Are you looking for a summary book on the Holy Spirit under two hundred pages? This is a book I recommend. This is from the Short Studies in Systematic Theology series from Crossway and it’s the first volume I read from this series. I was interested to see if it would be as good as the Short Studies in Biblical Theology Series that I have immensely enjoyed reading for years from the publisher.
Are you looking for a good commentary on the book of Judges? I recommend this work and found the insights from the author to be very helpful in interpreting the book of Judges. I think if you are going to be a Bible expositor teaching through the book of Judges you need to have this book as a work you consult.
Do you have questions about things in the first five books of the Bible (the Law of Moses) specifically with the sacrifices, priesthood, the holidays and the Tabernacle/Temple? This is a great resource to read and have in your library! This is true for pastors, teachers and general Christian Bible readers. This volume is part of a commentary series titled “The Gospel According to the Old Testament” published by Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing. I have read five other titles in this series, all of which were very good. This one too is up there for me.
What does the Bible from the Old Testament to the New Testament has to teach us about the topic of priesthood? This book is a survey of a biblical view of priesthood, where the author is presenting to readers a biblical theology of priesthood that culminate with Jesus as the High Priest and the Church as a family of priests. The book is a part of the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series which is published by Crossway. The author David Schrock has a doctorate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a pastor in Virginia.
What does the Bible from the Old Testament to the New Testment has to teach us about the resurrection and also life after death? This book is a survey of that, giving us a biblical theology of God’s power over death and also the fuller doctrine developed in God’s revelation of a physical resurrection of all humans after death, either to judgment or salvation. The author Mitchell Chase is a professor of biblical studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and his doctoral work at Southern Seminary was on the topic of resurrection hope. So it is fitting he authored this book on this topic for the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series which is published by Crossway. Coming in at 163 pages it is a helpful survey of what does the Bible have to say about the resurrection that begins in seed form in the Old Testament but gets more developed as more of God’s Word is revealed in redemptive history.
This is a later post in the day than usual! Just got back from my vacation!
One of the amazing place we visited was a historic Dutch town in America. If you follow this blog for sometime you know I love Dutch Reformed theology and also the contribution of Dutch Americans to Christian theology and apologetics, namely Cornelius Van Til. It was a treat to see places with last names of Kuyper and other other Dutch family names around this town that often I see as last names of authors in the books of theologians and thinkers.
And one of the things I love about Dutch Neo-Calvinist Reformed thinkers such as Van Til, Kuyper and Bavinck is their observations of the inter-relationships of spheres and things, and inter-disciplinary nature of knowledge and sphere sovereignty.
One treat during my trip was seeing Dutch windmills. It totally blew my mind and also got me thinking tangent to the topic of Cornelius Van Til, inter-disciplines and innovations and appreciation for the truth of the Christian worldview.
What is the significant of the theme of the son and the son of God in the Bible? If you are interested with this theme this book is for you! The author is Graeme Goldsworthy a retired Old Testament professor and Biblical Theology specialist.
Looking for a book that will make you be enchanted with the beauty of the Bible? This book might do it for you! The author Andrew David Naselli is a professor of the New Testament at Bethlehem College & Seminary and he did a masterful job of showing how the Bible has the theme of a hero that fights a monster/dragon in a great epic that results in the rescue and deliverance of many people. This isn’t just a minor theme; rather it is a subject that spans the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I believe this book makes a unique contribution in biblical theology and as the book progresses I am convinced that Nasellis is right of how serpent slaying stories found in many legends around the world echoes the greatest story ever told in the Greatest book of all namely the Bible. It was not only educational but also a fun read!
Do you have a biblical view of God’s blessing? There are those today who get caught up with prosperity Gospel. That’s one error. But another error can arise that is born from over-reaction to the Prosperity Gospel in which God’s blessings are denies, downplayed or the subject is diverted. A biblical theology of blessing is much needed and I believe this book makes a unique contribution since most works against prosperity Gospel engages the topic more in a fashion of “systematic theology” but here with this book the author uses biblical theology in his methodology in tackling the blessing of God. This I think helps readers to see verses about blessing in its context and also in light of how God’s progressive revelation unfolded. The author is William R. Osborne , a Professor of biblical and theological studies at College of the Ozarks and he is more than qualified to write a biblical theology of God’s blessing from Genesis to Revelation.
Someone asked a question about thoughts of Biblical Theology versus Systematic Theology. I don’t see the two should be against one another but rather both are important, though sometimes some see one is more important than the other in such a way that one is neglected or looked down upon.
Before going further, what is systematic theology and Biblical Theology?
Systematic Theology (I shall use the acronym ST) as defined by popular Systematic Theologian Wayne Grudem is Theology that “focuses on the collection and summary of all biblical passages on a subject, and attempts to summarize the teachings of Scripture in brief, understandable, and carefully formulated statements” (Source).
Biblical Theology (I shall use the acronym BT) as defined by Biblical Theologian Geerhardus Vos “is that branch of Exegetical Theology which deals with the process of the self-revelation of God deposited in the Bible” (Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948), 13).
Biblical Theology is not a term to say right theology that is from the Bible (hopefully one’s Biblical Theology and Systematic Theology is based upon truths from the Bible). Rather Biblical is focus on the process and progress of how God revealed Himself and other truths while Systematic Theology often focus on the finished and completed revelation of God in the Bible and tries to organize these truths logically.
Do you appreciate irony? I love ironies and if there’s one literature that really got me interested in this literary device it was the Bible. In this book New Testament scholar G. K. Beale look at the various irony found throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. This is an excellent work on Biblical Theology and certainly I want to read more of Beale’s books.
This book is on a Christian examination of five books in the Old Testament that are most neglected in the Bible: The Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther. If you want to learn more about these five books and gain rich insights on them then this volume is worth getting. This work is a part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series edited by D.A. Carson. Personally it was the second title in the series that I read which I looked forward to with much anticipation since the first book I read Adopted into God’s Family left a strong impression. Five Festal Garments didn’t disappoint. In fact it exceeded my expectation!
This is the sixth book I read from the “Short Studies in Biblical Theology” series published by Crossway. I have immensely enjoyed the other five volumes that I read from this series and this work is no different. This particular work explores the Lord’s Supper.
This is the fifth book I read from the “Short Studies in Biblical Theology” series published by Crossway. This series is a wonderful introduction for the layman on biblical theology in which one see the content of God’s truth being taught according to the consideration of the flow of Scripture as it progressed in redemptive history. I have immensely enjoyed the other four volumes. I also enjoyed this particular volume. This present work explores the theme of chaos to cosmos starting with the first chapter of Genesis and ending with the last chapter Revelation. This is a theme that is literally from the first page to the last page of the Bible and yet it is not often as obvious or noted by preachers and teachers today so this book is definitely helpful.
The Domain for Truth 