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How do you love when you know it will break your heart? When my family started their 24-hour drive back to Wisconsin after dropping me off at college, my heart ached. I was in a foreign land. People didn’t dress the same. Their manner of doing business was different. The houses looked shabbier, and the […]
Last month, in my post about virtue ethics, I questioned whether the notion of rewards that will be distributed at the final judgment was necessary in order to emphasize the importance of Christian obedience. Instead, I suggested that our existence as God’s image bearers entails that we were made to reflect God’s goodness and indeed […]
This is a major new work and an important aid to Christians, particularly those who minister in Muslim contexts. It is structured as a reference book, a translation of the Quran, along with a useful introduction that is geared for general readers, not only scholars, footnotes that follow the flow of the Quran, a concise […]
The problem of evil poses a formidable challenge to the rationality of the Christian worldview. I have argued elsewhere that these challenges can be overcome given (1) the overall strength of Christian theism—given a cumulative case argument—and (2) the logical inadequacies of alternative worldviews to explain good and evil. Here, I take up another side […]
In the past fifty years, we’ve seen a considerable resurgence of interest in Reformed literature from publishers such as Banner of Truth to more contemporary publishers like Crossway and Reformation Heritage. Part of this surge has been an interest in the work of the English Puritans. In their new book, The American Puritans, Dustin Benge, […]
Throughout the twentieth century, a number of historians have proposed that the period of systematization which followed the Protestant Reformation, especially in the seventeenth century, was one of theological collapse. It is contended that the traditions following Luther and Calvin departed from the purer Gospel-centered theology of these thinkers for a reversion to a medieval […]
“That’s me! That’s my life. I feel so empty,” my friend Julie said when I told her the title of the book I was working on. But her response to the title wasn’t unique. Whenever I told people what I was working on, the most common response was a knowing, low-pitched “Mmmm.” The reality of […]
With his high volume of writing in recent years, it is easy to wonder when Tim Keller will become trite and repetitious. That time has not yet come. As long as there remains a pronounced gap in understanding between Christians and the culture around them, Keller will help remedy the need. In Walking with God […]
Jordan Cooper’s new book Prologomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method is a welcome and long-overdue contribution to today’s confessional Lutheran theology. The first in a planned series of volumes entitled “A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology,” Prologomena lays the necessary philosophical groundwork for the retrieval of a distinctly small-c catholic understanding of Lutheranism. Though Cooper […]
Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview, translated and edited Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, James Eglinton, and Cory Brock, is subtly one of the most important books for those interested in the Dutch Reformed theologian. The Dutch edition played a major role in the unveiling of one of Bavinck’s major themes ‘the organic motif’, which has enabled fruitful work […]
In a world where we are apparently deeming people and functions as “essential” or “non-essential,” it’s necessary for the Christian to grasp this foundational fact: gathered, corporate worship is the most important thing you will ever do. Period. No matter how we may feel or think about it (and let’s be honest—we often feel and […]
Our country is tense as the 2020 election fast approaches. Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in 2016 was a political earthquake that manifested deep and stubborn fault-lines in American civilization. Those who weren’t paying attention when the cracks seemed smaller are most certainly paying attention now. And the last four years have seen little […]
