The Bible and Reconciliation

Confession, Repentance, and Restoration

Abstract

James Prothro highlights the centrality of grace and God’s mercy throughout Scripture in his new volume, The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration. Rooted in the practice of biblical theology, he traces the unfolding of these themes across the canon of Scripture. While expounding biblical patterns, the book contains a constant emphasis on God’s grace and mercy, law and gospel, salvation, repentance and restoration. Of particular interest are the surveys of how people sinned and received forgiveness across the Old Testament. Christians accustomed to the regular disciplines of confession, repentance, the declaration of our grace in Christ, and the calling to a pursuit of holy living will find much of value in this text.