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Shelf Life

The Struggle in the City

Barry Waugh
Jan 7, 2020
Roman Catholics and Protestants alike often appeal to the massive body of works penned by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. The thinking behind the Reformation was seeded by the ad fontes principle of the Renaissance, and for theologians those sources were often the Church Fathers, particularly Augustine...

The Heart of Creation

Joel Heflin
Dec 24, 2019
Rowan Williams. Christ the Heart of Creation. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018. Hardback. 304 pp. $42.99. Advent has given us room for much needed reflection on Christ’s miraculous birth. To that end, I'm happy to recommend Rowan Williams' Christ the Heart of Creation this holiday season. Williams’ book...

Openness Unhindered

Blair Smith
Mar 15, 2016
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 (1 Cor. 4:16,...

Risen

Collin Garbarino
Mar 7, 2016
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) and War Room (2015). We've even had...

Meet the New American Dream

Sammy Rhodes
Jan 26, 2016
Meet the New American Dream, Same as the Old American Dream: Thoughts after seeing Joy Movies are more than entertainment, date night venues, or after (during) work escapes. At their best, they are something closer to lay theology or therapy even. A place to take in entire worldviews, sifting their...

Paul Within Judaism

Timothy Gombis
Feb 23, 2016
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 revolution in Pauline studies...

In Defence of War

Daniel M. Bell, Jr.
Jan 12, 2016
Nigel Biggar, In Defence of War . Oxford University Press, 2013. 361 pp. HB $55.00. PB $30.00 In this book, Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University, offers a collection of essays...

The Incarnation of God

Brad Litttlejohn
Dec 21, 2015
Marcus Johnson and John Clark. The Incarnation of God: The Mystery of the Gospel as the Foundation of Evangelical Theology . Crossway, 2015. 256 pp. Marcus Johnson and John Clark's The Incarnation of God is a much-needed and well-conceived treatment of the central mystery of the Christian faith...

Life Under Compulsion

Louis Markos
Dec 8, 2015
Anthony Esolen. Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child . Delaware: ISI Books, 2015. 224 pages. $27.95 Ever since Edison recorded sound, each new generation of parents has voiced the same complaint: why do my kids listen to that junk! I sympathize strongly with such...

Paul & the Gift

Alastair Roberts
Nov 16, 2015
John M.G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015. 672 pages. $70.00/£45.99 Perhaps the most impressive feature of John Barclay's important new book, Paul & the Gift , is the elegant simplicity and integrity of its central thesis. Indeed, at first blush this simplicity may...