By Paul W. Barnett Apollos. 182 pages. £12.99
This book is the third volume to be published in the Apollos series, New Studies in Biblical Theology, under the general editorship of Don Carson. The author is Bishop of North Sydney, Australia, and has a PhD from London University.
Despite a title which may seem too scholarly, philosophical, or simply obscure for the palates of non-theologians in the church, this is a book which deserves to be widely read.
At a point in time when the evangelical church seems in grave danger in many quarters of abandoning the life of the mind in favour of a blind faith rooting itself either in experience alone or in a rigid and self-justifying doctrinalism, work such as that of Dr. Barnett is a salutary reminder that there is such a thing as sanctified Christian scholarship, and that our faith is built upon firmer foundations than emotional highs or the mere repetition of the words of previous generations.
