Category: Book Reviews
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Three Takeaways from Rehearsing Scripture
Read more: Three Takeaways from Rehearsing ScriptureAnna Carter Florence Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God’s Word in Community Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018. Pp. 215, paperback, $16.99 ISBN 9780802874122. In Rehearsing Scripture, Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence (Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary) offers a compelling vision for how the Church can read scripture afresh by adopting it as a script…
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Review: Paul the Pagan’s Apostle by Paula Fredriksen
Read more: Review: Paul the Pagan’s Apostle by Paula FredriksenFREDRIKSEN, Paula. Paul: The Pagan’s Apostle. Yale: Yale University Press, 2017. pp. 336. $44.27 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-0300225884. “Something is going on in Pauline studies.” So writes Paula Fredriksen in the closing pages of her recently published Paul: The Pagan’s Apostle. By “something” (italics hers), she refers predominantly to the emerging “Paul Within Judaism” school that renders “another…
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Is This the “End of Protestantism?” A Review of Peter Leithart’s Latest Book on Church Unity
Read more: Is This the “End of Protestantism?” A Review of Peter Leithart’s Latest Book on Church UnityLEITHART, Peter J. The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2016. pp. 225. $21.99 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-58743-377-1. As of 2003,[1] there are roughly one thousand distinct Christian denominations in the United States. It was the prayer of Jesus that his children will join together as “one” as God…
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Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy Johnson
Read more: Review of The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art by Luke Timothy JohnsonJOHNSON, Luke Timothy. The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015. pp. 256. $25.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-0-8028-0383-2. Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Revelatory Body offers the bold thesis that “the human body is the preeminent arena of God’s revelation in the world.”[1] While many will welcome the claim that the human body…
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Review of God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans by Jonathan Linebaugh
Read more: Review of God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans by Jonathan LinebaughLinebaugh, Jonathan Andrew. God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Texts in Conversation. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 152. Leiden: Brill. 2013. 282 pages. $141.00 (Hardback). ISBN 978-9004252943. In this volume, his revised 2011 doctoral thesis from Durham University under John M. G. Barclay, Jonathan Linebaugh seeks to place Romans…
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Review of The Many Faces of Herod the Great by Adam Kolman Marshak
Read more: Review of The Many Faces of Herod the Great by Adam Kolman MarshakAdam Kolman Marshak. The Many Faces of Herod the Great. Eerdmans, 2015. 400 pgs. $35 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-8028-6605-9. In The Many Faces of Herod the Great, Adam Kolman Marshak offers a fresh and compelling historiographical account of one of the more misunderstood figures in antiquity. While he agrees that Herod does, at times, play the…
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Review of As it Was in the Beginning by Mark D. Owen
Read more: Review of As it Was in the Beginning by Mark D. OwenOwens, Mark D. As It Was in the Beginning: An Intertextual Analysis of New Creation in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2015. Paperback. 241 pages. Retail: $29.00. ISBN: 9781498202404 In As It Was in the Beginning, Mark D. Owens compares “new creation” concepts in Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians through an intertextual…
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Review of Jesus Monotheism by Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Read more: Review of Jesus Monotheism by Crispin Fletcher-LouisCrispin Fletcher-Louis. Jesus Monotheism, Volume 1, Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond. Cascade Books, 2015. 367 pgs. $43 (Paperback). ISBN 978-1-62032-889-7. Crispin Fletcher-Louis’s Jesus Monotheism sets out in four volumes a new paradigm for the shape and origins of early christological monotheism. The present volume under review lays the foundation for the remainder of…
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Review of Paul & the Gift by John Barclay
Read more: Review of Paul & the Gift by John BarclayBarclay, John. Paul & the Gift. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015. 582 pages + 74 pages of bibliography and indices. Hardcover. Retail: $70.00. As in Barclay’s previous monographs, though here to greater extent, he has offered the Pauline community an absolute tour de force. This massive tome attempts, through the sophisticated analytic of distinguishing between the…
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Review of Hidden Criticism? by Christoph Heilig
Read more: Review of Hidden Criticism? by Christoph HeiligHeilig, Christoph. Hidden Criticism?: The Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul. Wissenchaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testamentum II.392. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. 160 pages + 39 pages bibliography & indices. Softcover. Retail: €69.00. Questions concerning the New Testament’s relationship to aspects of the Roman Empire—and in particular the political claims…