Book Review – Bill Hybels, Just Walk across the Room
For those who are interested in sharing their faith, who are unsure of the way to go about it and could use some helpful tips to get started, this is a good book. It is [ Read More … ]
Book Reviews
Book Review – S Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture
Until recently, I’ve never heard a Roman Catholic preach before. Scott Hahn, the author of this book, is quite an (link) engaging speaker. He used to be a Presbyterian minister, now he is Roman Catholic. [ Read More … ]
Book Review – R Rodriguez, If You Call Yourself a Jew: Reappraising Paul’s Letter to the Romans
I accidentally read a whole commentary on Romans. I got it in the first case because it applies two concepts to its reading of Romans I’m interested in. A reading of Romans which engages with the interlocutor Paul [ Read More … ]
Book Review – P Enns, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Pete has written a very readable book which attempts to help people struggling with how to read and interpret the bible in light of today’s debates about the bible, its interpretation and history. Link: Amazon [ Read More … ]
Book Review – M Bird, A Bird’s-Eye View of Paul
“This book is meant as an introduction to the apostle Paul for laypersons and undergraduate students and as a refresher for pastors and ministers. My objective is to get people excited about reading Paul’s letters, [ Read More … ]
Book Review – GA Anderson, Sin: A History
I read this book a couple years ago and it has left a lasting impression on me. Written I believe, by a Roman Catholic, he quotes a fair amount of scripture explaining the shift in [ Read More … ]
Book Review – W, Shiell, Delivering from Memory: The Effect of Performance on the Early Christian Audience
This book speaks directly into the topic of performance criticism of biblical texts. I found it an easy read for an academic book. Though I also found it easy to glaze over what he was [ Read More … ]
Book Review – NT Wright, Simply Good News
“The good news was, and is, that all this has happened in and through Jesus [death and resurrection]; that one day it will happen, completely and utterly, to all creation; and that we humans, every [ Read More … ]
Book Review – NT Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God)
I’ve just finished reading NT Wright’s massive tome on Paul’s theology. As you can see above it is 1520 pages long! I would compare it in length to Douglas Campbells, The Deliverance of God: An [ Read More … ]