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January/February 2022
The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church By Michael Allen T&T CLARK | JANUARY 2022 | 192 PAGES (HARDCOVER) | $115.00
The Fear of the Lord: Essays on Theological Method By Michael Allen
All Thy Lights Combine: Figural Reading in the Anglican Tradition Edited by Ephraim Radner and David Ney LEXHAM PRESS | JANUARY 2022 | 304 PAGES (HARDCOVER) | $32.99
a growing interest by Protestants in what has been variously called the “theological” or precritical reading of Scripture that has centered around a theological retrieval of previous and neglected avenues of biblical interpretation. Often these works detail ways of reading the biblical text that are not strictly “literal” but often involve figurative or even allegorical readings of a text. This present monograph is much needed and fills a lacuna. The current body of scholarship tends to draw deeply from either patristic sources or the magisterial Reformers, notably Luther and Calvin, and around a narrower range of topics, such as Christology or covenant theology. This volume focuses on a specific tradition (the Church of England) over a broader chronology (from William Tyndale to C. S. Lewis) and touches a range of topics (from law to ecclesiology), and so promises to be a welcome addition to the current precritical hermeneutics scholarship.
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T&T CLARK | JANUARY 2022 | 208 PAGES (HARDCOVER) | $115.00
Allen has placed himself as one of the most interesting and engaging Protestant dogmaticians writing today, as the essays in these collections will no doubt evidence. I have always appreciated his ability to deftly weave together multiple disciplines—from theology to church history to exegesis—into an informative and coherent project. In this respect, Allen reminds me of the late John Webster, about whom Allen has written quite a bit in recent years. Anyone interested in the doctrine of God and theological method will want to pick up these volumes.
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Calvin’s Ecclesiology: A Study in the History of Doctrine By Tadataka Maruyama EERDMANS | MAY 2022 | 480 PAGES (HARDCOVER) | $65.00
THE TOPIC OF CALVIN and ecclesiology has long in-
terested scholars, though most of this work has tended to be done by social historians interested in the societal impact of Calvin’s ecclesial reforms in Geneva (e.g., the work of Robert Kingdon or Scott
