Reviews and Endorsements
- A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew
- The Advent of Evangelicalism
- Augustine as Mentor
- Calvinism
- The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown
- Deep Preaching
- Doctrine That Dances
- Encountering the Manuscripts
- The End of Christianity
- The End of the Law
- Evangelicals Engaging Emergent
- Evangelism Handbook
- Faithful Preaching
- The Formation of Christian Doctrine
- From Pentecost to Patmos
- Future Israel
- The Great Commission
- Interpreting Gospel Narratives
- Introduction to Evangelism
- Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective
- John A. Broadus
- Learn to Read New Testament Greek
- The Love of Wisdom
- Old Testament Survey
- Perspectives on Family Ministry
- Salvation and Sovereignty
- The Shape of Faith to Come
- Spirit-Led Preaching
- The Ten Commandments
- That You May Know
- Tough-Minded Christianity
- TransforMission
- The Unquenchable Flame
- Women Leading Women
“Excellent essays to rationally and reasonably defend the truth…”
“This collection is wonderful, especially in combination with the previous collection Passionate Conviction. It really does provide excellent essays to rationally and reasonably defend the truth of Christianity.
The best thing about this book is that it deals with numerous contemporary issues and concerns. It is hard since the popularization of Dawkins and Erhman for one to simply jump to the gospel, without first having to sort out “delusional” issues or “mistranslations” or ”corruptions.”
This book provides some of the necessary tools. Now looking at the essays covered, one will realize that other issues that are important are missing, namely that of relativism or comparative religions. So it is not a complete guide, but if one picks up passionate conviction those issues are addressed.
Therefore one might want to see which issues are of most concern to you and thus pick volumes accordingly.
The minor let down, was getting the book and starting to read Craig’s critique of dawkins only to find that it was about 3 pages (other authors give a more substantive analysis). Although it did address some issues, I wanted a lot more. Additionally, if one owns a huge collection of apologetics textbooks, one may ask is it worth it? For example Craig Evans has a chapter on Fabricating Jesus, but he has written a whole book on the issue. There are other instances of this (mostly with the Jesus of History section), in which I owned the book, in which the expert has written and from which the article may have been derived or adapted.
Moments like those made me wonder if I was getting my full money’s worth (or if i own too many books !) , but in the end I was pleased as it was a great recap and so there is so much good material in a portable compact volume.
It is an excellent volume, especially recommended for those new to the issues and challenges of the New Atheists.”
- Lemaro Thompson, customer review at Amazon.com
Recent Reviews
- “The Ten Commandments is intellectually stimulating and practically relevant.”
- “Dr. Allen has written an incredibly intriguing book”
- TransforMission provides “tons of broad and in depth research”
- Parker and Wilder provide “tons of research,well-done research, broad and indepth research on short term missions and churches”
- The Unquenchable Flame “clear, readable, and accessible”
- The Cradle, The Cross, and The Crown is “user-friendly” and “represents careful and up-to-date scholarship”
- The End of Christianity “A must-read for theologians, pastors…”
- Whosoever Will is a helpful addition to the discussion on Calvinism
- The Unquenchable Flame “Well-written and enjoyable”
- New essay book critiques Calvinism
Recent Endorsements
- …challenges our conceptions of [the] most central message of Jesus
- Bock has delivered the Gospel message in a new way
- A fresh look at the old, old, story – the Gospel
- Darrell Bock is at his best in this new study
- Bock has written a fine biblical theology of the gospel
- Whosoever Will “will encourage everyone who reads it”
- I encourage every pastor to read Whosoever Will…
- Whosoever Will “scholarly, biblically accurate, and reasonable”
- Whosoever Will puts forward “an alternative to the Calvinist model”
- Whosoever Will for “all who wish to consider seriously the role of Calvinism in Baptist life…”