Eric Metaxas. Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 320 pp. Paperback. $10.99 In a time when genuine heroes are scarce, a book on William Wilberforce is always welcome. Eric Metaxas wrote…
Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 696 pp. Hardcover. $24.99 To say that Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has become a sensation would be…
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…
Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. Oxford, 2013.288 pp. $39.99 Reformed Christians pride themselves in being well informed of major eras in the development of Christian theology. They can…
Marcus Peter Johnson, One with Christ: An Evangelical Theology of Salvation. Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. 256 pp. $19.99 Though I am not a Calvin scholar, there are few theologians who have influenced me as much, and consistently help me more than…
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 This is not a book to be undertaken lightly by the unsuspecting reader, lured in by…
Alexander S. Jensen, Divine Providence and Human Agency: Trinity, Creation and Freedom. Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014. 215 pp. $104.99 How would you go about developing the theme that is the title of this book? The typical reader of Reformation 21…
James K. A. Smith. Who’s Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2014. 192 pp. Softcover: $19.99 James K. A. Smith’s latest book is the follow-up to Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006) and continues his…
David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 266 pp. $19.99 Over the last twenty years, David Wells has established himself as the insider chronicler-in-chief of how the self-centered trivialization…
Tom Nettles, Living By Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Christian Focus, 2013, 700pp, £29.99 It would be going over the top to declare an interest, but perhaps an admission of sorts would be in…
