Shelf Life

Carl R. Trueman. Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom . Theologians of the Christian Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. 224pp. $14.99/£11.99 It is not immediately obvious to many Christians that Martin Luther has much that is interesting or helpful to say about the Christian life. Indeed...

Jon Balserak, John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet , (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv + 208pp. Jon Balserak's new monograph on Calvin as a prophet, a sequel to his Establishing the Remnant Church, Calvin's Lectures on the Minor Prophets, 1556-1559 , (Brill, 2011) is a very good read...

Andy Crouch. Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power . IVP Books, 2013. 288pp. $19.99/£15.99 Underneath the spiritual artifice and social media antics and tribal rhetoric, nearly every major conflict that preoccupies Christianity in America today concerns the relationship between power and...

Aaron Clay Denlinger (ed.), Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 . Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. $130.00/£70.00 The last three decades have witnessed a radical reappraisal of post-Reformation Reformed theology. The work of Richard A. Muller and those who have...

John Coffey, Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $34.99/£24.99 On Saturday March 10, 2015, President Barack Obama spoke on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march over the Edmund...

Tony Reinke, Newton on the Christian Life: To Live Is Christ. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. $14.79 I imagine many will think this book tells an important yet familiar tale of a repentant man who writes an enduring, widely appealing hymn. Though I was acquainted with Tony Reinke's writing (see the...

Jerry Walls, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Rethinking the Things that Matter Most . Michigan: Brazos, 2015. 240 pp. $19.99 Although two and a half centuries of Enlightenment naturalism have eaten away at the western world's faith in the afterlife, the question of our eternal destiny has certainly...

Michael J.S. Bruno. Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought . Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014. 224pp. $28.99/£24.99 We should not lose sight of how remarkable it is that a fifth-century north African bishop continues to be read in political theory courses...

Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart . Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2013. $13.99/£9.99 Christena Cleveland's Disunity in Christ is an important read for those who--in an increasingly pluralistic yet no less segregated society--call church their home...

Hans Schwarz, The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. $24.99 After years of relative neglect, theological anthropology has been on the rise lately. In the last few years alone, we've seen books like Michael Welker's The Depth of the Human Person (Eerdmans, 2014...