A PURITAN THEOLOGY:
Doctrine for life
By Joel R. Beeke & Mark Jones
Reformation Heritage Books. 1054 pages £39.61
ISBN 978 1 601 781 666
One of the difficulties of editing a Christian newspaper is handling reviews of large tomes. Most reviewers are ministers of churches and they are simply too busy to take on reading and inwardly digesting a book of a 1000 pages or more.
So it is that for the past year or more I have been reading a few pages of A Puritan Theology each day and I finally got through it. I can say it has been an exceedingly worthwhile exercise. The Puritans were not only theologically acute – one has only to think of giants of thought like John Owen and Jonathan Edwards – but were perceptive readers of the human heart. This makes for theology that hits deep.
