Review of The Rational Ontological Argument: Modality, Ontology and God Sijuwade, Joshua R. The Rational Ontological Argument: Modality, Ontology and God. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 288, £85, Hardback. Sijuwade displays an excellent grasp of the literature on the ontological argument and on modal metaphysics and epistemology, and uses it to develop an innovative and…
Review of Forsaking the Fall: Original Sin and the Possibility of a Nonlapsarian Christianity Spencer, Daniel H. Forsaking the Fall: Original Sin and the Possibility of a Nonlapsarian Christianity. New York: Routledge, 2023. 203 pp. $43.99 paperback. In sum, Forsaking the Fall is a stimulating thought experiment. However, I am still not convinced that nonlapsarian…
Review of City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John’s Revelation in Early Christianity Betz, Nathan. City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John’s Revelation in Early Christianity. VCS 186. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2025, pp. 544, $157.00, hardback. A student of theology not formally acquainted with early authors should look somewhere else for a general…
Review of T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil Grebe, Matthias, and Johannes Grössl, eds. T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil. London, New York, and Dublin: T&T Clark, 2025, pp. 727, $58.95, paperback. Now, despite these concerns, I would warmly recommend this book to audiences of all sorts: to…
Review of Why Aquinas Matters Now Oliver Keenan, Why Aquinas Matters Now. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, pp. 230, $22.00, hardback. If much of the history of Thomistic scholarship might be described as missing the forest for the trees, then the opposite risk faces Keenan’s 30,000-foot fly-over. Still, the book’s concise but expansive panorama is precisely…
Review of Reading The Bible Around the World Roth, Federico Alfredo, Smith, Justin Marc, Oh, Kirsten Sonkyo, Yafeh-Deigh, Alice, and Smith, Kay Higuera, Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2022, pp. 167, $22.00, Paperback. The book is still a good tool for bible students to…
Review of Holy Spirit: An Introduction Sanders, Fred. Holy Spirit: An Introduction Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023, 192 pages, $15.98, Paperback. For these reasons—cogent terminology, balanced focus on the Holy Spirit within the broader Trinitarian framework, and versatility as a foundational text—Sanders’ volume stands as an invaluable introduction to pneumatology. Holy Spirit: An Introduction meets the…
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…