Journal: Central Bible Quarterly
Volume: CENQ 08:3 (Fall 1965)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Book Reviews

THE CHALLENGE OF CREATION, edited by Walter Lang (Bible Science Association, Inc., Box 1028, Caldwell, Idaho, 1965, 80 pp., $1.50 paper).

This book contains six studies of the problems to be faced by those who attempt to hold to current notions of evolution. These are written by men conversant with the field yet solidly grounded in the Word of God. Admitedly, an evolutionist might not be disturbed greatly by the serious inconsistencies pointed out here, but any young person weighing opposing magnets should be greatly helped. The book is to be highly recommended to pastors seeking factual materials for the guidance of youth. Of great interest and importance are pictures (p. 34) of “Conglomerate rock, seeming to be millions of years old” according to current geological instruction, yet containing inside a spike. Actually, the rock was formed in an old mine within the past one hundred years.

—Dr. Warren Vanhetloo

THE CROSS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, by Leon Morris (Wm. B. E. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1965, 454pp., $6.95).

The author who contributed several volumes to the Tyndale Commentary Series has set forth a refreshing approach to an often neglected study. This book is intended to be a survey of the New Testament teaching about the atonement from a theological approach. Being a professor of Greek, he adds valuable information from particular word studies. In discussing the many truths of the atonement, he proceeds through each NT book in optical fashion. He considers hundreds of verses within each chapter, which he indexes at the end of this volume.

A particularly valuable appendix of the NT passages referring to Christ’s death is located in the back of the book. Although their are shortcomings in this work, this reviewer urges each pastor to consider this book as a valuable addition to his library. A work as extensive as this does not become available every year.

—Gordon H. Lovik

THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Vol. II, edited by Gerhard Kittel, translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1964, 955 pp., $20.50).

This is the second volume in a proposed lengthy translation project from the German. As is true of the first volume, this work will be sought by all who consider themselves to be serious Greek students. The cost should not be prohibitive, for it is probably the most extensive work in the New Testament in the twentieth century. The value of the articles, however, must be judged by the Word of God. Page IV of the preface provides a good critique of this work: “It need hardly be said that the translation and publication of Kittel is no necessary endorsement of everything contained in it. Witten by many schola...

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