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Thomas Todhunter Shields, Jr. “The Canadian Spurgeon”
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Fundamentalism and the King James Version: How a Venerable English Translation Became a Litmus Test for Orthodoxy
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Baptists and Freemasonry: A Conflicted History
My interest in Freemasonry began a few years ago, as I was asked to complete a writing project of Baptist historian Terry Wolever, who unexpectedly died, leaving a biography of Stephen Gano (1762–1828) unfinished. ((Dr. Straub taught historical theology at Central...
Review of The Case for Christian Nationalism
The Case for Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Wolfe. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2022. 488 pp. $24.99. Stephen Wolfe has given a full-throated, tightly reasoned argument for the idea of Christian nationalism which he defines as “a totality...
Review of Finding the Right Hills to Die On
Finding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage,by Gavin Ortlund. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020. 163 pp. $17.99. This book, whose title blends two metaphors to create the image of urgency as applied to Bible doctrine, is the kind of a book that...
Review of Fault Lines
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe by Voddie Baucham. Washington, D. C.: Salem Books. xvii, 254 pp. $24.99. “For such a time as this” (Esth 4:14). Tensions have been mounting over questions of race and social justice....
Review of Reenchanting Humanity
Reenchanting Humanity: A Theology of Mankind by Owen Strachan. Ross-shire, UK: Mentor, 2019. 418 pp. $39.99. Owen Strachan, associate professor of Christian Theology and Director for the Center for Public Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has...
Review of Fundamentalist U
Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, by Adam Laats. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. x + 348 pp. $29.95. The subject of twentieth-century evangelicalism fascinates the academic world. A host of recent publications on the variegated...
Review of Baptists and the Holy Spirit
Baptists and the Holy Spirit: The Contested History of the Holiness-Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements, by C. Douglas Weaver. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019. xvi + 573 pp. $69.95. Douglas Weaver has written a most compelling and well researched study on the...
Review of The Disruption of Evangelicalism
The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson, and Hammond, by Geoffrey R. Treloar. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017. xiii + 334 pp. $35.00. This is the long awaited final volume (although the fourth in the series chronologically) of...
Review of Baptist History in England and America
Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices, by David Beale. Maitland, FL: Xulon, 2018. ix + 627 pp. $28.99. David Beale, retired professor of Church History at Bob Jones University, has written a fresh look at Baptists of England...
The Pentecostalization of Global Christianity and the Challenge for Cessationism
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Review of Baptist Foundations
Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age, ed. Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman. Nashville: B&H, 2015. xxiv + 397 pp. $44.99. The study of Baptist polity has been greatly enriched in the past fifteen years thanks to a series of...
Review of Perspectives on the Extent of the Atonement
Perspectives on the Extent of the Atonement, ed. Andrew David Naselli and Mark A. Snoeberger. Nashville: B&H, 2015. xiii + 242 pp. $24.99. The question “For whom did Jesus die?” has a robust tradition of point and counterpoint in theological discourse since the...
Review of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
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Review of The Accidental Revolutionary
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Review of Baptists Through the Centuries
Baptists through the CenturiesDownload
On Reading Institutional Histories: A Review Article
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Review of Baptist Theology
Baptist Theology - A Four-Century StudyDownload
Review of The Surprising Work of God
The Surprising Work of GodDownload
Review of Selling the Old-Time Religion
Selling the Old-Time ReligionDownload
Review of Evangelicalism Divided
Evangelicalism DividedDownload
Baptists, Jeremiah Bell Jeter, and “The Blighting, Withering Curse”
In December 2018, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville, Kentucky, released a study, Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. ((Dr. Straub taught historical theology at Central Baptist Theological...