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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Review of Contemplating God with the Great Tradition
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,...
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...
Review of The Moral Governmental Theory of Atonement
The Moral Governmental Theory of Atonement: Re-envisioning Penal Substitution, by Obbie Tyler Todd. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. 213 pp. $27.00. Obbie Todd’s recent book offers a systematic theology of the moral governmental theory of atonement as it was...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Review of Paul and the Hope of Glory
Paul and the Hope of Glory: An Exegetical and Theological Study, by Constantine R. Campbell. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020. xxiv + 503 pp. $34.99. Constantine Campbell is senior vice president of global content and Bible teaching at Our Daily Bread Ministries. His...
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...
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...
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...
Review of A Short History of Christian Zionism
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, by Donald M. Lewis. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021. x + 373 pp. $36.00. Writing a few years after the end of World War I, the British War and Air secretary Winston...
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...
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...
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...