This Year’s Best Theology and Biblical Studies Books
Evaluated by Scot McKnight
Nijay Gupta: Paul and the Language of Faith
(Eerdmans)
Jack Levison: The Spirit According to the Old Testament
A Boundless God (Baker Academic)
Is the Holy Spirit Breath, Wind, or Spirit?
Examining the untamed Spirit of the Old Testament.
Steven Bouma-Prediger: A New Perspective on Creation Care
Earthkeeping and Character
Exploring a Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic
The intersection of virtue ethics and environmental ethics
Steve Wilkens: What’s So Funny About God?
A Theological Look at Humor
The Holy and the Mundane
The Christian life is full of humorous and profound paradoxes.
Jonathan Edwards and the Aftereffects of the Awakening
True religion consists in the movement of one's will toward obedience to God.
Why God Cares About the Physical Earth
“God is committed to the earth that he has made, and he delights when we rejoice in the good things he has given us to enjoy.”
