Category: Book Reviews
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The Attributes of God
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] These two chapters of The Christian Faith start the second section of the book: God Who Lives. Chapter 6 covers the incommunicable attributes of God, while chapter 7 covers the communicable. This distinction is fairly typical of Reformed theology. In a way it is based on the distinction…
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Scripture and The Church
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] One of the benefits I can hopefully pass along to you the reader in going through Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith is the additional insights that are coming from an ongoing discussion of the book in a graduate level systematic theology seminar. In many cases I will try…
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Revelation as The Source of Theology
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] It donned on me over last week that it might be a little too ambitious to go chapter by chapter, so I’ve going to combine some here and there to simplify things a bit. In this case, we’ll take chapters 2 and 3 of The Christian Faith together.…
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Paradigms for Knowing God
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] The Christian Faith is split up into 6 parts: Knowing God: The Presuppositions of Theology God Who Lives God Who Creates God Who Rescues God Who Reigns in Grace God Who Reigns in Glory As you might notice, these divisions more or less follow traditional systematic theology categories,…
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The Christian Faith: Introduction
[This post is part of The Christian Faith series] In the introduction to The Christian Faith, Michael Horton lays out the idea that Christian theology, rather than being dull dogma, is a dogma that is drama. He takes this from a Dorothy Sayers quote and then uses it as a launching pad for the rest…
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The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
[This post is the beginning of a series on The Christian Faith] You may or may not be aware at this point, but among systematic theologies, there is a new kid in town looking for some friends to play with. Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way was released…
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Critique of Introducing Covenant Theology
Overall, I am in some ways sympathetic to the project Michael Horton is attempting in Introducing Covenant Theology. I would say I like the idea of it all, but he leaves many questions unanswered. I would consider myself Reformed in my theological leanings, or you could use the word Calvinist(ic) if you wanted to. However,…
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Reading List Spring 2011
Graduation update: If you click through these links, it is the virtual equivalent of giving me a pat on the back or a high five. Your clicks get logged and I eventually get free books. Thanks so much for clicking through! What am I reading this coming semester? Well I’m glad you asked, here’s the…
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10 Good Non-theological Books I Read In 2010
As a kind of companion post to the last one, here are the best non-theology books I read this past year. In a way though, they are not without theological implications (one of which I discussed here). Particularly interesting in this regard are the books by Klosterman, which involve some very penetrating analyses of culture…
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10 Great Theology Books I Read In 2010
Like the last several years, I read a lot of books in 2010. Over the summer I managed to broaden my scope and get outside the theology genre, and after this next semester will be able to do that again. But in the meantime, most of what I consume on a daily basis is theologically…