Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 129:514 (Apr 1972)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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BSac 129:514 (Apr 72) p. 147

Book Reviews

Will Man Survive? Prophecy You Can Understand. By J. Dwight Pentecost. Chicago: Moody Press, 1971. 208 pp. $4.95.

The author of this volume is no stranger to the readers of Bibliotheca Sacra or to the general Christian reading public for that matter. Will Man Survive? is another valuable contribution to evangelical theology and biblical understanding. Though solidly based on the premillennial, pretribulational, dispensational system of theology, the author writes without using technical theological terms. Dr. Pentecost’s purpose was to write about prophecy so that the man in the pew could understand it. He accomplished his goal admirably.

Biblical truth concerning future things is brought to bear upon current world events in this volume. Practical applications of God’s truth in every day living abound throughout its pages. Reading the volume and studying the Scripture passages the author cites will bring the reader to a great confidence in the Lord and His Word in a day of uncertainty and much frustration.

The chapters are short and the book is therefore easy to read a little at a time without losing the train of thought. There are nineteen chapters. The titles of some of them ask provocative questions such as: “Why the Tribulation?” “Does the Bible Prophesy an Atomic War?” “How Long Will Israel Hold Jerusalem?” and “The Great Society—God’s or Man’s?” The author’s answers to these questions are always based upon a “Thus saith the Lord.”

R. P. Lightner

Biblical Revelation—The Foundation of Christian Theology. By Clark H. Pinnock. Chicago: Moody Press, 1971. 256 pp. $4.95.

The author asserts, “Quite literally this study is a radical one” (p. 18).

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By this he means that it gets at the root issue of contemporary theology and of all theology, which is the character of the Bible as the revelation of God to men. The main title is the focus of the book and the subtitle declares its importance. The work is an exposition and defense of the historic Christian belief in the Bible as the inerrant verbal communication of God to men, the God-breathed Scriptures.

According to the author’s own statement in the introduction, the first three of the six chapters form the heart of the work. First the character of revelation as historical and propositional is developed. Then the character of that revelation’s inscripturation as verbal, plenary, and incarnated is presented. The third chapter discusses the impact of these truths for theology, developing the implications of sola Scriptura for theology and the church.

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