OK, so I am finally getting through the stack of reading that accumulated during the school year, and finally read a book that was all the buzz about five months ago. The good news is that you can finally get it at your local library, and the price is already dropping...
Recently much of the country was captivated by a six-year-old girl who became the youngest speller to aspire to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Of course, not everyone was impressed. Some predictably rolled their eyes. Most of these did so because they can't spell...
There is a new web site, Early Bible, that recently came online, whose purpose is to display pictures of the New Testament papyrus manuscripts. It is very nicely done and hopefully more papyri will be coming online soon.
If you’re looking for a book to give for Christmas, you might consider Surprised by Oxford. This is a delightful memoir by Carolyn Weber, a Canadian from London, Ontario. It traces her first year as a graduate student at Oxford University (Oriel College). The title, I...
One of the inevitabilities of working in a seminary community is that you’re likely to lose quite a few dear friends over the course of your tenure. It’s not because seminaries require vows of friendlessness, alongside those of poverty and humility. Rather, it’s...
Writing near the end of the 1950s, the renowned dispensational eschatologist and professor of Bible exposition, J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014), formulated the standard dispensational understanding of the afterlife in the Old Testament (OT). “[Sheol],” argued...
2012 William R. Rice Lecture Series Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012Speaker: Dr. Bryant G. WoodTheme: “Archaeology and the Conquest: New Evidence on an Old Problem” Lectures:Lecture 1: Background and Chronology of the Exodus and Conquest...
It could be argued that Peter dwells so frequently on eschatology that his readers would be, as the old phrase goes, “too heavenly-minded to be of any earthly good.”((Dr. Miller is Vice President of Academics and Dean of the Faculty at Shepherds Theological Seminary...
Introduction The chaos of living in a faithless age is seen in war, disease, theft, murder, adultery, hunger, riots, denial of rights to people who deserve them, and the demand for recognition.((Dr. Elwart is Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at Detroit...
Intertextual links between Ecclesiastes and John have been noted by a few scholars but remain largely unexplored.((Dr. Dunham is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. Of Dr. Compton he writes, “With profound appreciation for his...
In my first post on this subject, I argued that the KJV-only position believes that only the KJV of the Bible is the Word of God, and I suggested that the somewhat official beginning of this movement should be traced to the publication of the 1881 revision of the KJV,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Message of the Twelve: Hearing the Voice of the Minor Prophets, by Richard Alan Fuhr, Jr. and Gary E. Yates. Nashville: B&H, 2016. xix + 360 pp. $34.99. Al Fuhr and Gary Yates, Old Testament professors at Liberty University School of Divinity, have produced an...
The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson, and Hammond, by Geoffrey R. Treloar. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017. xiii + 334 pp. $35.00. This is the long awaited final volume (although the fourth in the series chronologically) of...
Ancient Apocryphal Gospels, by Markus Bockmuehl. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017. vii + 330 pp. $40.00. The average sympathetic reader of the New Testament takes a posture of fear or defensive skepticism towards apocryphal Christian gospels. Dan Brown’s...
Old Testament Law for Christians: Original Context and Enduring Application, by Roy E. Gane. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017. xvi + 448 pp. $32.99. The New Testament believer’s relationship to the Mosaic Law remains one of the most challenging theological and hermeneutical...
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...
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...
Mark 13 and the Return of the Shepherd: The Narrative Logic of Zechariah in Mark, by Paul T. Sloan. Library of New Testament Studies 604. New York: T & T Clark, 2019. x + 253 pp. $114.00. Scholars disagree on whether Jesus’s Olivet Discourse (OD) describes the...
Psalms 73–150, by Daniel J. Estes. New American Commentary. Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2019. 671 pp. $32.99. Daniel Estes, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Cedarville University, has specialized in the study of Old Testament Wisdom literature and the...
The Case for Biblical Archaeology: Uncovering the Historical Record of God’s Old Testament People, by John D. Currid. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2020. xviii + 263 pp. $29.99. John Currid is Chancellor’s Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary. His...
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...
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...
