The most fascinating thing about this book is that it is deadly boring.  It took me two months to read its 197 pages, mainly because I kept putting it aside since, for sheer excitement, it couldn’t compete with Bavinck’s Prolegomena to Dogmatics or Kuyper’s Principles of Sacred Theology.

Yet if ever a book was designed with the single intention of being punchy, fast-paced and easily readable, this is it.  Its allusions are straight from yesterdays’ headlines, it abounds with anecdotes and it is extravagant in self-disclosure.  Here is someone with credentials a struggling minister might kill for: a regular broadcaster, a prolific author, a highly sought-after speaker, a builder of hospitals in India, a meeter of famous people; the sort of guy whom media flunkies take for a sports commentator, not a contributor to religious programmes.

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Posted in Albrecht Ritschl, Augustine, Bavinck, Church Fathers, Contemporaries, Cornelius van Til, Doctrine of Sin, Geerhardus Vos, Jesus, Judaism, Kuyper, New Testament, Puritans, Reformers, Sermon on the Mount, Steve Chalk, Yahweh; Posted 14 years ago by Donald Macleod