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Review by Anthony Lipscomb Five years after the completion of his monumental three-volume Old Testament Theology (2003, 2006, 2009), John Goldingay, the David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, contributes what one may describe as a…
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Reviewed by Devin Maddox C. Ben Mitchell’s (Union University) Ethics and Moral Reasoning is the volume on Christian Ethics in David S. Dockery’s (Trinity International University) “Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition” series with Crossway. The series exists, in Dockery’s words,…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel Devotional books of prayers are not new to Christian publication, but it is rare to find one that immediately strikes you as truly deserving of “best seller” status. I cannot remember when I last read…
Reviewed by Grant Castleberry There have been a lot of books that have treated the subject of biblical manhood and womanhood from a loci method that handles exegetical and theological issues topically and in a very didactic and polemical way.…
Reviewed by Matthew J. Claridge James K. A. Smith has written a summary of A Secular Age that should make Charles Taylor proud. Although I myself have not read Taylor’s tome, it’s clear that Smith is both an admiring and…
Reviewed by Carl Muller Many years ago I had a good friend who played rugby. He used to wear a t-shirt that said, “Rugby players eat their dead.” Sometimes I fear that the barbarism referred to in such a darkly…
Reviewed by Steve West In this book Vern Poythress considers the large subject of philosophy, with special attention given to metaphysics. He synthesizes into a coherent whole much of the fruit of his earlier studies on a variety of specialized…
Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner Introduction A myriad of questions surround the formation of the Gospels: questions such as, how was the tradition passed on? What role does memory play? Who controlled it? What is the relationship between the Gospels? Mike…
Reviewed by Nathanael Warren Significance & Comparison Barry Beitzel’s The New Moody Atlas of the Bible represents a thorough revision and updating of the much-acclaimed 1985 Moody Atlas of Bible Lands, providing 68 more pages, 23 more maps, and…
Reviewed by D. Joy Riley “Am I a eugenicist?” That question rose to my consciousness repeatedly as I read Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel’s well-researched volume on the “new eugenics.” The answer to that question relies, at least in part…
Reviewed by Peter Anderson “Poverty is a complex issue.” This is how Gustavo Gutierrez and Daniel Groody introduce the discussions that unfold in The Preferential Option for the Poor Beyond Theology. The contributions in this volume understand what the option for…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd Does becoming a Christian affect your thinking? Should it? How does your faith and knowledge of God change your private thought life? Have you even thought about the significance of your thought-patterns and pondered what the…
Reviewed by Larry Lyon Background Ethics for a Brave New World, 2nd edition, is an updated and expanded version of John and Paul Feinberg’s first edition from 1993. The updates and expansion, to nearly double the original size, were completed…
Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner Introduction John Wesley once said, “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” But the historical sequence usually does not terminate after the second generation. The third generation typically reacts and pushes away what has…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille The Beauty & Glory of Christian Living consists of the twelve addresses delivered at the 2013 Puritan Reformed Conference, an annual conference hosted by the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this…
Reviewed by John Ronning Deriving spiritual benefit from the OT can be a daunting challenge, whether one is a beginner or more experienced reader. If there is cultural, historical and other kinds of “distance” between us and the NT…
