Shelf Life

Dallas Willard, The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus . Harper One, 2015. 208 pages, hardcover. $26.99 One of the most exciting developments of the last two decades has been the rapid growth--nay, explosion--of top-notch apologists who have flooded the market with...

Simonetta Carr, Marie Durand . Christian Biographies for Young Readers. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Reformation Heritage Books. 64 pp. 2015. $17.99 When you do a search on Amazon for "biographies for children," you find a list of books about people who are famous because of things they accomplished in...

Paul Griffiths, Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures . Texas, Baylor, 2014. 431 pp. $68.99 Paul Griffiths's Decreation is systematic theology in grand, classical style. Eschewing the notion of "eschatology" because of its ambiguity and (one suspects) its modernity, Griffiths probes the...

David J. Luy. Dominus Mortis: Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ . Fortress, 2014. 266 pp. $24.99/£24.99 Professor Luy's book has a mostly polemical scope: refuting an interpretation of Luther's Christology and deploring a strain of systematics that invokes it, both of which he...

Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung. Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. 157 pp. $9.99/£8.99 In her wonderful new book Vainglory: the Forgotten Vice , Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, builds on the important work that she began in Glittering Vices...

Richard Hays, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness . Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. 240 pages $29.99/£19.99 I had the pleasure of hearing much of the present book in its oral form as the Hulsean Lectures in Cambridge, which Professor Hays delivered in...

Franciscus Junius. The Mosaic Polity . Translated by Todd M. Rester. Edited by Andrew M. McGinnis. Sources in Early Modern Economics, Ethics, and Law. Grand Rapids: Christian's Library Press, 2015. $14.95 Everybody knows that when the Protestant Reformers set out to clean house in the dirty...

James V. Brownson, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships . Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. 312pp. $24.99/£15.99 Revolutions don't happen overnight. They build. What we witnessed in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26 of this year - the full legal...

Peter J. Leithart, Traces of the Trinity: Signs of God in Creation and Human Experience. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2015. ix + 165 pp. $15.99/£10.99 In this extraordinary book, Peter Leithart's starting point comes from New Testament revelation about God: namely, the indwelling of one divine...

Carolyn Renée Dupont, Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 . New York: New York University Press, 2013. 303 pages. $55.00 ($26.99 on Kindle). Carolyn Renée Dupont's Mississippi Praying, is a thoroughly stimulating analysis of the ways in which...