The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good
The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good. By Maria Pally. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. 268 pp. Paper, $20.00. Marcia Pally is a professor at New York University. In this book, she makes the case that there is a growing tendency among American evangelicals to move more toward the left in their […]
God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life
God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life. By Gene Edward Veith. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2002, 2011. 176 pages. Paper, $15.99. In God at Work, Gene Edward Veith introduces the Lutheran doctrine of vocation and thereby presents a different way of understanding the meaning and purpose of the Christian life. The term “vocation” […]
Faith Alone: The Condition of Our Salvation: An Exposition of the Book of Galatians and Other Relevant Topics
Faith Alone: The Condition of Our Salvation: An Exposition of the Book of Galatians and Other Relevant Topics. By Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2014. 144 pp. Paper, $13.00. Fruchtenbaum heads Ariel Ministries in San Antonio, TX. He has long championed what he calls Israelology, the study of the place of Israel […]
The World Needs Monasticism
The World Needs Monasticism. By Father Benedict. Blanco, TX: New Sarov Press, 1993. 36 pp. Paper, $4.95. Father Benedict was one of the founders of The Christ of the Hills Monastery in Blanco, TX, which belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia but has since closed down. In the booklet, The World Needs […]
Will the Bad Deeds of Believers be Considered at the Judgement Seat of Christ?
Robert N. Wilkin Executive Director Grace Evangelical Society I. INTRODUCTION God makes an amazing promise to anyone who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ: “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Heb 10:17; cf. Jer 31:34). And again, You, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He […]
The Gift of Assurance
The Gift of Assurance. David J. Engelsma. South Holland, IL: Protestant Reformed Church, 2009. 61 pp. Paper, free upon request ($1.00 each suggested donation for additional copies). Engelsma is a five-point Calvinist. For 25 years he pastored two different Protestant Reformed Churches (1963-1988). Then he taught theology and Old Testament for 20 more years at […]
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636–1641. By Michael P. Winship. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, 2014. 322 pages. Paper, $32.50. This book recently came out as a paperback. In it, Winship deals with what is commonly called the “antinomian” controversy of the Puritans in the Massachusetts colony in the seventeenth […]
Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern
Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern. By Jason B. Hood. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013. 232 pages. Paper, $22.00. Hood is writing for all three sides of Christianity: “the latitudinal left,” “the massive middle,” and the “reluctant or resistant right” (pp. 14-15, 183-89). He suggests that all three miss the significance of […]
Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest?
Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest? By Mark Jones. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2013. 145 pages. Paper, $14.48. Mark Jones is the pastor of a PCA church in Canada. Since those in the Free Grace movement are often accused of being antinomian, the title of this book caught my eye. This book, however, does […]
“Reformed” Is Not Enough: Recovering the Objectivity of the Covenant
“Reformed” Is Not Enough: Recovering the Objectivity of the Covenant. By Douglas Wilson. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2002, 2010. 208 pages. Paper, $17.00. What does it mean to be a Christian? In “Reformed” Is Not Enough, Douglas Wilson argues that theologians should think of the covenant in more objective terms, where being a Christian means […]