Summary David Allan Black’s Why Four Gospels? The Historical Origins of the Gospels is “essentially a popularization” of Bernard Orchard’s “Fourfold Gospel Hypothesis” and a critique of the Markan priority hypothesis.[1]This brief volume is meant primarily for the use of theological students in an academic climate that is uncritically acquiescent to the assumptions of Markan…
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Review of David Allan Black’s New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide
Summary I was first exposed to David Allan Black’s New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide in a second semester Greek class at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Revisiting this helpful work has been profitable, not only because its extremely succinct approach thrusts readers into the world of textual criticism’s purposes, materials, history and methods (Ch.…
Review of Keller’s The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Summary In The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, gives readers “a distillation of the many conversations I’ve had with doubters over the years.” [1] The work is divided, in its first half, as “a pathway that many… Christians have taken through doubt,”…