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Reviewed by Joshua T. Benadum Bound for the Promised Land is written by Oren R. Martin, assistant professor of Christian theology at Boyce College at Southern Seminary. This volume represents his contribution to the New Studies in Biblical Theology series…
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Reviewed by Wyatt Graham Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford’s purpose in The Shape and Shaping of the Book of Psalms, which comprises sixteen articles from different authors, is to explore the current state of canonical scholarship on the Psalms. Specifically, this work…
Reviewed by Anthony Lipscomb Introduction Biblical commentaries come in all shapes and sizes, so to speak, all seeking to explain in one way or another the biblical text. Some commentaries may primarily exposit the biblical text with the preacher…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd I love reading biographies of strong women in the faith. Ian Murray provides this in his biography, Amy Carmichael, ‘Beauty for Ashes.’ Some women in the church are truly magnetic. It appears that Carmichael had…
Reviewed by Andrew J. Spencer The sub-discipline of environmental ethics has seen a torrent of publications in the past few years, with volumes that claim to present an authentically Christian version of environmentalism. Most of the books have juxtaposed…
Reviewed by Wyatt Graham Death confronted Todd Billings in 2012. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer, multiple myeloma, causing him emotional and physical turmoil, but it gave him an opportunity to serve the church. From diagnosis, through each stage of…
Reviewed by Tom Nettles The book is divided into eight sections, an introduction, six chapters and a bibliography. Summary The introduction demonstrates the need for the book in light of the importance of the doctrine for Wesleyanism and the…
Reviewed by Michael A.G. Haykin The discovery of this bundle of letters written in the years 1935 and 1936 from the justly-famous German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) to a then-young Anglo-German by the name of Ernst Cromwell (1921–), now in…
Reviewed by Ian Clary Los Angeles might not be the first place one would think of when looking for a source of creative dogmatic formulation, but thanks to Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders exciting theology is being done in…
Reviewed by Stacey Swanson With each new generation of scholars, there is a need to update biblical commentaries and other resources to reflect these developments so as to remain relevant. In many cases, interpretative issues surrounding Scripture are reflective of…
Reviewed by Michael A.G. Haykin David Beale, who taught for thirty-five years at Bob Jones University and is probably best known for his study of Fundamentalism — In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850 (1986) — has put together…
Reviewed by Paul Sanchez Judging by the title, one assumes that Wengert produced this book to encourage Christians to learn from Martin Luther how to read the Bible responsibly, that Luther might be a guide to the Scriptures. He asserts…
Reviewed by Johnson Pang Introduction & Overview Paul A. Rainbow wrote Johannine Theology: the Gospel, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse to provide a critical and comprehensive work on the whole of the Johannine corpus, a lacuna in current English-speaking studies.…
Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner Overview Michael Gorman, professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at St Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, seeks to provide a new (or not so new) model of the atonement. He argues that most models are…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille Why study the Puritans? In the opinion of some, we have come such a long way since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What could the Puritans possibly teach us? The answer, according to J. I.…
Reviewed by Trent Hunter I recently walked into a camera shop and was greeted by an empty reception room with photographs of beautiful scenery on the wall. Then a young lady asked if I’d like a massage. Alas, I wasn’t…
