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G.K. Beale and Benjamin Gladd. Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery . Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2014. 392 pp. $27.00. The current interest in Christ-centered preaching owes many of its finer products to the redemptive historical method and this method's constitutive...

Stephen M. Hildebrand, Basil of Caesarea . Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014. 224 pp. $24.99 J.I. Packer once likened the English Puritans to the giant redwood trees of California, that not only astound by their soaring height and...

Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy : A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. xviii+186, $15.99. Given Flannery O'Connor's hallowed standing in American Literature and the undeniable influence she continues to have on artists and theologians of all...

Curtis W. Freeman. Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists . Waco: Baylor University Press, 2014, 466 pp. $49.95. Curtis Freeman claims to be an "Other Baptist." In his new book, Contesting Catholicity , Freeman seeks to fill out the theological content of this identity marker (which he...

Synopsis Purioris Theologiae , Latin Text and English Translation, Volume 1/Disputations 1-23 edited by Dolf te Velde, et al. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xv + 659. $154.00/£95.00 The Synopsis Purioris Theologicae , popularly called the Leiden Synopsis, was originally published in 1625 not long after...

David L. Chappell. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow . Chapel Hill: University of Chapel Hill Press, 2004. 344 pages. $27.95. David L. Chappell's A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow challenges standard accounts of the civil rights movement and...

Os Guinness, Renaissance: The Power Of The Gospel However Dark The Times . Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2014. 187pp. $16-00. What has Reformation (21) to do with Renaissance? It is the wrong question, at least if Os Guinness' latest book is in mind, because he tells us that 'renewal', 'reformation...

Marc Baer, Mere Believers: How Eight Faithful Lives Changed the Course of History . Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013. 190 pages. $22.00 Although I double-majored in English and history as an undergraduate, when I moved on to graduate school, I narrowed my focus to English. I did so, not because I...

J. Todd Billings, Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ . Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015. $14.99/£11.99 Much of life in a fallen world consists of navigating through the fog of tragedy and suffering. Any pastor who has spent more than a month or two in any given...

Adonis Vidu, Atonement, Law and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2014. $24.99/£15.99 Theology does not occur in a vacuum, we are constantly reminded. The Church's doctrines do not develop in isolation from the contingencies of the...