Fred Sanders
Theology
“This book does two remarkable things: it solidly reinforces Christian belief in Jesus as God by gathering the most up-to-date evidence, and it also helpfully reshapes our ways of talking about Jesus as God, in greater conformity with biblical patterns of thought. Lanier doesn’t just show that the Bible teaches the deity of Jesus, he shows precisely how the Bible teaches it.”
Jesus and the God of Classical Theism
Theology
“This wonderfully helpful book shows how to take up the Bible's passionate presentation of Jesus without letting go of the traditional high doctrine of God. Patiently addressing recent worries while carefully engaging the full witness of Scripture, Duby reunites theological goods that have too often been sundered from each other.”
Karl Barth and American Evangelicalism
Theology
“Barth and the evangelicals have a complicated history, punctuated by periodic attempts to define the relationship. This carefully edited set of essays is the most rigorous, informed, and programmatic intervention so far. It illuminates old fights (Van Til’s critique), explores new territory (the emergent church movement, Radical Orthodoxy), and above all defines the doctrinal loci where the interests of evangelical theology and the legacy of Barth intersect.”
Theology
“Kurtz's Light Unapproachable starts out with solid Christian common sense about how God accommodates revelation to us, then elaborates it with biblical analysis, fortifies it with historical witnesses, and applies it to a project in theological method with great promise for a wide range of readers.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What a gift this book is to our age. It is not just an expansive survey of a vast field, nor just an invitation to cooperate and come to terms, nor just a curated ensemble of helpful techniques and methods. Beyond all that, Vanhoozer has set forth here a coherent and comprehensive vision for the interdisciplinary work of interpreting Scripture. Mere Christian Hermeneutics reaches the heights of clarity and throws light in all directions.”
Theology
“This book is a breakthrough. Wesley Hill notes and describes an element of Paul’s thought that has been overlooked for too long. . . . Exegetes who rightly fret over the danger of imposing a foreign and anachronistic conceptual grid on Paul’s texts are invited to take up and read: without flash or bombast, Hill nimbly models just how apt and illuminating the trinitarian matrix is for serious biblical studies.”
Theology
“For a long time now, the looser sort of constructive theology has been afflicted with a bad case of 'galloping perichoresis,' and it has become trendy to say that just about anything mutually indwells just about anything else--perichoretically. This book recovers the witness of John of Damascus to help restore a great theological category to its proper place. Equal parts historical reconstruction and dogmatic clarification, Twombly's book celebrates the vast systematic scope of perichoretic unity in the classic doctrinal tradition, simultaneously demonstrating that a concept with so much to offer for Trinitarian and christological discourse will only be distorted if stretched beyond those topics.”
Pictures at a Theological Exhibition
Theology
“Vanhoozer has a reputation for unveiling the big picture for us, but here he devotes his considerable critical powers to a series of small ones. For fans of his earlier work, there are characteristic delights and a few surprises—not least the interspersed sermons that answer the question, 'Yes, but will it preach?' Vanhoozer's playfulness, recursions, puns and layered allusions all pay off exceptionally well in these miniature studies. And readers who have heard that Vanhoozer's theology deserves attention but have wondered where to begin studying are well advised to start with these rich and accessible essays.”
Providence in the Story of Scripture
Theology
“Masterfully explores the complex theme of providence. Co is an attentive teacher who has figured it out, and more importantly, he has figured out a way to improve the doctrine's staying power. By setting providence within the main, plain narrative of Scripture, this book not only argues for but actually evokes a trust in God's providential care.”
Reading the Bible Supernaturally
Christian Living
“If you disconnect the Bible from God’s glory, you lose your grip on both. What terrible things we hear people say about each of them, taken in isolation. John Piper puts them together, and finds himself preaching an astonishingly high doctrine of Scripture, right alongside an intimately experiential doctrine of God’s glory. Reading the Bible Supernaturally is not just one of the helpful activities that make up the Christian life. Kept in proper context, seen in full perspective, and received in wide-awake recognition of the living voice of the triune God, reading the Bible is the central act of Christian existence. This book, a kind of extended Christian hedonist gloss on Psalm 119, is an invitation to the miracle of Bible reading.”
