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THE DRAMA OF SCRIPTURE: FINDING OUR PLACE IN THE BIBLICAL STORY, 2nd ed., by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen

Reviewed by Miguel Echevarria Introduction Craig G. Bartholomew is the H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy at Redeemer University College and principal of The Paideia Centre for Public Theology. Michael W. Goheen is Director of Theological Education and Scholar-in-Residence at…

TWO TESTAMENTS, ONE BIBLE: THE THEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, by David L. Baker

Reviewed by Nathanael Warren David Baker’s Two Testaments, One Bible engages the basic question of what constitutes the “essential bible” and whether or not the Old Testament has continued pertinence to the church today. This third edition represents a revision…

WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? A Guide to the Bible Story, Symbolism, and Patterns, James Hamilton, Jr.

Reviewed by John T. Jeffery The “bottom line up front” of this review is that Hamilton’s book is my first choice to introduce others to this subject. It has three big elements in its favor apart from the perspective of…

LOVING YOUR WIFE AS CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH, by Larry E. McCall

Reviewed by Paul Tautges Do you ever wish you could start over? I mean really start over? Do you ever feel, as a husband, that you wish you knew then — when you first got married — what you know…

HOW JESUS BECAME GOD: THE EXALTATION OF A JEWISH PREACHER FROM GALILEE, by Bart Ehrman

Reviewed by Trey Moss   At face value How Jesus Became God looks promising. Bart Ehrman is a world-renowned scholar who has published and edited numerous academic works on textual criticism and early Christianity. Pastors or informed lay-persons would benefit…

CHANCE AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD: A GOD-CENTERED APPROACH TO PROBABILITY AND RANDOM EVENTS, by Vern Poythress

Reviewed by Mark Farnham Anyone who has ever contemplated the sovereignty of God and human choice has wrestled with the seeming contradictions of joining these two together. If God knows and ordains all that happens, doesn’t that make the universe…

A LOVING LIFE IN A WORLD OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS, by Paul E. Miller

Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille What is love? For many in our day, love is strictly the stuff of Hallmark cards and movies. It’s a warm, fuzzy feeling that defies explanation. It’s an overwhelming emotion that people helplessly follow because…

GLIMPSES OF GRACE: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home, Gloria Furman

Reviewed by Bethany Spears The Author Gloria Furman is a wife, mother of four young children, doula, and blogger. In 2008 her family moved tot the Middle East to plant Redeemer Church of Dubai where her husband, Dave, serves as…

BELLE: THE SLAVE DAUGHTER AND THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, by Paula Byrne

Reviewed by Michael Haykin   “Belle: an 18th-century triumph of humanity” A painting now hanging in Scone Palace near Perth in Scotland, once entitled in 1904 as “Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton with a Negress Attendant,” provides biographer Paula Byrne with the…

THE BIBLE MADE IMPOSSIBLE: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture, by Christian Smith

Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel   Many Christians have puzzled over the fact that interpretations of Scripture differ so widely among equally devoted Christians, but few have pursued the question with the tenacity of Christian Smith in his The Bible…

JESUS ON EVERY PAGE: Ten Simple Ways to Seek and Find Christ in the Old Testament, by David Murray

Jesus himself told us that he is the grand subject — the hero, if you will — of the Old Testament Scriptures, and it is the delight of every Christian who takes the time to investigate to see just how…

FIREFALL 2.0: HOW GOD HAS SHAPED HISTORY THROUGH REVIVALS, by Malcolm McDow and Alvin Reid

Reviewed by Jeff K. Walters In the face of increasing secularism and bad news, as well as the decline of churches and baptisms, evangelical leaders, especially in the United States, are calling for intense prayer for revival and spiritual awakening.…

DEUTERONOMY: A COMMENTARY, by Jack Lundbom

Reviewed by Thomas Middlebrook   This stand-alone commentary, initially to be published for the discontinued Eerdmans Critical Commentary series, provides the expert rhetorical criticism and the moderate historical conclusions of a seasoned scholar. Lundbom’s prior contributions to OT studies lie…

INTRODUCING BIBLICAL THEOLOGY, by Sigurd Grindheim

Reviewed by Chris Bruno Sigurd Grindheim’s Introducing Biblical Theology has a certain Scandavian efficiency to it. In it, the author summarizes the storyline of Scripture in very accessible and succinct way, highlighting key points and discussing important debates in biblical…

CHRISTIAN MORAL THEOLOGY IN THE EMERGING TECHNOCULTURE: FROM POSTHUMAN TO HUMAN, by Brent Waters

Reviewed by Jacob Shatzer   Brent Waters’s Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture creates a critical and constructive theological engagement with modern technology (especially communications technology). Waters refuses to call technology “neutral” because he rightly notes the way technology…

AMERICAN GURUS: FROM AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM TO NEW AGE RELIGION, by Arthur Versluis

Review-Summary by Michael John Plato   The Guru Next Door Probably the most famous person to live in my home town was a Tibetan lama by the name of Tuesday. It’s a fairly small town in rural Canada, with strong…