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  • Reading Scripture With The Reformers

    The title of Timothy George’s Reading Scripture With The Reformers can be somewhat misleading. The book itself is not a collection of various Reformers’ readings of Scripture. Nor is it a book with extended discussions on the method the Reformers used to read Scripture. For those topics, you may want to look into the Reformation Commentary on…

  • The Story of Easter

    [This post is part of the Christian Origins and The Question of God series] Three weeks ago, thanks to Fortress Press we were able to start into a review series through N. T. Wright’s The Resurrection of The Son of God with a look at the first century background context. Then we looked at the writings of Paul for his take on the resurrection…

  • Historical Theology: Authority and Inerrancy of Scripture

    [This post is part of the Historical Theology series] Like I pointed out in the last post, each chapter in Allison’s Historical Theology follows the same pattern. Because of this, I’m going to refrain in future posts from giving you a play by play. You can read the book if that is what you’re interested…

  • Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything

    Overview Adrian Warnock serves on the leadership team at Jubilee Church in London where he regularly preaches. He is medical doctor by trade but also is an avid Christian blogger. In this book, he is writing “about the resurrection of Jesus and its effects on us today” (p. 13). As he observes, “what the Spirit…

  • Why There Are No “Lost” Gospels

    I finished up reading through N. T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope this morning while sitting poolside. Toward the end, he made a parenthetical comment on why certain “gospels” were left out of the New Testament. It occurs in the last chapter where he is clarifying how he thinks the mission of the church needs reshaping.…

  • Histories and Fallacies

    As mentioned yesterday, I thought Carl Trueman’s Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History deserves a bit of a fuller review. It’s a pretty easy read, and I had been waiting for some time for it to be available in the library. Anyone interested in history ought to read it, mainly because…

  • Incarnation: God Comes

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] In many ways, this chapter is a condensation of Driscoll and Breshear’s other book Vintage Jesus. Having read that previously myself, this chapter comes off as a CliffNotes of sorts. That being said though, it is still a very thorough treatment of the subject. The…

  • Atonement: Objections

    [This post is part of the Atonement series] Rather than pushing too far forward with the limited/unlimited issue with regards to the atonement, I thought it might be better to put forward, and defend if necessary, the view of penal substitutionary view of the atonement. It seems in reality that the limited/unlimited question is a secondary concern,…