Shelf Life

Alister McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life . Tyndale, 2014. 256 pages. Hardcover. $17.99 Back in 2010, C. S. Lewis scholar Michael Ward pulled off a publishing coup that I would like to see imitated more often. Two years after...

John Halsey Wood, Jr. Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands . New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, x + 235pp. $74.00 In 1848, the Dutch constitution separated the church from the state. In 1886, a disillusioned...

Logos At Its Best: The Reformation At Your Fingertips As one whose Th.M. thesis was typed on a "state of the art" IBM Selectric typewriter, I continue to marvel at some of the technological advances that have been made over the past few decades. I remember walking into the Bookstore at Westminster...

Four Views on The Role of Works at the Final Judgment . Counterpoints: Bible and Theology. Edited by Alan P. Stanley. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 234 pp. $17.99. This book, edited by Alan Stanley, addresses four major views on the role of works at the final judgment. In light of the recent...

David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013, 365pp. + ix. $25.00/£18.99 There is much to provoke, encourage, and worry about in David Bentley Hart's newest book. As it seems petty and misleading to begin with these...

Keith D. Stanglin and Thomas H. McCall, Jacob Arminius, Theologian of Grace, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2012, 240pp. $24.99/£18.99 Keith Stanglin and Thomas McCall are well-trained scholars in historical theology, both receiving Ph.D. degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary after studying...

George Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief . New York: Basic Books, 2014, pp. 264. $19.99/£14.99 After World War II, a consensus about truth gave way to a consensus about the importance of consensus. The result was a liberal politics...

Randall C. Zachman, Reconsidering John Calvin . Current Issues in Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, viii + 212pp. $29.99/£18.99 This elegant little book formed the content of the Warfield Lectures given at Princeton Theological Seminary in October 2009 in honour of Calvin's...

Aimee Byrd. Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary (P&R, 2013), $12.99. Barbara Duguid. Extravagant Grace: God's Glory Displayed in Our Weakness (P&R, 2013), $12.99. As a pastor I am always keen to commend good books written by women. Two recent books have been brought...

Michael P. Winship. Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 339 pp. $45.00/£32.00 Michael Winship's Godly Republicanism offers an engaging, meticulously-researched tale of the religious zealots whose conscientious scruples...