Category Archives: Book reviews

Review: Gospel Writing by Francis Watson

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Caleb Friedeman

Watson, Francis. Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. In this volume, Francis Watson presents a new paradigm for Gospel origins. The standard account of Gospel origins that Watson seeks to unseat goes something like this: Mark wrote … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Word Enfleshed, by Oliver Crisp

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Kevin W. Wong

Oliver Crisp, The Word Enfleshed: Exploring the Person and Work of Christ (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016), xviii +190pp. $26.99. After having written in a more episodic, piecemeal fashion with various Christological essays, Oliver Crisp’s latest work on Christology provides … Continue reading →

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Review: Timothy Pawl, In Defense of Conciliar Christology

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Kevin W. Wong

Timothy Pawl, In Defense of Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay, Oxford University Press, 2016, 251pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198765929. I like action movies, despite overly familiar tropes like the hero having to disarm a bomb with only seconds to spare. … Continue reading →

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The Righteousness of God by Charles Lee Irons (review)

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Ryan Clevenger

Review by Matthew Monkemeier Irons, Charles Lee. The Righteousness of God: A Lexical Examination of the Covenant-Faithfulness Interpretation. WUNT 2.386. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. Very few word-groups are as consequential for how we understand Paul as the “righteousness” (δικ-) word-group, … Continue reading →

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Review: An Invitation to Analytic Christian Theology, by Thomas McCall

Posted on November 21, 2016 by Kevin W. Wong

Thomas H. McCall, An Invitation to Analytic Christian Theology (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015. 192 pp. $22.00 (paperback)   Kevin W. Wong, Wheaton College   Introduction              Too often earnest theological inquiry cannot even begin since participants are deadlocked … Continue reading →

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Review: The Earliest Christologies, by James Papandrea

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Kevin W. Wong

James L. Papandrea, The Earliest Christologies: Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. 144 pp. $18.00 (paperback) Kevin W. Wong, Wheaton College Introduction             A student attending seminary or Bible college, with their … Continue reading →

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Review: Forsaken, by Thomas McCall

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Kevin W. Wong

Thomas H. McCall, Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012. 171 pp. $20.00 (paperback) Kevin W. Wong   Introduction Many a theologian lament that the common Evangelical church-goer is biblically and … Continue reading →

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Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, edited by Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Caleb Friedeman

Bauckham, Richard, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (henceforth OTPMNS1) is the first of two volumes that seek to supplement the … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Adam Johnson’s Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Kevin W. Wong

The latest issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology has just been released. This issue is huge, and full of great-sounding articles with a number of high caliber scholars. Also included is a book review from myself for Adam Johnson‘s book Atonement: … Continue reading →

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Review: Systematic Theology, by John Frame

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Robbie Crouse

John Frame, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2013), 1219 pages.| P&R John Frame, J. D. Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, has already authored a number of sizeable works in … Continue reading →

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