Mike Wittmer

Category: book review

  • DeYoung does something

    I am a big fan of Kevin DeYoung and his book, Why We’re Not Emergent, but I was initially disappointed when I received his new book on the will of God, Just Do Something.  It just seemed so small.  But then I read it, and I realized that Kevin and the folks at Moody knew…

  • how the resurrection justifies us

    Thank you all for your insights on how we are justified by Jesus’ resurrection.  I don’t have much to add, except to point to I. Howard Marshall’s fine chapter on this topic in his recent book, Aspects of the Atonement (Milton Keynes, UK:  Paternoster Press, 2007).   Marshall observes that the average Christian tends to…

  • a good book on the good book

    I just spent my morning reading a splendid summary of the contemporary debates surrounding Scripture, and I like it so much that I’m going to use it as a textbook for my class on prolegomena.  The book is Ancient Word, Changing Worlds:  the Doctrine of Scripture in a Modern Age, by Stephen J. Nichols and…

  • southern kuyper

    I just had an extremely stimulating day with the students, recent graduates, and friends of David Naugle at the 12th annual Paideia conference at Dallas Baptist University.  There may not be anything else like it.  Nearly 40 students read papers at this day and a half long event, and the ones that I attended were provocative…

  • the best book on forgiveness

    I want to let you know about Unpacking Forgiveness (Crossway), a new book that I like so much I am using it in my soteriology class. The author, Chris Brauns, was two years ahead of me when we were students at GRTS, and so I’ve always looked up to him as sort of an older…

  • evangelical universalism?

    Here is a book review that I published in the current issue of the Calvin Theological Journal (November, 2008).  I do not think that it is available online, and I suspect that most of you don’t subscribe to CTJ.  But since you may be interested in the subject, I thought that I would post it…