Non-Fiction
Scenes with My Son – Robert Hubbard
I don’t think I’ve sobbed so hard over a book before. Robert Hubbard’s Scenes with My Son is a touching, raw, reflective memoir of the life of Robert’s son, Auggie, who died from suicide at […]
Publisher: Eerdmans
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Beyond Homelessness (15th Anniversary Edition) – Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh
Fifteen years ago, the Scottish Journal of Theology called Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement a “remarkable, important, and timely book.” This fifteenth anniversary edition remains remarkable, important, and—perhaps to our shame—even […]
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Breaking Bread – Alastair Stewart
Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities is one of those highly technical and precise works of history and theology that seemingly has little practical value to the majority of […]
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Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate – Andrew J. Brown
The interpretation of the Creation narrative is one of the most contentious and divisive subjects within Christianity. Fundamentalist Young Earth Creationists (YEC) stand on one extreme of the platform, attempting to interpret every element of […]
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Proverbs: Commentary for Christian Formation – John Goldingay
John Goldingay is a scholar whom I’ve come to describe as approachably academic in style. Goldingay does not sacrifice academic rigor for accessibility, but rather manages to blend the two together to make what other […]
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The Jesus Handbook – edited by Jens Schroter and Christine Jacobi
The Jesus Handbook is a historical-critical look at the historical Jesus, his world, and the impact of his life. Originally published in German in 2017, this comprehensive and wide-ranging exploration of the person of Jesus […]
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Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings – Edited by Mattias Henze and David Lincicum
In the field of New Testament interpretation, Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New stands alone. Literally and figuratively. Literally because, at over 1000 pages, this is […]
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The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism – Daniel Hummel
I have a confession: Growing up I read every single Left Behind book. I don’t just mean the 12 books in the original series. Or the 3 prequels and 1 sequel. Or the 40 middle […]
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Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign – Christian T. Collins Winn
I’ve had this book for several months and not written a review of it because I kept waiting to feel like I could write something that could do justice to how transformative this book has […]
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Evangelism: Learning from the Past – Michael Green
The late Michael Green was a British evangelist and theologian whose work is even more relevant today in the United Kingdom than it was during his years of ministry. Eerdmans has been publishing his writing […]