The comparison of these two theological dictionaries provides interesting reading. Both were published in 1996, one from Westminster John Knox Press, the other from Kregel. The Westminster Dictionary is much more of an alphabetical listing of terms. Interesting ones are: Baptismal vows: “The promises made by parents for a child at the time of infant […]
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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 […]
Creating God in the Image of Man?
Geisler, now the President of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC, makes a current (1997) critique of “neotheism,” the open view of God espoused by Clark Pinnock and others, and “panentheism” or “process theology,” the view that God is actually changing as He gains knowledge of how the world is unfolding. “This book warns of […]
The Openness of God
This is one of a number of books in which Clark Pinnock is involved in questioning orthodox Christianity. His denial of hell as a literal place of torment is well known. In this book (first printed in 1994 by IVP) Pinnock and others (Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, David Basinger) challenge the “traditional” view […]
A Handbook of Contemporary Theology
Dr. Smith, a Southern Baptist seminary professor and former pastor, wrote this book as a textbook for his course on contemporary theology. It was a necessity as there were few, if any, texts available on the subject. As he notes in the Preface, “Contemporary does not last a very long time.” Overall, it is an […]
The God Who Is There
IVP has done a 30th anniversary edition of this classic apologetic. I reread the book to search for things I had forgotten and found it to be as fresh as if Schaeffer had written it this year. What he continually calls “the new theology” (in 1968) is exactly what we are seeing as accepted theology […]
The God of the Bible and Other Gods
Lightner is not a stranger to apologetic books. This is a 1998 writing which validates the Christian faith against other contemporary views. It reads like a refresher course on the major doctrines and I think would be a good book to start a new believer out on. It includes a section, along with helpful charts, […]
I Believe: Exploring the Apostle’s Creed
Alister McGrath is an Anglican who writes often on Reformation theology and related issues. This is a small book that reads like a primer on the Christian faith using the Apostle’s Creed as an outline. It is loaded with good illustrations about basic doctrines as well as simple explanations of the meaning of biblical words […]
True Spirituality
This is one of those books by Schaeffer that I had missed reading when we were all reading Escape from Reason, How Shall We Then Live?, and The God Who Is There. In this book (first printed in 1971, containing 180 pages) Schaeffer applies the apologetic emphases of his other books into a practical guide […]
The Trivialization of God
At the beginning I thought I was going to really enjoy this book. McCullough, President and Professor of Theology and Preaching at San Francisco Theological Seminary, has some very good points describing how we reduce God to fit within our own structured arena. His sections on “loss of awe,” “rampant individualism,” and “God-Centered Worship,” among […]