Shao Kai Tseng on Karl Barth
Shao Kai Tseng’s Karl Barth is to date the most recent contribution to P&R’s “Great Thinkers” Series. Under the general editorship of Nathan Shannon, Tseng has previously written the entries in…
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The Attributes of God
Gerald Bray, The Attributes of God: An Introduction (Crossway, 2021), 160 pp., Paperback, $15.99. Orientation to the Book This is the first volume in the new Short Studies in Systematic…
Van Til’s Critique of Barth’s Christology (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, we gave consideration to Van Til’s assessment of Barth’s Christology. In this post we wish to examine Barth’s own teaching on Christology. The…
Van Til’s Critique of Barth’s Christology (Part 1)
In the recent resurgence of interest in the theology of Karl Barth–particularly among evangelicals1–theologians of no mean significance have opined on Cornelius Van Til’s writings about the dialectical theologian. Van…
Calvin and Baptism: Baptismal Regeneration or the Duplex Loquendi Modus?
I. Introduction “What is the relation between baptism and salvation in the thought of John Calvin?” This is a timely question, given that there has been much discussion over this…
Calvin and Baptism: Baptismal Regeneration or the Duplex Loquendi Modus?
I. Introduction “What is the relation between baptism and salvation in the thought of John Calvin?” This is a timely question, given that there has been much discussion over this…
Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton
W. Andrew Hoffecker, Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (P&R Publishing, 2011), 460pp. Introduction One hardly needs to say that having two biographies on the same historical figure published within the…
Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe
Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe (Crossway Publishers, 464 p). One of the tricky things with writing book reviews is not repeating what other reviewers have…