Paul and the Law
Brian S. Rosner, Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God. NSBT 31; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2013, 249 pp. $24.00. The apostle Peter famously said that “in all [Paul’s] letters … there are some things … that…
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Presbyterians and American Culture
Bradley, J. Longfield, Presbyterians and American Culture: A History. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013. xiii + 262 pp. $30.00 In the introduction of the republication of Charles Hodge’s What is Darwinism? co-editors Mark Noll and David Livingstone contend that…
Self, World, and Time
Oliver O’Donovan. Self, World, and Time: Ethics as Theology, volume 1, An Induction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. xiii + 138 pp. Oliver O’Donovan, the now-retired doyen of Christian ethics and political theology, has always posed a unique challenge to the…
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. Cultural Liturgies, vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009, 240pp. $22.99 In Desiring the Kingdom, James K. A. Smith sets forth a vision of Christian formation that seeks…
Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood
David P. Setran and Chris A. Kiesling, Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry. Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2013. v + 280pp. Paperback $21.99. According to Setran and Kiesling, the years between 18…
Recovering Classic Evangelicalism
Recovering What Exactly? A Review of Gregory Thornbury’s Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry He was the founder of Christianity Today, he wrote The Uneasy Conscience of American Fundamentalism (1947), and whenever you…
Mind and Cosmos
Thomas Nagel. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 130 pp. Hardcover: $24.95. There are basically three types of modern atheists: soft atheists, hard atheists, and conflicted atheists.…
Covenantal Apologetics
K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013, 277pp. $19.99 In his latest work, Covenantal Apologetics, K. Scott Oliphint seeks to recast Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics as “covenantal apologetics” –…
An Introduction to German Pietism
Douglas H. Shantz, An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, 520 pp. $32.00 “The ideologies and institutions of modernity are…the tangled continuation, development, and extension of late…
Migrations of the Holy
William T. Cavanaugh. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 208 pp. $18.00. Few political theologians over the past fifteen years have been as consistently stimulating or provocative as William…