Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Cultureby Christopher Watkin Zondervan Academic | november 2022 | 672 pages (hardcover) | $39.99 Critical Theory and its related subcategories, such as critical race theory, have dominated a lot of debate in contemporary American culture. As the title of this volume […]
Sunday, 01 January, 2023 by Noah J. Frens
Providence, Freedom, and the Will in Early Modern Reformed Theologyby Richard A. Muller Reformation Heritage Books | may 2022 | 304 pages (paperback) | $25.00 This new volume by Richard Muller follows his recent trend of books on the topic of divine providence, free choice, and related concepts in the Reformed tradition.[1] The volume is […]
Friday, 01 July, 2022 by Noah J. Frens
All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican TraditionEdited by Ephraim Radner and David Ney Lexham Press | January 2022 | 304 pages (hardcover) | $32.99 Recent years have seen a growing interest by Protestants in what has been variously called the “theological” or precritical reading of Scripture that has centered around a theological […]
Saturday, 01 January, 2022 by Noah J. Frens
A Companion to the Theology of John Webster Edited by Michael Allen and R. David NelsonEerdmans, June 2021336 pages (hardcover), $50.00 When it comes to the late John Webster, my general philosophy is that if he wrote something, you should read it. While Webster’s sudden death in 2016 was a great loss for the church, […]
Thursday, 01 July, 2021 by Noah J. Frens
Divine Will and Human Choice: Freedom, Contingency, and Necessity in Early Modern Reformed Thought by Richard A. Muller Baker Academic, 2017 336 pages (hardcover), $45.00 For the past decade, there has been an ongoing debate tucked away in academic journals and monographs concerning how Reformed theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries understood human freedom […]
Saturday, 01 September, 2018 by Noah J. Frens