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the author’s last name for the review. Augustine, St., Enchiridion
on Faith, Hope, and Love, Gateway Editions, Regnery
Publishing, 1966 [421].
The review was printed in the March 2002 issue (Volume 14, No. 3) of Evangel
News. Boice, James Montgomery, Foundations
of the Christian Faith: A Comprehensive & Readable Theology, InterVarsity
Press, 1986.
Reviewed in August 2009. Bonar, Horatius,
and Charles Hodge, Not What My Hands Have Done, The Trinity Foundation,
2005. The review was printed in the March 2006 issue (Volume 18, No. 3) of Evangel
News. Bruner, Frederick Dale, A Theology of
the Holy Spirit: The Pentecostal Experience and the New Testament Witness, The Trinity Foundation, 2001 [Eerdmans,
1970]. The review was printed in the September 2007 issue (Volume 19, No. 9) of
Evangel News. Calvin, John, The
Bondage and Liberation of the Will, Baker Books, 1996. The review was
printed in the July & August 2001 issue (Volume 13, No. 7 & 8) of Evangel
News. Carson, D.A., The
Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, Crossway Books, 2000. The review was
printed in the September 2005 issue (Volume 17, No. 9) of Evangel News. Carson, D.A., Divine Sovereignty and
Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in Tension, Wipf
and Stock Publishers, 2002 [Baker Books, 1994]. The review was printed in the
June & July 2005 issue (Volume 17, No. 6 & 7) of Evangel News. Carson, D.A., Exegetical
Fallacies, second edition, Baker Books, 1996 [ninth printing, August 2004]. The review was printed in the
December 2005 issue (Volume 17, No. 12) of Evangel News. Clark, Gordon H., In Defense of
Theology, The Trinity Foundation, 2007. The review
was printed in the January 2008 issue (Volume 20, No. 1) of Evangel News. Crampton, W. Gary, What
Calvin Says: An Introduction to the Theology of John Calvin, second edition,
The Trinity Foundation, 2002. The review was printed in the February 2006 issue (Volume 18, No.
2) of Evangel News. Demarest, Bruce, The Cross and
Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation
,
Crossway, 1997.
This is the best book in print that I know of on soteriology, the doctrine of
salvation. How I wish that I had come across it when it first came out!
How I wish that it been written many years earlier, and I had read it then.
I have very much needed this book! I had never even heard of Bruce Demarest
before coming across this book. Demarest is very knowledgeable, and is also an
excellent writer. He is clear, and very thorough. He teaches at Denver Seminary.
At the very beginning of Chapter One, Demarest writes "The issue of one's future
security, if not eternal destiny, is uppermost in the hearts and minds of most
right-thinking people." And then a couple lines farther down the page, he writes
"It is obvious even to the casual reader that the central message of the Bible
concerns the spiritual recovery or salvation of lost men and women."
Demarest presents the various views of salvation as understood by
Roman Catholics, Theological liberals, Christian existentialists,
those who hold to Liberation Theology, those who hold to Barthian neoorthodoxy,
Arminians, and Reformed. This thorough approach brings order out of confusion,
and puts the different understandings of salvation in clear contrast with one
another. Edwards, Jonathan, Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality,
Victor, 2005. The review was printed in the February 2007 issue (Volume 19, No.
2) of Evangel News. Feinberg, John S.,
No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God,
Crossway Books, 2001. The review posted here is by John D. Morrison,
Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist
Theological Seminary, and appeared in the Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society (JETS), December 2003, pp. 699-709. While Morrison "can
only give John Feinberg's magnum opus No One Like Him the absolutely
highest commendation and recommendation. This work has further solidified
Feinberg's place as a theological leader of evangelicalism. This text must
be the root and basis of the ongoing developmental unfolding of
historical orthodoxy's manifold God-concept and God-talk. . . . This should
be a required text related not only to the doctrine of God but philosophy of
religion", but he does differ with Feinberg on some points. Morrison's review
comes across to me as a fine and thoughtful one. Feinberg, in his No One
Like Him, seems to me as being, for the most part, highly conservative and
orthodox, yet not just restating what has been said before, but gives evidence
of having thought through each issue very carefully himself. I highly
recommend this book. This review was posted on June 6, 2014.
Holifield, E. Brooks, Theology in
America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War,
Yale University Press, 2003. The review was printed in the February 2008 issue
(Volume 20, No. 2) of Evangel News. Johnson, Thomas K., What Difference Does the Trinity Make?: A Complete Faith, Life, and Worldview, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, 2009. Reviewed in March 2010. Nichols, Stephen J., An
Absolute Sort of Certainty: The Holy Spirit and Apologetics of Jonathan Edwards,
P&R Publishing, 2003. The review was printed in the January 2007 issue
(Volume 19, No. 1) of Evangel News. Peterson, Robert A., and
Michael D. Williams, Why I Am Not An Arminian,
InterVarsity Press, 2004. The review was printed in the
January 2005 issue (Volume 17, No. 1) of Evangel News. Walls, Jerry L. and Joseph R. Dongell, Why I Am Not A
Calvinist, InterVarsity Press, 2004. The review
was printed in the February 2005 issue (Volume 17, No. 2) of Evangel News. Warfield, Benjamin B., Counterfeit
Miracles: A Defense of Divine Miracles Against Pagan,
Medieval, and Modern Marvels, The Trinity Foundation, 2007. The review was
printed in the October 2007 issue (Volume 19, No. 10) of Evangel News. |