Theological Journals

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Dr. Troy Bierma comments on Deane-Durmond, a biologist with theological training. The whole subject involves the subject of creation and the environment. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “I Will Build My Church: Faculty Interview: Dr. Jonathan Gibson comments on his biography of the Presbyterian writer, the 19th century Witherow (without giving his first name). Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Rethinking How We Think about the Evangelical Mind and the Local Church,” Dr. Charles Cotherman gives a rehash of the 19th-20th century modernist-fundamentalist debates in the major denominations. Nothing new is introduced here. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in “William Perkin’s Doctrines of Faith and Assurance Through the Lens of Modern Faculty Psychology,” Matthew Payne gives a brief overview of Perkin’s prodigious literary output and popularity in England and the Continent—as an Elizabethan theologian. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach notes that “predestination” for Barth is not good news to all, but just to the elect. Ah, sorta like yeah, Bartster. Gotta problem with that? Gotta twist it to your predilections especially as a life-long adulterer of 39 years? Have a seat, Barth. For us, Barth has about all the appeal of a carton of milk with a long-expired expiration date. Dad dealt with these issues in the 1940s. Passe now, as PTS Profs say they are "Post-Barthian." The expiration date is long passed. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), in “Thomas Cole and the Episcopal Church,” Dr. J. Robert Wright cites the attendant poetry on adulthood and old age, attendant to two of the four paintings, “The Voyage of Life.” Churchman (Winter 2018): in “How Jesus’s Cry from the Cross in Mark 15.34 Answered?”, Dr. Donald West complicates the thesis about the divine response by injecting a passage from 2 Cor. 1.3ff. He’s nearing the end without summarizing his earlier comments. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): Book Review: A Rebuttal of Common Grace and the Well-Meant Offer, by Sonny L. Hernandez. Lexington, KY: Trinity Gospel Church, 2021. Pp. 167. $12.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 979-8510179583. [Reviewed by David J. Engelsma]. Prof. Englesma is delighted by this rough-and-tumble volume that takes down the offspring of Arminianism, the “free offer” of the Gospel. Grace is always salvific and refers to the elect only. Touche! Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Theological Education as Learning to Die,” Dr. Michael Allen is hammering home the point—mortification and sanctification includes learning to die in this life, live unto God, and die well in this life. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “Reading the Torah as the Law of Faith,” Dr. Craig Keener comments on “nomos” in Romans. One cannot be saved by the works of the law, but by Christ’s active and passive obedience and holiness. 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 again notes the 1000s of times that Calvin expressed tenderness and sympathy in letters. Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), in in “טומ Means ‘Collapse,’ Not ‘Be Shaken,” Dr. Paul Puffe baffle-gabs on esoterica. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), in in “God’s Simple Knowledge and Disagreement,” Eric Tuttle, 3rd year MDiv student and postulant to the TEC, is rather wasting more time rather than helpfully discussing Acquinas and Hegel. For superior scholarship than this pitiable piece in PTS, we would refer the reader to “The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas” (Oxford Handbooks), an overview of Roman, Greek and Protestant readings of Aquinas in the last 750 years. PTR is proving to be quite disappointment, but they’re setting their own pace. https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Reception-Aquinas-Handbooks/dp/0198798024/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1KRAWIWGM0EG4&keywords=oxford+handbook+aquinas&qid=1650293944&sprefix=oxford+handbook+aquin%2Caps%2C1082&sr=8-2 Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington discuses meaningful definitions of empathy, sympathy and compassion in the pastoral and medical contexts.