Shelf Life

In the first part of my review of Jeffrey Johnson’s new work, The Revealed God , I looked at a few of the historical claims and figures that Johnson employed to defend his thesis. In this section, I want to look at Johnson’s rejection of any secular philosophy in favor of an exclusively biblical-...

Jeffrey D. Johnson, The Revealed God: An Introduction to Biblical Classical Theism (Conway, AR: Free Grace Press, 2023). [i] In a previous post , I asserted that the Trinity debates of the last several years have not ended. I mentioned that there were other classical views that were being...

Truth Changes Everything: How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis by Jeff Myers Baker, 2022 256 pages, paper, $17.99 We have all heard or read the alarming statistics. Children from Christian homes, it seems, are just as likely as their secular peers to believe that...

Crossway’s newly published Volume 7 of Owen’s Complete Works is made up of two treatises: The Reason of Faith (p.71-208) and The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God (p. 209-349). It features an excellent Editor’s Introduction, situating John Owen and this particular volume in...

The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples: Making Church Discipline Edifying. James Durham. Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. 165 pp. Softcover. $14. The dying words of Rev. James Durham (1622-1658) [1] was his major writing on the vital need for proper ecclesiastical disciplinary procedures in, A...

The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology By Paul R. Rovang Lexington Books, 2023 224 pages, hardcover, $100.00 Although many of the great Christian apologists of the twentieth century—Lee Strobel, Josh McDowell, Chuck Colson—converted directly from atheism to Christianity, C. S...

Shao Kai Tseng’s Karl Barth is to date the most recent contribution to P&R’s “Great Thinkers” Series. Under the general editorship of Nathan Shannon, Tseng has previously written the entries in this series on Hegel and Kant. With impressive credentials, he is uniquely learned in the area of...

When Charles Spurgeon republished the London Baptist Confession of Faith (LBCF) in 1855, he famously wrote, “This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. By the preserving hand of the Triune Jehovah we have been kept faithful to the great points...

Vern Poythress, Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-Centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization (P&R, 2022), 240 pages, Paperback, $24.99. At what might well have been the high-water mark in the battle over the Bible, the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI), issued the...

Gary L. Steward, Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy’s Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776 (New York, NY; Oxford University Press, 2021), 232 pages, Hardcover. $74 The subject of submission and resistance to political authorities is an evergreen issue. No matter where one stands on...