This is a review of Friedrich Bleek's New Testament Introduction. Rather than discuss the entirety, I have focused only on 2 Peter and given some thoughts to this allegorical approach that has been popular in yester-year, but is reemerging in some other circles recently, albeit, non-academic. The big idea is this: when you start tinkering with apostolic authorship, you start messing with a case for a canon and the authority of scripture itself.

Bleek, Friedrich. An Introduction to the New Testament. Translated by A.J.K. Davidson. 2 vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1869-1870.

"The missing sub-text of Fukuyama’s historic work is the work of post-modernism to move toward affirming everyone’s individual story. "

"As far as the coverage of the content, anyone who finishes this catechism and commits its concepts to memory will have a wonderful scaffolding from which to continue to build and nourish their faith. "

“Our strategies have failed. Pro-life leaders have misled and even thwarted efforts to end abortion when it was within grasp.“

Faithful Endurance: The Joy of Shepherding People for a Lifetime  is an apt title for this short, but loaded book. I was pleased in opening its pages to recognize several names of well-known pastors and authors, a couple of whom have heavily influenced my ministry, as contributors.

​"Thankfully, Grudem addresses it since other Christian Ethic’s books do not even conceive of the notion that people would be wrestling with this subject. In fact, these sections display Grudem’s pastoral heart even in the midst of his very logical flow of thought."

"Longing for Motherhood provides a window on this suffering, which is totally unfamiliar to many people and which, indeed, may seem too heart-wrenching to even contemplate."

"Money is not our God, but we often treat it as though it were. Anything we direct our affections toward long enough can become our idol. And what do idols do? They require our sacrifice. "

"Odell-Hein welcomes us as vicarious travelers on his adoption journey. He shows us the vulnerability and the honesty that were his necessities."

"The minister may be heartless, his preaching might be hollow, but are only so if there is an objective standard against which to measure it. He uses a standard of goodness defined by a God he rejects to judge another as “cold blooded.”"

T​hough it is accessible and concise, it is not condescending or, worse, watered-down. They wrote this book for exactly the person I’d recommend this to—the person in the pew.

"Ann’s story likewise opens a small window into her own story, her own life and offers a legitimate, overlooked and unengaged application of this beautiful narrative we find in the gospel of Luke."

​“If we accept the deaths of 600,000 men
as a necessary tradeoff for ending slavery, what would the tradeoff be
for 60,000,000 babies?”