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Gratitude: An Intellectual History

Peter J. Leithart, Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor University Press, 2014), 340 pages. $49.95 The latest book from the prolific Peter Leithart is another installment of what we have come to expect: an accessibly written synthesis of specialist research advancing…

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Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal

Alister E. McGrath. Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. XIV, 246 pp. $99.95 The needs and purposes of scholarship, along with the peculiarities of the history of theology, have resulted in a hodge-podge collection of secondary literature on…

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The Bible Tells Me So

Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So …: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It. New York: Harper Collins, 2014. $17.99 This is not an easy book to review because a review calling into question the accuracy of…

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Origen and Scripture

Peter W. Martens, Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life. Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: OUP, 2012) xii +280. $117.00 hb. $34.00 pb  The reception of Origen is nothing if not tumultuous. Unquestionably one of the greatest minds…

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Salvation By Grace

Matthew Barrett. Salvation By Grace: The Case for Effectual Calling and Regeneration. Philipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2014. 388 pp. $19.99 As a Wesleyan-Arminian Christian (and thus only “Reformed” in a fairly broad sense), I am keenly interested in the doctrine…

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What’s Your Worldview?

James N. Anderson. What’s Your Worldview? An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 112pp. $10.99 To say that books on worldviews are something of a cottage industry in evangelical circles would immediately stand me in good stead…

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The Briarpatch Gospel

Shayne Wheeler. The Briarpatch Gospel: Fearlessly Following Jesus Into the Thorny Places. Tyndale Momentum, 2013. iii + 257 pp. $14.99. Shayne Wheeler has written a wonderfully challenging, encouraging, and deeply personal work of pastoral theology. The Briarpatch Gospel challenges believers…

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Deviant Calvinism

Oliver Crisp, Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2014, 260 pages, $27.99 Oliver Crisp has a deservedly high reputation for his clear expositions of Christian doctrine from an analytical and philosophical angle, notably in regard to the Incarnation,…

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Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History

David Hollinger, After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History. Princeton, Princeton University Press 2013, ix + 248pp. $24.99 The trajectory of mainline American religion has suffered significantly since their peak in the 1950s. Decreases in number of…