Clash of Visions, by Robert Yarbrough
Bob’s a professor of New Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, and in 2013, he served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He and I go back to our Wheaton days when we belonged to the same church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
“Clash of Visions is, in turn, prophetic and pastoral, polemic and irenic, disturbing and encouraging, scholarly and lay-accessible. Yarbrough contrasts million of spiritually-vital, Bible-believing, even ‘martyr-brave’ populists with the dreary but influential platoon of Baur/Bultmann enthusiasts, the guild off elitists who’ve fallen into the ‘ugly wide ditch’ of historiocriticalism. He employs a cast of hundreds in both vintage and contemporary garb, quotes old hymns and Tom Petty songs as well as Werke besotted by Aufklärung, and coins expressions (‘neo-allegorical’) as he appropriates others (‘human ecology’). The testimonies are compelling, as is a photo of contrasting grave markers. A great read.”