Category: Interpreting The New Testament
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Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
Originally, I thought I would review this Spectrum Multiviews book the way I went through Justification: Five Views. However, for two reasons I decided to just condense it to a single post. First, the essays in this book were shorter, and the work as a whole also lacked the longer editorial background chapters of the…
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How To Tell A Puzzle From A Mystery
Two weeks ago I introduced Malcolm Gladwell with his bibliography. Last week I gave you some food for thought from Blink, and now we’ve got some more thought snacks from What the Dog Saw. Unlike Gladwell’s other books, this one is a collection of essays published elsewhere rather than a coherent narrative. How To Tell…
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A Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters
Somehow, the original publication of this book slipped under my radar. That, or perhaps I just wasn’t particularly interested when it did come out (I had recently gotten married and adjusting to a new lifestyle in fall 2009). In either case, I’ve gotten my hands on it now, and like pretty much everything I’ve read…
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Forsaken: The Trinity, The Cross, and Why It Matters
A couple months ago, our city group (our lingo for small group) had the almost inevitable discussion that comes up toward the end of the Gospel of Mark: How could Jesus, who was one with God the Father, be forsaken, and the Trinity not somehow be “broken”? It might not have been worded exactly this…
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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments
Last week, we looked into Walt Kaiser’s Recovering The Unity of The Bible. Today, we’ve got his older and more comprehensive work The Promise-Plan of God. The first part of this book is comes from Kaiser’s older book Toward an Old Testament Theology and presents a biblical theology of the Old Testament books. The second part then…
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Recovering The Unity of The Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose
I’ve been familiar with the name Walt Kaiser since early on in college. One of my first professors used several of his sources, but I hadn’t personally read anything by him until now. Originally delivered as a set of 16 lectures at Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Recovering the Unity of the Bible is a very reader-friendly…
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40 Questions About The End Times
Eschatology is not a topic that comes up here often, though I have a series of posts devoted to the subject. Book reviews are a bit more sparse, so this is probably the first one to highlight a book about the end times. So far, I’ve been a fan of the 40 Questions series and…
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Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
Editors: James K. Hoffmeier, Dennis R. Magary Title: Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?: A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture Publisher: Crossway (March 1, 2012) Paperback: 544pgs Reading Level: Seminary (or avid Bible School) Audience Appeal: Prophets interested in historical apologetics and doctrinal defense Amazon Westminster [You’re reading this review of Do Historical Matters…
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History, Wisdom, Counseling, and Drama
Over the past several weeks, we made our way through three review series. One was on Jesus, one the resurrection, and one on justification. By doing a series, I was able to say more about the books in question, but was also better able to process what I had read. I decided that was a…
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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…