My Summer reading has started with John R. Muether’s new biography of Cornelius Van Til, which I am enjoying. My theological reading list for the next few weeks includes Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart’s The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical…
As promised, a gem from The Beauty of God. Here is a stanza from Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner’s “Nunc Dimittis” — part of a series of post 9/11 poems based on a funeral liturgy: We will follow the coffin back down…
Alas, things have been so busy that I have not really entered into the mode of summer reading yet — at least what I would call summer reading. But I did have some long airplane flights last week, so I…
Since I asked all of you about summer reading, I’ll list my own, starting (like Sean) with Andrew McGowan’s, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture (IVP). I read the British version which was called The Divine Spiration…, and I’m hoping the…
In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns’ book and the author’s relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly. Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the…
In my recent travels and conversations, the topics of Dr. Peter Enns’ book and the author’s relationship with Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia have come up repeatedly. Dr. Enns is the author of Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the…
For delightful reading, John Kennedy’s The Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire is unbeatable. For a study of the ministers and men of Ross-shire in Scotland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, it is indispensable. In the following passage…
“. . . softening hard truth for evangelism in public undermines truth for the waffling believer in private. I think in general this is what cultural adapters fail to realize: making the truth more palatable for unbelievers to help them…
Our intrepid director requested that we blog about our summer reading; since I know I will either throw some of these books to the side, complete others, and start new ones, this is my first installment (in various stages, all…
T he second volume in the Calvin 500 Series has appeared, a series of volumes written or edited by David Hall celebrating the 500th anniversary (in 2009) of the birth of John Calvin. I’ve just finished reading The…
