Douglas Vickers’ The Texture of Truth (RHB; pb., 204 pp.) is a lay-level survey of the basic doctrines of the faith from a Reformed perspective intended to help people grasp and live out the faith.
Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology, edited by A. T. B. McGowan (IVP; pb., 365 pp.) contains essays from several senior theologians on various topics within systematic theology. An important volume.
Octavius Winslow’s Our God, a devotional treatment of the character of God has been reprinted (RHB; pb., 164 pp.). Winslow was a contemporary of Spurgeon highly regarded for theological and experiential preaching.
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Graham Cole has written He Who Gives Life: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Crossway; hb., 320 pp.) the most recent volume in the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series. Cole is well informed, readable and pastoral. On the issue of gifts, Cole is not a cessationist, but classifies himself as ‘open but cautious’ in the use of the sign gifts. Kenneth Berding has produced a significant study in What are the Spiritual Gifts? Rethinking the Conventional View (Kregel, pb., 363 pp.). The exegetical work here will help in preaching on this topic, and he makes some good proposals on how we think of the gifts.
In God the Holy Trinity: Reflections on Christian Faith and Practice (Baker; pb., 175 pp.) Timothy George has edited essays on the way the doctrine of the Trinity shapes Christian living in worship, prayer, service and mission. This is a helpful treatment of a doctrine whose importance we readily affirm but whose relevance we often fail to see. Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends, ed. Kevin Vanhoozer (Baker; pb., 287 pp.) is collection of essays on theological implications of various cultural trends.
Sam Storms’ Chosen for Life: The Case for Divine Election, (Crossway, pb., 237 pp.), is a revised and expanded edition of a book previously published in 1987 which earned high praise. It is an accessible pastoral treatment of this challenging doctrine. The Great Exchange: Our Sins for His Righteousness (Crossway; pb., 288 pp) by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington is an exposition of the doctrine of the atonement book by book from Acts to Revelation. The authors have self-consciously patterned their book after George Smeaton’s 19th century classic, The Apostles’ Doctrine of the Atonement. Brian Vickers’ Jesus Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Imputation (Crossway; pb., 254 pp.) is also a significant contribution.