A House United? Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A Winning Alliance for the 21st Century
A CRITIQUE OF KEITH A. FOURNIER’S A House United? Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A Winning Alliance for the 21st Century1 Robert N. Wilkin Executive Director Grace Evangelical Society Irving, TX I. Introduction I am very interested in this book for a number of reasons. First, the man who assisted in the writing of this book, […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses on Trial: The Testimony of the Early Church Fathers
Jehovah’s Witnesses on Trial: The Testimony of the Early Church Fathers. By Robert U. Finnerty. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 1993. 164 pp. Paper, $8.95. Robert Finnerty writes specifically over the early church fathers’ views of the Trinity, Jesus’ deity, the Holy Spirit’s personality, the soul, bodily resurrection and eternal punishment. As the title […]
Satisfied by the Promise of the Spirit: Affirming the Fullness of God’s Provision for Spiritual Living
Satisfied by the Promise of the Spirit: Affirming the Fullness of God’s Provision for Spiritual Living. By Thomas R. Edgar. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1996. 263 pp. Paper, $12.99. Dr. Thomas R. Edgar, Professor of New Testament at Capital Bible Seminary, presents a rebuttal of the writings of Dr. Jack Deere and his phrase “Surprised […]
The Challenge of Postmodernism
POST-EVANGELICALISM CONFRONTS THE POSTMODERN AGE A Review of The Challenge of Postmodernism ZANE C. HODGES Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Mesquite, Texas In the cloistered halls of academia one of the newer buzz words is postmodernism. Postmodernism expresses the widely held view that modernity has somehow come to an end and that […]
The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism. By D. A. Carson. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996. 640 pp. Cloth, $24.99. Most books on pluralism deal with specific issues such as the biblical response to it or its philosophical problems. Carson has traced the origin and effect of pluralism in our society. He considers pluralism […]
Luis de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle Knowledge
Luis de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle Knowledge. By Kirk R. MacGregor. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015. 292 pp. Hardcover, $24.32. Kirk MacGregor has written a tour de force on the life and theology of Luis de Molina. Luis de Molina, the originator of Molinism or “Middle Knowledge” was a […]
Searching for Adam: Genesis & the Truth about Man’s Origin
Searching for Adam: Genesis & the Truth about Man’s Origin. Edited by Terry Mortenson. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2016. 524 pp. Paperback, $24.99. This book consists of sixteen chapters, each written by a different author. The book deals with many issues. Among these are: Did Adam exist in history or is he a myth?; […]
A Review and Application of Albert Mohler’s “We Cannot Be Silent”
Kathryn Wright Columbia, SC I. INTRODUCTION Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, recently wrote We Cannot Be Silent, which addresses many contemporary issues such as the sexual revolution.1 The main point of discussion is the acceptance of homosexual marriage, but Mohler also sees other aspects of this revolution in […]
Suffering and the Search for Meaning: Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain
Suffering and the Search for Meaning: Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain. By Richard Rice. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014. 170 pp. Paperback, $20.00. This book is about how you can respond to real suffering, to “a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure” (p. […]
The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson, and Hammond
The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson, and Hammond. By Geoffrey R. Treloar. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017. 334 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. The title of this book grabbed my attention. How was evangelicalism disrupted? Treloar is Australian who teaches at the Australian College of Theology and who is a visiting fellow […]