K. Scott Oliphint. Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology. P&R, 2006. 363 pp.
Philosophy poses questions and problems that are often thought to undermine Christian faith. Christians need not shy away from these discussions. There is “philosophical good news for the Christian,” says K. Scott Oliphint. The Christian position is “not simply a plausible alternative,” but “the consistent, cogent, and altogether reasonable position that is able to offer solutions to the problems posed.”
Author: WTS Bio
Overview: Amazon | P&R | WTSBooks | Google Books | LibraryThing
Excerpts: Ch 1 | Misc. | Browse in Amazon
Reviews: Amazon | CBD | LibraryThing
Professors
This is a wonderful book. If given the attention it deserves, Reasons for Faith should change the discussion in matters relating revelation to reason from now on. There is nothing quite like it in the literature. Moving from Augustine to Plantinga, Professor Oliphint interacts with many of the major questions raised by philosophy, in areas including metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, and in every case shows himself to be thoroughly conversant with the issues. Most significantly, he is able to show how theology in the Reformation tradition provides the only credible basis for resolving the problems. Reasons for Faith will leave no one indifferent. It will leave many profoundly grateful. —William Edgar, professor of apologetics and department coordinator, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia
Since Van Til, no presuppositional apologist has given us such a deep and detailed analysis of the relation of Christianity to philosophy. Oliphint is at home in the philosophical literature, from the Greeks to Aquinas to Plantinga and many others, and he sheds light on many issues of importance to Christians. This volume is an exploration, much open to further discussion.” —John M. Frame, professor of systematic theology and philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando
- Paul Helm at Reformation21 (ND) Review
Extras:
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon | P&R | WTSBooks
Find It: WorldCat
Search It: Amazon
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing | Google Books
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed 
.
D. A. Carson. Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications. Zondervan, 2005. 256 pp.
A careful and informed assessment of the “emerging church” by a respected author and scholar.
The “emerging church” movement has generated a lot of excitement and exerts an astonishingly broad influence. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy? Who are the leaders and what are they saying?
The time has come for a mature assessment. D. A. Carson not only gives those who may be unfamiliar with it a perceptive introduction to the emerging church movement, but also includes a skillful assessment of its theological views. Carson addresses some troubling weaknesses of the movement frankly and thoughtfully, while at the same time recognizing that it has important things to say to the rest of Christianity. The author strives to provide a perspective that is both honest and fair.
Anyone interested in the future of the church in a rapidly changing world will find this an informative and stimulating read.
Author: Zondervan Bio | Wikipedia | Theopedia
Overview: Amazon | CBD | Zondervan | Google Books
Excerpts: TOC, Preface, pp. 11-15 | Misc.
Reviews: Amazon | LibraryThing
Pastors/Church Leaders
Seminary/Ministerial Students
Laymen/Unknown
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon | CBD | Zondervan
Find It: WorldCat
Search It: GoogleBooks
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed .
Wayne A. Grudem, ed. Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views. Counterpoint Series, ed. Stanley N. Gundry. Zondervan, 1996. 368 pp.
This thought-provoking book presents the four major views of miraculous gifts today and will help Christians on every side of the miraculous gifts debate to better understand their own position and the positions of others.
Are the gifts of tongues, prophecy, and healing for today? No, say cessationists. Yes, say Pentecostal and Third Wave Christians. Maybe, say a large sector of open-but-cautious evangelicals. What’s the answer? Is there an answer?
Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? takes you to the heart of the charismatic controversy. It provides an impartial format for comparing the four main lines of thinking: cessationist, open but cautious, third wave, and Pentecostal/charismatic. The authors present their positions in an interactive setting that allows for critique, clarification, and defense.
This thought-provoking book will help Christians on every side of the miraculous gifts debate to better understand their own position and the positions of others.
Wayne Grudem has brought online the four major views on miraculous gifts today. Downloading them into your own understanding takes effort, but the worldwide network that you join is the fellowship of the Spirit!
Authors:
Overview: Amazon | Zondervan | CBD | Google Books
Excerpts: Contents & pp. 1–32 | Browse in Amazon
Reviews: Amazon | CBD | LibraryThing | Zondervan
Extras:
- Sam Storms article, “Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?”: Part 1 | 2
- Tim Challies: Continuation/Cessation discussion with Wayne Grudem: Part 1 | 2
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon | CBD | Zondervan
Find It: WorldCat
Search It: Amazon | Google Books
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed .
Douglas Wilson. Letter from a Christian Citizen: A Response to “Letter to a Christian Nation” by Sam Harris. American Vision, 2007. 134 pp.
