Wow! What a book! It was fascinating, enlightening, challenging, and it taught me. I must admit there were times I struggled. There were times I had to lay it aside and come back later. A few times I wondered if I were too dense and were in over my head. But I kept coming back and I am so glad did.

Where I kept running into problems was when I needed a bit more philosophy background than I had. If that describes you, do as I did and persevere. He’s going somewhere and will get back to the more comfortable surroundings of theology soon enough. If you will hang on, he will show that we have had a bit too much Greek influence on our theology and that has put us in scriptural quandaries. I was convinced.

Before I say more, I must admit Leithart is a brilliant writer. I do feel he pitched this volume to professional theologians (untranslated words are a dead giveaway). I wish he had veered toward about 20% more popular in writing style (I mean, how many professional theologians are there?), but the denseness was worth it still. I’ve read some of his more popular works and he is great whether you agree or not. He has original thinking in his works and he is profoundly and pleasingly provocative.

I’m not going to rehash the book here. Just experience it. For me, he tweaked my thinking on some of the attributes, particularly accommodation. Further, he opened my eyes to how crucial the idea of Creator is and made me understand my God even more. Finally, he blew me away in his discussion of time.

I tend to be a bit liberal with praise in my book reviews, but there’s no grading on a curve here. This is a great one.

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This series is exciting! Had I been planning this series I might have overlooked resurrection getting one of the slots in it, but after seeing this title it makes perfect sense. Brannon makes his case for Resurrection being one of the “essential” themes of biblical theology. His fleshing out the link to Creation and Redemption only strengthen his case.

The book is clear and clear-headed. He is quite convincing in driving home his premise. Besides his love of quoting obscure lyrics of (popular?…I guess) music, he succeeds across the board.

To grasp resurrection he grapples with life and death. Relating that to Creation and the Fall was the proper foundation while building with redemption (New Creation) and Resurrection (Eternal Life) was the right edifice to build upon it. A lot has been written on these themes but his niche is a clarity that comes from a careful presentation.

He also traces his theme to good effect in biblical order. Watching a doctrine develop progressively is one of the best ways to take it in.

As you can imagine, he address Christ’s resurrection and does so by building into his rich tapestry. From there he weaves in the church before reaching our final resurrection.

What’s amazing in a book like this is taking one doctrine to examine them all. Biblical theology is really rocking when that really happens. It happens here.

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A treasure itself! Vaillancount is expert in biblical theology and the Psalms are indeed rich in that way. For some reason, I see this as a fine addendum to James Hamilton’s fine commentary on the Psalms in the EBTC series.

His Introduction whets the appetite for more and more is what we get. His chapters on reading Psalms canonically, as are what follows, are outstanding as they abound in both Structure and Theology. Throughout the text, specific psalms pop up and though he writes on a perceptible track you might not anticipate which psalm comes next. Fortunately, the scriptural index at the back of the book opens up this work to a whole additional approach. There’s good exegesis wherever he comments. You just can’t lose here.

Really, he opens up many pathways that you can begin and go even farther. When I do deep study on the Psalms, in addition to some favorite commentaries, I assure you this book will be in my “special” pile. This is the kind of book you don’t want to be without.

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