Theological Journals

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): an advertisement is offered about “The Craig Center,” a think tank and research center on the Westminster Assembly, staffed by two PhDs, offering seminars and hosting conferences, and, we would add, likely to become a premier, world-class organization.

Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “What Has Become of American Fundamentalism,” Dr. George Marsden traipses through “white evangelicalism” getting attached to right-way politics and Trump, yet, given the expansion of seminaries, schools, publications, journals and educated Churchmen, there is a continuity. Earlier “modernists” thought these evangelical were rural backwoodsmen who would fade in the years ahead as science and learning advanced. However, the mainliners themselves have declined and evangelicalism has gone global.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 275-297): in “Puritan New England the New Israel,” Dr. Richard Cogley punctured two holes in Bercovitch’s preoccupation—thesis—the Puritan New Englanders exclusively applied “New Israel” to themselves. He shows that other faith groups, American Anglicans included, British Anglicans included, used the terms.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Verbal, Plenary Inspiration, and Bible Translation Method,” Mr. Josiah Walters gives a nice tour of English translations and offers Jerome and Luther as subject advocating for a more expansive translation process. We think he’s exaggerating the point, evincing small experience in translation.

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), in “Thomas Cole and the Episcopal Church,” Dr. J. Robert Wright comments on the second set of paintings showing the life cycle—birth, youth, adulthood, and the elderly, on the stream of life heaven to the ocean of eternity.

Churchman (Winter 2018): in “How Jesus’s Cry from the Cross in Mark 15.34 Answered?”, Dr. Donald West comments on the verb “forsaken,” a full-hearted and full-throated lament of Christ on the cross.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021, pages 80-85): in “Calvin’s Only Letter to Luther,” Rev. Cory Greiss makes the start. Calvin is discussing the backsliding of Frenchmen, returning to Franco-Romanism. He suggests two small booklets that he’s written for Luther’s perusal.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2021), in “Psalms and the Christian Life,” Dr. Scott Swain focuses on the Anointed King as the Speaker in the Psalms, a challenging hermeneutic. Dr. Swain has a firm command of the Psalter. Good to see and hear such leadership on the Bridge.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ACTS: A MACRO PERSPECTIVE,” Dr. Patrick Schreiner comments on Antioch and its leadership, e.g., a Cyprian Jew of priestly ancestral, two black leaders, a Hellenized Jew, and an ex-Pharisee, a multi-ethnic note by Luke that show the expanding spheres of the Abrahamic covenant.

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 on the excruciating frugality of Calvin, often returning $$ to the City, often giving money to others, etc. Meanwhile, Cardinal Sadolet passes through Geneva incognito and has an urge to meet his literary adversary. He’s shocked that Calvin’s home is small. He knocks and Calvin opens the door. They chat. Sadolet comments on his humble situation. Calvin retorts that had he sought “aggrandizement,” he would have remained in Franco-Romanism. The Prof. gives specifics and details on Calvin’s remunerative package.

Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), in “Confession of a Lutheran University,” Dr. David Loy is offering some good rhetoric on the necessity of the Lutheran Confession for Lutheran Universities, but it’s very short on specifics and specific, practical policy proposals. Inquiring minds are asking since Reformed Confessionalism likely share similar goals.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), in “God’s Simple Knowledge and Disagreement,” Eric Tuttle, 3^rd year MDiv student and postulant to the TEC, makes his start. Of note, the Lad makes his beginning talking about “politics.” We’ll see where he goes.

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington offers several definitions of empathy and sympathy in the popular, therapeutic and medical contexts.