Theological Journals

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): several warrantable advertisements are made, to wit, numerous conferences series in March and April dealing with public theology, science and theology, new additions to the staff of the Craig Study center, and the Westminster standards. The WTS is very, very active.

Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Christianity in Ethiopia,” Dr. Tamrat, Principal of Evangelical College in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, is still tracing Orthodoxy, Romanism, religious civil wars, Islamism, and modern Protestant missions. The Protestants run afoul of the Monophysite heritage of these Copts as Orthodox types.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 275-297): in “Puritan New England the New Israel,” Dr. Richard Cogley has made his point on Dr. Bercovitch’s revisionism. Let’s wrap this up.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach promises to analyze Barth’s shifts in theology proper, Christology, soteriology, election and, in view here, federal theology. It’s called a “paradigm shift.”

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), in “Thomas Cole and the Episcopal Church,” Dr. J. Robert Wright is giving a historical lineage of prints of Cole’s paintings, hither thither and yon in varied art museums.

Churchman (Winter 2018): in “How Jesus’s Cry from the Cross in Mark 15.34 Answered?”, Dr. Donald West summarizes the 2-fold human response to Jesus’s cry. Now, for the real issue. What was God’s response to the cry? That’s next.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021, pages 80-85): in “Calvin’s Only Letter to Luther,” Rev. Cory Greiss is still exploring Calvin’s letter to Luther on Nicodemite Frenchmen. Some French Reformed Churchmen dismiss Calvin’s views. Others find him too severe. What does Luther think?

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2021), in “Metaphysics and the Interpretation of Scripture: A Reply to Daniel Treier,” Dr. Craig Carter is responding to Trier’s book review of “Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition.” Standby for some historical theology, metaphysics, philosophy, systematic theology and exegesis. Sounds like some stuff above someone’s paygrade, but will hang in there.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ACTS: A MACRO PERSPECTIVE,” Dr. Patrick Schreiner takes us to Philippi with a brief discussion of it as a colonial city. Luke uses technical precise terms.

The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews Paul Henry’s “The Life of John Calvin, the Great Reformer” (Vol. 1, 1835). Rev. Archibald comments further on Calvin’s marriage to Idellette, as well as the death or still born death of a son. Of course, a Jesuit and other Antichrists claim, in writing, that it was God’s judgment so that Calvin’s progeny would end. Calvin retorts that he has 1000s of children. Rude Romanists of the day while the oppressed the Bible. We are done with the Curia.

Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), in “Confession of a Lutheran University,” Dr. David Loy successfully is arguing his point—that of foundations for a university to engage the theological commitments with public issue and the public square, something Dr. Mike Horton has navigated.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), in in “God’s Simple Knowledge and Disagreement,” Eric Tuttle, 3^rd year MDiv student and postulant to the TEC, later ordained deacon at Trinity Episcopal in Princeton, is now a PhD student. The article here is mucked-up with muddy footprints defacing the article thus far. Every few sentences are rude, obtrusive and shifting pronouns for God—as He, She, It, and They. Squeeze all that into Aquinas and Hegel on the issues of metaphysics and God. It’s hard to read and is offensive to Bible people. God is the Self-Revealer, not the wee fella at PTS. Puleeze! We’ll try to mop up the mess as we go and get the larger point.

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington promises to sort out the contestants and the raging definitional wars over empathy, sympathy and compassion, both sides hurling some unsympathetic recriminations at each other. Bizarre. Mr. Worthington complains about “populist” articles compared to researched, parsed, analyzed, tested, peer-review and careful definition. We are fully on board with that demand, although the opening paragraphs abound with instances of these hard disputations.