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POWER AND PURPOSE: PAUL RAMSEY AND CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THEOLOGY, by Adam Hollowell

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…

THE TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIA HEBRAICA, THIRD EDITION, by Ernst Wurthwein and A. A. Fischer

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,…

THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOSPEL: EXPLORATIONS IN MORAL AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY IN HONOR OF OLIVER O'DONOVAN, eds. Robert Song and Brent Waters

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,…

FINDING AND SEEKING: ETHICS AS THEOLOGY VOLUME 2, by Oliver O'Donovan

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…

FROM CREATION TO NEW CREATION: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF G. K. BEALE, edited by Daniel Gurtner and Benjamin Gladd

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…

THE PRESENCE OF GOD: ITS PLACE IN THE STORYLINE OF SCRIPTURE AND THE STORY OF OUR LIVES, by J. Ryan Lister

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…

Review of BEGINNING BIBLICAL HEBREW: A GRAMMAR AND ILLUSTRATED READER, by John Cook and Robert Holmstedt

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…

WALKING WITH GOD IN THE SEASON OF MOTHERHOOD: AN ELEVEN-WEEK DEVOTIONAL BIBLE STUDY, by Melissa Kruger

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…

THE HAPPY CHRISTIAN: TEN WAYS TO BE A JOYFUL BELIEVER IN A GLOOMY WORLD, by David Murray

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…

Review of READING BACKWARDS: FIGURATIVE CHRISTOLOGY AND THE FOURFOLD GOSPEL WITNESS, by Richard Hays

Reviewed by Sam Emadi Introduction In many ways the publication of Richard Hays’ Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989) breathed new life into the modern scholarly discussion of the NT use of the OT. Borrowing (and slightly…

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…

INTRODUCING EVANGELICAL ECOTHEOLOGY: FOUNDATIONS IN SCRIPTURE, THEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND PRAXIS, by Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler, and A. J. Swoboda

Reviewed by Andrew J. Spencer Since Lynn White’s 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” was published evangelicals have been seeking to define their relationship to creation. Nearly 50 years after that seminal essay and there still is…

A CHRISTIAN'S POCKET GUIDE TO LOVING THE OLD TESTAMENT, by Alec Motyer

Reviewed by Jeffrey Pallansch Packed within this small pocket guide is a love for the Old Testament cultivated over nearly ninety years. It presents the insight of a seasoned scholar in a way that is both pastorally warm and intellectually accessible.…

MAKING GOOD: CREATION, CREATIVITY, AND ARTISTRY, by Trevor Hart

Reviewed by Stephen Jenks Summary What is the extent of the image of God in humans? In particular, to what extent might humans share in that most quintessential feature of the divine identity, that of Creator? And what boundaries might…

FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: ESSAYS ON REVIVAL, EVANGELISM, AND DISCIPLESHIP IN HONOR OF DR. ROBERT E. COLEMAN, eds. Lyle Dorsett and Ajith Fernando

Reviewed by Jeff Reynolds Purpose, Occasion, and Background Although he would eschew such a description, Dr. Robert E. Coleman is unquestionably a contemporary evangelical giant. Throughout the course of a teaching career that has spanned now more than six decades,…

JOURNIBLES: REVELATION, by Rob Wynalda

Reviewed by Aimee Byrd One afternoon while I was innocently getting my mail, I pulled a Reformation Heritage Books catalogue out of the mailbox.  As I walked up the driveway, flipping through the pages, it happened. You know, it was…