Theology
“We need all kinds of invitations to theology, and in this book Kent Eilers extends a unique kind of welcome. Come in here, he beckons: unpack your bags, look around, and make yourself at home in the household of theological reading.”
Theology
“Teaching Fellow for Ligonier Ministries and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, author of The Holy Spirit: Contours in Systematic Theology. Here is a carefully wrought work that reorganizes much of the material we expect to find in a doctrine of the Holy Spirit, connecting things too often bifurcated while distinguishing things too often conflated. This pneumatology pushes and pulls on some of our habitual categories because it attends so carefully to the Holy Spirit as the one who not only reconciles and perfects (the sections on the Spirit in creation and eschatology stand out) but also sanctifies and separates (the Spirit’s role in judgment and consecration is strikingly accented). It is wonderful that Horton says considerably more here about the Holy Spirit than we have heard from him in previous books, but it is equally wonderful that what he says is in keeping with the main lines of his theological project: anchored in the Trinity, spanning redemptive history, and directly connected to the ordinary ministry of the church.”
Theology
“To anyone familiar with recent initiatives in Protestant life and thought, it is no surprise that Allen and Swain would coauthor such a stirring summons to embrace the fullness of historic Christian catholicity. What many will find surprising is that their ‘renewal through retrieval’ manifesto takes the form of rehabilitating the much-abused doctrine of sola Scriptura, by turns defending it from detractors and rescuing it from misguided champions. In their hands, this venerable doctrine resumes its function as a guide for engaging the riches of the church’s historic confession, not as an excuse for ignoring pre-Reformation exegesis. Here is Protestant theology that understands itself, its source, and its context with refreshing clarity.”
Theology
“Having fallen precipitously from watchword to buzzword, 'the priesthood of all believers' is in dire need of recovery today. Anizor and Voss rescue it from disuse, misuse and abuse and restore it to its proper place: under the high priesthood of Christ, in relation to the Triune God and in service to the world. This book guards a precious doctrine against hierarchical errors on one side and democratic errors on the other. Readers who have come to think of priesthood as a marginal topic or none of their business will find the theme expanding here to such vast and comprehensive proportions that it begins to seem like the main thing the Bible is about.”
Christian Living
“To explain something important, you usually must choose between being incisively passionate or comprehensively balanced. But this book chooses both and puts everything in its proper place. This is big-picture theology for everyone.”
Christian Living
“Matthew Barrett has the evangelical instinct for classic, time-tested, deeply traditional biblical teaching about the Trinity. This book is the story of his joy in finding that doctrine after clearing aside some rubble and debris that had accumulated on top of it in recent years. Simply Trinity proclaims the good news of the unmanipulated doctrine of the triune God.”
Theology
“A spirited soteriological synthesis, gathering up a distinctively Protestant doctrine of salvation under the sign of Nicene pneumatology.”
Theology
“The God Who Gives is a work of rare theological and spiritual perceptiveness. As it conducts its readers through the movement of God’s ways with the world, it invites them to contemplate the divine works and to be formed in godliness by them. This is practical Christian divinity at its best: intellectually astute, humane, and animated by the gospel’s generosity. John Webster†, professor, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Kelly Kapic has given us a forceful presentation of our universe ruled by a magnificently giving God. It is a scholarly and deeply thoughtful presentation that is, at the same time, vividly inspiring. It will help you to think magnificently of God and of what your life can be in his universe. Stepping into a life of giving love is the only reasonable response since that is how God is and how he has made us. Dallas Willard†, professor of philosophy, University of Southern California. What does it take to motivate a generous life? How far back do you have to go to secure an adequate starting point for such a life? This book takes us all the way back through the history of salvation and the doctrine of creation, back into the heart of the triune God. Rich, readable, and newly revised, The God Who Gives is an example of theology as the motive power behind a life of giving.”
The Goodness of God in the Gift of Scripture
Christian Living
“Too many otherwise solid books about the Bible sound as if they are speaking about it from outside, from some distance. Uche Anizor’s The Goodness of God in the Gift of Scripture speaks from inside, from a place of deep insight into how God gives Scripture to draw us near. This book is a major spiritual corrective in a modest devotional package.”
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