There are many differences between American and British culture. Most obvious, perhaps, are the sports: baseball versus cricket; and football (where feet are rarely used) versus football (where feet, and the occasional head, are all that can be used); and…
Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on JustificationBy David E. Aune272 p.Baker (November 2006) Rereading Paul Together (RPT) is a collection of essays originally presented as papers at a conference of Roman Catholic and Lutheran biblical scholars and theologians.…
Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of ImputationBy Brian Vickers256 p.Crossway (October 2006) Brian Vickers’, Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness, is a work of careful exegesis and synthesis that attempts to establish a biblical basis for the doctrine of the imputation…
Categories of literature have expanded well beyond the tragedy/comedy paradigm of earlier days. Genres, in other words, have been fruitful and have multiplied. Into the mix, I propose a new addition, apostasy literature. Definition: a genre, usually taking the form…
As we come to the third and final segment in this series on the atonement, it would be good to remind ourselves where we have been. In this way we will have some idea of where we are going and…
Americans occasionally pass through London, and as there is a famine of Presbyterian churches in the Big smoke, they often find their way to our congregation whilst travelling round Scotland, England and France in 3 days!! After the service I’m…
Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with AugustineBy Jason ByasseeWm.B. Eerdmans (November 2007)290 p. Praise Seeking Understanding on the surface seems to have great promise: Jason Byassee wants his readers to take up the Scripture–and the Psalms specifically–and read them…
Our God is a storytelling God. Much of the Bible is narrative, and a lot of that narrative is something that would give our children nightmares. I was 18 years old when I first read the story of the Levite’s…
The Heart of Prayer: What Jesus Teaches UsBy Jerram Barrs256 p.P&R Publishing (February 2008)Reviewed by Brad Irick Recently, reformation21’s own Derek Thomas preached the Sunday evening service at FPC Jackson from Nehemiah 1:11b-2:8. While commenting on Nehemiah’s instinctual prayer in…
RecapPreviously we examined the place of the atonement in the covenant theology that unfolds for us in the pages of the Scriptures. We discovered that there were three theological covenants [1]: the covenant of redemption that occurred between the three…
