Recently I was in the bookstore of a small but outstanding Christian college in Florida when I came across the book Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Modern Evangelicalism by Dr Rolland McCune, longtime Professor of Systematic Theology at Detroit Baptist Seminary. The title caught my eye right away, so I bought it and read it as soon as I could. It does not take an advanced student in American evangelical history to know that modern evangelicalism is awry in …
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Not enough people are heeding Richard Dawkins! Despite trying his utmost to spread the gospel of evolutionism-dressed-as-science, there are not enough takers. For the life of him Dawkins can’t understand why Christianity in particular continues to attract intelligent persons to it. For years he has been crusading for his “truth.” Now he has written (another) book, The God Delusion, which as he says will persuade reasonable readers to become atheists like himself. Humility has never been one of Dawkins notable …
A Concise History of Christian Thought, rev. & exp. by Tony Lane, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006, pbk, 336 pp., $19.99. This is one of the most accessible histories of Christian doctrine I have seen. The author teaches Historical Theology at London School of Theology and is well regarded in the evangelical community. The method employed in the book is to survey the lives of the eminent theologians from East and West and connect them with the controversies or …
A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, 426 pp., paperback, $24.95 I approached this book expecting a halfway capitulation to the modern liberal push for a discarding of biblical Israel from the textbooks. But I was very pleasantly surprised. In fact, I would have to say that Provan, Long and Longman have written a History of Israel which must be considered essential reading for the student …
“A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith” by Robert L. Reymond (2002) “A Biblical History of Israel” by Iain Provan , et al. “Biblical Interpretation Then and Now” by David S. Dockery “Chariots of God” by Alan Cairns “Christian Apologetics” by Cornelius Van Til “Dispensationalism” by Charles C. Ryrie “On the Reliability of the Old Testament” by K. A. Kitchen “The Pentateuch” by Kenton L. Sparks “The Prayer of Jabez” by Bruce Wilkinson “Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments” …
On the Reliability of the Old Testament, by K. A. Kitchen, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xxii & 662pp, hdbk. $ In this long awaited book one of the world’s leading Egyptologists and Orientalists writes to establish just what can and what can’t be said about the factuality of the Hebrew Scriptures from a historical point of view. Prof. Kitchen begins with a strong censure of those minimalists for their sustained “gross misrepresentations of original, firsthand documentary data from the ancient …
To Know and Love God: Method for Theology, by David K. Clark, Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books 2003, xxxii & 464 pp., soft cover, $35.00. The author is Prof. of Theology at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and is also the author of a book on classical apologetics. This book is an attempt to give the evangelical community a full-scale prolegomenon for theology that is up to date and forward looking. As part of Crossway’s “Foundations of Evangelical Theology” series, To …
Christian Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til, Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2003, Second Edition, Edited by William Edgar, 206 pages., paperback, $11.99. The name of Cornelius Van Til produces different responses in different people. To those who believe that man’s reason is sufficient on its own to arrive at proper conclusions about God, Van Til is the man whose apologetic method leaves Christian evidences on the sidelines. He is a fideist, a scholar who indulges in circular reasoning. But to those …
Chariots of God by Alan Cairns, Greenville, SC., Ambassador-Emerald International, 2000, 316 pages, paperback, $ This book, subtitled, “God’s Law in relation to the Cross and the Christian,” contains messages edited for publication by a very capable Presbyterian minister from Greenville, S. Carolina. The book is full of thoughtful content, and would make a useful guide on how to write good sermons. But dispensationalists would find problems with it. First, Cairns slices the Law into the usual three divisions of …
The Pentateuch by Kenton L. Sparks, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002, 160pp., paperback, $16.99 This book is one of Baker’s Annotated Bibliographies. The volumes themselves differ in focus and in excellence. For example, one will find that while the volume on New Testament Introduction contains some incisive comments on the books it surveys, the same, unfortunately, cannot be said of its OT companion. This book, covering the Pentateuch, is the work of a Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern …
