Book Notices -- By: Anonymous

Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 121:482 (Apr 1964)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous


Book Notices

I Believe In God. By Klaas Runia. Chicago: Inter-Varsity Press, 1963. 77 pp. $1.50.

Here is proof that good things come in small packages. This booklet reviews the history and teaching of the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, with emphasis on their Christology, soteriology, and bibliology. It then shows how neo-orthodoxy and particularly the new liberalism have departed from the orthodox faith as represented in the creeds. The author includes an especially helpful critique of Tillich, and there are good sections on Bultmann and J. A. T. Robinson (author of Honest to God).

C. C. Ryrie

The Validity Of The Virgin Birth. By Howard A. Hanke. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1963. 122 pp. $2.50.

This is a thoroughly orthodox book that could have been much improved by better organization and more polished style of writing. It is largely a compilation of other men’s works, the result being no Orr or Machen. The author is professor of Bible at Asbury College.

C. C. Ryrie

Baptism And Conversion. By John Baillie. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. 121 pp. $2.95.

The late principal of New College, Edinburgh, is particularly well known for his A Diary of Private Prayer. This latest book is a series of lectures delivered in several places before the author’s death. It outlines the historical views of various groups on these subjects, but it is very sketchy on the Biblical data. The author’s conclusion is that baptism introduces a person, including infants, into the Christian community and that conversion is by steps and stages.

C. C. Ryrie

The Doctrine Of Man In Classical Lutheran Theology. Translated from the works of Martin Chemnitz and Johann Gerrhard. Herman A. Preus and Edmund Smits (Editors). Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1962. 245 pp. $5.00.

Here is a solid work which will be of interest to students of Lutheran theology. This treatment of the doctrine of man in the post-Martin Luther period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will be of value in preserving and refining the doctrine of man as held by Martin Luther. The original authors, Johann Gerrhard and Martin Chemnitz, played an important role in Lutheran theology in their generation and tended to define original orthodoxy in Lutheranism. The discussion includes consideration of the image of God free will, and the doctrine of sin: and will provide much helpful material especially for those of Lutheran background. In general, the volume is in defense of orthodoxy within Lutheranism....

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