June 01, 2009
Jesus
I have just finished reading a great study on the deity of Jesus Christ that has moved me devotionally, stimulated me intellectually, and challenged me spiritually. The book is Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ by Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski. This book was an excellent follow-up read to the book that I read last year by Stephen J. Nichols, Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to The Passion of the Christ which gave a disturbing picture of how much we shape and mold Jesus into the image of our culture.
This book by Bowman and Komoszewski, however, gives an almost exhaustive study on the deity of Jesus. It does what very few books seem to be able to do. It manages to speak to a large audience, both lay readers and scholarly critics. There are some great exegetical insights, many helpful explanations, and up-to-date arguments that are useful to read and know. In order to be readable to the average person they use endnotes (in the back of the book) and not footnotes. I’m personally in favor of footnotes, but I’m assuming the publishers know what is more marketable. Nonetheless, I think everyone from Christian in the pew to Christian in the pulpit would find this book to be a real source of encouragement in the truth of Immanuel.
Most of all, one cannot help but reading it and almost feeling the reality of God with us.
I highly recommend it.
A review by D.A. Carson (HT: Naselli)
Posted by Bob Bixby at June 1, 2009 10:29 AM | eMail this entry! | 262 WordsThis entry was posted in the following categories: Book Reviews , Books , Gospel , Theology
Thanks for the book recommendation. I read the book Reinventing Jesus which J. Ed Komoszewski coauthored with James Sawyer and Daniel Wallace. What impressed me was the authors’ ability to make the complex simple without compromising scholarship. So, I can fully understand Komoszewski doing the same in this book. BTW, thanks for giving your time to write on the Sweatt controversy. I have been lurking through the blogosphere but have greatly appreciated the needed emphasis on this issue.
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