Book Review: Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 1, by Geerhardus Vos Over the weekend I had the opportunity to work through the first volume of Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics, which is devoted to theology proper (i.e., God’s being, attributes, and triunity; God’s decrees; and God’s “natural works” [naturae opera] of creation and providence). I confess to being a […]
Turretin’s Treasure
Book Review: Institutes of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin About fifteen years ago at one of the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, Allan Fisher gave me, a poor doctoral student at the time, one of the best gifts that an aspiring student of theology could ever receive: a copy of Francis Turretin’s three-volume […]
The Quest for the Trinity
Book Review: The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity by Stephen R. Holmes In Stephen R. Holmes’s The Quest for the Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History and Modernity, we have a book that is sweet to the taste but bitter to the stomach. Though Holmes’s learned […]
Dictionary For Theological Interpretation of the Bible
Book Review: Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible by Kevin J. Vanhoozer It might sound strange to suggest that we need a dictionary devoted to the theological interpretation of the Bible, but Kevin J. Vanhoozer wagers that we do with the publication of Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB). A little familiarity […]