Alastair J. Roberts

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Christian Living

“In contrast to the television that dominates the modern living room, the smartphone is typically far less conspicuous in its presence. Perhaps on account of this subtle unobtrusiveness, surprisingly few have devoted sustained reflection to the effect this now ubiquitous technology is having on our lives. In this book, Tony Reinke plucks these devices from the penumbra of our critical awareness and subjects them to the searching light of Christian wisdom. The result is an often sobering assessment of the effect they are having on our lives, accompanied by much prudent and practical counsel for mastering them. This is a timely and thoughtful treatment of a profoundly important issue, a book that should be prescribed to every Christian smartphone owner for the sake of our spiritual health.”

A New History of Redemption

Theology

“Taking his cue from Jonathan Edwards’s uncompleted History of the Work of Redemption, Gerald McDermott has written an ambitious and far-reaching treatment of God’s work of redemption, bookended by creation and the eschaton and covering the entire course of history between. Treating doctrinal matters as they are foregrounded by God’s direction of history and considering other religions as they arise, McDermott highlights how the Church’s growth in its understanding and expression of God’s truth are integral elements of the story. A New History of Redemption is a rare work that communicates the comprehensive scope and providential impulse of redemption not merely in the biblical narratives but through the present day.”

A Peculiar Glory

Christian Living

“John Piper has written a robust and pastoral defense of an orthodox doctrine of Scripture. Resisting any who would render well-grounded assurance of Scripture’s truthfulness the preserve of experts and academics, his emphasis upon the self-authenticating and life-transforming glory of God they bear is salutary and faith-affirming. We cannot properly regard Scripture without beholding its author. The greatest strength of Piper’s treatment lies precisely in the fact that his account of Scripture is so absorbed in the beauty of the one who inspired it.”

Creation

Theology

“As depicted in Psalm 148, creation is a vast yet ordered antiphonal choir, the creatures of the heavens and the earth arrayed in their distinct groups, each with a unique voice, united and harmonizing in a single song of praise. Wittman offers us an exhilarating exploration of this pregnant image for our understanding of creation, Christ’s redemption, and our calling. His stimulating articulation of the doctrine moves his readers seamlessly into doxology.”

Four Mountains

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Niebauer conveys the unity of the witness of the Bible across its texts while also drawing us up to the higher realities that are its true end.”

The Four Senses of Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Addressing concerns that the quadriga is a license for hermeneutical anarchy, Schreiner argues that reading Scripture with a fourfold sense more closely conforms to the text itself, is in keeping with the best of the Christian tradition, and represents a more principled and integrated way of approaching forms of interpretation that are already commonplace in conservative Protestant circles. This is a book that will equip readers to better discover the riches of Christ throughout his Word.”

What Are Christians For?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A voice in the wilderness of current culture wars, Meador has written a provocative and unsettling Christian critique of modernity. Deftly incorporating an arresting selection of voices, many far too lightly dismissed by Christians as their ideological antagonists, Meador presents an inspiring, bracing, and rigorously orthodox vision of Christian life, thought, and community as a hopeful response to its challenges and possibilities.”