagogy with their 2013 publication, Beginning Biblical Hebrew (BBH): A Grammar and Illustrated Reader (Baker). They join a growing movement of those who seek to…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd Many moms come to Sunday worship with a disheveled heart. On one hand, they are starving for the preached Word of God and the fellowship of the saints. On the other, they don’t know how long…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille Are you happy? Think about it. In his book, The Happy Christian, David Murray contends that many of us are not. We struggle with deep negative thought patterns stemming from the fact that we walk…
