Book Reviews

This page contains Book Reviews that I have authored.

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Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus: An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel

Shelton’s thesis is that Hippolytus, one of the first Christian authors of a continuous commentary on one book of Scripture, wrote the Commentary on Daniel to encourage his readers or auditors to patiently and bravely endure persecution even to the point of martyrdom.

Martyrdom from Exegesis in Hippolytus: An Early Church Presbyter’s Commentary on Daniel by W. Brian Shelton. Studies in Christian History and Thought. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2008, xiv + 178. £19.99, paper.

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Not Without Us: A Brief History of the Forgotten Catholic Doctrine of Predestination During the Semipelagian Controversy

In this review I shall provide an overview of the contents of the book including its purpose and conclusions, interact with its scholarship, and draw attention to its contributions to the study of the historical development of the doctrine of predestination.

Guido Stucco. Not Without Us: A Brief History of the Forgotten Catholic Doctrine of Predestination During the Semipelagian Controversy. Tuscon, AZ: Fenestra Books, 2006. 294 pp. Paper. ISBN: 1-58736-533-2. $21.95.

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