Crossing Cultures: Preparing Strangers for Ministry in Strange Places, by Stephen M. Davis. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2019. 89 pp. $17.00. Foreign missions is often an aspect of church ministry dominated by emotions. Potential workers are recruited, candidates are...
Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian, by Mark J. Farnham. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2019. 206 pp. $14.99. Serious students of apologetics are aware of the trouble that presuppositional apologists (a.k.a. transcendental, covenantal, or...
Counsel for Couples: A Biblical and Practical Guide for Marriage Counseling, by Jonathan D. Holmes. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019. 288 pp. $22.99. The author, pastor of counseling at Parkside Church in Ohio as well as executive director of Fieldstone Counseling, also...
Being a Pastor: A Conversation with Andrew Fuller, by Michael A. G. Haykin and Brian Croft. Durham, UK: Evangelical Press, 2019. 256 pp. $15.99. Bible college and seminary professors have long urged ministerial students to pursue the study of church history. One of...
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...
America’s Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation, by Thomas S. Kidd. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2019. 313 pp. $24.99. The initial decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed conspicuous displays of violence that have been...
Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to His Thought, by Oliver D. Crisp and Kyle C. Strobel. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. xi + 232 pp. $19.99. Oliver Crisp, professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, and Kyle Strobel, associate professor of...
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...
Nature’s Case for God: A Brief Biblical Argument, by John M. Frame. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2018. 124 pp. $11.99. The heavens declare the glory of God. How we hear that heavenly declaration—and what we learn from it—is where the controversy begins. In this slim book,...
Against the Darkness: The Doctrine of Angels, Satan, and Demons, by Graham A. Cole. Foundations of Evangelical Theology. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019. 272 pp. $40.00. Against the Darkness is the latest volume in the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series edited by...
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...
The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers: Learning to Interpret Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles, by Abner Chou. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2018. 251 pp. $23.99. Abner Chou serves as a professor of Biblical Studies at The Master’s University and Seminary...
Paul’s Theology in Context: Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom, by James P. Ware. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019. 270 pp. $30.00. James Ware is a Professor of Religion at the University of Evansville. This particular volume targets “clergy, students, and...
A New Testament Theology, by Craig L. Blomberg. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. 704 pp. $49.95. Craig Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of NT at Denver Seminary where he has taught since 1986. In addition to an abundance of scholarly articles, he has...
Matthew, Disciple and Scribe: The First Gospel and Its Portrait of Jesus, by Patrick Schreiner. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. 304 pp. $29.99. In recent years, the New Testament’s use of the Old has received considerable attention. Other than perhaps Hebrews and...
The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch, by Kevin S. Chen. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019. xiv + 303 pp. $29.00. Kevin Chen has written an important and welcome contribution to discussions surrounding typology, biblical theology, and Christocentric or...