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Christian Dogmatics (In a Reformed Key)
Michael Allen and Scott Swain are turning into the dynamic duo of Reformed theology. We might have to give them a combo name soon (Swaillen?). First they gave us a programmatic manifesto for the future...
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Pictures At A Theological Exhibition by Kevin Vanhoozer
In 1874, Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky created his famous, 10-piece suite of music Pictures at an Exhibition. The work was originally composed in honor of the work of his friend and creative...
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None Like Him (By Jen Wilkin)
I have to admit, I have never aspired to become a “God-fearing woman.” I benefited, nonetheless, while reading Jen Wilkin’s new book None Like Him: 10 Ways God is Different From Us (And Why That’s a...
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Union with Christ by Rankin Wilbourne
The heart of the New Testament gospel is the idea of union with Christ. All of the benefits of salvation (justification, adoption, sanctification, and glorification) we only receive as we are “in...
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Theology As Discipleship by Keith Johnson (Themelios)
There are few laments more frequently raised in the evangelical academy than the divorce between the academy and the church, or between the life of piety and that of theological scholarship. Indeed, it...
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The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures ed. D.A. Carson
D.A. Carson has spent his career studying and teaching the Bible, with work spanning across a wide range of commentaries, monographs, and articles. He has also been defending its authority as Christian...
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Making Sense of God by Tim Keller (Reviewish Write-Up)
When I was in college ministry, I had a small budget for books and resources to use with my students.So for almost the entirety of those four and half years, I had a small stack of Tim Keller’s The...
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Biblical Authority After Babel by Kevin Vanhoozer (Or, An Antidote To...
At Babel, the LORD God pronounced judgment on human hubris. Scattering humanity through the confusion of language, he fractured it into warring tribes and nations. For many, after the Reformation a...
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The End of Protestant Denominationalism and the Beginning of Regionalism?
According to Peter Leithart, the history of God’s people is a process of being creatively torn apart and put back together again in new, complex, more holistic ways. With each stage in the LORD’s...
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A More Elemental Atonement (A Review of Leithart)
This review was originally written for Books and Culture before its unfortunate closing. Thanks to John Wilson for encouraging me to write it. One mark of a constructive theologian is to ask the...
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The Triune God by Fred Sanders
Fred Sanders has written a book about the Trinity called The Triune God. Yes, he has already written one previously, The Deep Things of God (which you should have already read by now), and dissertation...
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Top 5 Reformedish Books of 2016
This has been a busy year of reading for me. Most years are. But the difference with grad school (at least during courses) is that you don’t have quite the flex you had before in terms reading for...
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Called By Triune Grace by Jonathan Hoglund
At the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus says, “Lazarus, come out!” (John 11:43). And at his words, the dead man awakes again and walks out of the tomb. He is obedient to the call of the Lord. Indeed, the call of...
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N.T. Wright’s Assault on Moralistic Platonic Paganism? (A Review)
I suppose I’ll begin with a bit of a confession: I’ve been a devoted N.T. Wright fan since I was 20, or about 10 years now, during which I’ve read all his major monographs and most of his popular works...
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“God Is” by Mark Jones (Review)
Jesus Christ testifies that eternal life is “that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). With his latest book, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes...
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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd (Long Review)
(The review that follows is lengthy, so I’ve linked a PDF copy here.) Introduction “God is wrath? Or God is love?” This dichotomy printed in bold on the back drives the argument of Brian Zahnd’s new...
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Newsworthy with Norsworthy: BZ Review Podcasts and a few Clarifications
Alright, hopefully this is the last thing I write on this Brian Zahnd review. After the review went up, Luke Norsworthy at the “Newsworthy with Norsworthy” podcast asked me if I wanted to come on and...
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Tradition as a Telescope Not a Dirty Window
In the introduction to their new translation of Genesis, Genesis 1–11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators, Samuel Bray and John Hobbins explain various aspects of their...
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Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers
I allow myself few reviews during the school semester, but I wanted to take a little pause between papers to highlight a new Herman Bavinck book. James P. Eglinton, lecturer in Reformed Theology at New...
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Justification by Michael Horton, 2 Volumes
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, but I had to break radio silence to write up a little notice about Michael Horton’s new, 2-volume work, Justification. It’s the fourth entry in the...
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