I have just finished reading The Faith Once Entrusted to the Saints? by Geoffrey Grogan (IVP). Grogan celebrated his 85^th birthday a month or two ago after nearly 60 years of teaching, mainly in London Bible College and what is now the International Christian College in Glasgow. It looks to me as if he has put his heart into this volume, certainly his gracious, balanced character shines out of the book. Here is someone contending for the faith who is also wise and understanding. It may be that he could have expressed himself more strongly in places, some of us would have done so, but I think his concern is to win over those who disagree and to help and steady those who have been unsettled by the winds of doctrine blowing through evangelicalism. His three chapters on Open Theism, Penal Substitution and the New Perspective on Paul are first-rate; and I found his discussion of Romans in the latter chapter very helpful. He has a chapter on Scripture and another on Hermeneutics. These chapters are not directed at specific targets in the way the others mentioned are, but there is actually a great deal that is informative and valuable in them, especially for those who would be glad of an overview of modern biblical hermeneutics. They are the fruit of much reading and thought. There is a final chapter entitled Whither Evangelicalism. I loved this sentence as he draws to a conclusion: ‘There are some truths that belong to the circumference of our faith, others that are more central to it, but at its very heart is Christ himself, who has embraced us with his marvellous grace, whom we love, in whom we trust, whose service is our great privilege and our perfect freedom, to whom we give our worship and who will receive that worship to all eternity.’