Book Reviews -- By: Anonymous

Journal: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Volume: JETS 13:2 (Spring 1970)
Article: Book Reviews
Author: Anonymous


Book Reviews

Jesus and the Twelve. By Robert P. Meye. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1968. 257 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Cyril J. Barber, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill.

At one time Victor of Antioch (5-6th centuries), when preparing a commentary on the Gospel of Mark, could say that he knew of no predecessor to his work. The same cannot be said today, for the once neglected Gospel of Mark is now focal in the study of the life of Christ.

In offering an original and fresh study of Mark’s Gospel, Meye, Professor of Biblical Theology, Northern Baptist Seminary, concentrates on presenting Jesus as the teacher of a small group of disciples. He limits the disciples to the twelve—hence the title of the book—and shows how everything in Christ’s ministry was geared towards preparing them for their post-Easter ministry.

Meye’s material is well-ordered and his work still bears the marks of his studies at the University of Basel (where this treatise was originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation). He treats the problems of Mark’s Gospel fairly and does not hesitate to take issue with form-critics like Bultmann, Eberling, Klein, and Wrede, etc.

Perhaps the greatest value of this work lies in the way the author defends the authenticity of Mark’s Gospel as a genuine account of Christ’s earthly life and ministry.

This book will be appreciated by the serious student of the Word, but will be of little value to those lacking a thorough theological orientation.

The Philosophy of Gordon H. Clark: A Festschrift. Edited by Ronald N. Nash. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1968. 516 p. $9.95. Reviewed by Dwight P. Baker, Highland Park, Illinois.

Gordon H. Clark is professor of philosophy at Butler University. Before taking this post, he taught the same subject, first at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, then at Wheaton College. While at Wheaton he helped train Carl F. H. Henry, Edmund P. Clowney, Edward J. Carnell, and Billy Graham among others. Along the way Clark has lectured at several theological schools and written extensively in the area of philosophy and theology. His books are widely influential

in contemporary evangelicalism. This volume of essays on his thought is a tribute to that influence. I shall comment on the essays in the order they appear.

Carl Henry introduces this festschrift with a good interview of Clark’s life and major writings. The following three chapters comprise part one and contain in an expanded version the lectures Clark delivered at ...

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