Closer Than a Sister
Growing up, I always wanted a sister. It’s not that I didn’t love my brother. I did, and I do. I wouldn’t trade my brother for the world. I didn’t want a sister instead of a brother but in addition…
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The Foundation of the New Perspective
Robert J. Cara, Cracking the Foundation of the New Perspective on Paul: Covenantal Nomism Versus Reformed Covenantal Theology. Reformed Exegetical and Doctrinal Studies Series. Fearn, Ross-shire, UK: Christian Focus/Mentor, 2017. 312pp. Bibliography and indices. Paperback. $19.99. Admittedly the New Perspective on…
The Foundation of the New Perspective
Robert J. Cara, Cracking the Foundation of the New Perspective on Paul: Covenantal Nomism Versus Reformed Covenantal Theology. Reformed Exegetical and Doctrinal Studies Series. Fearn, Ross-shire, UK: Christian Focus/Mentor, 2017. 312pp. Bibliography and indices. Paperback. $19.99. Admittedly the New Perspective on…
All That Is In God
James E. Dolezal, All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2017) 176pp., $13.50. Typically, when handed a new theology text, within a few minutes I will determine…
Calvin’s Company of Pastors
Scott Manetsch, Calvin’s Company of Pastors, Oxford University Press, 2013. 428 pp. HB: $75 PB: $30 Of all the books that I have read in preparation for ministry none have been able to claim the title of personal favorite, until…
Openness Unhindered
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield. Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ. Pittsburgh, PA: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2015. 206pp. $12.99 “Follow me as I follow Christ.” So Paul unsubtly implores on several occasions…
Risen
Over the last few years, movies about Christianity have begun to trickle into the theaters with more frequency. We’ve had Old Testament stories like Noah (2014) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). We’ve had contemporary family dramas like Courageous (2011)…
Paul Within Judaism
Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm (eds.), Paul Within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015 It is nearly forty years since the publication of E. P. Sanders’s Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) initiated a…
Hail, Caesar!: the Coen Brothers’ Confederacy of Dunces
In John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer Prize winning Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius Reilly is an absurd hero. He’s brilliant, yet undisciplined. He has cultivated a philosophy of taste and decency, but it doesn’t stop him from gorging himself on hotdogs. He…
Richard Hooker: A Companion to his Life and Work
W. Bradford Littlejohn, Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work. Cascade Books: Eugene, OR, 2015. $24.99 Littlejohn takes seriously the role defined for his book by its sub-titular label as a “companion” to the life and work…