Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement, Donald Macleod. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. Summary: A thoughtful, contemporary restatement of the classical doctrine of the atonement including different contended terms in reference to the atonement including substitution, expiation, propitiation, satisfaction, and victory. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement, by Donald Macleod
Book Review: A Glorious Dark, by A. J. Swoboda
A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension Between Belief and Experience by A. J. Swoboda. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Press, 2015. Summary: An exploration of living in the tension of the glorious hope of Christian faith and the dark, unsettling realities of our lives through reflections grouped around the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the Triduum of Holy Week. A great book to read reflectively during Holy Week [April 9 - 16, 2017]. … [Read more...] about Book Review: A Glorious Dark, by A. J. Swoboda
Book Review: Common Grace and the Gospel
Common Grace and the Gospel, Cornelius Van Til (foreward and edited by K. Scott Oliphint). Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2015 (2nd edition). Summary: A collection of essays by presuppositional theologian Van Til with introduction and annotations by K. Scott Oliphint, articulating Van Til's understanding of a Reformed doctrine of common grace, engaging views of others in this tradition that differ from his own. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Common Grace and the Gospel
Book Review: Paul’s New Perspective
Paul's New Perspective: Charting a Soteriological Journey, Garwood P. Anderson. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2016 Summary: Argues that both the traditional Protestant perspective and the New Perspective on Paul are each partly right, based on the idea that Paul's ideas on salvation developed as he wrote over a period of time and addressed different circumstances. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Paul’s New Perspective
Book Review: J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone
J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone, Iain H. Murray. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 2016. Summary: The biography of this nineteenth century evangelical Anglican, from his early student days, his conversion, the decision to enter ministry, and his growing national reputation and his different assignments, including his last years as the first Bishop of Liverpool. … [Read more...] about Book Review: J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone