Book Review: D. G. Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalismrom: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004), 224pp. - ISBN 0-8010-2728-4

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In this volume historian  D. G. Hart makes a case for the abandoning the concept of “evangelicalism” as a separate religious identity and its “minimalist account of the Christian faith” in favor of American Christians rediscovering their theological heritage.  It is done with historical insight, wit and daring.  This is a thought provoking piece of historical theology, and while not on a list of “must-read titles,” it is worth consideration.

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To quote Tim LaHaye, “This book deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the true nature of God..”  This volume is less a debate than an exposition of the tragic results when an unbiblical concept (libertarian free will) becomes the starting point and filter through which the understanding of the nature of God and man is attempted.  James White’s argumentation is relentlessly biblical. Recommended.

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Book Review: Robert L. Thomas, Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old, (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2003), 524pp. - ISBN 0-8254-3839-X

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In this volume Dr. Thomas sets out with a four-fold goal:

• To discuss the recent changes in evangelical hermeneutics

• To show new meanings being attached to grammatical-historical interpretation

• To compare traditional grammatical-historical interpretation with new evangelical hermeneutics

• To identify the dominant principles of new evangelical hermeneutics

Carefully chronicling and evaluating shifts in evangelical hermeneutics, Dr. Thomas has produced a must-read volume that waves a red flag of warning to all who love and labor in the Word.

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