Book Reviews Archives — R. L. Solberg

Rabbi Singer on the Resurrection

In preparation for my debate with Rabbi Tovia Singer, I studied his books Let’s Get Biblical, volumes 1 and 2. In particular I was interested in his take on the Resurrection of Jesus. Singer and I both agree with the apostle Paul that “if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and […]

R. L. Solberg 2 years agoSeptember 4, 2022

Apologetics Book Reviews Hebrew Roots Theology

Romans 14: Food & Days

I’ve been working my way through the book The Pauline Paradox by a group called 119 Ministries, and I keep coming across these…issues. I hesitate to call them outright lies because I don’t know the heart of the author. But if they aren’t intentional lies, they’re incredibly irresponsible errors about what the Bible teaches. As an apologist, […]

R. L. Solberg 3 years agoSeptember 24, 2021

Book Reviews Personal Philosophy

Why Religion Matters (Book Review)

In Why Religion Matters, author Huston Smith examines the question “Who is right about reality?” by contrasting the positions of what he calls traditionalists, modernists, and the postmoderns. To do so, he employs an analogy of the great outdoors and a tunnel within it, a concept based on the 1995 novel The Tunnel by William […]

R. L. Solberg 3 years agoMarch 10, 2021

Academic Book Reviews Theology

Augustine’s Confessions: A Theological Summary

Augustine spent the last years of his career reviewing his life’s work, offering reflections on—and the occasional correction of—his earlier writings. From this vantage point, the elderly Augustine informs us that his reason for writing Confessions was “to move the heart—his own and others’ —toward God in love” (Levering, 2013, p. 89). Indeed, one gets […]

R. L. Solberg 3 years agoJanuary 25, 2021

Book Reviews Culture Politics

Two Masters and Two Gospels

A review of Two Masters and Two Gospels Volume 1: The Teaching of Jesus vs. the “Leaven of the Pharisees” in Talk Radio and Cable News, by J. Michael Bennett, Ph.D. I recently received a copy of this book and was excited to dig in because I found the premise fascinating. The set-up in the […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Book Reviews Theology

Created in God’s Image

“It’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of the doctrine of man”.[1] Anthony A. Hoekema begins his book Created in God’s Image with this bold statement and spends the next 243 pages exploring every implication and outworking of the Christian view of man.[2] He breaks his treatise down into two main sections: man as created in […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoOctober 14, 2020

Book Reviews Faith Theology

Delighting in the Trinity

In his book Delighting in the Trinity, author Michael Reeves sets out to provide a different flavor of commentary than we are used to reading when it comes to literature on in-depth theological topics such as the Trinity. Unlike clinical, academic endeavors, this book is about growing in our enjoyment of God and seeing how […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoMarch 8, 2021

Book Reviews Culture Theology

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

This book grabbed my attention right away because it’s intended purpose—to reveal unconscious cultural bias to Western readers like me—felt offensive at first. The fact that I was raised in an individualistic, American culture was likely a chief contributor to my taking their premise as something like an insult initially. That said, in Misreading Scripture […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoMarch 10, 2021

Book Reviews Creativity Music & Art

A Literary Experiment: On Lewis

The subject of this experiment in literary criticism is the following books by C.S. Lewis; The Screwtape Letters, (Lewis, 1942), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, (Lewis, 1950), Mere Christianity, (Lewis, 1952), and Till We Have Faces, (Lewis, 1956). My goal was to discover if, by using Lewis’ methods of literary criticism I could […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Book Reviews Faith Theology

Whom Shall I Say is Calling?

A few days ago a good friend of mine told me of his growing concern about Sarah Young’s incredibly popular devotional, Jesus Calling. This book has captured the attention of a wide audience since it was released in 2004 and has reportedly sold more than 15 million copies. My friend, who has been reading it […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoJanuary 21, 2021