Archive Spotlight – October 24, 2025

CHRIST AND CULTURE REVISITED, by D. A. Carson

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance About the Author D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He has written or edited more than fifty other books, including The…

READING THE HISTORICAL BOOKS: A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO ENGAGING THE BIBLICAL TEXT, by Patricia Dutcher-Walls

Reviewed by Adam Darbonne Although the methodologies of higher criticism have encouraged readers to pay close attention to the details of biblical texts and better understand their formation, the result is often fragmentation, dissection, and loss of appreciation for their…

Interview with Brian Vickers, author of JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH: FINDING FREEDOM FROM LEGALISM, LAWLESSNESS, PRIDE, AND DESPAIR

For several decades now the doctrine of justification has been a topic of debate among Evangelicals, even among some in the Reformed tradition. That may seem disheartening, but there is a bright side to it all. As in all controversies…

Book Notice: WHAT IS MAN?: ADAM, ALIEN, OR APE?, by Edgar Andrews

A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance   In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled “What is man?” Consisting of an interminable dialogue between a senior citizen (who believes that man is just a…

Book Notice: BIBLICAL GREEK MADE SIMPLE: ALL THE BASICS IN ONE SEMESTER, by H. Daniel Zacharias

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance   Why and How This Grammar is Different (from the Introduction, pp.xiv-xv) The approach of Biblical Greek Made Simple is unique. It is different from other grammars not only in layout,…

Book Notice: A COLORFUL PAST: A COLORING BOOK OF CHURCH HISTORY

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance   Parents! This is a delightful idea for introducing your young children to the church’s illustrious history. Boekestein works his way through the twenty centuries of the church with a very…