Theological Journals

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma wastes more time in a theological journal talking about “permaculture.” Surreal. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “A Legacy of Enduring Grace: An Appreciation of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.,” Dr. Edgars describes Dr. Gaffin’s translation work in the 1960s of Geerhardus Vos’s works. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Fundamentals for the Evangelical Future,” Dr. Daniel Treier discusses the need for creedal and confessional commitments. Sorta like yeah. We’re already there Daniel. 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 describes the beginner’s faith (“least faith”) as it matures to assurance. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach gives us Barth’s attempt to dispatch the covenant by overwhelming the subject by a pile of questions (hiding his own attacks on it). This rhetorical devise is an old brew on tap. To wit, thinking one is conquering by a pile-on of questions. Nice try, Karl. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), CHURCH REVIEW: (RCC) Cathedral Basilica in Santa Fe, AZ. The reviewer goes through several parts of the Mass. Standard Romanist Mass. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: David Short’s “Pastoral Visitation: A Pocket Manual:” Issac Pain notes that the volume envisages several pastoral contexts with verses to comfort and encourage. The passages have brief pastoral notes. One deficit, it does not involve contexts where repentance is in order. The reviewer envisages a larger and fuller manual. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Preparing People for the Hardest Job of All,” Dr. Peter Jensen continues his premier call for competent theological instruction. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng notices that Kuyper is constrained and confessional including common and particular grace, maintaining the antithesis between the world and the church. He notes that Kuyper’s descendants were not as circumspect in these doctrinal points. Yet…one overcame the other? Common grace over electing grace? Thus, breaking down the antithesis? Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “We Still Have Faces,” Dr. Glodo continues to magnify the fact of God’s shining face upon the believer, smiling favorably. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “Reading the Torah as the Law of Faith,” Dr. Craig Keener discusses the legal milieu of ANE legal codes. Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), BOOK REVIEW: Briggs, Richard S. Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. 333 pp. $55.00 cloth. The reviewer offer initial assessments of the chapters. He sounds remarkably Catholic and Reformed rather than the imposers of a dogmatic hermeneutic. He mentions Barth as one culprit. 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, as expected for some time now, will off diktats about the evils, violences and cruelties of capitalism. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington is wandering around the forest and definitions on empathy, sympathy, and compassion get lost. Looking at the watch and shaking it. How much longer? The article lacks discipline.