Theological Journals, Part 2

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “Fathers in Christ,” Rev. Steven Koy comments on “fathers” as fathers in the faith who are doctrinally fed, mature, stable and are able to serve, protect, nourish and protect their families. He works with the Johannine epistles effectively and clearly without wonkery. Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): “Jesus’s Promise of the Spirit and the Teaching of the Faith: From Kerygma to Catechesis,” Dr. Douglas Sweeney speaks of Scripture, tradition, experience and reason and the differing formulations of it in church history. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Craig Carter offers a nice term—metaphysical reductionism for modern hermeneutics. He calls the Bible reader to a “participatory metaphysics” reading with the church fathers, yes, but also with the divine intervention of illumination, meditation, application and response. Touche, Dr. Carter. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma firmly keeps his head in the sand. A totally worthless article and unfit for inclusion in a serious, theological journal. Unbelievable tripe. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Garcia notes that fears are the steady diet of the ideologues without the fear of God. It’s a steady diet variously with oughtness-driven answers to subterranean fears. Dr. Garcia brings in the worldview of Proverbs—the fear of the LORD and its diverse expressions and attributes in the Scriptures. Godless ideologues have their own worldview and ethics. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs hammers home the “communicating God,” an essential attribute. Send the memo and plant it firmly on Barth’s grave. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach cites more worthless and useless objections by Barth to federal theology. Let’s wrap it up, Dr. Beach. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Heinz Schilling’s “Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval,” Dr. Mark Thompson Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton notes that “eunuch” for DeFranza, makes a third gender beyond the binary mode of male and female. Jesus comments on the eunuch. We’ll see where Sam goes. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng plants the flag of victory over the triumphalist Neo-Kuyperians who lost the doctrines of God, sin, and redemption. It’s a homerun. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara exegetes Philippians 1.1 on the office of deacons. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris is still defining and illustrating “echoes and allusions” from the OT that appear in Hebrews. The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews Art. 1V.—Plea for Voluntary Societies and a Defence of the Decisions of the General Assembly of 1836 against the Strictures of the Princeton Reviewers and others.— By a member of the Assembly, New-York, John S. Taylor, 1837, pp. 187. Rev. Alexander notes that this article contains at least one misrepresentation on each page. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott exquisitely argues for atonement as the thesis of the book, notwithstanding other sections on daily, holy life for Israel. Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor continues to show the inadequacy of a science-religion amalgam as construed by the thinkers of the 19th century, genuflecting to science but reducing religion in the process.