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 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 The Trinity in the Canon: A Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Practical Proposal. Smith, Brandon D., ed. The Trinity in the Canon: A Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Practical Proposal. B&H Academic, 2023, pp. 496, $19.24, Kindle. TC takes its place in evangelical dogmatics alongside other recent volumes (e.g., the series New Studies in Dogmatics…
Review of The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas Legge, O.P., Dominic. The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 261, $27.99, paperback. The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas is a work that reorients modern scholarship’s approach to understanding how Aquinas’s Christology is intrinsically Trinitarian. Dominic Legge, O.P….
Review of A Survey of the Black Church in America Evans, Tony. A Survey of the Black Church in America: Exploring Its History, Ministry, and Unique Strengths. Chicago, IL: Moody, 2023, pp. 236, $14.99, paperback. For the current climate of racial tension in the United States, Evans provides a kingdom-focused perspective that appeals to people…
Review of Psalms of the Faithful: Luther’s Early Reading of the Psalter in Canonical Context by Brian T. German German, Brian T. Psalms of the Faithful: Luther’s Early Reading of the Psalter in Canonical Context. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2017, pp. 232, $24.99, paperback. In this work, Brian German presents a fresh perspective on the…
Review of Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers by Michael J. Hollerich Hollerich, Michael J. Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021, pp. 316, $95.00, hardback. Recent trends in early Christian studies have turned their attention toward questions of textuality: what does it…