Review: Pilgrim Theology
What little I knew about Michael Horton before reading this book led me to think that here was one of those voices in the Reformed camp that might have been working to heal the divide ...
Review: Fallen
This book is a volume in the Theology in Community series, which is advertised as “first-rate evangelical scholars taking a multidisciplinary approach to key Christian doctrines.” The goal is to focus on the Old and ...
Review: Infant Baptism
Many people wrestle with the relationship between the Word preached and the Word poured out in Baptism. How does this washing with water and the Word work? Is it necessary for a believing adult? Does ...
Review: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Confession and Christian Life
“[Peters] has taken every aspect of what is covered in the catechisms and enriched it with comments from Luther’s lectures, sermons, and other works, to show how what is in the catechisms is just the ...
Review: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Baptism and Lord’s Supper
There are three sections to this volume. In the first section, Peters discusses Luther’s understanding of the sacraments. Some highlights are: Discussions of the early church fathers between the active “I baptize” or passive “is ...
Review: Balanced Christianity
In this terse book, Stott addresses what he calls in the opening chapter a “tragedy” in “evangelical Christians” – “polarization” (7). This is the tendency toward one pole or the other in any issue. Whether ...
Review: Ancient Christian Doctrine
If we learn anything from a book like this (and we must) it is that Hermann Sasse had it right: “The church fathers must be read in their entirety” (Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Volume I, ...
Review: A Year with the Church Fathers
A Year with the Church Fathers: Meditations for Every Day of the Church Year, by Scott R. Murray. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011, 408 pages. Scott Murray is an LCMS parish pastor since 1983 ...
Review: The Eternal Generation of the Son
The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology, by Kevin Giles. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012. 270 pages. Kevin Giles (Th.D. Australian College of Theology) is an ordained Anglican minister who ...
Review: Letters to Lutheran Pastors
Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Volume 1 (1948–1951), by Hermann Sasse. Edited and Translated by Matthew C. Harrison. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 480 pages. Hermann Sasse (1895–1976) was a German Lutheran pastor and professor. ...