Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 128:510 (Apr 1971)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous

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Book Notices

Fifty Key Words In Theology. By F. G. Healey. Fifty Key Words In Philosophy. By Keith Ward. 50 Key Words: Sociology. Edited by David Martin. 50 Key Words: The Church. By William Stewart. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1967–1970. 84 pp. each. Paper, $1.65 each.

This series of compact reference books provides a brief treatment of theologically significant or religiously related topics for the general reader. Each volume includes an index of words not treated in separate articles, thus increasing the value of these handbooks. The volumes on philosophy and sociology provide a helpful introduction to their subjects, but the usefulness of those on theology and the church is weakened by the liberal and ecumenical viewpoint.

F. D. Lindsey

The Question of God: Protestant Theology in the Twentieth Century. By Heinz Zahmt. Translated by R. A. Wilson. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1969. 398 pp. $8.75.

The fragmentation and confusion of European theology has progressed with increasing velocity during the second half of the twentieth century. The trends and counter-trends of Protestant theology in twentieth century Europe are carefully surveyed in this volume which is a worthwhile contribution to the understanding of modern theology.

F. D. Lindsey

Secular Christianity and God Who Acts. By Robert J. Blaikie. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970. 256 pp. Paper, $2.95.

This vigorous reaffirmation of a God who acts in history attempts in a scholarly way to react to and contradict the secular theology which regards God as dead. The author is a Presbyterian minister of New Zealand and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. Readers will find this volume a closely reasoned, intellectually honest treatment of

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the problem from adequate scholarly background, written in the framework of reference of conservative neoorthodoxy.

J. F. Walvoord

The Two Natures in Christ. By Martin Chemnitz. Translated by J. A. O. Preus. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1971. 542 pp. $12.50.

Martin Chemnitz (1522–86) has been considered the leading orthodox Lutheran theologian of the sixteenth century and this volume is considered the best statement of orthodox Lutheran Christology. The translator is the well-known former president of the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) and served as president of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois 1962–69.

The discussion is solid, scholarly, detailed and although Lutheran in influenc...

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