Three years ago I posted Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics.
In light of the fact that Black Friday was yesterday I thought I add a few more books to that lists of books I recommend if you are looking for gifts for those who are curious about Presuppositional apologetics or getting more into it. Of course, if it’s someone who is intensely into Van Til’s apologetics, it doesn’t hurt to ask whether or not they have it already.
Here are a few that I think I can recommend with links to my review:
1.) Christian Apologetics by Dr. Cornelius Van Til

Note: For some reason I really enjoyed the format of this book more than Van Til’s Defending the Faith.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
2.) Pushing the Antithesis

Note: Found this helpful for apologetics discipleship with the format though not without concern (see comment section of the review).
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
3.) Persuasion

Note: Good sketches of what apologetics and evangelism conversation with a Van Tillian bent looks like with different folks.
Purchase: Amazon
4.) Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality

Note: This spiritual biography is authored by a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary. A good devotional and spiritual read for an apologist, to keep one’s life spiritually balance and not just “head knowledge.”
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
5.) The Unfolding Mystery

Note: 25th Anniversary edition. I think it’s important for Presuppositionalists to also really know their Scriptures and their Old Testament Messianic prophecies pointing towards Jesus Christ. If one claims to be driven by Scripture in apologetics (where the Word sets the framework for apologetics) I think it’s also important to know how the Old Testament prophesied about Jesus as the Messiah.
Purchase: Westminster | Amazon
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Review: Songs of a Suffering King by J.V. Fesko
Posted in Bible, Bible Commentary, Book Review, Christianity, J.V. Fesko, Messiah, messianic prophecies, Psalms, tagged J.V. Fesko on October 10, 2014| 8 Comments »
This is a short and wonderful devotional commentary through the first eight Psalms. It might seem unusual that the author J.V. Fesko is a professor of systematic theology at WSC is writing this commentary on the Psalms but I thought he did a good job for a devotional commentary. Every theologian ought to be able to write something like this since the Word is what every theologian is building upon. Fesko’s commentary is trying to show the readers how the first eight Psalm is about Jesus Christ. I think for those who want to see what Christ-centered preaching/reading of the Bible is like, this is a book to get the flavor. My favorite chapter was his look into Psalm 1. I really enjoyed the author’s observation and argument from the content of Psalms 1 that the “righteous man” in Psalm anticipates more of Christ than it does anyone else since only Christ is the one who is totally righteous. The author insist strongly that Psalm 1:1 ought to be translated “blesses is the man” rather than something more generic such as “blessed are those,” since the “man” here is referring to Jesus. Fesko then makes the point from the New Testament that we can be righteous too provided we are grafted into Christ, thus playing on the motif within Psalm 1. I appreciated the devotional questions in the back of each chapter. The author was able to point us to Christ and also not neglect the original context of the Psalms themselves (David and his life, etc). I only wished he could have brought out more insight from the text itself at times (that criticism is one not only for this book but one that I have for most devotional commentary in general). Excellent book, I recommend it.
NOTE: I received this book for free from the publisher Reformation Heritage Books through Cross Focused Reviews in exchange for my honest opinion. The thoughts and words are my own and I was under no obligation to provide a favorable review.
Get it on Amazon: Songs of a Suffering King: The Grand Christ Hymn of Psalms 1 8
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