If there is a better online theological journal than Themelios I haven’t heard of it. The latest issue is now available. I commend it to you. I wrote a book review which you can find here or just read it below. ***** Alistair McGrath is an impressive fellow. A longtime professor at Oxford who now [...]
Tag Archives: Books
The Good News We Almost Forgot (one last time) – UPDATE
March 29, 2010 – 11:00 am
In 1562, Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate, a princely state of the Holy Roman Empire (think Germany), ordered the preparation of a new catechism for his territory. A new catechism would serve three purposes: (1) as a tool for teaching children, (2) as a guide for preachers, and (3) as a form for confessional [...]
New Books I Like
March 26, 2010 – 6:33 am
Greg Gilbert, What is the Gospel? I love this book. I anticipate recommending it often. Over a year ago an editor asked if I might be interested in writing a book about the gospel? I wasn’t sure I had much new to say anyway, but once I heard that Greg Gilbert was doing a similar [...]
What James Cameron Got Wrong
March 20, 2010 – 6:04 am
I admit I didn’t expect much from a book compiled from a series of addresses. But I should have known better given the author. D.A. Carson’s latest work, Scandalous: The Cross and Ressurection of Jesus, is simply excellent. The writing is crisp, the exegesis superb, the theology invigorating. I especially loved this illustration about the [...]
A Gloriously Particular Redemption
March 4, 2010 – 5:58 am
An excerpt from chapter 15 of The Good News We Almost Forgot: ***** The doctrine of particular redemption is worth talking about because it gets to the heart of the gospel. Should we say “Christ died so that sinners might come to him”? Or, “Christ died for sinners”? There’s a big difference. Did Christ’s work [...]
Churchill’s Greatness
March 2, 2010 – 6:05 am
“Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likeable.” With that as his wonderful opening line, Paul Johnson, the famous historian and author of Modern Times, sets out to do the impossible: craft a readable, honest, interesting, quick-paced, [...]
The Good News We Almost Forgot
February 24, 2010 – 6:04 am
I’ve written before about how awkward it can feel to plug your own books. But I press on nonetheless, because you all are kind and I believe this book is important. My newest book, The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism will be available at the end of [...]
Christianity and McLarenism (PDF)
February 19, 2010 – 6:22 am
In case you didn’t see it at the end of the long post yesterday, here’s the whole review in a nice printable format. Thanks to Mike Pohlman and especially Josh Sowin for getting this set up. I’ve cleaned up a few typos since yesterday. Christianity and McLarenism
Christianity and McLarenism (2)
February 18, 2010 – 6:36 am
Problem 1: A Stifling Approach and Sweeping Caricatures For all the rhetoric about desiring an honest dialogue and inviting criticism as “a gift” (13, 25), McLaren’s actual approach to argumentation makes probing conversation more difficult. When he positions himself as a martyr (243) and equates attacks on him with attacks on the abolitionists (87), it [...]
Christianity and McLarenism (1)
February 17, 2010 – 7:00 am
Brian McLaren’s latest book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith, is two steps forward in terms of clarity and ten steps backward in terms of orthodoxy. A New Kind of Christianity, more than any previous McLaren project, provides a forceful account of what the emergent leader believes and why. [...]
