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Mission and Culture
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The Simplest Way to Change the World: Biblical Hospitality as a Way of Life

Reviewed by Jessica Udall
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

Reviewed by Ted Newell
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel

Reviewed by Stephen M. Davis
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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A Concise Guide to the Qur’an: Answering Thirty Critical Questions

Reviewed by Matthew Bennett
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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The Symphony of Mission: Playing Your Part in God’s Work in the World

Reviewed by J. D. Payne
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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Honor, Shame, and the Gospel: Reframing Our Message and Ministry

Reviewed by Alan B. Howell
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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Fashion Theology

Reviewed by Steven Lindsey
Mission and Culture
Mission and Culture
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World Mission: Theology, Strategy, and Current Issues

Reviewed by Kyle Faircloth
Mission and Culture
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Jesus, Divorce, and Remarriage: In Their Historical Setting

Reviewed by Philip H. Kern
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation

Reviewed by Kit Barker
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Damascus

Reviewed by Anthony Brammall
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church and What the Bible Has to Say

Reviewed by Robert S. Smith
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Come, Let Us Sing: A Call to Musical Reformation

Reviewed by Matthew D. Westerholm
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?

Reviewed by Samuel G. Parkison
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Reviewed by Neil Shenvi
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life

Reviewed by Jeremy M. Kimble
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Thy Will Be Done: The Ten Commandments and the Christian Life

Reviewed by Andrew J. Spencer
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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The Trauma of Doctrine: New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God

Reviewed by James Rutherford
Ethics and Pastoralia
Ethics and Pastoralia
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Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy

Reviewed by Dennis Greeson
Ethics and Pastoralia
Systematic Theology
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All That God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delight

Reviewed by Dennis Greeson
Systematic Theology
Systematic Theology
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A Treatise on Jonathan Edwards Continuous Creation and Christology

Reviewed by Robert W. Caldwell III
Systematic Theology
Systematic Theology
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Who Is God? Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

Reviewed by David A. Larson
Systematic Theology
History and Historical Theology
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The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Reviewed by James Rutherford
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

Reviewed by Miles S. Mullin II
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

Reviewed by Amanda Wood Aucoin
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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The Works of William Perkins

Reviewed by Matthew N. Payne
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Indulgences. Luther, Catholicism, and the Imputation of Merit

Reviewed by Robert Kolb
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Therefore the Truth I Speak: Scottish Theology 1500–1700

Reviewed by A. T. B. McGowan
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Luther for Evangelicals: A Reintroduction

Reviewed by Martin Foord
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Bavinck: A Critical Biography

Reviewed by Kenneth J. Stewart
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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To Think Christianly: A History of L’Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

Reviewed by Nathan A. Finn
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History

Reviewed by Ryan Rindels
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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The Confession of Faith: A Critical Text and Introduction

Reviewed by Ryan David Shelton
History and Historical Theology
History and Historical Theology
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Confessions

Reviewed by Coleman M. Ford
History and Historical Theology
New Testament
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Claiming Places: Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization

Reviewed by Steve Walton
New Testament
New Testament
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The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries

Reviewed by Benjamin E. Castaneda
New Testament
New Testament
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Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul’s Theology and Spirituality

Reviewed by Hunter Brown
New Testament
New Testament
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From Adam and Israel to the Church: A Biblical Theology of the People of God

Reviewed by Joel White
New Testament
New Testament
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Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Survey

Reviewed by Matthew Y. Emerson
New Testament
New Testament
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Paul and the Power of Grace

Reviewed by Ryan Johnson
New Testament
Old Testament
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Nahum

Reviewed by E. Ray Clendenen
Old Testament
Old Testament
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Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament

Reviewed by Kyle Young
Old Testament
Old Testament
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The God of the Old Testament: Encountering the Divine in Christian Scripture

Reviewed by Vincent K. H. Ooi
Old Testament
Old Testament
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Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts

Reviewed by Drew Grumbles
Old Testament
Old Testament
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Genesis

Reviewed by Dustin Burlet
Old Testament
Old Testament
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Daniel

Reviewed by Tim Meadowcroft
Old Testament
Old Testament
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God’s Messiah in the Old Testament

Reviewed by Kevin S. Chen
Old Testament

 

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