Category: Book Reviews
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Review of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks by Walter Brueggemann
Read more: Review of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks by Walter BrueggemannBrueggemann, Walter. Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2014. 165 pages. Softcover. Retail: $15.00. In Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks, Walter Brueggemann suggests that the ancient Israelite ideological crisis caused by the destruction of Jerusalem can act as an analogy for the modern American ideological crisis caused by…
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Review of The Role of Works at the Final Judgment edited by Alan P. Stanley.
Read more: Review of The Role of Works at the Final Judgment edited by Alan P. Stanley.Wilkin, Robert N., Thomas R. Schreiner, James D. G. Dunn, Michael P. Barber, and Alan P. Stanley.Four Views On the Role of Works at the Final Judgment. Edited by Alan P. Stanley. Counterpoints. Bible and Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 234 pages. Softcover. Retail: $17.99. ISBN: 9780310490333 “The Role of Works at the Final Judgement,”…
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Review of Jesus Research, ed. James H. Charlesworth
Read more: Review of Jesus Research, ed. James H. CharlesworthEdited by James H. Charlesworth; with Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný. Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perception. Eerdmans, 2014. 1053 pgs. $35.00 (Paperback). ISBN 978-0-8028-6728-5. The recently released compendium, Jesus Research (2014), is a collection of papers originally presented at the Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research (2007). The volume combines the insights of at…
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Review of Union with Christ in the New Testament by Grant Macaskill
Read more: Review of Union with Christ in the New Testament by Grant MacaskillMacaskill, Grant. Union with Christ in the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 308 pages + 45 pages bibliography and indices. Hardcover. Retail: £75.00 ISBN: 978-0199684298. Long a pillar of Eastern Orthodox theology, theosis has been generating increasing interest across denominational lines in recent years. In Union with Christ in the New Testament, Grant…
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Review of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism
Read more: Review of Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical CriticismHays, Christopher M. and Christopher B. Ansberry, eds. Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism. London: SPCK, 2013. 241 pgs. Paperback. £17.99 ISBN: 9780281067329. Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism is a collection of essays written in response to the challenges that historical criticism brings to traditional evangelical approaches to the Bible. Rather than being an…
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Review of The Father’s Will by Nicholas E. Lombardo
Read more: Review of The Father’s Will by Nicholas E. LombardoNicholas E. Lombardo. The Father’s Will: Christ’s Crucifixion and the Goodness of God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 270 pages. Hardcover. £65. ISBN – 978-0-19-968858 In The Father’s Will, Nicholas Lombardo provides an apologetic angle on the crucifixion, seeking to prove the consistency of God’s justice in light of the apparent injustice of Christ’s crucifixion….
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Review of Union with Christ by Constantine Campbell
Read more: Review of Union with Christ by Constantine CampbellConstantine Campbell. Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2012. 463 pgs. (Paperback). $34.99. 0310329051 Campbell seeks to approach the subject “union with Christ” as a New Testament theologian, that is, his approach is exegetically grounded and theologically motivated. The first concern is represented by detailed exegetical work on the phrases relating…
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Review of The Present Task of New Testament Studies by C.H. Dodd
Read more: Review of The Present Task of New Testament Studies by C.H. DoddC.H. Dodd. The Present Task of New Testament Studies: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the Divinity School on Tuesday 2 June 1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1936 (reprint 2014). Pp. 41. Paper. £7.99. 978-1-107-63545-6. This reprint of Dodd’s 1936 inaugural lecture at the University of Cambridge is a short treasure wherein Dodd lays bare the…
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Christians in an Age of Wealth by Craig L. Blomberg: A Review
Read more: Christians in an Age of Wealth by Craig L. Blomberg: A ReviewStewardship is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I currently work in the Purchasing department at Biola University. From office supplies and furniture, construction and facilities projects, materials and rentals for university events, cadavers and live specimens for biological sciences, books for various departments, to travel requests for professors, staff members, and student…
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A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism—by Mark S. Gignilliat (A Review)
Read more: A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism—by Mark S. Gignilliat (A Review)On my trip to India over spring break—which you can read a little bit about here—I brought along a delightful little introduction to Old Testament Criticism by Mark S. Gignilliat, called, A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism: From Benedict Spinoza to Brevard Childs (check it out on Amazon). Gignilliat, who is Associate Professor of…