Over the last two decades there has been a radical re-thinking of the nature of God which has taken place in evangelicalism primarily due to the writings of Clark Pinnock, John Sanders, Gregory Boyd, and others. This re-visioning of the…
If you look behind some pulpits, you will find the words, “Sir, we would see Jesus.” These words spoken by the Greeks, as they sought Jesus so many years ago, continue to be the cry of the people of God.…
Entering deeply into the documents of the history as well as the theology of the period, Oliver contributed to a profound and comprehensively integrated vision of Baptist identity. He engaged the historical documents critically and defended his judgment that some…
Scott Oliphint is Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, and so a direct academic descendent of Cornelius Van Til. At the outset of the book he pays tribute to CVT, and says that although he is rarely mentioned in…
In Real Sex: the naked truth about chastity, Lauren Winner addresses a gap she perceives in how Christians think about and the Church addresses sexual chastity. The work is readable and well-organized. The writing style is “confessional” as indicated in…
This is a very big book! A thousand pages of detailed descriptions of sermons preached by almost a hundred preachers from the mid-eighteenth century to the present; well, almost, for the final entries are of men who died in the…
When preparing to preach upon any given passage, along with the work of translating, mediating upon, and thoroughly studying the biblical text, commentary consultation is integral to the task. In our day, in God’s kind providence, we have many commentaries…
Perhaps it is merely a question of monomania, like Captain Ahab’s singular pursuit of the albino whale. Bishop N. T. Wright seems to have an incurable proclivity for all things new. His new perspective on Paul was greeted largely with…
Introduction Graeme Goldsworthy’s most recent publication, Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, works to apply biblical theology to the discipline of hermeneutics with the goal of arriving at a biblical, theistic, and presuppositional approach to interpreting the Bible. After a brief introduction, the book…
Election, grace, predestination, bondage of the will – these will be taken by many who read this review to be concepts whose meaning is drawn exclusively from Reformed theology, from its Augustinian heritage, and (of course) from the Bible and…
