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Seven Things I Wish Every Christian Knew About the Bible: A Review

January 18, 2022 by Randal

Michael Bird. Seven Things I Wish Every Christian Knew About the Bible. Zondervan, 2021. Seven Things is an introduction to the Bible written by Anglican priest and New Testament scholar Michael Bird. The book is written in seven chapters addressing origins (chapter 1), inspiration and inerrancy (chapter 2), authority (chapter 3), the cultural distance between the biblical […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, book review, hermeneutics, Michael Bird, review

Why They’re Catholic: A Review of Trent Horn, Why We’re Catholic

July 9, 2019 by Randal

Trent Horn, Why We’re Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love (Catholic Answers, 2017). In his 2017 book Why We’re Catholic, Catholic apologist Trent Horn aims to provide a clear, concise, and winsome introduction to the Catholic faith. The book consists of twenty-five short and punchy chapters divided into five sections: truth and God, Jesus […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, book review, Catholic apologetics, Catholicism, review, Trent Horn

Abraham, Isaac, and … Anselm? A Review of The Question of God’s Perfection

February 18, 2019 by Randal

Yoram Hazony and Dru Johnson, eds. The Question of God’s Perfection: Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud. Philosophy of Religion. (Brill, 2019). The relationship between philosophical reason and biblical revelation has always been a fraught one. At times, warfare has broken out, as when scholars like Blaise Pascal and Martin […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical theology, book review, divine perfection, Dru Johnson, natural theology, Yoram Hazony

The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Review

November 7, 2018 by Randal

Cone, James. The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2011). The next time somebody responds to the Black Lives Matter movement by saying “All lives matter,” you might want to suggest that they read black liberation theologian James Cone’s magisterial reflection on the abominable history of lynching in America. The year is 1918 when a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: book review, ethics, James Cone, liberation theology, lynching, racism, review

An Introduction to Christian Worldview: A Review

January 13, 2018 by Randal

Tawa J. Anderson, W. Michael Clark, and David K. Naugle. An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God’s Perspective in a Pluralistic World. (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017). I have been teaching a seminary level Christian worldview class for fifteen years and I’m always on the lookout for new textbooks. So when I learned of An Introduction […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: An Introduction to Christian Worldview, book review, Tawa Anderson, worldview

Hellrazed? A Review

December 28, 2017 by Randal

Kevin Miller, ed. Hellrazed? (Kimberley, BC: Kevin Miller XI Productions, 2017). In 2012, filmmaker Kevin Miller released his documentary Hellbound?, a provocative and thought-provoking exploration of the doctrine of hell and how it impacts our understanding of Christian faith. Like most documentarians, Miller had a point of view on the subject of his film. Hellbound? was concerned not only to challenge […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: book review, Hellbound?, Hellrazed, Kevin Miller

An Evolving Evangelical Debate: A review of “Four Views on The Historical Adam”

May 15, 2014 by Randal

Barrett, Matthew and Ardel B. Caneday, eds. Four Views on the Historical Adam (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013), 288 pp. Fifteen years ago Zondervan published Three Views on Creation and Evolution, a lively exchange between two young earth creationists (Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds), an old earth creationist (Robert C. Newman), and a theistic evolutionist (Howard Van Til). Since that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, book review, Darwin, evolution, Four views on The Historical Adam, hermeneutics, interpretation, review, theology

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