book reviews

David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013, 365pp. + ix. $25.00/£18.99 There is much to provoke, encourage, and worry about in David Bentley Hart's newest book. As it seems petty and misleading to begin with these...

Keith D. Stanglin and Thomas H. McCall, Jacob Arminius, Theologian of Grace, Oxford (Oxford University Press), 2012, 240pp. $24.99/£18.99 Keith Stanglin and Thomas McCall are well-trained scholars in historical theology, both receiving Ph.D. degrees from Calvin Theological Seminary after studying...

George Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief . New York: Basic Books, 2014, pp. 264. $19.99/£14.99 After World War II, a consensus about truth gave way to a consensus about the importance of consensus. The result was a liberal politics...

Randall C. Zachman, Reconsidering John Calvin . Current Issues in Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, viii + 212pp. $29.99/£18.99 This elegant little book formed the content of the Warfield Lectures given at Princeton Theological Seminary in October 2009 in honour of Calvin's...

Aimee Byrd. Housewife Theologian: How the Gospel Interrupts the Ordinary (P&R, 2013), $12.99. Barbara Duguid. Extravagant Grace: God's Glory Displayed in Our Weakness (P&R, 2013), $12.99. As a pastor I am always keen to commend good books written by women. Two recent books have been brought...

Austin Fischer. Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey In and Out of Calvinism . Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014, 130pp. $16.00/£10.00 A Review by Kevin DeYoung Austin Fischer, the 28 year-old Teaching Pastor at Vista Community Church in Temple, Texas, has written an...

Austin Fischer. Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey In and Out of Calvinism . Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014, 130pp. $16.00/£10.00 A Review by Kevin DeYoung Austin Fischer, the 28 year-old Teaching Pastor at Vista Community Church in Temple, Texas, has written an...

Michael P. Winship. Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 339 pp. $45.00/£32.00 Michael Winship's Godly Republicanism offers an engaging, meticulously-researched tale of the religious zealots whose conscientious scruples...

"You Just Might Be an Antinomian" A review of Mark Jones' Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest? Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2013, 176pp, $15.00/£11.00 It's refreshing to read a book whose author has done his homework. Antinomianism is such a book, characterized both by...

N. T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They are Essential . New York: HarperOne, 2013, 208 pp There was a bit of hesitation when I was asked to write a review of N. T. Wright's book on the Psalms. People react differently to the work of N. T. Wright. Some love his reading of the apostle Paul,...