Our friends at Crossway Books have published two new books worthy of our attention. The first is John Piper’s A Sweet & Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and The Sovereignty of God which is available here. This book stems from Piper’s regular preaching ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specifically, Piper exposits these issues as they arise in the book of Ruth.
The second title I would like to draw to your attention to is British blogger, medical doctor, and preacher Adrian Warnock’s Raised with Christ: How th
e Resurrection Changes Everything which can be found here. Warnock draws upon Scripture and a wealth of scholarship, although the book is written for the layperson. Readers will be interested in knowing that he draws upon and cites Richard Gaffin a few times in the book. Warnock calls for us to consider not only the cross, but also the resurrection and what that means for both redemptive history and the application of redemption.
Keep your eyes peeled for full scale reviews of these books in the months ahead.
Jeff,
I was so excited when I first heard about Warnock’s book. Since I read Gaffin’s R&R I always thought it important for someone to take Gaffin’s conclusions and boil them down so that lay people could benefit from Gaffin’s insights. It would not be an exaggeration to say that when I first read Gaffin I had a paradigm shift with respect to the importance of the resurrection (Historia) and the application of redemption to me (ordo)! I will never think of Easter the same way.
Michael
Warnock’s book looks like it will make Gaffin’s work accessible for a larger audience.