Book Reviews -- By: Anonymous

Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 115:458 (Apr 1958)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous


Book Reviews

Ungers Bible Dictionary. By Merrill F. Unger. Moody Press, Chicago, 1957. 1192 pp. $8.95.

The Mody Press is to be congratulated in producing under the authorship of Merrill F. Unger one of the most important evangelical books to be issued during the past year. In an amazingly complete and comprehensive one-volume Bible dictionary seven thousand articles are included on every significant Biblical subject.

Geographical and historical facts are presented according to the latest archaeological evidence, and important problems of Biblical interpretation are treated with lucidity and insight usually thought impossible in a compact Bible dictionary. Breadth of Biblical scholarship is manifested not only in the articles themselves but in over five hundred photographs and line drawings which are of immense value both to the techinical scholar and to the ordinary lay reader. Included also are eight multicolor maps of great help in grasping geographical information. In spite of the fact that over one million words have been compressed into this one volume, the type is easily read and longer articles are carefully outlined, using boldface type which enables the reader quickly to find what he is seeking. Notable throughout the volume is the high evangelical theology combining latest scholarship with historic Biblical orthodox.

Evangelical Christians can accept the facts and interpretations of the inspired Word of God. Few volumes, next to the Bible itself, deserve the prominent place in every Christian’s library which this dictionary merits and no theological library, large or small, should be without it.

J. F. Walvoord

Jesus Christ The Risen Lord. By Floyd V. Filson. Abingdon Press, New York, 1956. 288pp. $4.00.

Here is a solid volume in Biblical theology representative of the point of view of the more conservative element in modern liberal theology. The author, who is dean and professor of New Testament history at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, is a well-known scholar who is author of several other books. Though falling short of belief in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, the author nevertheless believes that the Bible is an authentic and authoritative record of apostolic theology and throughout the volume almost invariably refutes rather than agrees with liberal points of view.

The opening chapter is a defense of Biblical theology and a justification of its basis and method. He believes that the key and starting point in the true interpretation of Biblical theology is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He states: “That central interpreting fact is the resurrection of Jesus.” In taking this position on one ha...

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