Christopher R. J. Holmes

Fully Human in Christ

Theology

“Todd Speidell has written a wonderful book, not simply about T. F. Torrance's overlooked contributions to thinking theologically about ethics, but more broadly about the reality of reconciliation and the triune God's unwavering commitment to redeem creation. Speaking with great insight and candor, Speidell sets the record on Torrance straight, helping us to see that Christ is the end of ethics, thereby abolishing our attempts at self-justification and autonomous ethics in favor of His vicarious humanity in our place and on our behalf. Students and teachers of Christian doctrine and ethics are very well-served by this clear, judicious, and compelling account and appropriation of one of the most important English-speaking theologians of the twentieth century.”

God Has Chosen

Theology

“God Has Chosen is a brilliant contribution to a biblically grounded, historically sensitive, and theologically generous vision of election. May Lindsay's plea for a more expansive and comprehensive understanding of the doctrine find a wide readership and warm reception in the academy and in the church.”

God's Most Earnest Purpose

Theology

“In attending to Luther's Trinitarian grammar of faith, Ngien draws out the neglected riches of Luther's account of the self-giving of God and its centrality to our identity as those loved by God, accepted by Christ, and renewed by the Spirit. Characterized by deep learning, remarkably fresh insights, and pastoral sensitivity, God's Most Earnest Purpose will reward all who want to love God above all else with the love that God deposits in us by the Spirit, who is himself love.”

Grace and Law in Galatians

Theology

“Dennis Ngien has once again written a fantastic book. Brimming with original insights into Luther’s and Calvin’s engagement with Galatians, the reader is blessed with a sense of how the gospel enables us to live in Christ and in the neighbor. Ngien’s scholarship is outstanding, his prose inviting, and most importantly, his love of the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom he writes, overflowing. We are in his debts for providing us with such a book.”

Obedience from First to Last

Theology

“Addressing a genuine lacuna in Barth studies, Fong winsomely unfolds the motif of Jesus’ obedience in Barth’s Church Dogmatics. At once probing and insightful, Fong’s judgements edify those who take seriously Barth’s actualistic ontology. Whether one either agrees or disagrees with Barth’s conclusions, the reader learns a great deal by Fong’s careful consideration of Barth’s equation of divine obedience with Jesus’ incarnate obedience.”

Sinless Flesh

Theology

“Avoiding the errors of those who propose Christ’s assumption of a fallen nature, Bello offers a lucid account of how the Son’s human nature is actually sanctified. Furthermore, by seriously considering the Trinitarian nature of the act of assumption, the reader is treated to a careful and nuanced construction of a model rejecting the fallen view. Learned in the christological thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth, this study warrants serious consideration.”