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Category Archive: Book Summaries

God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament

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||Book Summary|| God Crucified is an incredibly helpful short book for those who want to show that Trinitarian orthodoxy is consistent with the teaching of the Bible

Chris Northcott December 23, 2025 Book Summaries

Holiness, by J. C. Ryle

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||Book Summary|| Holiness is an Evangelical Classic for readers who desire spiritual instruction that is wholehearted and biblically derived.

Chris Northcott December 18, 2025 Book Summaries

Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35-6:45

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||Book Review|| Markan Typology explores typologies detected in several miracle stories of Mark’s Gospel, and offers an intriguing and compelling case for a richly textured Christology in Mark.

Chris Northcott December 4, 2025 Book Summaries

Book Review: Miss Bumby’s Mission

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||Book Review|| A novel which portrays the story of the sister of an early missionary to New Zealand, who became our first beekeeper.

Chris Northcott October 17, 2025 Book Summaries

Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable

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||Book Summary|| This book left me with the impression that I need to revisit it—with a pen and notebook.

Chris Northcott September 26, 2025 Book Summaries

After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change

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||Book Summary|| A detailed reconstruction of the background to many of the problems in the Corinthian church of the New Testament.

Chris Northcott August 11, 2025 Book Summaries

The Cross of Christ

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||Book Summary|| This book provides a comprehensive introduction to a full suite of topics that explain the significance of Christ’s death on the cross.

Chris Northcott April 17, 2025 Book Summaries

Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive

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||Book Summary|| This book offers a short and sobering analysis of churches that have “died” and offers instructive advice on remedying the decline and realistic hope that a church can flourish again.

Chris Northcott December 22, 2024 Book Summaries

Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

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||Book Summary|| Johnson’s book tells the story of evangelicalism’s shift from a paradigm of “care” to one of “cure”, and the failure and damage caused by the latter.

Chris Northcott November 4, 2024 Book Summaries

The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision

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||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.

Chris Northcott October 18, 2024 Book Summaries

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