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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…
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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…
A part of an ever-growing body of recent literature on the most important doctrine of the Christian Faith, that is, that the true and living God is a triune Being, this comprehensive study by Stephen Holmes, senior lecturer in theology…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd Maybe saying I would read this book for review wasn’t my “best yes.” It puts me in an undesirable position. New York Times bestselling author Lysa Terkeurst has written her seventeenth book, The Best Yes. It…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel As we set ourselves to read another “Perspectives” book many of us have already staked out our own position on the question. I don’t recall ever reading a reviewer confess that as he opened the…
Reviewed by Stephen Jenks Ecclesiastes is notoriously difficult to interpret. Moving from the Old Testament to the gospel can be an equally daunting task. Put the two together and you have the challenge placed before Zack Eswine in writing Recovering…
Reviewed by Eric J. Tully One does not have to read long in the Old Testament to encounter God’s people dealing with earthy, difficult, painful circumstances. They are weary, tempted by evil, lonely, and sometimes struggling to have hope. They…
Reviewed by Adam Darbonne Although the methodologies of higher criticism have encouraged readers to pay close attention to the details of biblical texts and better understand their formation, the result is often fragmentation, dissection, and loss of appreciation for their…
Reviewed by Kirk Wellum It has been said that how one interprets the Sabbath and the doctrine of Christian Baptism depends on how one interprets the Bible as a whole and follows the biblical storyline from Genesis through to Revelation.…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd How does one abide in Christ? We read a passage like John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit,…
Reviewed by Paul Tautges Spurgeon’s Sorrows by Zack Eswine is a gem in the expanding treasure chest of resources for Christians who (at least at times) walk through the dark valley of depression, and those who walk with them. It…
Reviewed by Kimberly Campbell When I graduated from high school in the mid-1990s I knew exactly what I wanted to do: teach. For the last two years of my high school career, I was given the opportunity to sit under…
