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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...

The following book is reviewed by Prof. Douglas Kuiper, professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and member of Trinity PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan   The Nicene Creed: What You Need to Know about the Most Important Creed Ever Written, by Kevin DeYoung. Wheaton: Crossway, 2025. 93 pages, softcover. $12.99.   Today (as I write this) is May 20, 2025. Seventeen hundred years ago to the day (May 20, 325), the Council of Nicea, the First Ecumenical Council, convened. Several books have already been published this year commemorating the council’s anniversary. Some are large...

member of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan, full-time librarian/registrar/archivist at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and SB book review editor The following book is reviewed by Rev. Ryan Barnhill, pastor of Heritage PRC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.   How Does Sanctification Work?, by David Powlison. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017. Pp. 123. Author David Powlison does the church of Christ a service in this brief work on God’s work of sanctification. This is a down-to-earth, easy-to-understand treatment of a topic that in Reformed and Presbyterian circles has been studied and discussed for many years. If you are looking for a...

The following book is reviewed by Prof. David Engelsma, former editor of the Standard Bearer, professor emeritus of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and member of Trinity PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan   Today’s Christian & the Church’s Bible: A Time to Return to the Authorized Version, by Theodore P. Letis. Winter Springs, FL: the Greater Heritage, 2023. Pp. 73. $13.99 soft. In the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, or Authorized Version (AV), not only has pride of place, but also is exclusively the version of the Bible that...

member of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan, full-time librarian/registrar/archivist at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and SB book review editor   The following book is reviewed by Prof. David Engelsma, former editor of the Standard Bearer, professor emeritus of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and member of Trinity PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan     The Justice & Goodness of God: A Biblical Case for the Final Judgment, by Thomas R. Schreiner. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2024. Pp xiv + 145. $13.49 soft. The book promises much, but delivers little. The opening line asks the promising question,...

The following are two announcements that appeared in the SB in 1935 and 1936, shortly before the publication of the first edition of The Protestant Reformed Churches in America: Their Origins, Early History, and Doctrine (also known as History of the PRCA). Current SB readers may be more familiar with the second edition of the book, released in 1947 and affectionately nicknamed “The Red Book” in reference to its bright red cover. Just over one hundred years have passed since the events related in this deeply personal history. Yet, The Protestant Reformed Churches in America remains the single most comprehensive...

member of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan, full-time librarian/registrar/archivist at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and SB book review editor The following book is reviewed by Curt, Landon, and Blake Gritters, members of Hudsonville PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan History and biographies can be boring for many kids, but these were page-turners: did you know that Luther likely glued the 95 theses on the church door, not nailed them? Heeding regular calls from the Reformed Free Publishing Association and the “3 R’s Blog” to “Read!,” Landon (12), Blake (10), and I picked up copies of The Story of Martin Luther: The...

member of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan, full-time librarian/registrar/archivist at the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and SB book review editor The following book is reviewed by Prof. David Engelsma, former editor of the Standard Bearer, professor emeritus of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Theological Seminary, and member of Trinity PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan The Abusive Wife: Ministering to the Contentious Woman, by David D. Edgington. Phoenix, Arizona: Matthew 22:37 Books, 2015. Pp. 168. $14.99. Paperback. When some years ago I gave the public lecture on spousal abuse in the Reformed community that to some extent opened up the reality...

wife and mother in Loveland PRC in Loveland, Colorado It’s been over a decade since Rosaria Butterfield’s book The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert shook things up in Reformed and Evangelical circles. Since that time she has authored Openness Unhindered, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, and her latest book, published last year, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age. Like the books that preceded it, Five Lies is full of anecdotes from her life; it is intelligent and thoughtfully written; and it pulls no punches. The book’s title clearly denotes its content: in it Butterfield confronts with the...

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 Mr. Tim Block, member of Byron Center PRC in Byron Center, Michigan. Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America, by David Horowitz, Humanix Books, 2018. Pp. 191. Hard Cover, $26.99. Dark Agenda is a book covering sixty years of policy change in America intended to undermine the Christian principles on which this country was founded. Ironically, the book was written by David Horowitz, a self-defined agnostic, formerly of the leftist camp of...