Rollin Shoemaker

Rollin Shoemaker, D.Min., S.T.M., is a pastor with the Southern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, South Lancaster, Massachusetts, United States.

Articles by Rollin Shoemaker

Lincoln's Battle with God

March 2014

Stephen Mansfield’s Lincoln’s Battle With God is divided into five chapters,followed by an epilogue titled“Purposes of the Almighty,” and closeswith “Thoughts on Lincoln, Religion,and Sources,” plus an appendix and aselected bibliography.

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The Book That Changed the World: The Story of the King James Version

August 2013

The Book That Changed the World outlines the importance of the King James Version (KJV) in American history, the English language, and its influence throughout the English-speaking…

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Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution—A History From the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First

September 2012

What is Protestantism? A set of ideas? The result of historical events? No more than a reaction to the medieval Catholic Church? Does Protestantism have core beliefs? Is Protestantism a single or multifac­eted phenomenon? Alister McGrath…

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Galatians

April 2012

This commentary is number 9 in the Zondervan Exegetical Com­mentary on the New Testament series. This series of New Testa­ment (NT) commentaries is directed toward students and pastors who have studied NT Greek and want some grammatical and…

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Pastors and Visiting Evangelists

April 1947

City-wide evangelism involves the united efforts of the visiting evangelistic company, the entire resident church membership and its pastor, and the conference administration. Each one is dependent on the other,…

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Galatians: A Fiery Response to a Struggling Church

November 2011

Carl P. Cosaert’s book, which serves as a companion piece to the fourth quarter 2011 Adult Bible Study Guide, is divided into 14 chapters in which he attempts to address various theological issues as they arise in Galatians. He begins…

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The Pastor as Theologian: The Formation of Today's Ministry in the Light of Contemporary Human Sciences, 2nd ed.

March 2009

Wesley Carr writes in the preface that the theme of the book is “the way that the practice of ministry generates theological insight” (ix). He considers the pastor as the theologian. The introduction lays the framework within which he writes…

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Reading about the Trinity: A List for Additional Research

February 2009

Bauckham, Richard. The Theology of the Book of Revelation. New Testament Theology. Edited by James D. G. Dunn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Bauckham points out that Revelation has the same fundamental…

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Hope for a lost world: a study of Romans 5:12-21

March 2007

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12 For this reason, just as sin by means of one person entered into the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed unto all men, because all have sinned. 13 For until the…

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