Paul Griffiths, Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures. Texas, Baylor, 2014. 431 pp. $68.99 Paul Griffiths’s Decreation is systematic theology in grand, classical style. Eschewing the notion of “eschatology” because of its ambiguity and (one suspects) its modernity, Griffiths probes…
Michael J. McVicar, Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 309 pp. As with many others, I suspect my first exposure to Christian Reconstruction was through…
David J. Luy. Dominus Mortis: Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ. Fortress, 2014. 266 pp. $24.99 Professor Luy’s book has a mostly polemical scope: refuting an interpretation of Luther’s Christology and deploring a strain of systematics that…
Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung. Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. 157 pp. $9.99 In her wonderful new book Vainglory: the Forgotten Vice, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, builds on the important work that she began…
Richard Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. 240 pages $29.99 I had the pleasure of hearing much of the present book in its oral form as the Hulsean Lectures in…
Carl R. Trueman. Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom. Theologians of the Christian Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. 224pp. $14.99 It is not immediately obvious to many Christians that Martin Luther has much that is interesting or helpful to…
James V. Brownson, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. 312pp. $24.99 Revolutions don’t happen overnight. They build. What we witnessed in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26 of this year –…
Peter J. Leithart, Traces of the Trinity: Signs of God in Creation and Human Experience. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2015. ix + 165 pp. $15.99 In this extraordinary book, Peter Leithart’s starting point comes from New Testament revelation about God:…
Carolyn Renée Dupont, Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975. New York: New York University Press, 2013. 303 pages. $55.00 ($26.99 on Kindle). Carolyn Renée Dupont’s Mississippi Praying, is a thoroughly stimulating analysis of the ways in…
Andy Crouch. Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. IVP Books, 2013. 288pp. $19.99 Underneath the spiritual artifice and social media antics and tribal rhetoric, nearly every major conflict that preoccupies Christianity in America today concerns the relationship between power…
