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FIVE VIEWS ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY, J. Merrick and Stephen M. Garrett, eds.

Reviewed by Micah McCormick Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy adds a volume to the growing body of counterpoint books that take a given topic and bring together various contributors to offer their perspective. Often the views presented are to some…

CHRISTIAN POLITICAL WITNESS, by George Kalantzis

Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer Approaching the question of Christian political witness requires more than traditional experience and qualifications in formal politics. In fact, many avenues of Christian inquiry shed light on what it means to be Christ’s witnesses in politics.…

AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL ETHICS by David W. Jones

Reviewed by Timothy A. Gabrielson David W. Jones, associate professor of Christian ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, offers the third installment in the new series B&H Studies in Biblical Ethics, edited by Daniel R. Heimback, also at Southeastern. Jones’s…

RIGHT REASON AND THE PRINCETON MIND by Paul Kjoss Helseth

Reviewed by David Smith Paul Kjoss Helseth’s, “Right Reason” and the Princeton Mind analyzes the view of knowledge articulated and practiced at Old Princeton Seminary (1812-1929) and challenges the prevailing consensus of it in American evangelical historiography. Since some current…

MADE FOR MORE: AN INVITATION TO LIVE IN GOD'S IMAGE, by Hannah Anderson

Reviewed by Aimee Byrd As much as I love to read Dorothy Sayers, her book Are Women Human? was a bit of a disappointment to me. I was left frustrated because the two essays contained in it housed some very…

THE CRUCIFIED KING: ATONEMENT AND KINGDOM IN BIBLICAL AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, by Jeremy R. Treat

Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel In his new The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology, Dr. Jeremy Treat (Pastor at Reality LA in Hollywood and adjunct professor at Biola University) explores perhaps more fully than anyone…

GOOD NEWS FOR ANXIOUS CHRISTIANS: TEN THINGS YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO by Phillip Cary

Reviewed by Stephen Yuille Christian Mysticism? The term mysticism is used in multiple ways. In this review, I use it to describe those who affirm that they can attain an immediate knowledge of God in this life through personal experience.…

EXEGETICAL GUIDE TO THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT

Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel Different commentaries come with different strengths, of course, but certainly none can be more profitable to the preacher or the teacher than those which help us gain a closer understanding of the biblical text itself.…

GOD'S SOLUTIONS TO LIFE'S PROBLEMS

Review by Paul Tautges Wayne Mack has been a household name in the biblical counseling world for as long as I can remember. Here, in his latest book, he teams up with his son Joshua Mack to produce a really…

EVERYONE'S A THEOLOGIAN by R.C. Sproul

Reviewed by Bradley G. Green I remember with joy the days when I first began to read theology. I cut my teeth on a number of popular theological works, and benefitted immensely. If there is a weakness amongst academic theologians…

PAUL'S DIVINE CHRISTOLOGY by Chris Tilling

Reviewed by George Carraway This book is a revised version of Chris Tilling’s dissertation, completed in 2009. In this well-written and well-considered presentation, Tilling argues the view that Paul’s letters contain a divine Christology. Others have argued similarly, of course,…

LIVING BY REVEALED TRUTH by Tom Nettles

Reviewed by Stephen Weaver Few besides Tom Nettles could have written this book. Only one who has imbibed so deeply from Spurgeon and the Puritan heritage he inherited would share the theological depth needed to understand Spurgeon and his theology.…

OBADIAH: THE KINGSHIP BELONGS TO YHWH by Daniel I. Block

Review by Eric Tully Old Testament commentaries often deal with the technical details of Hebrew grammar, exegetical difficulties, historical background, and theological insights. When it comes to synthesizing all of these details and explaining how they support the argument and…

THE PURE FLAME OF DEVOTION by Clary and Weaver

Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille I first met Dr. Michael Haykin at Toronto Baptist Seminary where I studied in the 1990s. His enthusiasm for ecclesiastical history and biblical spirituality was contagious, and proved instrumental in shaping the future of my…

THE INSPIRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE by Michael Graves

Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner The popularity of the Patristics continues to be propelled forward, although questions and concerns about their hermeneutics linger in the shadows. Michael Graves, professor of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, has produced a much needed book…

PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD by N.T. Wright

Review by Shawn Wilhite N.T. Wright is a prolific author and thinker. He will be among those named as the most influential writers of the twenty-first century. Upon reading Preston Sprinkle’s recent monograph, Paul and Judaism (IVP, 2013), I quickly…