Category: Book Reviews
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11 Great Non-Theology Books I Read In 2011
Again, like yesterday’s list, this one is also subjective. And also, continuing the tradition from last year, here’s a list of the 11 most enjoyable non-theology books I read this past year (in no particular order): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm…
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Revisiting the Corruption of The New Testament
Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament is the first in what looks to be a promising series from Kregel called Text and Canon of the New Testament. The essays in this particular book are directed mainly towards Bart Ehrman’s claims about the corruption of the New Testament and specifically those made in his more academic…
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11 Great Theology Books I Read In 2011
Much like last year’s list, this list is purely subjective. But if you think I’ve got a good eye for books, then you could consider these to be some pretty stellar options for your 2012 reading list. Out of yesterday’s 115+ books I read this year, here are the 11 theology books that I think…
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2011: A Year in Books
This last year, I did a lot of reading, and a lot of reviewing. To give you an idea of the pool I’m drawing from for my top 11 books of 2011, here’s the rundown. Books I Read and Reviewed: Histories and Fallacies The Gospel and The Mind Meaning at the Movies Rediscovering the Church…
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Union With Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology
Ever since my extensive foray into the doctrine of justification back in the Spring, I’ve wanted to also do a more in depth study of our union with Christ. Now with Robert Letham’s Union With Christ I’ve started that project and immediately struck gold. This was the first book I had read by him, but I…
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Top 11 Book Reviews of 2011
While I’ll have another few reviews up before the end of the year, they probably won’t have enough time to generate the hits to compete with some of these. Although, that being said, when we get to the 11 best books I’ve read this year, several of them are from the last couple of weeks…
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The Marturo Collective
As mentioned earlier, I’ve been thinking recently about Marturo and what form that might take these days. In what might seem like an unrelated phenomena, this blog has gone through several name changes. To give you a quick rundown, when I first started blogging about more than just my random thoughts about life (i.e. my…
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Why, O God? Suffering and Disability in the Bible and Church
Larry Waters & Roy Zuck eds., Why O God?: Suffering and Disability, in The Bible and The Church. Wheaton: Crossway, July, 2011. 336 pp. Paperback, $22.00. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! This week in our reading group, we’re covering the chapters in John Frame’s Apologetics to the Glory of God about the problem…
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What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?
[A review copy of this book was provided by New Growth Press and The B&B Media Group] A little over 8 years ago, I read a book that was a total game changer. It was for my last class of the second year program at Word of Life Bible Institute, and the book was When…
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A Lit! Inspired Reading Group
At this point, I’ve probably strung you on long enough. I would have let you in on this yesterday, but I was too busy eating turkey and my wife’s amazing mashed potato casserole. As promised from the last post, today I’ll give you the rest of the details on this idea: I decided we would…