With the holiday season soon approaching, publishing houses are eager to release new tomes to engage our minds afresh.  Three new volumes I wish to bring to your attention are these:

Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing has just released the latest addition to the The Westminster Assembly and the Reformed Faith (Carl Trueman, series editor) in Robert Letham’s The Wesminster Assembly:  Reading Its Theology in Historical Context. Dr. Letham, whom I have had the privilege studying under at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, brings the historical setting of the assembly to life with this 400 page book.  We can only benefit from such familiarity with the historical, theological, and political contexts in which the Westminster Standards were formulated.  The book is available here.  The companion volumes in the series can be found here and here.

Vern Sheridan Poythress, professor of mine and friend indeed, has authored a new book on a Christian approach to language entitled In the Beginning Was the Word:  Language:  A God-Centered Approach published by Crossway.  Poythress addresses the Trinitarian basis of language and deals with some of the contemporary challenges to the ability of language to communicate clearly and to refer to something beyond itself.  You can find the book here.

Finally, just in case you may have forgotten that this year marks the 500th birthday of John Calvin, let me just remind you of that fact.  David Hall and Matthew Burton have co-authored the latest in the Calvin 500 Series (David Hall, series editor) entitled Calvin and Commerce:  The Transforming Power of Calvinism in Market Economies published by P&R.  The thesis of the book is sure to create discussion.  You can find the book here.

Happy reading.  Remember, reading is fundamental.