Review: Ruth
Ruth: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text, by Robert D. Holmstedt. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 180 page paperback. Robert D. Holmstedt teaches ancient Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic languages at the University of ...
Review: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Creed
Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Creed, by Albrecht Peters, (trans. Thomas Trapp). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. 306 pages. Albrecht Peters (d. Oct 26, 1987) was a professor at Ruprecht-Karl-Univeristät in Heidelberg, West Germany. Peters ...
Review: Reading Scripture with the Reformers
Reading Scriptures with the Reformers, by Timothy George, Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2011. 258 pages. Timothy George (Th. D., Harvard University) is a renowned Reformation historian. He is the founding dean at the Beeson Divinity ...
Review: Trained in the Fear of God
Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective, ed. Randy Stinson and Timothy Paul Jones. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011. 290 pages. Randy Stinson is dean of the School of ...
Review: Christ-centered Biblical Theology
Christ-Centered Biblical Theology, by Graeme Goldsworthy. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012. 251 pages. Graeme Goldsworthy was formerly a lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College, Sydney, where he still ...
Review: Christless Christianity
Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church, by Michael Horton. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008. 259 pages. “Michael Horton is J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. ...
Review: Friends of the Law
Friends of the Law: Luther’s Use of the Law for the Christian Life, by Edward A. Engelbrecht, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. xvii + 310 pages. Edward Engelbrecht “serves as the senior editor for ...
Review: Communicating for a Change
Communicating for a Change, by Andy Stanley and Lane Jones, Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2006. 196 pages. Andy Stanley is the founder of North Point Ministries and senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, ...
Review: Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics
Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics, by Richard C. Eyer. St. Louis: CPH, 2000. 167 pages. At the time this book was written, Richard Eyer was serving “as assistant professor of philosophy ...
Review: Luther: Man between God and the Devil
Luther: Man between God and the Devil, by Heiko Oberman, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 330 pages (380 with notes, index, etc.). (German original: Luther: Mensch zwischen Gott und Teufel. ...