Themelios - Issue 33-1

Old Testament: Sidnie White Crawford and Leonard J. Greenspoon.
The Book of Esther in Modern Research.
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch; Eryl W. Davies.
The Dissenting Reader: Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible.
Reviewed by Robin Gallaher Branch; John Day, ed.
In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel.
Reviewed by Bálint Károly Zabán; Katharine J. Dell.
The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context.
Reviewed by Jennie Barbour; William G. Dever.
Did God Have a Wife?
Reviewed by William D. Barker

New Testament: Octavian D. Baban.
On the Road Encounters in Luke-Acts.
Reviewed by Jamie Read; Richard Bauckham.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses.
Reviewed by David Wenham; Andrew E. Bernhard.
Other Early Christian Gospels.
Reviewed by Simon Gathercole; William S. Campbell.
Paul and the Creation of Christian Identity.
Reviewed by James C. Miller; David L. Dungan.
Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament.
Reviewed by Preston M. Sprinkle; Margaret Hannan.
The Nature and Demands of the Sovereign Rule of God in the Gospel of Matthew.
Reviewed by Phillip J. Long; Carl R. Holladay.
A Critical Introduction to the New Testament.
Reviewed by Lee S. Bond

: Larry W. Hurtado.
The Earliest Christian Artifacts.
Reviewed by Rohintan Mody; Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch.
Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul.
Reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta; Mark Reasoner.
Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation.
Louisville: Reviewed by Michael Bird; Sorin Sabou.
Between Horror and Hope: Paul's Metaphorical Language of "Death" in Romans 6:1-11.
Reviewed by Nijay K. Gupta; Chris VanLandingham.
Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul.
Reviewed by Timothy Gombis; Tommy Wasserman.
The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission.
Reviewed by P. J. Williams 89

History and Historical Theology: Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, eds.
The Cambridge History of Christianity: World Christianities, c. 1815-c.1914.
Reviewed by John Coffey

Systematic Theology and Bioethics: Petrus J. Gräbe.
New Covenant, New Community.
Reviewed by A. T. B. McGowan; Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor, eds.
Overcoming Sin and Temptation.
Reviewed by Graham Beynon; James K. A. Smith.
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?
Reviewed by Tim Chester; Kevin J. Vanhoozer.
The Drama of Doctrine.
Reviewed by Robbie Fox Castleman

Ethics and Pastoralia: Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski, eds.
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics.
Reviewed by Brian Brock; H. P. Owen.
The Basis of Christian Prayer.
Reviewed by Stephen Dray; Milton Vincent.
A Gospel Primer for Christians.
Reviewed by Andrew David Naselli

Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen . Wheaton: Crossway, 2006. 462 pp. $19.99.

Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor, eds.

This is a republishing of three works by John Owen: Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, Of Temptation, and Indwelling Sin in Believers. These three bring together Owen's work on the nature of sin and the Christian's fight against it.

These works have been available as part of the larger publications of Owen's work and in various abridged forms. This new publication aims at re-introducing Owen to a new generation by producing an unabridged but updated and hence more readable version.

The updating includes footnotes explaining difficult words or phrases, modernising of archaic spellings, modernising of punctuation, and the addition of headings and italics to aid the reader in following the structure of the book. All of these make reading Owen a far easier task than the other unabridged versions in print. The only change British readers may not appreciate is the Americanisation of spellings!

There are also introductory essays to each work that provide an overview of the argument. These are not as extensive as one might have expected—only a page or two long each, but are still very helpful.

Reading Owen remains a challenge despite these endeavours, and I for one think that there is still a place for abridgements. However, this new volume is most welcome in allowing readers access to the wonderful insights and spiritual surgery of Owen. He is surely one of the voices of the past that reveals the paucity of modern thinking about sin, and from whom we have so much to learn.

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Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen . Wheaton: Crossway, 2006. 462 pp. $19.99.

Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor, eds.