Lutheran Book Review

Keating, Ray. Behind Enemy Lines: Conservative Communiques from Left-Wing New York.   Long Island: Keating Reports, 2020. 732 Pages. Paper. Kindle Available. $26.99.  https://raykeatingonline.com/products/behindenemylines If 2020's crisis taught me anything, it is that the title and subtitle of Ray Keating's nonfiction collection is no joke.  Keating is an author to take seriously. You may know only of his calendars (which in 2021 have been sorely missed) or his fiction featuring Pastor Stephen Grant. At Lutheran Book Review, we're big fans. Ray Keating has written columns and articles for a variety of publications for well over thirty years, including twelve years as a columnist for Newsday.  Here’s a wide-ranging collection of columns and essays from Ray Keating covering faith, economics, politics, history, trade, New York, foreign affairs, immigration, pop culture, business, sports, books, and more. Keating is a longtime newspaper and online columnist, economist, ...

Keating, Ray.  Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel.  Long Island: Keating Reports, 2020. 359 Pages. Paper. $19.99.   https://raykeatingonline.com/products/vaticanshadows In our most recent review of a Pastor Stephen Grant book, I wrote: The new Epilogue to the first novel gets some payoff in  The Traitor , which I think of as a short novel or long short story.  The Traitor  is a game-changer for the  Warrior Monk  series starring Pastor Stephen Grant. It is in many ways a return to the worldbuilding Ray Keating did with  Warrior Monk , and is an excellent jumping on point for new readers. (Read the Second Edition of  Warrior Monk  first!) I smiled to see these promotions:  And: "How about a Lutheran-Catholic thriller trilogy ... and signed by the author?" New to the series? Wonder where to begin? There are two ways to get caught up with the Pastor Stephen Grant series.  Read Warrior Monk, The Traitor, and Va...

  Maag, Karin. Worshiping with the Reformers (Companion book to Reformation Commentary on Scripture). Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2021. 248 Pages. Paper. $24.00. https://www.ivpress.com/worshiping-with-the-reformers ABOUT KARIN MAAG Karin Maag (PhD, The University of St. Andrews) is professor and director of the  H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies  at Calvin University. She is the author of  Does the Reformation Still Matter? ,  Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva , and  Seminary or University: The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 1560-1620 . She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Julian of Eclanum. Translated and Edited by Thomas P. Scheck. Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos (Ancient Christian Texts) . Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2021. 344 Pages. Cloth. $60.00. https://www.ivpress.com/commentaries-on-job-hosea-joel-and-amos

  Ream, Todd C., Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers, Editors. Foreword by George M. Marsden. Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2021. 146 Pages. Paper. $25.00.  https://www.ivpress.com/public-intellectuals-and-the-common-good Breimaier, Thomas. Foreword by Timothy Larsen. Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of C. H. Spurgeon. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2020. 282 Pages. Cloth. $35.00.  https://www.ivpress.com/tethered-to-the-cross Keating, Ray. Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel. Long Island: Keating Reports, 2020. 359 Pages. Paper. $19.99.  https://raykeatingonline.com/products/vaticanshadows

  Menander Rhetor and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Edited and translated by William H.   Ars Rhetorica (Loeb Classical Library 539).  Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 2019. 539 Pages. Cloth. $28.00.  https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674997226

Duguid, Iain M., James M. Hamilton, Jr., and Jay Sklar, Editors.   Contributions by W. Brian Aucker, Eric Ortlund, and Douglas Sean O'Donnell.   ESV Expository Commentary (Volume IV, Ezra-Job) . Wheaton: Crossway, 2020. 576 Pages. Cloth. $45.00.  https://www.crossway.org/books/esv-expository-commentary-premiumhc/