Reviews
'Oliver O'Donovan started the series with a superb book on 'The Just War Revisited' and John Webster continues to fly the flag - and very high indeed ... Reading this book is rather like staring at a Dutch seventeenth century still life: luminously pointing to its objects, demanding a meditative and rigorous concentration, and challenging us to see things freshly and in such overwhelming detail, yet never losing the whole in the parts. It is also a very fine contribution to dogmatics ...'. Reviews in Religion and Theology, '… this stimulating and thoughtful reflection from John Webster … Webster's study is important … invariably rewarding … This work must be warmly welcomed, and needs to be read by those with both high and low views of the authority of the Bible. They will all find it an unsettling, yet ultimately rewarding, experience.' The Expository Times, '… this stimulating and thoughtful reflection from John Webster … Webster's study is important … invariably rewarding … This work must be warmly welcomed, and needs to be read by those with both high and low views of the authority of the Bible. They will all find it an unsettling, yet ultimately rewarding, experience.'The Expository Times, 'this is a powerful, elegant and urgently needed refresher course for strengthening the portestant will to engage secularism with the convictions proper to Christian faith ... All orthodox Christian thinkers should appreciate Webster's commitment to the centrality of theology to understanding, hearing and reading holy scripture ...' Journal of SJT, ‘… it makes important points in a new and challenging way. Webster has engaged with the modern world and offered it a thesis which it must respect, whether it is finally persuaded by it or not.‘Churchman, '... it makes important points in a new and challenging way. Webster has engaged with the modern world and offered it a thesis which it must respect, whether it is finally persuaded by it or not.' Churchman, 'Webster's book is a thought-provoking and sophisticated account of how Scripture can be read from a vigorously Trinitarian perspective.' Society for Old Testament Study, '… it makes important points in a new and challenging way. Webster has engaged with the modern world and offered it a thesis which it must respect, whether it is finally persuaded by it or not.' Churchman, 'John Webster offers convincing answers based on rigorous examination of modern secular thought and theologians past and present.' Christian Doctrine and Philosophy, 'This work must be warmly welcomed, and needs to be read by those with both high and low views of the authority of the Bible. They will all find it an unsettling, yet ultimately rewarding, experience.' Alister McGrath, Oxford University, , Expository Times, "[A] firecracker, primed to explode those pitiful suppositions about Scripture with which many biblical scholars and theologians 'from below' currently operate." C. Clifton Black, Princeton Theological Seminary, Theology Today, 'This work must be warmly welcomed, and needs to be read by those with both high and low views of the authority of the Bible. They will all find it an unsettling, yet ultimately rewarding, experience.' Alister McGrath, Oxford University, Expository Times, ...this is a thought-provoking book by a mature theologian with a coherent thesis to defend. It cannot be skimmed; it must be read slowly and pondered, and there is much to gain from it." D.A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Trinity Journal, ‘Webster’s book is a thought-provoking and sophisticated account of how Scripture can be read from a vigorously Trinitarian perspective.’Society for Old Testament Study, '... this stimulating and thoughtful reflection from John Webster ... Webster's study is important ... invariably rewarding ... This work must be warmly welcomed, and needs to be read by those with both high and low views of the authority of the Bible. They will all find it an unsettling, yet ultimately rewarding, experience.' The Expository Times, 'this is a powerful, elegant and urgently needed refresher course for strengthening the portestant will to engage secularism with the convictions proper to Christian faith … All orthodox Christian thinkers should appreciate Webster's commitment to the centrality of theology to understanding, hearing and reading holy scripture …' Journal of SJT, 'Oliver O'Donovan started the series with a superb book on 'The Just War Revisited' and John Webster continues to fly the flag - and very high indeed … Reading this book is rather like staring at a Dutch seventeenth century still life: luminously pointing to its objects, demanding a meditative and rigorous concentration, and challenging us to see things freshly and in such overwhelming detail, yet never losing the whole in the parts. It is also a very fine contribution to dogmatics …'. Reviews in Religion and Theology
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