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  • What’s Your Worldview Review @TGC

    James N. Anderson. What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, January, 2014. 112 pp. $10.99. On Wednesday over at The Gospel Coalition, my review of What’s Your Worldview posted. Here’s an excerpt: Ronald Nash once said, “One of the more important things a philosopher can do for others is to help…

  • No Historical Adam: Evolutionary Creation View

    Originally, this post was scheduled for Tuesday. But, a) I decided to move this review series to Thursdays and b) I didn’t want to send the wrong message. Even though as you’ll see below, Denis Lamoureux’s view is the one I find least convincing, I didn’t think it was fair to post his position on…

  • The Adam Quest

    Tim Stafford, The Adam Quest: Eleven Scientists Who Held on to a Strong Faith While Wrestling With the Mystery of Human Origins. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, December, 2013.  240 pp. Hardcover, $22.99. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Thomas Nelson for the review copy! I had intended to post this review yesterday, but given what day it was, I…

  • Reading for Preaching: The Preacher In Conversation With Storyteller, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists

    Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Reading for Preaching: The Preacher In Conversation With Storyteller, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, November, 2013. 136 pp. Paperback, $14.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Eerdmans for the review copy! Cornelius Plantinga Jr. is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary, as well as senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.…

  • Pick The Next Series Review

    Yesterday, I wrapped up a look at Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy. It’s not the only review series I’ve got going, and it’s not the first I’ve done involving a multiview book. Previously, I did Five Views on Justification. I’ve also done single reviews of Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views, Four Views On The Apostle Paul, God and Morality: Four…

  • Five Views of Biblical Inerrancy: Summary

    J. Merrick & Stephen J. Garrett eds. Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, December, 2013. 336 pp. Paperback, $19.99 Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan for the review copy! If you were following along last week, you saw most of the posts in the series review. Here is the entire table of contents: When The Bible Speaks,…

  • Recasting Inerrancy: The Bible As Witness to Missional Plurality

    We come now too John Franke’s contribution to Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy. If you’ve missed any posts, see the introduction. I just got into Birmingham and found an aesthetically pleasing Starbucks near Beeson Divinity School. I’m here for the Southeast Regional ETS meeting, and I’ll be presenting a paper tomorrow on the theological interpretation of…

  • Augustinian Inerrancy: Literary Meaning, Literal Truth, and Literate Interpreation

    A few things happened yesterday. First, I drove from Orlando to Knoxville. Second, Kevin Vanhoozer was actually at RTS Orlando delivering the annual Kistemaker Lectures. Third, I accidentally auto-posted this installment of the review series with no content other than a book pic and bibliographic info. Today, I’ll actually tell you about Vanhoozer’s entry in Five…

  • Inerrancy Is Not Necessary For Evangelicalism Outside The USA

    Yesterday, we examined Peter Enns view in Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy. Today, we start a new section in the book, although it only includes Michael Bird’s contribution. The section is titled “Inerrancy in International Perspective.” While Bird is international, he is still a white male academic (nothing wrong with that). But he has the added virtue…

  • Inerrancy, However Defined, Does Not Describe What The Bible Does

    The last installment of Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy was Al Mohler’s essay. Mohler represents the traditional view, and presents his case as a historical theologian. Today, we have the complete antithesis to his view in Peter Enns. While the other views in this book more or less support inerrancy, Enns does not. His view…