Reviews – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

16 November 2025

Review: David Lincicum, The Commentarial Impulse

David Lincicum, The Commentarial Impulse: Interpretation and Actualization in the Pauline Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025. ISBN 978-0-8028-8420-6. $45.99/£35.99 (hardback). Dr David Lincicum is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has been working away at Paul’s reading and interpretation of (Old Testament) Scripture for twenty years or more, and this welcome volume brings together eight...

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20 November 2024

A video review of my Acts commentary: “I am simply delighted with this.”

Stephen Redman has provided a very kind and warm video review of the first volume of my Acts commentary, recently published on his Pastor’s Library YouTube channel. He concludes, “I am simply delighted with this.” You can see the video review here. It’s about 16 minutes.

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6 August 2023

Ian Paul on practising evangelical spirituality

Ian Paul, The Practice of Evangelical Spirituality, Grove Spirituality series 162Cambridge: Grove Books, 2022; ISSN 0262-799X; £3.95Available in print or e-book format from Grove Books website here I’ve read this recent booklet (28 pages) by Ian Paul with appreciation. He brings together lots of thinking about the kind of spirituality evangelical Christians practise (particularly in the UK), with a view...

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8 May 2023

Frank Field’s Politics, Poverty and Belief

On 16 June 1986 Frank Field, then MP for Birkenhead, kindly came and spoke to the youth group at St Andrew’s, Bebington after being interviewed about his faith and politics in our 6.30 pm evening service. I was the curate who invited him to come and gave you a lift home to Birkenhead afterwards. He spoke very well in the service...

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31 October 2022

A cracking read: Luke Timothy Johnson’s autobiography as a scholar

Luke Timothy Johnson, The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a ScholarGrand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. ISBN 978-0-8028-8011-6. I read Luke Timothy Johnson’s book with great appreciation over the weekend. It’s clear, lucid, engaging, and very encouraging and stimulating. I’ve long been an admirer of his work: his published PhD dissertation, The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts (SBLDS 39;...

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20 December 2021

Craig Keener’s new book

Craig Keener has written a substantial, two-volume book on miracles in which he explains and defends a classic Christian view that remarkable out-of-the-ordinary events take place which defy naturalistic explanation, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, 2 vols (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011). That book particularly engages debates about the presence of such events in the New Testament....

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