Archive Spotlight – May 16, 2025

Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, THE GLORY OF GOD (Theology in Community)

About the Editors Christopher W. Morgan (PhD, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of theology and associate dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University. Robert A. Peterson (PhD, Drew University) is professor of systematic theology at…

WHAT THE OLD TESTAMENT WRITERS REALLY CARED ABOUT: A SURVEY OF JESUS' BIBLE, by Jason DeRouchie

Reviewed by John Ronning   Deriving spiritual benefit from the OT can be a daunting challenge, whether one is a beginner or more experienced reader. If there is cultural, historical and other kinds of “distance” between us and the NT…

THE SOUL: HOW WE KNOW IT'S REAL AND WHY IT MATTERS, by J. P. Moreland

J.P. Moreland’s The Soul: How We Know It’s Real and Why It Matters is not your usual study in biblical anthropology. But especially in today’s discussions with evolutionists and the New Atheists, for example, the subject of that “immaterial part…

Book Notice: 6 WAYS THE OLD TESTAMENT SPEAKS TODAY: AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE, by Alec Motyer

A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance   What does the Old Testament have to do with us today? To many of us, the Old Testament can seem distant, foreign, and confusing, with difficult language and events disconnected…

Book Notice: BEYOND AMAZING GRACE: TIMELESS PASTORAL WISDOM FROM THE LETTERS, HYMNS, AND SERMONS OF JOHN NEWTON, by J. Todd Murray

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance   From the Back Cover No one who knew John Newton as a young lad would ever have dreamed that this teenage rebel, profane sailor, naval deserter and slave-trader would one…

Kristin Stiles' Review of SAINT PATRICK THE FORGIVER, by Ned Bustard

A Book Review from Books At a Glance by Kristin Stiles   What do children know (or think they know) about St. Patrick? He was Irish. He drove out all the snakes from Ireland. He used a shamrock to teach…