A New Review of "Has the Church Replaced Israel?" from Westminster Seminary California

Westminster Seminary California has posted a negative review of my book, Has the Church Replaced Israel? No surprise here since most of what I discuss is contrary to the ecclesiology and eschatology of the Covenant Theology that Westminster promotes. The review comes from Jared Beaird, a student at Westminster, and a former student at The Master's Seminary (and mine) before he transferred to Westminster. Mr. Beaird has little tolerance for his former prof's lack of scholarship. According to Beaird, "This work has more fallacies and caricatures than this review can cover." He also says, "It is not a work for the serious biblical theologian . . ."

I've tried to contact Beaird at what I think is his website to thank him for taking the time to review my book and let him know that I'd be open to some friendly interaction of the issues including my "fallacies" and "caricatures." (I think I sent it correctly but I'm not sure whether my message got through or not since I can't see my post.)

Access to his review can be found at http://missoulaurc.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/has-the-church-replaced-israel/

I'll leave evaluation of his review up to you. If you'd like to discuss any issues that Beaird brings up let me know.

Three more reviews of my book can also be found here at Amazon.

UPDATE: Jared has responded to me and I appreciate the tone of his response. Again, I'll leave the evaluation of his review to you. I do think from my correspondece with him on his site that some of this is related to Jared's disdain for a textbook I used in a class in 2007.  I think this is where some of this 'not scholarly' stuff is coming from.