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  • Is God A Moral Monster?

    Paul Copan is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University. He has written numerous books and shows no signs of stopping. Is God A Moral Monster? Making Sense of The God of the Old Testament came out a few years ago, but after reading God or Godless? I wanted to…

  • God or Godless? 1 Atheist. 1 Christian. 20 Controversial Questions

    Randal Rauser is an associate professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary. John Loftus is a TEDS graduate, and now former pastor and Christian apologist. In this book, they engage in a spirited debate over the big questions of the faith. Each author was allowed to pick 10 thesis statements that they would argue in…

  • The Mohler-Chapell Interchange on Genesis 1 At TGC

    So, yesterday I was sitting in the first round of workshops at The Gospel Coalition National Conference here in Orlando and tweeted this: I think Bryan Chapell just out debated Al Mohler on whether or not Genesis 1 teaches 6 24hr days (Mohler wouldn’t concede though) — Nate Claiborne (@nateclaiborne) April 9, 2013 I got…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Doctrine: Creation

    As part of the on-going review series of Doctrine, here are my thoughts on this particular chapter: Creation: God Makes. Way back when I was studying all this in seminary, I did a blog series on Genesis. It’s very detailed, and as you can see, I didn’t get past chapter 2: Thoughts on Genesis Genesis:…

  • Building A Theological Library: Old Testament Commentaries

    Looking back over the completed list of my recommendations on Old Testament commentaries, you may notice some patterns. If you haven’t looked, here’s the list of posts: Overview Old Testament Backgrounds The Pentateuch The Former Prophets  The Latter Prophets The Writings In the Old Testament Backgrounds I gave you a brief commentary survey, but I wanted to…

  • Song of Solomon: An Invitation to Intimacy

    Douglas Sean O’Donnell is the senior pastor of New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is also the author of The Beginning and End of Wisdom, which I’ve previously reviewed on here. Quite the student of the wisdom literature, O’Donnell did his doctoral work on Song of Solomon and this commentary in the Preach The…

  • Building A Theological Library: The Writings

    Last week, we looked at my commentary recommendations on the Latter Prophets. Today, we’ll move on to the Writings, which is essentially the wisdom literature plus what didn’t fit in the prophets. If you’re keeping score, that means we’re looking at not only Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon (the wisdom literature), but also…

  • Building A Theological Library: The Latter Prophets

    Last week, we looked at my commentary recommendations on the Former Prophets. Today, we’ll move on in the Latter Prophets, which is basically Isaiah-Malachi minus Daniel and Lamentations. I’m treating the Minor Prophets under one heading mainly because most commentaries already combine books. If I were to list individual books, there would be a lot…