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Napoleon Burt is a lifelong learner and passionate educator. He has published a dozen articles in the medical literature over his career as a physician. Dr. Burt has always been passionate about teaching. He taught in medical residency programs at the Medical University of South Carolina and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He was the Director of the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and won several awards as a clinician educator during his career in academic medicine.
As a student of the Bible, Dr. Burt began systematically studying and memorizing the Bible as a teenager. He served for several years as the Director of Christian Education in the Carolina District Council of the International Young People’s Union. He has been active in ministry in differing capacities since 1989. He has taught several classes on the compatibility of science and the Bible and continues to serve as a Bible teacher in his local church.
Dr. Burt has spent years immersed in medical science and devoted to educating himself and others. Simultaneously, he has spent the majority of his adult life systematically studying and teaching others how to study the Bible. This background has qualified Dr. Burt to help students of the Bible and students of science correctly apply principles that undergird life and learning in both disciplines (science and medicine) and draw clear and practical conclusions from all the relevant information available to them.
Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Into His Presence: Encountering the God of the Prophets by Napoleon Burt is a Christian non-fiction and historical theology guide that canvasses the Old Testament prophets in order to reconstruct the approach readers take toward Bible study, particularly as it applies to their perception of God. It's the interactions and the accuracy of the historical timelines, through the lives and eyes of the prophets, that is the driver of Burt's work. The chapters are separated by encounters which span from the non-writing prophets—characterized as prophets whose stories are not in books that carry their own name—through to the final Old Testament prophet Malachi, last because the messianic prophecies are fulfilled by the life of Jesus Christ. Each chapter includes the setting, the story, the encounter, the message, its impact on each individual prophet, who were all notably very different, just as any other people on the planet now or then would be. Finally, each chapter ends with a summary that contains charts and graphs to tie the work together.
It's immediately evident that the compiling of information and the pure act of putting pen to paper to create Into His Presence required more than just painstaking attention to detail, even when details are generally considered to be scarce. It took an act of faith. Faith in the message, faith in the ability to convey it appropriately, and faith that those who read it will have the capacity to look with renewed eyes and an open heart. Napoleon Burt does an exceptional job with the delicate balance of using a narrative that is simple enough to understand while still maintaining the discerning, conversant recording of the encounters of the text. That text, of course, being the Old Testament. I found the most enjoyment in chapter five, Encountering Jehovah and His Seventh Century Prophets, which is historically significant as the rising of the Babylonian Empire, and biblically significant as Burt succinctly points out, “through the use of sixty first-person singular divine pronouns and fifty-two third-person singular divine pronouns, Jehovah is declared to be the Holy One.” This is an outstanding piece of work. Very highly recommended.
