Theological Journals, Part 2

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs beautifully continuing on the “Communicating God.” One of the finest pieces read in years. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach continues to put Barth down on the whoopee cushion on the chair. Let’s end this already. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Drew Maciag’s “Edmund Burke in America,” Dr. Gillis Harp assesses how Burkean political thought informed American conservatism. While an important issue, not sure how it relates to the AEH Journal? Good review by Dr. Harp. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton continues an analysis of DeFranza’s bizarre third gender: the “eunuch.” Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng notes that Neo-Kuyperianism is an attractive eye-pleasing “theology of glory” versus a “theology of the cross.” Interesting to hear that claim from a Reformed viewer, having expected that from a Lutheran reviewer. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara examines Act 6.1ff. as the predicate for the diaconate. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris wonks out on Philonic exegesis, but putting Philo to the side. 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 is being pedantic and tedious. Let’s get down to basics, Jim. Thus far, stammering pedantry like the review of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon. Concordia Theological Journal (January 2022), in “Hermann Sasse’s View of the Office of the Ministry Up to World War II,” the LCMS’s President, Matthew C. Harrison, offers a marvelous insight to Sasse’s immersal in Luther, the Lutheran Confessions and the Greek NT after his service as a Chaplain in WW1. Kant, Ritschl and happy-time von Harnack had no theology for the man in suffering on the frontlines of the war. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019): BOOK REVIEW: Steven Tuell’s “Reading Nahum-Malachi,” PTS “middler,” Jon Mellison makes an effort at a book review. Where are the professionals? The whole journal is written by PTS MDiv students. Good experience, but this whole edition (minus one good history article) is weaker than weak. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott has shifted the focus from structure to Christ as the One fulfilling the law. Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor in this preliminary article isn’t getting far. Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay tells us about Nietzsche’s failed prediction—death of God culturally, ergo, the death of guilt. And here we are in 2022 with the anti-metaphysicians shame-blaming and guilt-shaming people in media and elsewhere. Looking forward to the direction of this article. It bears on law, gospel, ordinance, statute, guilt, transgression, iniquity and more. Augustinian, Semi-Pelagian or, like Piskies, Pelagian?