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The Politics of Jesus © 1994 Eerdmans 257 pages If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve summarized and reflected on each of the 12 chapters that make up The Politics of Jesus. Since all the details have been covered, I’ll offer a few final thoughts here. The Politics of Jesus was a [...]
An Introduction to the Old Testament © 1994 (Note: I read and reviewed the first edition. The link above connects to the second.) Zondervan 473 pages While I don’t often read reference books cover-to-cover, I made an exception with this volume. I treated this book as a supplement to my regular Bible reading. Every time [...]
Evangelical Theology: An Introduction © 1963 Eerdmans 206 pages Here’s my first encounter with Karl Barth: I was asked to present a three minute profile of the man to my class in Bible College. I went to the library’s theological dictionary, thinking to find a one or two column profile I could regurgitate in class. [...]
The Theology of Paul the Apostle © 1998 Eerdmans xxxvi+808 pages James Dunn has spent over four decades with Paul on his mind. He’s produced commentaries on his letters and been one of the pioneers of the New Perspective on Paul. When you read The Theology of Paul the Apostle, his experience and knowledge of [...]
Old Testament Theology © 1996 Augsburg Fortress 318 pages This book is a godsend for those of us who don’t live close to a theological library. Patrick Miller has collected 15 different articles Brueggemann has written for various theological journals between 1978 and 1990 and organized them loosely into two categories. The first articles discuss [...]
Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence © 2004 Brazos Press: Baker 252 pages Hauerwas is always challenging and thought-provoking. This work on Bonhoeffer is no different. In Performing the Faith, Hauerwas uses Bonhoeffer’s life to show how Christians can be creative in their practice of non-violence (of course, that’s an extremely reductive [...]
Colossians and Philemon © 1986 Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Eerdmans 192 pages Long before the massive Christian Origins and the Question of God, long before “The Right Reverend Father in God, by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Durham”, we had N. T. Wright, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey. While some the later themes of Wright’s [...]
Interpreting Martin Luther: An Introduction to His Life and Thought © 2008 Regent College Publishing 345 pages Interpreting Martin Luther is a seminary course converted into a book. Each of the twelve chapters correspond to the twelve classroom lectures in the semester. Having taken the course from the author a little less than a decade [...]
Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright © 2011 IVP Academic 294 pages It had to be awkward. The good theologians at Wheaton College threw a Theology Conference based solely on the theology of N. T. Wright, and invited him to come and respond. Wright handled the situation [...]
With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology © 2001 Brazos: Baker 249 pages It’s been a couple days since I finished reading Hauerwas’ Gifford Lectures and a couple things have happened: My brain has stopped throbbing. The issues he dealt with are becoming clearer. In With the Grain of the [...]
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