Theological Journals

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma continues the unanchored and dislocated subject with more undefined bromides about virtue and eco-theology. Bierma has not put plates on the table nor given spoons, forks and knife. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “A Legacy of Enduring Grace: An Appreciation of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.,” Scott Oliphant notes that a new picture of Dr. Gaffin has been hung in Machen Hall after 6 decades of teaching at WTS. Oliphant will later offer anecdotes on Dr. Gaffin, one from each decade. We would add that Dr. Gaffin prepared us well to handle the NT post-Kantians including the worm-infested Bultmann. Ooh boy! Was glad for Dr. Gaffin’s scholarship as a recipient of his learned exegesis and theology. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Rethinking How We Think about the Evangelical Mind and the Local Church,” Dr. Charles Cotherman ends the article with a thud despite his rapturous comments on study centers. He has missed the mark by a long shot after dealing with Ligonier in a few sentences. It is a bit of scolding without warrant. 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 notes Perkins’ theology on mustard seed faith “blossoming” from seed to product, a mature faith of assurance. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach speaks of the pactum salutis, an alleged development in covenant theology. Umm, it’s sorta there in the Gospels, Mr. Barth. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), the visitors to All Saints Cathedral, Albany, NY conclude their review of the end of Holy Communion, the recessional hymn and the Bach postlude. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Karen Jobe’s “1, 2 & 3 John (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament):” Mr. Bannister enthuses on this in several directions. A must-have we are told. He notes that it suits a student with 2 years of Greek. Well, that excludes the majority of American Episcopalians right there. At least these evangelical Anglicans still recognize the need for training in the original languages. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Preparing People for the Hardest Job of All,” Dr. Peter Jensen continues rightly to insist on heart, mind and soul in the pursuit of theological education. Why? Because it glorifies God and the theologians’ duty is to make God known. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng sets the course for the evaluation of Abraham Kuyper’s effects on high education. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “We Still Have Faces,” Dr. Glodo continues to expatiate on the glories of God setting His face towards and shining upon His people. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “Reading the Torah as the Law of Faith,” Dr. Craig Keener takes a new twist as He evaluates Jesus’s and Paul’s hermeneutics on the Law. A lovely compare and contrast is offered between ANE legal codes and Israel’s legal code. Oh no! What will the Graffaholics say? The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews “A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee. Translated from the Latin of William Gesenius, Doct. and Prof. of Theology in the University of Halle-Wittemberg. By Edward Robinson, D. D. late Prof. of Sae. Lit. in the Theol. Sem. Andover. Boston. 1836. pp. 1082. & vo. Not sure where this is going, but Prof. Alexander continues the slam on Gesenius, noting how he outshone his Hebraist superiors, Michaelis and Eichorn. A most odd review. Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), in in “טומ Means ‘Collapse,’ Not ‘Be Shaken,” Dr. Paul Puffe continues to puff his point tediously. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), ), in “An Oppressed People in a Groaning Creation: Toward an Eco-Public Theology of Undocumented Farmworkers,” PTS student, Emily Wilkes, continue the blab-a-thon without an anchor to exegesis, systematics or church history. She’s lost in a forest thanks to the Editors of PTR. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington continues the “empathy wars” in terms of definitions. TableTalk (April 2022), in “How Does God Administer the Covenant of Grace,” Dr. Ryan McGraw enlarges on Christ the Administrator, Author, Sum and Substance, and Headman of the covenant of grace.