book reviews

Annette G. Aubert. The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology . New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 402 pp. $74.00. In this volume, a revision of her doctoral dissertation at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), Annette Aubert aims to recover the central influence...

N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God . London/Minneapolis: SPCK/Fortress, 2013. pp. 1658. $57.99 /£44.99 Let me begin by stating the fact that most obviously strikes the recipient of a copy of Paul and the Faithfulness of God (henceforth, PFG): it is 1658 pages long. At one point, probably...

N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God . London/Minneapolis: SPCK/Fortress, 2013. pp. 1658. $57.99 /£44.99 Let me begin by stating the fact that most obviously strikes the recipient of a copy of Paul and the Faithfulness of God (henceforth, PFG): it is 1658 pages long. At one point, probably...

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church . Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the different views of the Lord's Supper: Zwingli's...

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church . Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the different views of the Lord's Supper: Zwingli's...

Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century . Oxford, 2013.288 pp. $39.99/£29.99 Reformed Christians pride themselves in being well informed of major eras in the development of Christian theology. They can articulate the...

Marcus Peter Johnson, One with Christ: An Evangelical Theology of Salvation . Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. 256 pp. $19.99/£12.99 Though I am not a Calvin scholar, there are few theologians who have influenced me as much, and consistently help me more than the great Reformer from Noyon. In his book, One...

Eric S. Gregory. Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 417 pp. $28.99/£20.99 This is not a book to be undertaken lightly by the unsuspecting reader, lured in by the enticing buzzwords on the cover: "Politics"--"...

Alexander S. Jensen, Divine Providence and Human Agency: Trinity, Creation and Freedom . Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014. 215 pp. $104.99/£57.99 How would you go about developing the theme that is the title of this book? The typical reader of Reformation 21 would - I guess and hope - turn at once to...

James K. A. Smith. Who's Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2014. 192 pp. Softcover: $19.99/£11.99 James K. A. Smith's latest book is the follow-up to Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006) and continues his longstanding project of...