Randall C. Zachman, Reconsidering John Calvin. Current Issues in Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, viii + 212pp. $29.99 This elegant little book formed the content of the Warfield Lectures given at Princeton Theological Seminary in October 2009 in honour…
Aimee Byrd. Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary (P&R, 2013), $12.99. Barbara Duguid. Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness (P&R, 2013), $12.99. As a pastor I am always keen to commend good books written by women.…
Michael P. Winship. Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 339 pp. $45.00 Michael Winship’s Godly Republicanism offers an engaging, meticulously-researched tale of the religious zealots whose conscientious scruples helped give…
“You Just Might Be an Antinomian” A review of Mark Jones’ Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest? Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2013, 176pp, $15.00 It’s refreshing to read a book whose author has done his homework. Antinomianism is such a book,…
N. T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They are Essential. New York: HarperOne, 2013, 208 pp There was a bit of hesitation when I was asked to write a review of N. T. Wright’s book on the Psalms.…
Frances Young, God’s Presence: A contemporary recapitulation of early Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xiv + 474 pp., pb $29.99 In 2011 Frances Young delivered a series of eight Bampton Lectures in the University of Oxford which, by all…
John Frame. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief. Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2013. $49.99 John Frame has managed to write a systematic theology (1280 pages). This is an extraordinary achievement when one considers that he has already written several significant…
Stephen Westerholm. Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. pp. viii + 104. $15.00, paperback. Stephen Westerholm, professor at McMaster University, has long been known in critical scholarship for upholding the “Lutheran” Paul (his term) against all…
Brian S. Rosner, Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God. NSBT 31; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2013, 249 pp. $24.00. The apostle Peter famously said that “in all [Paul’s] letters … there are some things … that…
Bradley, J. Longfield, Presbyterians and American Culture: A History. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013. xiii + 262 pp. $30.00 In the introduction of the republication of Charles Hodge’s What is Darwinism? co-editors Mark Noll and David Livingstone contend that…
