Shelf Life

Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak. The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World . Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014. 201 pp. $18.00. Paul Copan and Kenneth Litwak have provided Christians with an interesting book describing the apostle Paul's Mars...

At the end of one of Christopher Nolan's most memorable films, The Prestige , one of the duelling magicians, Robert Angier, lies dying, and reproaches his rival, "You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if...

James D. Bratt. Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat . Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. 455 pages. $24.99/₤19.99 Abraham Kuyper must be one of the most quoted figures in Evangelical churches, and it is usually the same quote: "There is not a square inch...

Ian Ker. John Henry Newman: A Biography . 1988. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Due to his beatification by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, there is a renewed interest in the life and thought of John Henry Newman. Among Protestants especially John Henry Newman is enjoying something of a...

John W. O'Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council. Cambridge, MA.: Belknap Press, 2013, 335pp. £20.00/$27.95 Trent looms. Trent looms over Roman Catholicism as a grand mother who bequeathed her enduring theological furniture. Trent looms among Protestant theology and spirituality as the abiding...

Before beginning this review, I should make a confession. Prior to Noah , I had never seen a Darren Aronofsky film before. Not Pi , not Requiem for a Dream , not Black Swan --none of them (though several of his films are high on my watch list). There may be those of you, true film aficionados, who...

Jesus Interrupted By Bart D. Ehrman 304 p. HarperOne (March 2009) This review has been used by permission as appeared in WTJ 71, no.2, Fall 2009 Just in time for Easter, Bart Ehrman has (again) offered another popular-level assault on the historical integrity of the Bible. One begins to wonder how...

Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace By Iain Murray 274 p. Banner of Truth (May 2008) The Lord Jesus Christ has gifted his church with teachers and preachers in the past and for that we are truly grateful. One, whose writings I first came into contact with twenty-two years ago, was the late Dr. David...

John Frame's new book is very fine. In 25 chapters he takes the reader through a crash-course in systematics. The chapters contain many wise judgments, much sound teaching, and good emphases. When caution is needed, Frame is cautious; when boldness is called for, he is bold. Though the book'll need...

A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters By: Andreas J. Kostenberger 652p. Zondervan (2009) When I began undertaking a writing project on the seven signs of John's Gospel my first instinct was to review everything Andreas Kostenberger had written on the subject. In my opinion (and many others more...