book reviews

Alexander S. Jensen, Divine Providence and Human Agency: Trinity, Creation and Freedom . Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014. 215 pp. $104.99/£57.99 How would you go about developing the theme that is the title of this book? The typical reader of Reformation 21 would - I guess and hope - turn at once to...

James K. A. Smith. Who's Afraid of Relativism? Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2014. 192 pp. Softcover: $19.99/£11.99 James K. A. Smith's latest book is the follow-up to Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006) and continues his longstanding project of...

David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World . Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 266 pp. $19.99/£14.99 Over the last twenty years, David Wells has established himself as the insider chronicler-in-chief of how the self-centered trivialization of life in wider Western...

Tom Nettles, Living By Revealed Truth: The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon . Christian Focus, 2013, 700pp, £29.99/$38.00 It would be going over the top to declare an interest, but perhaps an admission of sorts would be in order: I yield the palm to none in my admiration for...

Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God--The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee . New York: HarperOne, 2014. 404 pp., $27.99/£17.99 Over the years, I have had the opportunity to review a number of Bart Ehrman's books, including, most recently, his volume Forged: Writing in the Name of God--...

Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God--The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee . New York: HarperOne, 2014. 404 pp., $27.99/£17.99 Over the years, I have had the opportunity to review a number of Bart Ehrman's books, including, most recently, his volume Forged: Writing in the Name of God--...

Alister McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life . Tyndale, 2014. 256 pages. Hardcover. $17.99 Back in 2010, C. S. Lewis scholar Michael Ward pulled off a publishing coup that I would like to see imitated more often. Two years after...

John Halsey Wood, Jr. Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's Struggle for a Free Church in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands . New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, x + 235pp. $74.00 In 1848, the Dutch constitution separated the church from the state. In 1886, a disillusioned...

Logos At Its Best: The Reformation At Your Fingertips As one whose Th.M. thesis was typed on a "state of the art" IBM Selectric typewriter, I continue to marvel at some of the technological advances that have been made over the past few decades. I remember walking into the Bookstore at Westminster...

Four Views on The Role of Works at the Final Judgment . Counterpoints: Bible and Theology. Edited by Alan P. Stanley. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. 234 pp. $17.99. This book, edited by Alan Stanley, addresses four major views on the role of works at the final judgment. In light of the recent...