Book Review: Cultural Liturgies Series by James K. A. Smith Introduction: a philosophical handmaiden to liturgical anthropology How might theological anthropology benefit from James K. A. Smith’s Cultural Liturgies series? I suggest that Smith’s project offers theology a philosophical handmaiden to the liturgical anthropology of Romans 6:17: “Thanks be to God that you who were once slaves […]
Engaging with Kate Sonderegger: On Divine Invisibility
Book Review: Systematic Theology Vol. 1 by Katherine Sonderegger “The Lord’s style of language” One of the theologian’s primary tasks is to assist the church in better understanding what Augustine once called, “the Lord’s style of language.” This task is challenging, not because the Lord employs an esoteric angelic language when he speaks to us, but because […]
Geerhardus Vos on the doctrine of God
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 […]
