In doing some work for a class this fall, I finished reading Ryrie’s one-volume theology. This volume serves a needful purpose of making sound theology available to the average reader. Many of the older, standard works are voluminous in content and varied in theological perspective. Ryrie is well known for his orthodoxy as a premillennialist […]
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Book Genre: Theology - General
The Amble Man Who Saved My Faith
9/3/01 CT article by Philip Yancey This article, taken from Yancey’s new book, Soul Survivor, is his praise of G.K. Chesterton’s writings. His praise goes too far. It is one thing to appreciate a man’s conservative writing (which I also share) in a way in which we may appreciate Rush or Dr. Laura, but quite […]
The Mystery of the Holy Spirit
Few Evangelical writers have turned out more books in the last ten years than R.C. Sproul. Many of us appreciate his stand against the ECT document and other compromises of the grace of God. I enjoy his doctrinal books because of the amount of Scripture and information included. I always take exception to his hyper-Calvinism […]
Understanding the Holy Spirit
This is a book combining writings by Morgan with twelve sermons by Spurgeon. The seven chapters by G. Campbell Morgan were extremely refreshing and have that “old book” ability to readjust and refresh one’s perspective of ministry. In a day like ours, which relies on administration and methodology to produce results, the reader quickly gets […]
The Restitution of Man
It was actually the sub-title that caught my eye: C.S. Lewis and the case against scientism. The author traces Lewis’ fight (as well as other theistic defenders) against the cold, scientific approach of the last two hundred years. One example is the comparison between scientia (as homo sciens man is only a knower of facts) […]
The Domestication of Transcendence
The title of this book interested me along with the sub-title: How modern thinking about God went wrong. Placher follows the thinking about God from before the modern period to after the modern period. He agrees with the post-modern refutation of new theology, especially in the area (as the title implies) of reducing God’s awe […]
Spiritual Power
I have enjoyed the Moody Classics series that includes a number of devotional type books from great men of God. These books take us back to a practical level of our Christianity and remind us of priorities such as soul-winning, Bible reading, prayer and sanctification. And no one was better at it than Moody! You […]
Heretics / Orthodoxy
I had read Orthodoxy years ago but had not read the earlier Heretics. This volume also contains a helpful time-line of Chesterton’s life and when he wrote his books. G.K.C. is one of the most quoted British writers and was instrumental in the conversion of C.S. Lewis. He argues for Christianity in the face of […]
Worship, Community and the Triune God of...
Torrance is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the university of Aberdeen, Scotland. His Reformed views on worship are an obvious contrast from much of what we hear today. I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with things that Torrance writes. I found it greatly refreshing to have worship defined in terms of our participation in […]
Answers to the Most Important Questions ...
D. James Kennedy and the Coral Ridge Ministries prepared this book to warn people of the impending problem in case it really takes place. To each question about what may happen on January 1, three scenarios are given. “The Alarmist View” gives the doomsday approach. “The Conservative View” gives the nonchalant approach. “The Moderate View” […]