David Limbaugh. Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church. Washington D.C: Regnery Publishing, October 2nd, 2018. 350 pp.
4 out of 5
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I first read the author’s work titled The Emmaus Code: How Jesus Reveals Himself Through the Scriptures. In this volume titled Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church the author David Limbaugh examines the book of Acts along with six of Paul’s epistles in the New Testament. He manages to do this over twelve chapters in the book, or about 350 pages.
Some of the readers of this review might wonder if the author David Limbaugh is related to the talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. The author is related to Rush Limbaugh: He’s the younger brother of the talk show host but is his own person in his own right. But don’t let political partisanship lead you away from reading this book. Like the first book I read by David Limbaugh I was surprise to see how generally well researched and well written it was for a general reading audience to understand the Bible. The work was a blend of journalistic narrative style of writing plus chapter by chapter Bible commentary at the level of the lay person. I was impressed at Limbaugh’s overall ability to handle the Scripture and summarize the text.
Limbaugh tried to lay out the book in chronological fashion. After the first five chapters on Paul and the book of Acts the book then looks at Galatians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Corinthians and finally the book of Romans. I was surprised he took on the book of Romans as that is quite a deep book!
I thought Limbaugh did a good job pointing out how in the book of Acts there are parallels between Peter and Paul; Paul was in some sense like Peter but also exceeding him. Also the book did a good job with looking at the epistles of Paul. I thought it was unfortunate though that in examining the book of Romans the author did not come to a Reformed or Calvinistic conclusion. Though I might add he was sympathetic and courteous towards the Reformed view.
Overall a helpful resource for the general reading lay Christian.
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Thanks for the reblog
Thanks for the great review. I’ll add to my every growing reading list. 🙂
Blessings.
Thanks for the good review. I must admit, I am put-off by the author’s connection to Rush Limbaugh and his own highly-political books. I may give his “The Emmaus Code” a spin down the road. I see it’s available at our library.
I think you would enjoy The Emmaus Code. At first I thought the author is just a political pundit looking at the Bible like Bill O’Reilly which O’Reilly did a terrible job. But I think The Emmaus Code was quite biblically solid! How’s your day, how many percentage of your lawn have you been able to rake?
I saw the movie version of O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus” and it was blasphemous, portraying Jesus as a completely human religious zealot. My day’s going well, thanks. Working from home. No additional progress on the lawn. I was going to rake this afternoon, but it’s raining. Hope your day is going well. I imagine you’re still recuperating.
Tom,
We all must keep in mind the truths of Ezek. 18. Specifically in verse :20 … the son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, not the father for the iniquity of the son….
Modern liberalism is wholly antithetical to godliness. By this i mean their primary motivation is not based upon loving God above all else. Therefore all they do will only get them to Matt. 7: 21-23.
You cannot, “in the name of the Lord”, support sexual immorality and or abortion.
You cannot, “live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God”, while condoning sinners who defy Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2:13 and “Render unto Caesar what is Caesars”, which all apply to obeying the laws of national borders, identity fraud and stealing through wealth redistribution. .
SLIMJIM
There can be wisdom in side stepping mine fields or black holes when it is not needed. Sadly millions of evangelicals have been poisoned against Calvinism.
Books are still being written today that Calvinism is a heretical cultist teaching. Millions would simply toss his book in the trash for that reason alone.
They utterly reject the compatiblist view of human freewill.
To quote them ………., ” Calvinist believe God forces the unwilling into heaven and by force keeps the willing out of heaven.” They have a deep seated self righteous loathing for Calvinism.
Good grief even some Calvinists object to double pre-destination.
Good thoughts, T I Miller.
James White pointed out some while ago that one particular individual teaches that Calvinism arose from Islam!
Loved Limbaugh’s “Emmaus.” He did some great research. Thanks for the review of this one, Jim!
Calvinistic conclusion ? Please clarify. 🙂
By Calvinistic I mean the view that God’s grace begins and is initiated by God’s sovereignty. How are you doing are you still in the hospital?
No, Praise our God. Am home a praying for healing in His Will. Love in Christ.:)
Thanks for this review, Jim. Wish I could read as fast as you can.
You’re welcome. During my long flights overseas and back I got to read a lot so that helps. How are you doing?
Seem to be fine, thanks Jim! This week I had an appointment with the eye doctor and in a few days with my primary care physician. Both are routine but appointments like this slow down the work on my projects.
Seems like a neat book as this is a topic I’m interested in (New Testament)!