This continues my review of John Sailhamer’s important book. Time restraints mean I shall need at least one further post to finish the full review. Please bear with me. Part One of the review is here: link Part Two continued… Sailhamer sees the four main poems of the Pentateuch as strong indicators of the fact that the author has not abandoned the messianic hope of Genesis 3:15 or the covenant with Abraham. He teases out several examples of constructive uses …
Category: Book Reviews
Review of John H. Sailhamer, The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2010, 632 pp., pbk. John Sailhamer has been writing on the Pentateuch for many years. He is the author of The Pentateuch as Narrative, Genesis Unbound, and the EBC entry on “Genesis”. He is held in high regard by his evangelical peers, especially for his work in this area, and this book was eagerly awaited. It is hard to know where to …
Review of Robert D. Culver, Systematic Theology: Biblical & Historical, Mentor Books (Christian Focus Publications), 2005, xvii + 1258 pages. For a long time now I have been wanting to write a review of Culver’s “Systematic Theology” but have always found something else to do. I do not believe this theology has received the attention it deserves. At one point I strongly considered adopting this work as a backbone text for my courses on Systematic Theology (I was weighing up …
A review of The Bible Among The Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature, by John W. Oswalt, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009. The author of this book is well known for his scholarly two volume Commentary on Isaiah in the Word series. This book is meant more for a more popular audience, but is valuable for scholars, pastors and the general reader. From the books published in the past year I would put this one near the top of the …
Meet the Puritans by Joel R. Beeke and Randall J. Pederson, Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2005, xxx plus 895 pp., cloth, $24.95 It is high time the Christian reading public had such a book as this. There have been excellent introductions to the Puritans like Peter Lewis’s The Genius of Puritanism, Leland Ryken’s Worldly Saints, and J.I. Packer’s A Quest for Godliness, but until now there has been no work that provided an introduction to the lives and …
Atheist Delusions is divided into four parts. The first two chapters comprise part one, which deals with the present day. Part two comprises chapters 3 through 9 and examines the past, especially the world of the early church. Part three continues looking into history but with special emphasis on the outworking and impact of Christian teachings. Finally, part four appraises the alternative value-system of the New Atheists and its likely aftermath in our culture. In the first half of this …
A Review of David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, Yale University Press, xiv + 253 pages, 2009. To recommend a book by an Eastern Orthodox theologian I would have to be thoroughly impressed by its content and its long-term worth. Since both of these personal criteria are well met by the title under review I am happy to declare my full endorsement of its main thesis. The author is one of the best polemicists …
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski, New York: Crown Forum, 2008. For those who have not read anything by David Berlinski, I should say right off the bat that he is one of the wittiest yet incisive writers on contemporary science I know. This provocative book is a well aimed critique of those atheist scientists and their followers whose egos have prompted them to step over into philosophical questions about ultimate issues without much forethought …
Lord willing, I shall be posting a number of reviews in the coming weeks and months. A number of these will appear here soon: 1. The Bible Among the Myths – John N. Oswalt 2. Atheist Delusions – David Bentley Hart 3. Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated & Defended – Greg L. Bahnsen 4. Why There Almost Certainly Is a God – Keith Ward 5. The Shepherd Leader – Timothy Z. Witmer 6. The Historical Jesus of the Gospels – Craig Keener …
Since I plan on writing more on Systematics this year (we’ll see!) I decided to repost this lengthy review of Reymond’s book. It is deliberately written from a Dispensational perspective. A Review of Robert L. Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, Second Edition – Revised and Updated, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2002), 1210 + xxxvi pages, hardback, $44.99. Whether one is a friend or foe of the brand of Reformed Presbyterian theology treated in Dr Robert L. …
