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5 Best Reformedish Books of 2014
The year of our Lord 2014 has been a great year of reading for me. I can only think of a couple of duds in the pile of books I’ve had the fortune of getting my hands on and cruising through. This means...
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Why You Should Read Bavinck
Until recently, few Americans—even in Reformed circles—had heard of the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921). With the publication of a beautiful translation of his masterpiece four-volume...
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Rules for Reading Calvin After Reading Muller
Student of Calvin that I am, I was very excited to receive Richard Muller’s The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition. It’s supposed to be the book when it comes...
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Kevin Vanhoozer on the Crucified King
I don’t do the random quote and link post but, in this case, I’ll break protocol. Last year I endorsed Jeremy Treat’s The Crucified King as one of my favorite books of the year. Well, now you don’t...
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Rejoicing in Lament by J. Todd Billings (Reformation21 Review)
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...
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Faith, Form, and Fashion by Paul Helm (TGC Review)
Paul Helm. Faith, Form, and Fashion: Classic Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014. 284 pp. $32.00. Paul Helm is worried about the state of Reformed theology....
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“What Does the Bible Really Say About Homosexuality?” by Kevin DeYoung (Book...
Obviously, one of the most contested and painful issues in the church and in the world today is the moral status of same-sex relationships. Within the publishing world, there’s been a blitz of blogs,...
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Bavinck on the Christian Life by John Bolt
Crossway’s “Theologians on the Christian Life” series has been excellent so far. And it’s about to get even better. John Bolt has just delivered the latest volume Bavinck on the Christian Life:...
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Gratitude: Leithart’s History of Western Philosophy According to Grandma’s...
I love a good intellectual history when I can get my hands on one. Intellectual histories, if done right, give you a solid blend of philosophical (theological, etc) engagement, history, and joy of a...
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Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Review)
Fred Sanders and Oliver Crisp sure know how throw a party. Or “theology conference.” This past year’s LA Theology Conference was focused on the idea of “locating atonement” and they pulled out all the...
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Final Review: Assorted Thoughts on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift
I’ve already written once about John M.G. Barclay’s phenomenal new work Paul and the Gift. We also plan on taking up the issue on the Mere Fidelity podcast soon. All the same, having just finished the...
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Top 5 Reformedish Books of 2015
We’ve hit that time of the year when bloggers run out of posts to write, so they come up with “top 10” lists of their favorite movies, albums, or what-have-you, of the year. Theology bloggers are no...
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Mere Fidelity: John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift
This last week, Alastair, Andrew, Matt, and I took up a discussion through John Barclay’s new book, Paul and the Gift. Three of us (Alastair, Andrew, and I) have already read and reviewed the book, but...
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The Cross Between the World and Me
After a number of months of having it on my to-do list, I finally got around to reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Written as an extended letter to his teenage son, Samori, it is part...
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God’s Love Isn’t Neat and Tidy (The Uncontrolling Love of God, Review)
Evil—it’s a problem that asks, demands, cries out for explanation. The psalmist grasps the nettle when he asks, “How long, O Lord?” In the Western philosophical tradition, the question has been,...
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The Uncontrolling Love of God, Part Deux (Causality, “Reformed Theology”, etc)
I’ve already given something of a full review of Thomas Oord’s book The Uncontrolling Love of God over at Christianity Today. Oord has very charitably responded to it and I’ve responded briefly in the...
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The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ by Fleming Rutledge
Why the cross? Why this particular, bloody, grotesque means of execution? Why was this the necessary mode of the Savior’s redemption of the human race? Why not a life, leading into old age and peaceful...
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How Jesus Saves the World From Us (Review)
I tend to read different theological authors for various reasons. Some excel at putting into words my deepest, unarticulated beliefs better than I ever could. Others inspire me and provoke us to...
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Reading This Book Will Not Change Your Life: Review of “You Are What You Love”
My title’s kind of tongue-in-cheek, but it cuts to the heart of James K.A. Smith’s thesis in his new book You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit. Over a number of works, especially his...
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What To Call a Christian (Or, Preaching The Whole Christ)
Towards the early half of his new work The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, & Gospel Assurance–Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters, Sinclair Ferguson asks a pointed question that may...
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