Derek Thomas

Philip Pullman, the author of the trilogy, His Dark Materials (“Lord of the Rings” it is not), is to release a book this coming weekend called, The Good man Jesus,…

Mark Beach has done us all a service by publishing an introduction to Calvin’s Institutes — Piety’s Wisdom.I have to confess that my first encounter with Calvin’s magnum opus proved…

Just landed on my desk: a copy of The Trials of Theology: Becoming a ‘Proven Worker’ in a Dangerous Business edited by Andrew J. B. Cameron and Brian S. Rosner…

Further to my last post, my good friend Dr. John Ross (Dumisani Theological Institute, King William’s Town, SA), made the following insightful comment: “I fully agree it is pushing the…

Further to Carl’s comments on Barthian preaching…   Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Barthian preaching is their belief that something happens in preaching that happens nowhere else. Lacking an…

Want to hear Kevin Vanhoozer explain his new book, “Remythologizing Theology”? Check out this interview with Guy Davies here.

Discouraged in ministry by the likes of Trotter et al?  I have been trying to keep Del Boy from responding too his errant younger brother but I fear his ire…

It is something a record when Westminster Bookstore informs me that Dr Tim Witmer’s new book on Shepherding has sold out in 2 days and that the publishers (P &…

I have just received a copy of Phil Ryken’s new (almost) book, Discovering God in Stories from the Bible (P & R) in which he examines the attributes of God…

The death of archeologist and Assyriologist, Professor Donald Wiseman, whose evangelical convictions led him to study the connections between archeological doscoveries and the Old Testament, is reported here.