The Pastor’s Ministry: Biblical Priorities for Faithful Shepherds, by Brian Croft. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. 185 pp. $16.99. To his growing Practical Shepherding series, Brian Croft has recently added one titled The Pastor’s Ministry: Biblical Priorities for...
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...
Good News to the Poor: Social Involvement and the Gospel, by Tim Chester. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013. 214 pp. $15.99. In Good News to the Poor, Tim Chester presents a look at social involvement in light of the gospel. Chester (Ph.D., University of Wales) is a pastor...
Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith, by K. Scott Oliphint. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013. 277 pp. $19.99. Because Cornelius Van Til is both a towering figure in modern apologetics and also notoriously challenging to understand,...
The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, by Michael S. Heiser. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2015. 368 pp. $27.95. The Unseen Realm is a biblical theology of the spirit realm. It is based upon a close reading of the Bible in its ancient...
The Holy Spirit in Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today, by Anthony C. Thiselton. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. xiii + 578 pp. $46.00. Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the Holy Spirit has occupied a central position in...
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity, by James J. O’Donnell. New York: Ecco, 2015. 273 pp. $27.99. The distance between the birth of Christ and the Council of Chalcedon is similar to the gulf between the ascendancy of Queen Elizabeth I...
Interpreting the General Letters: An Exegetical Handbook, by Herbert W. Bateman IV. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2013. 311 pp. $29.99. Herbert Bateman holds a Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary and has taught at several seminaries in the United States and abroad. Bateman...
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...
A Commentary on Judges and Ruth, by Robert B. Chisholm, Jr. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2013. 697 pp. $39.99. Robert B. Chisholm, Senior Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, provides a fine contribution to the emerging Kregel Exegetical Library...