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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…
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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…
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…