Last year, Sam Harris made headlines and topped bestseller lists with his “angry and honest” Letter to a Christian Nation. At its heart, this little book was an atheist complaint against Christians: Harris pointed an accusing finger at the church, telling Christians that they weren’t as nice as they thought they were and warning fellow agnostics that the Christians were out to get them. Prominent intellectuals and anti-Christians were quick to praise this little book; as one Harvard professor wrote, “Reading Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation was like sitting ring side, cheering the champion, yelling ‘Yes!’ at every jab.”
In response, Douglas Wilson has written his own little book: Letter from a Christian Citizen. As Gary DeMar writes in the foreword, “Douglas Wilson has taken the operating assumptions of Sam Harris seriously and has shown what life would be like if the world were consistent with atheistic assumptions.” Walking through Harris’ claims step-by-step, Wilson dismantles his arguments and demonstrates that honesty lies on the side of the Christians, not the atheists.
Author: Bio | Wikipedia | Blog and Mablog | Christ Church | Credenda Agenda
Overview: Amazon | American Vision | LettersfromaChristianCitizen.com
Excerpts: Various
Reviews: Amazon | CBD | LibraryThing | Endorsements
Laymen/Unknown
- John Wilson at ChristianityToday.com (05/07) Review
- Tim Challies at Discerning Reader (ND) Review
Extras:
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon | American Vision
Find It: WorldCat
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed .
Alister E. McGrath. Doubting: Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith. 2nd ed. IVP, 2007. 155 pp.
We live in a culture that doubts everything as a matter of principle. In such an environment, how can even faith be immune to doubt?
Can I really trust in the gospel? Does God really love me? Can I really be of any use to God?
We are taught to doubt but commanded to believe. Somehow we think that admitting to doubt is tantamount to insulting God. But doubt is not a sign of spiritual weakness—rather it’s an indication of spiritual growing pains.
Alister McGrath, no stranger to a faith born of doubt, here offers good news to doubters: your faith can grow, and strengthen as it grows. It needs to take root in your experience of God, it needs to take in the nourishment of instruction in the words and ways of God, it needs to be stretched into greater obedience to the commands and calling of God—but it can grow beyond doubt into a thriving relationship.
Authors: Oxford Page | IVP Bio | Wikipedia | Theopedia
Overview: Amazon | IVP
Excerpts: TOC | Misc. | Preface| Introduction
Reviews: Amazon | IVP | LibraryThing
- Pastor Chris, Evangelism Coach (02/07) Review
Extras:
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon | Westminster Bookstore
Find It: WorldCat
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Last updated 04/11/07
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed .
N. T. Wright. Evil and the Justice of God. IVP, 2006. 176 pp.
With every earthquake and war, understanding the nature of evil and our response to it becomes more urgent. Evil is no longer the concern just of ministers and theologians but also of politicians and the media.
We hear of child abuse, ethnic cleansing, AIDS, torture and terrorism, and rightfully we are shocked. But, N. T. Wright says, we should not be surprised. For too long we have naively believed in the modern idea of human progress. In contrast, postmodern thinkers have rightly argued that evil is real, powerful and important, but they give no real clue as to what we should do about it.
In fact, evil is more serious than either our culture or our theology has supposed. How then might Jesus’ death be the culmination of the Old Testament solution to evil but on a wider and deeper scale than most imagine? Can we possibly envision a world in which we are delivered from evil? How might we work toward such a future through prayer and justice in the present?
These are the powerful and pressing themes that N. T. Wright addresses in this book that is at once timely and timeless.
Author: IVP Bio | Bio | Wikipedia | Theopedia | N. T. Wright Page
Overview: Amazon | IVP (Press Release)
Excerpts: TOC | Misc. | Preface | Ch 1
Reviews: Amazon | IVP | LibraryThing
- R. C. Sproul, Reformation21 (ND) Review
- Joshua J. Graves, Wineskins.org (ND) Review
- Rowland Croucher, John Mark Ministries (05/06) Review
- Derek Edwards, Dezert Theology (06/06) Review
- Noah Tutak, Tutak.com (11/06) Review
- Mike Frizzell, MikeFrizzell.net (02/07) Review
- John Frye, Jesus the Radical Pastor (03/07) Review
- D. A. Carson, RBL (04/07) Review
Extras:
Buy It: Compare Prices | Amazon
Find It: WorldCat
Rate It:
Loading …
Related Books: Amazon | LibraryThing
Update This: Have you reviewed the book? Have something else to add? Post a link in the comments, and I’ll update this entry.
Last updated 04/23/07
Like this post? Subscribe to our feed .
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)