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  • A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized For All Nations

    Darrell L. Bock, A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized For All Nations, Biblical Theology of The New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, June, 2012. 496 pp. Hardcover, $39.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! Darrell Bock is research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, and an all around…

  • The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in The Old Testament

    Edmund Clowney, The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in The Old Testament (2nd ed.). Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishers, August, 2013. 224 pp. Paperback, $12.99 Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to P&R Publishers for the review copy! For the most part, I have been reviewing new books since I started posting book reviews online. Even if not a new release per se,…

  • God Is Love: Christian Worldview and Speaking About God

    Chapters 3 and 4 in Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology are together shorter than chapter 2. So, I’ve combined highlights. From here on out, the students are reading about 2 chapters a week, so I’ll post my highlights on Fridays (since we cover one chapter Tuesday and the other Friday). Here’s what…

  • Four Views on The Role of Works at The Final Judgment

    It should be no secret by now that I am fond of multi-view books. Whether they are published by Zondervan,[ref]Four Views On The Apostle Paul and Understanding Biblical Theology (not technically a multi-view book, but looks at the different kinds of biblical theology and exposits a key figure for each)[/ref] IVP Academic,[ref]God and Morality: Four Views, Mapping The Origins Debate:…

  • Justification By Grace Through Faith

      Brian Vickers is Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. While Justification by Grace through Faith: Finding Freedom from Legalism, Lawlessness, Pride, and Despair is not technically a sequel to Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Imputation, it does cover some overlap material. As Vickers differentiates: That book deals specifically…

  • Jesus On Every Page

    David Murray was a pastor in Scotland for a dozen years before crossing “the pond” in 2007 to take up his present position as Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (246). He is also one of my favorite bloggers and blogs regularly at headhearthand.org (and has a Tumblr as…

  • The Big Story: How The Bible Makes Sense Out of Life

    Justin Buzzard is founder and lead pastor of Garden City Church in Silicon Valley. You can catch up with him online here or in his recent flurry of publications.[ref]Date Your Wife, Why Cities Matter, John: A 12-Week Study, Hebrews: Consider Jesus[/ref]In The Big Story: How The Bible Makes Sense Out of Life, Buzzard offers up…

  • Between Babel and Beast: America and Empire in Biblical Perspective

    I don’t usually read books on politics. I did review Grudem’s Politics According to The Bible a while back, but that might be the only book that was expressly political. In conjunction with my lack of political reading, I don’t usually read a lot of books on America, either from a pre-millennial eschatological perspective or…

  • Jesus The Messiah: Tracing The Promises, Expectations, and Coming of Israel’s King

    When I was taking my 3rd and 4th semester Hebrew classes, Dr. Johnston mentioned a book he was working on with Darrell Bock about Messianic prophecy. I really liked Dr. Johnston’s scholarship, and so I was really looking forward to the book’s eventual release. That was in 2009. Now, over 3 years later, I finally…

  • God’s Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology

    Frank J. Matera, God’s Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, November, 2012. 283 pp. Paperback, $28.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Eerdmans for the review copy! Frank J. Matera is Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. He has previously written a NT theology, and commentaries on Romans, Galatians, and 2…