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Review of ‘Telling God’s Story’ by Preben Vang & Terry G. Carter

Telling God’s Story is not an Introduction to the Books of the Bible. Rather it is, as its subtitle says, a survey of “the biblical narrative from beginning to end.” In our day of chronic Bible illiteracy, we sorely need to encourage people to study their Bibles. It is to Scripture that we should be pointing our flocks. With that in mind I would give this book to believers as a discipleship tool.”

THE INCOHERENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS

“[I]f we begin to stack up the problems: – something does not come from nothing; life does not come from non-life; the mathematics of sequence space (not enough time); the contradiction of using target-oriented computer programs to “simulate” discrete non-targeted chance scenarios; the logical fallacies (question-begging, composition, reification), etc., these problems make the intellectual satisfaction appear rather hollow.”

Should ‘Presuppositional’ Apologetics Be Rebranded As ‘Covenantal’ Apologetics?

As Greg Bahnsen showed in his Always Ready, there is plenty of biblical justification for presuppositional apologetics, without the need to appeal to covenant theology.  While Bahnsen was a proponent of covenant theology, he wisely sought to establish his apologetics on a different and firmer foundation.  What we want to know is whether Van Til’s apologetic is biblical, and indeed it is.”

Reviewing ‘Covenantal Apologetics’ by K. Scott Oliphint

“Looked at simply as a book about presuppositional apologetics this is a welcome addition.  Between the customary Introduction and Conclusion there are seven informative chapters… the author has thought through how best to present the logic of the approach, and he brings in some useful refinements in this area; refinements which readers will appreciate.”

Review of ‘Schaeffer on the Christian Life’ by William Edgar

“In their choice of William Edgar to write this book the publishers could not have done better. Edgar was converted through Schaeffer’s ministry and knew the Schaeffer’s well. Although Edgar incorporates personal reminiscences and reflections on the man, his evaluation is free of sentimentality and panegyric. Schaeffer on the Christian Life is a sympathetic yet objective appraisal of its subject, calculated to promote the spirituality it records.”