Theological Journals

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Dr. Troy Bierma introduces several auxiliary themes emerging in this discussion about eco-theology. As Reformed hawks, we’re circling over the tall grass. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “I Will Build My Church: Faculty Interview: Dr. Jonathan Gibson notes the changing climate at WTS towards pastoral theology (without compromising theology). To wit, each Professor is assigned 10-12 students per week for a 1-hour engagement on character, piety, prayer and personal issues. That’s a new direction. There appears to be new direction or amplification of what’s doctrinally implicit. He even comments that his child, attending a Reformed Episcopal school, gets exposure to Morning and Evening Prayer. (??) Dr. Gibson has found the REC BCP helpful for his own devotions. Now, that is entirely new. Again, Dr. Gibson is an OT PhD at WTS. Also, WTS is flourishing and its influence has gone international while RES is on life-support with a few gasps left, at least, upon repeated reviews of the school. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Christianity in Ethiopia,” Dr. Tamrat, Principal of Theological Evangelical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, comments on the overall mission of TEC, having put 1250 students into the field. Schools and College are vital instruments of God’s providence. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 275-297): in “Puritan New England the New Israel,” Dr. Richard Cogley grants in part Dr. Berkovitch’s assertions, but denies in part the claim that NE Puritans exclusively applied the term “New Israel.” CoE Churchmen had done that at length as we previously noted. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach is warming to the subject but little is emerging, other than Barth’s claim that federal theology is “historicism” and that “revelation” can only be by “events,” not propositions. As we’ve seen before, Barth will use 6,000,000 to assures that God doesn’t use nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and grammar. The sirens always go off on Barth. Is Barthianism on life support in the ICU? Need a follow-up on that one. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014), in “Thomas Cole and the Episcopal Church,” Dr. J. Robert Wright cites poetry that was crafted to go with the pictures “Voyage of Life.” Churchman (Winter 2018): in “How Jesus’s Cry from the Cross in Mark 15.34 Answered?”, Dr. Donald West claims the divine answer is given in the reconciliation of sinners with “It is finished.” Amazing to hear this from an Anglican publication. Send one over to Justin at Lambeth. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021, pages 80-85): in “Calvin’s Only Letter to Luther,” Rev. Cory Greiss concludes that Melancthon did not pass on Calvin’s letter to Luther. Melancthon had moved towards Calvin’s view on the “Supper Wars” and Luther was as vehement as ever. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Theological Education as Learning to Die,” Dr. Michael Allen has an app called “WeCroak App.” It goes off 5 times/day to remind him that he’s going to die. Dr. Allen is arguing that we live in a death-denying age. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ACTS: A MACRO PERSPECTIVE,” Dr. Patrick Schreiner concludes the article: three parts in Acts: 1-7, 8-12, and 13-18, the irresistible expansion of God’s work and Word. 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 further comments on the touching letters of Calvin to Viret and Farel concerning the precise details and final hours of his wife on the death-bed. Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), in “Confession of a Lutheran University,” Dr. David Loy ably notes how the secularized academy rebuffs theological and religious perspectives. 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 long-talking God’s incomprehensibility. Acqinas and Hegel make an appearance. Nothing from the Bible, exegesis, the ancient languages, systematic theologies, church histories, biographies, or church liturgies. Reformed minds are asking questions. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Navigating Empathy,” Jonathan Worthington get around to a discussion of “empathy” in the classical use of the Greek word and in modern times. Today, it’s the sense of walking in someone else’s shoes and having the humility to listen to the other’s angle before saying anything.