What They’re Saying About Banner Books (2015 No. 1)
‘a handsome volume … those who want a straight read of the mature theology of Calvin have their needs met in this translation’ – Paul Helm on Robert White’s new translation of Institutes of the Christian Religion.
In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted September – December 2014. The views expressed are of course those of the respective bloggers/reviewers. For each title mentioned, a link is also provided to the appropriate page of the Trust’s online Bookstore, where orders can be placed.
Notes
Paul Helm, at Reformation21, finds Calvin’s style ‘clear, confident, and unflinchingly dogmatic’ in Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Institutes of the Christian Religion
1541 Edition
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Institutes of the Christian Religion is Calvin’s single most important work and one of the key texts to emerge from the Reformation of the sixteenth century. None deserves to be better known than the first French edition of 1541.
Terry Delaney (Mexico, Missouri), on his Christian Book Notes blog, recommends The Christian’s Great Enemy: A Practial Exposition of 1 Peter 5:8-11, and finds that John Brown ‘is extremely pastoral and offers much encouragement to the Christian in what amounts to a daily, life long battle with the devil and his temptations.’
The Christian’s Great Enemy
A Practical Exposition of I Peter 5:8-11
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Endorsement ‘The republication of John Brown’s brief and readable study of “The Christian’s Great Enemy” is both timely and helpful. For younger Christians it will provide a pocket manual for spiritual warfare. At the same time it will serve as a refresher course for more seasoned Christians who are aware of their own weakness and […]
David Murray (Grand Rapids, Michigan) found ‘deep thought and beautiful writing … by an unfrazzled mind and a prayerful spirit’ in Sinclair Ferguson’s From the Mouth of God, according to his Head, Heart, Hand blog.
From the Mouth of God
Trusting, Reading and Applying the Bible
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Book Description THE BIBLE, Why should we believe, as Jesus did, that it is ‘the mouth of God’? When did it come into existence? Is it inerrant? What do we need to learn in order to understand it better? How does its teaching change our lives? In From the Mouth of God, Sinclair B […]
Greg Goswell (Sydney, Australia), in New Life (1 October 2014, pages 15-16) says that ‘the twin volumes of over 1300 pages [of Princeton and the Work of the Christian Ministry] show the balanced approach of the teachers of pre-1929 Princeton, and a thoughtful and prayerful reading of these volumes will also help us to regain and maintain our spiritual balance.’
Princeton and the Work of the Christian Ministry
2 Volume Set: A Collection of Addresses and Articles by Faculty and Friends of Princeton Theological Seminary
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An ‘instructive and insightful’ compendium, in two volumes, of addresses and articles by faculty and friends of Princeton Theological Seminary. With a Foreword by David B. Calhoun. 792 & 616pp.
Also at New Life (15 December 2014, page 16), Bob Thomas (Melbourne, Australia) gives Stuart Olyott ‘full marks’ for his Ministering Like the Master. ‘His writing is noteworthy for its freshness, originality and faithfulness.’
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