Review of Leadership in Christian Perspective: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leadership by Irving and Strauss Irving, Justin A. and Strauss, Mark L. Leadership in Christian Perspective: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Practices for Servant Leadership. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019, pp.218, $22.99, pb. Leadership books set themselves to a series of common…
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Review of 1 Corinthians in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament by Paul Gardner
Review of 1 Corinthians in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament by Paul Gardner Gardner, Paul. 1 Corinthians. Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018, pp. 811, $49.99, hardback. Paul Gardner received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. After being ordained as deacon (1980) and later priest (1981) in the…
Review of A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers by Theodore A. Bergren
Review of A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers by Theodore A. Bergren Bergren, Theodore A. A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, pp. 274, €114.00, hardback. Readers who are interested in textual criticism of the New Testament will recognize the…
Review of The Hiddenness of God by Michael C. Rea
Review of The Hiddenness of God by Michael C. Rea Rea, Michael C. The Hiddenness of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 198pp., $30.00, hardcover. Michael C. Rea is Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion. In this book, Rea deals with two problems induced by…
Review of Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar: A New-Aristotelian Mereology by Ross D. Inman
Review of Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar: A New-Aristotelian Mereology by Ross D. Inman Inman, Ross D. Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar: A Neo-Aristotelian Mereology. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018, 304, $145.00, hardcover. Ross Inman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas and also…
Review of God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition by Alison Milbank
Review of God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition by Alison Milbank Milbank, Alison. God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, pp. 354, hardback. $44.35. Although traditionally seen as a marginal form within the wider world of English…
Review of Old Testament Theology and the Rest of God by Nicholas Haydock
Review of Old Testament Theology and the Rest of God by Nicholas Haydock Haydock, Nicholas. Old Testament Theology and the Rest of God. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016, 87 pp., $16, paperback. Nicholas Haydock with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students provides a short study of 86 pages on “rest.” He notes how the…
Review of The Greatest Possible Being by Jeff Speaks
Review of The Greatest Possible Being by Jeff Speaks Speaks, Jeff. The Greatest Possible Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 175pp, $45. In The Greatest Possible Being, Jeff Speaks takes aim at critically analyzing the method of perfect being theology. Perfect being theology is a philosophical method for developing a specific doctrine of God. In…
Review of The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis by Steven E. Runge
Review of The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis by Steven E. Runge Runge, Steven E. and Christopher J. Fresch, eds. The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016. 688 pp. $34.99. The topic of verbal aspect has been highly contested since the publication of…
Review of Called to Attraction: An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty by Brendan Thomas Sammon
Review of Called to Attraction: An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty by Brendan Thomas Sammon Sammon, Brendan Thomas. Called to Attraction: An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017, pp. 160, $22, Paperback. Brendan Sammon is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He…