Iain H. Murray. Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000. Banner of Truth, 2000. x + 342 pp.
Iain Hamish Murray (b. 1931) has authored about two dozen books on historical theology from a Reformed perspective. His mentor was David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, whom Murray assisted at Westminster Chapel from 1956 to 1959 and about whom Murray wrote a stirring two-volume biography (vol. 1, vol. 2). In 1957, Murray co-founded the Banner of Truth Trust, which has published his many writings and for which he serves as Editorial Director.
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James White. The Potter’s Freedom. Calvary Press, 2000. 343 pp.
James White’s The Potter’s Freedom, which bears the subtitle “A Defense of the Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler’s Chosen But Free,” is a potent, yet irenic, attack on man-centered soteriology. Written on a non-technical level, TPF systematically responds to the arguments set forth by Geisler against historic Calvinistic theology. TPF has gained wide acceptance by the Reformed camp as a lucid and thorough response to Arminianism, containing the testimony of twenty-seven Reformed evangelicals and two forewords by Phillip R. Johnson and R. C. Sproul, Jr., all of whom highly praise the book. TPF seeks not so much to be a positive presentation of the Reformed faith, but rather a critique of the flawed position set forth in CBF (30).
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B. B. Warfield. Christology and Criticism. Baker, 2000. 459 pp.
This volume, Christology and Criticism, is the third of ten volumes in The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. It is a collection of essays and articles previously published in various encyclopedias and journals. Warfield’s writings are not for the casual reader. In-depth interaction with higher-critical theories pervades these discussions. Scattered throughout are words and phrases in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German, often without any translation. Profuse footnotes occupy many of the pages. As always, however, the reader who is willing and able to work through this material will profit from this great scholar and theologian.
The book contains discussions of the divine Messiah of the Old Testament, the divine Christ of the New Testament, the two natures of Christ, the blasphemy of the Son of Man, Jesus’ alleged confession of sin, the supernatural birth of Jesus, and the twentieth-century Christ.
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