Dennis Ngien

Biography

Dennis Ngien wrote Fruit for the Soul, Luther's Theology of the Cross, and Luther as a Spiritual Adviser.

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Theology

Foreword

“With clarity, precision, and insightful sensitivity, Muhlhan . . . examines how Luther's understanding of justification and freedom produces the faithful life of the believer. This refreshing analysis contributes significantly to our understanding of the holistic view of Christian righteousness fashioned by Luther's distinctions of law and gospel and of two kinds of human righteousness. This book shows how Luther's insights actually functioned in his proclamation aimed at shaping Christian consciousness and performance of God's will." Robert Kolb, Concordia Seminary "Brett Muhlhan displays a comprehensive knowledge of the principles and materials treated, lucidity in communicating that knowledge, and originality and independence in applying them . . . Throughout, he shows a talent for sound theological exposition, and an analytic gift to unearth the complex structure and substance of Luther's thinking . . . This monograph, a substantial study of high quality, deserves an ecumenical reception.”

Biblical Narrative Learning

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Narrative learning based on John's Gospel is a fresh pedagogy that seeks to bridge the ancient text and contemporary reader. The book bequeaths edification as well as illumination, for which we can be grateful to its author.”

Promissio

Theology

“Oswald Bayer has put the motif of promise at the center of Luther's doctrine of justification by faith. Here is an instance of an interface of theology and piety. Theologically, promise supplies proper substances to Luther's doctrine of God as active agent and God's actions in Christ for us, and to the meaning of the human person as passive agent before God. Experientially, the stress on the word of promise does two things: It places us under that word, allowing it to do its task on us; it accentuates hearing ("ear") as essential to formation of faith, even contrary to what we see ("eye"). Promise and faith form a seamless unity: Without promise, there is nothing to believe, while without faith, promise is useless. By grace, God's promise seizes us, and we in turn seize him back by faith. The Christian life receives its nourishment from the bountiful blessings that inhere in the various forms that God's promise assumes: preaching, confession and absolution, baptism, the Lord's supper. Bayer calls us to heed Luther's fundamental assertion that the subject of theology is God's promise, which delivers what it says. Because God does not lie, faith can be certain of what God promises, despite our fickle emotions and despite all appearances to the contrary.”

Puritan Spirituality

History & Biography

“This is the first, and a first class, major study of the spirituality of a forgotten Puritan, George Swinnock. Yuille is to be congratulated on bringing to light the intrinsic connection between the fear of God and sanctification in Swinnock's theology, the former being the logical cause of the latter.”