OPENING UP DEUTERONOMY
By Andrew Thomson
DayOne. 137 pages. £7.00
ISBN 978 1 846 254 833
If you want a quick path into Old Testament thought, read Deuteronomy; if you want a quick path into Deuteronomy, read Opening Up Deuteronomy by Andrew Thomson. There you have in a nutshell the highest commendation and the best advice I can give.
Dr Thomson (is he a Dr? If not, he should be! He is the pastor of Kesgrave Baptist Church in Suffolk) and he is blessed with a straightforward and readable prose style. His meaning is never in doubt.
New life in Canaan
He understands and is fair to the covenan-tal basis and structure of Deuteronomy; he has a rightly Mosaic approach and a cov-etable understanding of what is happening in each part and at each stage of Moses’s book. Deuteronomy is itself an application to the Lord’s people, for the purposes of their coming new life in Canaan, of the basic Mosaic revelation, and it has found in Thomson a writer skilled in ‘applicatory explanation’ whereby, so to speak, we are discovering in one move what Deuteronomy is about, what individual passages and verses mean, how difficulties are explained and what the whole means for our lives today.
This is a book to read with pleasure and profit and to give away with confidence.
