Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope, (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2011). Introduction If you asked ten different churchgoers to define the gospel, you may very well receive ten substantially different definitions. Increasingly, churchgoers…
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 already said. A very fine article has already been published…
Even before the book came out, Jesus + Nothing = Everything had the perfect formula for a popular book: a catchy title that “just sounds right” (p. 25), an author with an intriguingly unique name (Tullian Tchividjian, pronounced cha-vi-jin), his…
John Bolt accepted the unenviable challenge of editing an abridged volume of Herman Bavinck’s magnum opus, the Reformed Dogmatics. While Bavinck’s magisterial work encompasses four volumes, Dr. Bolt was required to select the most germane sections of these four volumes,…
K. Scott Oliphint, God with Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God (Crossway, 2011). 304 pp. $16.50. Professor Scott Oliphint’s book, God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God, is a welcome addition to the Reformed, evangelical, and…
Tony Reinke, Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books. Wheaton, IL: 2011. 202 pgs. In full disclosure, I was really excited when I first heard about Lit!. The idea is genius–writing a book about reading books. It made me stop and…
Servant of the Word and Flock, by Iain H. Murray (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2011), HB 246 pages. In the concluding section of his first letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul challenges the brothers to “Be watchful, stand firm…
Michael Horton is a talented theologian and communicator, able to write for those with delicate digestive systems, as well as for the more robustly constituted. This one-volume, one thousand-odd paged systematic theology is somewhere in the middle of the field.…
Thomas R. Schreiner, Galatians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) 423 pp. Ours is a commentary-writing age. It seems as though a new commentary series is released every week. A quick check of any major…
Miroslav Volf is a distinguished scholar. He is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and he is the director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture. His theological trajectory includes being the son…
