DBSJ Volume 27 Book Reviews
Review of Technically Connected

Review of Technically Connected

Technically Connected: Navigating Distance on Virtual Teams, by Warren J. Janzen. Victoria, Canada: Friesen Press, 2020. xv + 167 pp. $17.99. The author, having served as International Director of the mission agency SEND International, has extensive experience working...

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Review of Good Works

Review of Good Works

Good Works: Hospitality and Faithful Discipleship, by Keith Wasserman and Christine D. Pohl. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021 viii + 180 pp. $16.99. Keith Wasserman is the founder and executive director of Good Works Inc. His co-author, Christine D. Pohl, is professor...

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Review of New Life in Christ

Review of New Life in Christ

New Life in Christ: What Really Happens When You’re Born Again and Why It Matters, by Steven J. Lawson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2020. 216 pp. $15.99. With the heart of a pastor, the mind of a theologian, and the passion of an evangelist, Steve Lawson gives the reader a...

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Review of Before We Forget

Review of Before We Forget

Before We Forget: Reflections from New and Seasoned Pastors on Enduring Ministry, edited by Nathan Millican and Jonathon Woodyard. Nashville: B&H Books, 2020. x + 213 pp. $16.99. Editors and authors Nathan Millican and Jonathon Woodyard have brought together...

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Review of Justifying Revolution

Review of Justifying Revolution

Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy’s Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776, by Gary L. Steward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 221 pp. $74.00. The alleged Christian origins of the American Revolution have and will continue to be a subject of...

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Review of Immanuel Kant

Review of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant, by Shao Kai Tseng. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2020. xviii + 209 pp. $12.00. In this balanced, nuanced, and sympathetic account of Kant’s thought, Shao Kai Tseng intends to correct what he considers the flawed Neo-Calvinist interpretations of Kant, which...

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Review of Holy Living

Review of Holy Living

Holy Living: Jonathan Edwards’s Seventy Resolutions for Living the Christian Life, by Matthew Everhard. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2021. 163 pp. $16.95. The year 2022 marks three hundred years since Jonathan Edwards began writing his seventy “Resolutions.” To...

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Review of Always Reforming

Review of Always Reforming

Always Reforming: Reflections on Martin Luther & Biblical Studies, edited by Channing L. Crisler and Robert L. Plummer. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. 181 pp. $29.99. This book of essays on Martin Luther is a Festschrift in honor of Mark A. Seifrid, longtime...

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Review of God Reforms Hearts

Review of God Reforms Hearts

God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil,by Thaddeus Williams. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. 216 pp. $27.99 Did you make the choice to love God from your own free will? Or were you influenced—by God or something else—to choose to respond in...

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Review of Baptism

Review of Baptism

Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death, by Peter J. Leithart. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. 140 pp. $15.99. Peter Leithart currently serves as president of the Theopolis Institute, a study center and training institute for leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Leithart...

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Review of What about Evil?

Review of What about Evil?

What about Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory, by Scott Christensen. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2020. xix + 544 pp. $39.99. In 2016, Scott Christensen published What about Free Will?, a defense of compatibilism. The present volume builds on that work. Advocates...

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Review of The Trinity and the Bible

Review of The Trinity and the Bible

The Trinity and the Bible: On Theological Interpretation, by Scott R. Swain. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. 131 pp. $19.99. Over the past decade and a half, Scott Swain has contributed fruitfully on both an academic and a popular level to the ongoing renaissance of...

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Review of Providence

Review of Providence

Providence, by John Piper. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020. 752 pp. $39.99. John Piper, founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary, served for thirty-three years as the pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis,...

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Review of Hebrews

Review of Hebrews

Hebrews: Verse by Verse, by Grant R. Osborne with George H. Guthrie. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. vii + 360 pp. $26.99. Grant R. Osborne, who passed away in November 2018, remains a monumental force within evangelical New Testament scholarship. His Baker Exegetical...

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Review of Signs of the Messiah

Review of Signs of the Messiah

Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John’s Gospel, by Andreas J. Köstenberger. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. xiii + 188 pp. $27.99. Research professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Andreas J. Köstenberger has long been established as one of the...

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Review of The Herods

Review of The Herods

The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession, by Bruce Chilton. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021. xvii + 346 pp. $16.10. Bruce Chilton has served as Professor of Religion at Bard College, a liberal arts school with Episcopalian roots, since 1987. He has had a...

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Review of The Septuagint

Review of The Septuagint

The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters,by Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021. 216 pp. $21.99. Biblical scholars Gregory Lanier and William Ross provide an accessible, substantive introduction to the Greek Old Testament. Lanier...

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Review of The Angel of the Lord

Review of The Angel of the Lord

The Angel of the Lord: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study, by Matt Foreman and Doug Van Dorn. Denver: Waters of Creation, 2020. xvi + 412 pp. $33.97. Matt Foreman has been the pastor of Faith Reformed Baptist Church in Media, PA, since 2003 and is a...

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Review of Daniel

Review of Daniel

Daniel, by J. Paul Tanner. Evangelical Exegetical Commentary. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2020. xxii + 803 pp. $49.99. J. Paul Tanner has provided a noteworthy addition to the corpus of Daniel studies with his recent commentary in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary...

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Review of Genesis

Review of Genesis

Genesis, by Andrew E. Steinmann. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2019. xxi + 474 pp. $28.00. As the first and foundational book of Scripture, Genesis casts a broad shadow on the biblical canon. In turn, the interpreter’s...

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