Velvet Elvis was written in 2005 and is Bell’s first book. This book is as clear a statement on the theology and theological method of Bell as there is. It also includes a clear discussion regarding his views of heaven, hell, and salvation (see chapter 6) which appear in Love Wins. I am a little […]
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Does Love Win?
Recently, there has been an explosion of attention focused on Rob Bell and his new book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, which was released in March 2011 by HarperOne. The buzz surrounding this book began when Bell posted an introductory video to his book […]
Cosmopolis
I noticed this book in the footnotes of a number of books I was reading and decided to pick it up and read it. This is a classic discussion by an influential American university professor (Toulmin, 1922-2009) about the failures of modernism and a way forward. Toulmin’s development of modernism is captivating and easy to […]
The Decline of the African American Theo...
I was pleasantly surprised and encouraged with this 2007 volume from the senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Anyabwile is professedly Reformed in his theology, steering him through his many theological evaluations of the Black American experience, which, according to the author, departed from Biblical orthodoxy mostly in […]
The Church in Postmodern Times
This article appeared in the December, 1998 issue of The Baptist Bulletin. Has there ever been a time like ours, when the believer at one moment can be so encouraged about the prospects for the gospel and in the next moment be so disappointed? We rejoice to see the modernism of yesterday losing ground in […]
Postmodernism
This complete paper appeared in the Spring 1999 edition of The Journal of Ministry & Theology, Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA. When Charles Dickens wrote The Tale of Two Cities depicting the French Revolution, he began with the words, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Now at […]
The Book of J
It is a good thing that my daughter, an M.A. student at the University of Northern Colorado, is also a graduate of Faith Baptist Bible College (Ankeny, IA). While upgrading her teaching degree, she was assigned reading from this book, which espouses, in modern garb, the old German Rationalism of the nineteenth century. But, equipped […]
Church on the Rise
As a pastor I am always looking for good and accurate information about those things which are present dangers to the church. Sometimes the truth is brought to light by contrasting it with error. Pastor DeBruyn (Th.M., Dallas) has added valuable light to the already growing stack of books on the contemporary church. The sub-title, […]
Redefining Christianity
I had not read Bob DeWaay before this book. My friend Gary Gilley writes the Forward and can be counted on to give good recommendations. The book is a pointed critique of Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven movement. Unless you are already a Warren fan, you can’t help but agree with most of what DeWaay writes, […]
The Emerging Church Phenomenon
We have been studying Postmodernism for twenty years. Christian writers and non-Christian writers alike sounded a note of alarm at what the effects of this cultural paradigm shift would be upon the Church. In 1996, James White proposed, “Now a new tidal wave, called by the scholars postmodernity, is sweeping across Western thought, undermining the […]