J. Daniel Hays. From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race. IVP, 2003. 240 pp.
Race as a theological category has not had much play in the history of theology. That’s what J. Daniel Hays says at the beginning of his book From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race. This is of particular note given the fact that race has been such a major issue of discussion and contention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Even though some contemporary systematic theologies have significant chapters on anthropology, few deal directly with the subject of race. Consequently, to write a book on a theology of race sounds foreign to our evangelical ears. But isn’t this kind of title and this kind of biblical theological discussion long overdue?
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Timothy T. Larsen, David W. Bebbington, and Mark A. Noll, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. IVP, 2003. 789 pp.
1. Overview
This nearly 800-page tome is a mini-library of condensed biographies. This practical reference tool contains biographical sketches for over four hundred outstanding evangelicals in alphabetical order.
1.1. Theologically, they are part of the identifiable network of evangelicals. Larsen defines an evangelical according to Bebbington and Noll’s standards. In Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, Bebbington proposed that there are four essential characteristics of evangelicals: “conversionism, activism, biblicism, and crucicentrism” (BDE, p. 1). Noll’s Between Faith and Criticism “uses a thoroughgoing descriptive approach, arguing that the evangelical community is a readily identifiable network and that therefore those who can be seen to be a part of that network are the proper subjects of studies in evangelicalism” (BDE, p. 1).
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Gene Mims. The Kingdom-Focused Church: A Compelling Image of an Achievable Future for Your Church. B&H, 2003. 182 pp.
Not only has Gene Mims served as the vice president of the church resources division of LifeWay Christian Resources, but he also seems to be the king of re-statement. The Kingdom-Focused Church starts with a three-chapter introduction (Preface plus the first two chapters) in which he repeatedly tells the reader that he has a system that will work for the pastor who wants his church to be successful. He actually guarantees that the advice held within the pages of the book will work if it is genuinely applied.
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Robert L. Reymond. Jesus, Divine Messiah. Christian Focus, 2003. 552 pp.
For the first time, Robert Reymond’s work on the deity of Christ has been published in one volume. Originally unable to publish it collectively, he published the separate volumes, Jesus, Divine Messiah: Old Testament Witness and Jesus, Divine Messiah: New Testament Witness, in 1990 with Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company. Reymond rewrote some sections, added new material, and inserted transliteration of the Hebrew and Greek. This volume is academic in nature, including a plethora of footnotes, frequent citations of the original languages, and no shortage of interaction with higher critical theories. It would function well as a seminary level textbook. The book is a defense of the deity of the Messiah as presented in both the Old and New Testaments.
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