The following book is reviewed by Dr. Marco Barone, book coordinator (editor) of the RFPA and member of Southwest PRC in Wyoming, Michigan (Suffering and the Christian Life, Volume 2). Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. 240 pages. $21.99, paperback. This is Talbot’s second volume in his Suffering and the Christian Life series. The first volume (When the Stars Disappear: Help and Hope from Stories of Suffering in Scripture) focused on the individual tragedies that afflicted Job, Naomi, and Jeremiah, and how God both planned their troubles and cared for them through those trials. That was done to expound practical cases...
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The following book is reviewed by Dr. Marco Barone, book coordinator (editor) of the RFPA and member of Southwest PRC in Wyoming, Michigan The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings by Klaas Schilder. George Harinck, Marinus DeJong, and Richard Mouw, eds. Lexham Press, 2022. 608 pages, hardcover. $49.99. INTRODUCTION Klaas Schilder (1890–1952) was a courageous man with many gifts, but writing was not among those. In the dogmatic writings contained in The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings (Reader, from now on), Schilder writes as if any reader already knows what is in his mind; the reader gets...
2 volumes, by Antonius Thysius, Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, and Antonius Walaeus. Ed. William Den Boer and Riemer A. Faber. Landrum, SC: Davenant Press, 2023. Hardcover. Pp. xxi+797. $89.95. ISBN 9781949716153. Reviewed by Marco Barone. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (Synopsis of a Purer Theology) which consists of the transcriptions of fifty-two disputations that took place between 1620 and 1625 by the theological faculty of Leiden University (which is why this work is also known as the Leiden Synopsis). Each disputation was written by one of these professors at Leiden University:...
by Gerald R. McDermott. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. Pp. 448. $44.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780801098543. Reviewed by Marco Barone. A History of the Work of Redemption is a series of sermons by Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758). He preached these sermons in 1739, and they were published posthumously in 1773. Edwards planned to revise and expand these sermons into a body of divinity, in a new method, and in the form of a history; in which he was first to show, how the most remarkable events, in all ages from the fall to the present times, recorded in sacred and profane...
by Petrus Van Mastricht. Tr. Todd M. Rester. Ed. Joel R. Beeke. Grand Rapids, MI. Reformation Heritage Books, 2023. Pp 776. Hardcover. $50.00. ISBN: 9798886860320. Reviewed by Marco Barone. We should recall Mastricht’s excellent definition of theological science: “theology is the doctrine of living, and of living for God, and for God through Christ.”1 Mastricht says that “theology is doctrine,”2 but it also is doctrine of living, and not just any living, but living for God.3 Practice does not swallow up doctrine, nor vice-versa. Rather, Mastricht defines terms this way because theology “must be the kind of method in which...
by Petrus Van Mastricht. Tr. Todd M. Rester. Ed. Joel R. Beeke. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2021. Pp xlvi + 631. $50.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781601788405. Reviewed by Marco Barone. Following volumes one (Prolegomena) and two (Faith in the Triune God), Todd M. Rester and his team continue to work on the translation of Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology by offering the third volume, The Works of God and the Fall of Man, and the fourth, Redemption in Christ (to be reviewed in a future issue of the PRTJ). The translation is prefaced by the editor and translator who...
by Geerhardus Vos. Tr. Albert Gootjes. Grand Rapids, MI : Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. Pp lxxiii + 97. $25.00. Hardcover. ISBN 9781601789082. Reviewed by Marco Barone. This volume can be divided into two parts. The first part consists of a foreword by Richard A. Muller, a technical preface by the translator, and an introduction by J. V Fesko, which makes up roughly a fourth of the book. In the introduction, Fesko ably introduces Vos’ text, and also piggybacks Vos in order to point at his project of “reforming apologetics,”1 a project that Fesko enthusiastically thinks Vos’ work supports. This is...
Mr. Charles Terpstra, member of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan and full-time librarian/registrar/archivist at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary and SB book review editor The following book is reviewed by Dr. Marco Barone, book coordinator at the Reformed Free Publishing Association and member of Southwest PRC, Grandville, Michigan. When the Stars Disappear: Help and Hope from Stories of Suffering in Scripture (Suffering and the Christian Life: Volume 1), Mark Talbot. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020. 144 pages. $16.99. Paperback. Introduction Mark Talbot’s job (philosophy professor at Wheaton College, IL) might lead some to think that his treatment of “Suffering...
The following book is reviewed by Dr. Marco Barone, member of Southwest PRC in Wyoming, Michigan and book coordinator at the Reformed Free Publishing Association. James Durham, A Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments, ed. Chris Coldwell. Dallas, TX- Grand Rapids, MI. Naphtali Press and Reformation Heritage Books, 2018. Hardcover. $40.00. 432 pages. The idea that Reformed preaching should “focus on what God does in our lives rather than emphasizing how we should live” is popular in many Reformed corners. However, that a life of thankful obedience can take place only on the basis and by virtue of Christ’s redemption...
The Concise Marrow of Theology, by Johann Henrich Heidegger, transl. Casey Carmichael. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019. Pp. 256. $40.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1601786005. Reviewed by Marco Barone Johann Heinrich Heidegger (1633–1698) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and professor of theology at the university of Zürich. Although not well known in the Reformed English-speaking world, he was known by older Reformed theologians. Authors such as Francis Turretin and Heinrich Heppe refer to him often. The Concise Marrow of Theology (Medulla Medullae Theologiae Christianae, 1697) was intended to be an educational and mnemonic tool for beginners. It was intended...
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