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How Jesus Became God: A Review

Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God–The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. New York: HarperOne, 2014. 404 pp., $27.99   Over the years, I have had the opportunity to review a number of Bart Ehrman’s books, including, most…

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How Jesus Became God: A Review

Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God–The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. New York: HarperOne, 2014. 404 pp., $27.99 Over the years, I have had the opportunity to review a number of Bart Ehrman’s books, including, most recently,…

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If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis

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…

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Going Dutch in the Modern Age

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…

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Logos at its Best

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…

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The Experience of God

David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013, 365pp. + ix. $25.00 There is much to provoke, encourage, and worry about in David Bentley Hart’s newest book. As it seems…

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Jacob Arminius, Theologian of Grace

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

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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

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 After World War II, a consensus about truth gave way to a consensus about the importance…

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Reconsidering Calvin

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