John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America, by Eric C. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 264 pp. $99.00.       Eric Smith serves as the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, TN, and as Associate...

Arminian Baptists: A Biographical History of Free Will Baptists, edited by David Lytle and Charles Cook. Nashville: Randall House, 2022. viii + 466 pp. $27.99.       In their edited book, David Lytle and Charles Cook, have assembled a stellar...

Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism, by Craig A. Carter. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2021. xviii + 308 pp. $32.99. In 2018, in his Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition (Baker), Craig Carter argued that the academy,...

Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis, by Craig A. Carter. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2018. xxiv + 279 pp. $27.99. In 1980 David Steinmetz wrote his famous essay “The Superiority of Pre-Critical Exegesis,” in which he...

In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis, by Kenneth J. Stewart. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017. 304 pp. $30.00. One of the more contested topics of church history is the search for historical roots and the theological...

American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths, by Thomas S. Kidd. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 329 pp. $20.00. Astonishing changes took place on the continent of North America between the years 1492 and 1763. Prior to Columbus a state of constant...

The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society, by John Fea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 356 pp. $29.95. The American Bible Society (ABS) enjoyed its 200th anniversary in 2016. As part of its commemoration, they recruited noted historian John...