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...
Redeeming Productivity, by Reagan Rose. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2022. ix + 158 pp. $15.99. Reagan Rose is the founder of Redeeming Productivity, an online teaching ministry aimed at recapturing personal productivity for the sake...
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...
A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, edited by Rob Ventura. Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor Books, 2022. 568 pp. $39.99. Nearly thirty-five years ago, Sam Waldron published a groundbreaking exposition of the...
Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty: Recovering a Biblical Doctrine, by Peter Sammons. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 296 pp. $25.99. Author Peter Sammons engages the difficult doctrine of reprobation as a rhetorical Valiant-for-Truth, eager...
Jeremiah and Lamentations, by Duane Garrett and Calvin F. Pearson. Kerux Commentaries. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 499 pp. $38.99. Leatherman multitools are immensely helpful because they contain in one apparatus several different tools....
ESV Expository Commentary, Volume 2: Deuteronomy–Ruth, edited by Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar. Wheaton: Crossway, 2021. 743 pp. $60.00. The ESV Expository Commentary set is Crossway’s attempt to improve upon...
Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling: What Historical Biblical Counselors Really Believe, by Lou Priolo. Conway, AR: Grace and Truth Books, 2023. 138 pp. $12.49. Loneliness: Connecting with God and Others, by Lou Priolo. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2023,...
Baptist Political Theology, edited by Thomas S. Kidd, Paul D. Miller, and Andrew T. Walker. Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2023. 774 pp. $59.99. To establish one’s right to be called a Baptist, one must appeal not merely to Scripture but also...
Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture, edited by Brent E. Parker and Richard J. Lucas. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022. ix + 266 pp. $21.99. The editors of this volume are Brent...
Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach, by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Greg Goswell. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023. 1,016 pages. $64.99. Greg Goswell is Academic Dean and Old Testament lecturer at Christ College in...
New Testament Theology, by Eckhard J. Schnabel. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023. 1,224 pp. $69.99. Eckhard Schnabel (PhD, The University of Aberdeen) is the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon...
Revelation through Old Testament Eyes, by Tremper Longman III. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 368 pp. $29.99. Tremper Longman needs no introduction to anyone even slightly familiar with evangelical Old Testament scholarship. During...
Brett Williams on Three in One Analogies for the Trinity DBSJ 29 2024Download Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity, by William David Spencer. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 242 pp. $15.99. William Spencer is a Presbyterian minister who serves as the...
Introduction The first line in John Donne’s seventeenth-century Holy Sonnet XVI reads, “Father, part of his double interest, unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me, his jointure in the knotty Trinitie.” ((Dr. Williams serves as the Provost of Central Baptist...
Introduction In response to his disciples’ questions on the Mount of Olives, Jesus gives his Olivet Discourse (OD) addressing the coming destruction of the temple, his παρουσία, and the end of the age (Matt 24:3). ((Dr. Meyer is Assistant Professor of Biblical...
Occasionally, some well-meaning Baptists have asserted that belief in both the active and passive obedience of Christ as the ground of our justification is something foreign to Baptist life—perhaps something picked up from the Gospel Coalition, the now inactive T4G,...
In recent months, I’ve written about marriage, parenting, and financial advice “from a dead guy” (i.e., John Chrysostom, c. 347–407). In recounting this advice, I’m not suggesting that Chrysostom was always correct or that his advice should necessarily be followed in...
The term ἀδιάφορα (adiaphora), literally, matters that are to be viewed with indifference or that make no difference, does not appear in the Christian Scriptures and does not feature significantly in Christian Theology until the Reformation era. The term does,...
In recent months, I’ve written about marriage and parenting advice “from a dead guy” (i.e., John Chrysostom, c. 347–407). In this post, I’m going to note a few comments about wealth and poverty from this same church father. Almost every substantial discussion of John...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled “Parenting Advice from a Dead Guy.” In that post, I introduced Eastern church father John Chrysostom (c. 347–407) and noted some parenting advice found in his book An Address on Vainglory and the Right Way for Parents to Bring up...