Review of Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism Buster, Aubrey E. Remembering the Story of Israel: Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 350 pages, $92.90, hardcover. Buster’s work is very technical and a thorough understanding of memory…
Review of The Canonical Paul Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Canonical Paul: Constructing Paul. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020, pp. 385. $56.99, hardback. Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Canonical Paul: Interpreting Paul. Grand Rapids; Eerdmans, 2021, pp. 598. $64.99, hardback. canonical Paul is the Paul that continues to transform the church and that he does so, not as…
Review of Sophiology of Death: Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal Bulgakov, Sergius. Sophiology of Death: Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal. Translated by Roberto De La Noval. Introduction by David Bentley Hart. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021, pp. 228, $41, hardback. This is an exceedingly challenging volume, not only for the technical sophistication of…
Review of Passions of the Soul Williams, Rowan. Passions of the Soul. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024, pp. 160, $15, paperback. Williams’s integrative style offers a rare blend of ecumenical vision, biblical imagination, historical and linguistic awareness, devotional instruction, homiletic wisdom, and significant theological cues for further systematic thinking in theological anthropology and Christian metaphysics. Rowan…
Review of Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction Brock, Cory C. and N. Gray Sutanto. Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2022, pp. 322, $36.99, hardback. Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction, by Brock and Sutanto, is an important work for anyone studying the theologies of Abraham Kuyper and Hermon Bavinck. It will serve well as a…
Review of Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives Hwang, Jerry. Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives. Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2022, pp. 238, $28.99, paperback. Hwang’s book will challenge many readers such as students and academics of theology from monocultural backgrounds, missiologists with an underdeveloped theology…
Review of The Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of God Peppiatt, Lucy. The Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of God. Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2022, pp. 150, $23, paperback. Peppiatt’s introduction is stellar, and it should be a standard text for any classroom discussion of the image of God going forward….
Review of Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life Inman, Ross. Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023, pp.192, $23.99, paperback. No matter one’s vocation in God’s kingdom, the importance of thoughtful reflection on the matters raised here is inevitably significant for all of us. Insofar as we seek to…
Review of Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship Dictionary of Paul and His Letters: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Edited by Scot McKnight, Lynn H. Cohick, and Nijay K. Gupta. 2nd ed. Downers Grove, IL.: IVP Academic, 2023, 1264 pp., $70.99, hardcover. This volume is for the institution…
Review of Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers Maspero, Giulio. Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023. PP. xii, 314, $41.79 (hardcover) This book is an exceptional contribution to the ecumenical dialogue, a step toward mutual understanding. I recommend this book for systematic theology students…