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Dr. Mark A. Lindsay's new book God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (2020) published by IVP Academic is an engaging history of the doctrine of election that is easy to read and is not laden with technical jargon. Lindsay does a great job of summarizing the […]
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REVIEW: James Cone In Plain English by Stephen D. Morrison (November 1, 2020)
Introduction
James Hal Cone (1938—2018) opened my eyes to the wickedness of white theology, he taught me that I must become Black like Jesus, he helped me understand that God sides with the oppressed against their oppressors, he redeemed my understanding of Malcolm X, he taught me about the mass lynchings […]
REVIEW: That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart (October 17, 2019)
David Bentley Hart's That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (Yale University Press, 2019) is a popular new book by an outstanding Eastern Orthodox theologian on a locus that I'm passionate about—Christian Universalism! I'm pleased to say that I highly recommend it for its excellent defense of […]
I've been fascinated with Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768—1834) for a decade, and was introduced to him through Karl Barth's criticisms of him that caused me to believe Schleiermacher was Barth's vanquished foe. Apart from Barth, I had read many condemnations of Schleiermacher as the heresiarch of Protestant Liberalism horrifically exemplified by […]
Stephen D. Morrison's new book Jürgen Moltmann in Plain English (2018) is an introduction to Moltmann for today's world by an amateur author who writes like a scholar. Morrison's book surprised me because I expected it to be an epitome of Moltmann's life and works, similar to Jürgen Moltmann: Collected […]
Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer by Dr. W. Travis McMaken is my favorite book published in 2017. I know I said this about another book, but that was before I read McMaken's "Golli" (a nickname bestowed upon Gollwitzer by his students, and my nickname for this book)[1]. […]
REVIEW: David Bentley Hart’s The New Testament: A Translation (January 10, 2018)
David Bentley Hart's The New Testament: A Translation is my favorite book published in 2017—and this is a huge compliment because I read many excellent books in the last year. I've always enjoyed reading different translations of the bible, and I try to read a different translation each year; so I […]
REVIEW: Karl Barth in Plain English by Stephen D. Morrison (June 28, 2017)
Stephen D. Morrison is a friend of mine, and we've had correspondence for years, especially through the Karl Barth Discussion Group (KBDG). So I was encouraged to see KBDG mentioned in the acknowledgements of his new book, Karl Barth In Plain English. Stephen is a lay theologian, like myself, and one of the few, […]
An Explorer’s Guide to Karl Barth by David Guretzki (Review) (February 6, 2017)
David Guretzki's An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth is a hitchhiker's guide to Karl Barth for the average joe. Karl Barth is notoriously difficult to epitomize and summarize, and other so-called "introductory" books on Karl Barth are very, very difficult to read. Guretzki's Karl Barth is a book that I feel comfortable giving to […]
The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch by David W. Congdon (Review) (January 12, 2017)
The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch by David W. Congdon is a brilliant and well written theological book, and my favorite book published in 2016. In The God Who Saves, Congdon leverages his expertise in Bultmann's existential theology and acute knowledge of Karl Barth to produce this eye-popping dogmatic sketch of a universalist […]
