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Holy Communion

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church. Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction  When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the…

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Holy Communion

Hughes Oliphant Old, Holy Communion: In the Piety of the Reformed Church. Powder Springs: Tolle Lege Press, 2013. Hardback. 919 pp. $39.95 Introduction  When I was in seminary I was introduced to what is perhaps the standard taxonomy of the…

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The Rise of Liberal Religion

Matthew S. Hedstrom. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. Oxford, 2013.288  pp. $39.99 Reformed Christians pride themselves in being well informed of major eras in the development of Christian theology. They can…

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One with Christ

Marcus Peter Johnson, One with Christ: An Evangelical Theology of Salvation. Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. 256 pp. $19.99 Though I am not a Calvin scholar, there are few theologians who have influenced me as much, and consistently help me more than…

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Politics and the Order of Love

Eric S. Gregory. Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 417 pp. $28.99 This is not a book to be undertaken lightly by the unsuspecting reader, lured in by…

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Divine Providence and Human Agency

Alexander S. Jensen, Divine Providence and Human Agency: Trinity, Creation and Freedom. Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014. 215 pp. $104.99 How would you go about developing the theme that is the title of this book? The typical reader of Reformation 21…

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Who’s Afraid of Relativism?

James K. A. Smith. Who’s Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2014. 192 pp.  Softcover: $19.99 James K. A. Smith’s latest book is the follow-up to Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006) and continues his…

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God in the Whirlwind

David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 266 pp. $19.99 Over the last twenty years, David Wells has established himself as the insider chronicler-in-chief of how the self-centered trivialization…

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Living By Revealed Truth

Tom Nettles, Living By Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Christian Focus, 2013, 700pp, £29.99 It would be going over the top to declare an interest, but perhaps an admission of sorts would be in…