Tim Challies (DR for Discerning Reader) interviews Douglas Wilson (DW), and here’s a profound question and answer: DR: In Letter from a Christian Citizen you continually show where Harris is inconsistent with his own ideology. Is there any such thing as a completely consistent atheist? DW: That’s the fun thing. No, there is no such …
Category Archives: Books
Preaching the Cross
I recently interviewed Mark Dever on his new book, What Is a Healthy Church, and if you’re interested in another interview with Dever, who is always worth listening to, see the latest issue of “The Book Report” from Crossway, where they interview Dever on the book he edited with J. Ligon Duncan III, R. Albert …
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Aitken
John Newton has received a good deal of attention this year, as the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in England has been celebrated with books and a movie about William Wilberforce. Newton was something of a spiritual support for Wilberforce, and he gave key testimony to parliament on the evils of …
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Is Blomberg Right? Does 1 Timothy 2:12 Merely Mean Women Can’t Be Elders?
The short answer is no, but that has to be substantiated. In his book From Pentecost to Patmos (363-65), Craig Blomberg writes regarding 1 Timothy 2 (italicized statements below are his): Verses 11-15 next call on the women of Ephesus not to supplant the male role of leadership in church. Verses 11-12 define this role …
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Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Last night I spoke on Thomas Cranmer at the John Bunyan Theology and Church History Conference hosted by Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Kingwood, Texas. Virtually everything I said was informed by Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography of Cranmer, with a little help from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. In God’s providence, yesterday was Cranmer’s 518th birthday. He …
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The Gospel and Religious Liberty: Interview with the Editors of First Freedom, Part 3 of 3
Part 1 is here, part 2 is here. In your opinion, is it going to take another “Great Awakening” for religious liberty to be preserved? MBY: It wasn’t the “Great Awakening” that gave us religious liberty in the first place, so I am not sure what the question entails. Moreover, if by “Great Awakening,” it …
Interview with Mark Dever
In response to Crossway’s release of What Is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever, I submitted a few questions to Dr. Dever, which he was gracious enough to answer. The brief text-interview is below: 1) We hear a lot today about contextualization of the Gospel. What is your view of the role of contextualization and …
Everlasting Dominion, by Eugene H. Merrill
I had the privilege of studying under Dr. Merrill at Dallas Theological Seminary, and I praise God for his gentlemanly example, sincere concern for students, and commitment to the word of God. I have been particularly helped by his book on Old Testament history, Kingdom of Priests, as well as by his commentary on Deuteronomy. …
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For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church
Christian, do you know Jesus? Do you know your heritage? Do you know the major movements and men who fought the battle that was and is the most important ideological controversy in human history? Do you know how this controversy affects you? Stephen Nichols has our back. He’s doing his part to help us know …
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Review of Garretson, Princeton and Preaching
[You can also read Sinclair Ferguson’s foreword to this book on the Banner of Truth website.] James M. Garretson, Princeton and Preaching: Archibald Alexander and the Christian Ministry. Edinburgh/Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2005. xxiv+280pp. $28.00, hardcover. Published in SBJT 11.1 (2007), 93-93. Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) was the first professor at Princeton …
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Bible Rhymes’ Creation
I love poetry. My favorites include Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and Sir Walter Scott’s “Lochinvar.” I also love the Bible, and I’m convinced that nothing has had a greater impact on the world’s literature than Christianity. Those who create stories are imaging God, who has created the grand story in which all humans play …
Tom Nettles on the Church and Politics
I’ve just started reading the second volume of Dr. Nettles’s trilogy on the Baptists, and here’s an important word: “When the church has wielded the greatest amount of worldly power it has had the greatest tendency to corruption and impurity. When it has sought to pursue its mission apart from any worldly power, and has …
The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World
Stephen J. Nichols has done it again! Following a number of helpful books along these lines, Nichols has once again provided a masterful summary that would benefit every Christian. This book gives a bird’s eye view of the whole Reformation (don’t be misled by the subtitle, it is about much more than just brother Martin). …
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Telling God’s Story
I’ve only read the preface so far, but this new book from B&H looks exciting. The preface opens with a parable, of sorts, about someone taking a class on Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer. Instead of studying the whole story, individual episodes and themes from the book are focused on and analyzed. The student benefits greatly …
Free Christian Audio Book: The Reformed Pastor
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Wright on Substitution
In a previous post I wondered whether Wright includes the notion of God’s wrath being satisfied by Christ on the cross in his thinking about Penal Substitution. Several quotes have come to my attention that indicate that he has affirmed this idea in writing, so to my thinking he has answered that question. Here are …
N. T. Wright and Penal Substitution
N. T. Wright has written an essay in which he “strongly” affirms penal substitutionary atonement. Adrian Warnock has thoughts on how this relates to the theological controversy in the UK. Justin Taylor quotes important excerpts from an insightful review by D. A. Carson on one of Wright’s recent books. Wright claims to “strongly” affirm penal …
N. T. Wright on C. S. Lewis
One great writer analyzes another, and light is shed on both. N. T. Wright reviews C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Enjoy! HT: JT
Mohler’s Top Ten Christian Biographies
Here’s a great list of books to start chipping away at: Mohler’s Top Ten Christian Biographies.