J. P. Moreland. Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul. NavPress, 1997. 249 pp.
J.P. Moreland’s Love Your God with All Your Mind calls evangelical Christians to cultivate the intellect as an act of worship to God. Moreland decries the anti-intellectualism prevalent in the current evangelical climate and encourages Christians to begin actively developing a Christian worldview that can engage and challenge the current philosophies dominating the scientific and academic world. Today and tomorrow, I will lay out the dominant themes of Moreland’s book, list areas of agreement and concern, and offer several practical insights for future ministry.
Love Your God with All Your Mind focuses on three major areas of Christian practice. Moreland begins by exposing the anti-intellectualism of the Church today and the areas in which Christians have deserted intellectual engagement. . . .
Reviewed by Trevin Wax.
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R. C. Sproul. Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification. Baker, 1997. 221 pp.
Sproul has produced a very lucid and insightful theological work dealing with the Reformation teaching concerning sola fide in relationship to the situation facing the modern day church. It is written on a level that can be read with profit by pastors, teachers, students, and laymen alike. In our age of tolerance and neglect of “divisive” doctrine, Sproul’s book is a much needed cry for the importance of dealing with the doctrines of salvation with knife-edge precision.
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J. Sidlow Baxter. The Master Theme of the Bible: A Comprehensive Study of the Lamb of God. Part One, pp. 15-157. Kregel, 1997. 204 pp.
Baxter presents a volume on Jesus as the Lamb of God, a theme he believes to be The Master Theme of the Bible. This work is not technical, and most laymen will find its contents straightforward and understandable. These essays are simple Bible studies rather than academic or professionally theological treatises. Based on a collection of messages preached at Bible conferences, the contents of this book are “meant for the general public and average reader” (11). As such, the original languages occur only rarely, always accompanied by translation and explanation. Baxter’s style is often conversational, but this is intentional. Permeating the pages is a definite devotional demeanor. These reflections on the glories of the Lamb are sure to warm the heart of any reader.
The book divides into two parts. The first section explores the doctrine of the Lamb while the second peruses the dimensions of the cross. This review will cover only the first section, dealing with the person of Christ. The chapters are as follows: (1) The Revelation of the Lamb; (2) The Centrality of the Lamb; (3-5) The Sovereignty of the Lamb: Pre-incarnate, Post-resurrection, and Never-ending; and (6-7) The Finalities of the Lamb: Lord and Savior, and Judge and King.
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Bruce Demarest. The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation. Crossway, 1997. 544 pp.
This volume is the first in a series on the various doctrines of systematic theology (Foundations of Evangelical Theology) edited by John S. Feinberg. Two more volumes in the series have since been released: No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God by John S. Feinberg and To Know and Love God: Method for Theology by David K. Clark. Demarest has produced a magnificent soteriological work. It is extremely well organized and meticulously thorough. It is written on a technical level, and it would function quite well as a textbook or supplemental reading for seminary studies in soteriology.
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