Book Review

Sexual Identity: The Way We Were and Who We Are: Our Identity Crisis is Re-railed into Christ

Grant Van Leuven
Aug 31, 2016
In her book, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert , [1] Dr. Rosaria Butterfield compares her Christian conversion experience to "an alien abduction or a train wreck." As she shares about her very public Christian "coming out" while a tenured university English professor specializing in "Queer...

Old Princeton: Charles Hodge the Theologian

Tim Bertolet
Mar 2, 2016
Charles Hodge’s magnum opus was his three volume Systematic Theology originally published from 1871-1873. Since then it has influenced several generations of American Christians and remains in print today. While a product of its time and not without its own weaknesses, it is still worth having on...

Two Tales of a Doctrine: Reviewing Definite Atonement

Mark McDowell
Jan 27, 2014
David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson, eds. From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective . Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. Shelf Life Editor's Note: This week we offer something slightly new. Tom McCall (Trinity Evangelical Divinity...

Two Tales of a Doctrine: Reviewing Definite Atonement

Mark McDowell
Jan 27, 2014
David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson, eds. From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective . Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. Shelf Life Editor's Note: This week we offer something slightly new. Tom McCall (Trinity Evangelical Divinity...

God's Presence

Gerald Bray
Jan 21, 2014
Frances Young, God's Presence: A contemporary recapitulation of early Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xiv + 474 pp., pb $29.99/£16.99 In 2011 Frances Young delivered a series of eight Bampton Lectures in the University of Oxford which, by all accounts, were well-received...

Systematic Theology: An Introduction

markjones
Jan 13, 2014
John Frame. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief . Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2013. $49.99/£39.99 John Frame has managed to write a systematic theology (1280 pages). This is an extraordinary achievement when one considers that he has already written several significant...

Justification Reconsidered

Robert J. Cara
Jan 6, 2014
Stephen Westerholm. Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. pp. viii + 104. $15.00, paperback. Stephen Westerholm, professor at McMaster University, has long been known in critical scholarship for upholding the "Lutheran" Paul (his term) against all...

Paul and the Law

Guy Waters
Dec 17, 2013
Brian S. Rosner, Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God . NSBT 31; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2013, 249 pp. $24.00./£15.00 The apostle Peter famously said that "in all [Paul's] letters ... there are some things ... that are hard to understand" (2 Pet 3:16). These words can hardly...

Presbyterians and American Culture

Andrew Hoffecker
Dec 9, 2013
Bradley, J. Longfield, Presbyterians and American Culture: A History . Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2013. xiii + 262 pp. $30.00 In the introduction of the republication of Charles Hodge's What is Darwinism? co-editors Mark Noll and David Livingstone contend that Hodge's famous book was...

Self, World, and Time

W. Bradford Littlejohn
Nov 25, 2013
Oliver O'Donovan. Self, World, and Time: Ethics as Theology, volume 1, An Induction . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. xiii + 138 pp. Oliver O'Donovan, the now-retired doyen of Christian ethics and political theology, has always posed a unique challenge to the would-be-reviewer. The reviewer's task,...