Category: Book Reviews
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Understanding Spiritual Warfare: Four Views
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of the multi-view books. I think this is my fifth one to review, but it’s my first one to offer a giveaway for. Keep reading for detail on that. Overview Understanding Spiritual Warfare opens with a substantial introductory essay. Editors James Beilby and Paul Eddy have done…
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The Mystery of God: Theology For Knowing The Unknowable
Steven Boyer is professor of theology at Eastern University and Christopher Hall is the chancellor, as well as the dean of Palmer Theological Seminary. Together they’ve collaborated to offer us a book exploring the role mystery plays in Christian theology. The over-riding metaphor that they use is that of the Sun as mystery. In that…
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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism
Usually, I work off of a loose queue line for my review oriented reading. Big volumes are an exception, but in general, I try to work in a loose order of arrival. However, I always try to give each book a good initial perusal when it first comes in the mail. This involves judging the…
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God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty
Rice Broocks is the co-founder of the Every Nation family of churches, and is senior minister of Bethel World Outreach Church in Nashville. He did his masters work at RTS and has a doctorate in missiology from Fuller. In God’s Not Dead: Evidence For God in An Age of Uncertainty Broocks is writing to three types of…
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Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith
Alister McGrath is professor of theology, ministry, and education and head of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King’s College, London, and president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He’s written more books than I care to list here, but this is actually the second recently published book of his that I’ve…
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The Unfolding Mystery of The Divine Name
Michael P. Knowles is professor and George F. Hurlburt Chair of Preaching at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. He’s written a couple books on preaching, and now this book, The Unfolding Mystery of The Divine Name: The God of Sinai in Our Midst, which explores how the name of God revealed in Exodus has been understood…
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The Unrelieved Paradox
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was a completely green seminary student sitting in a class on research methods. It was being taught by the seminary librarian, and he happened to mention a theologian I hadn’t heard much, if anything about. His name (the theologian, not the librarian) was Franz Bibfeldt, and the…
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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…
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Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling
Though it doesn’t dominate my blogging conversations, I’ve been interested in counseling in the church since the end of my time at Word of Life. It was for my last intensive class that I was introduced to Ed Welch’s When People Are Big and God Is Small, and it was long after before I was…
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Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of The Church
When I was in seminary, we used Bruce Demarest’s The Cross and Salvation as our textbook in soteriology. That was my introduction to the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series, and I liked it so much I picked up another volume, To Know and Love God, which proved very useful for theological method. When I was…