Theological Journals, Part 2

Reformed Presbyterian Journal (1837), the Editor zeroes in on what “constitutes” a real Christian, calling for theological assent, but also response, affectionally and volitionally. Standard faculty psychology, we would add, for anthropology and soteriology, Confessionally speaking. 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. The Princeton reviewers are arguing for Missions Boards to be under the province of the Church broadly defined and authorized by its adjudicatory bodies. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng concludes the article be a reference to the success of the LGBT+ agenda in Reformed higher education as well as other institutions. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara argues for male deacons predicated on Acts 6.1-6. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris discusses the 13-14 times “God says” is used as a formula of introduction. 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 Sasse’s observation that the Protestant milieu of the post-WW2 period was a mishmash (Sasse's word) alongside the unbiblical claims of Rome for the immaculate conception and Papal infallibility. Sasse becomes a convinced Lutheran confessionalist. Sasse argues that only Confessionalist Lutherans can call the Protestant mishmashers and Romanist to repentance. Umm, Sir Sasse, have a look over at the Confessionally Reformed and Presbyterian groups, not the decadent ones. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019: BOOK REVIEW: James Cone’s “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody,” Corey Patterson (BA, Un. Of Georgia) describes the “white supremacy” he observed in while, European theologians at Union Seminary, e.g., Tillach. Also, he faulted Barth’s “abstract theologizing” as woeful for poor, black Americans. He faults all white theologians for failures to be concerned about black oppression and poverty. Cone thinks that King Jr.’s pacific approach can be reconciled with Malcomb X and Black Power’s approach. The old boy apparently never learned about the Abrahamic Covenant and Paul’s theology. The bondage of bitterness and ignorance from which he was not liberated at Union. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott talks about the “Laws of Honor” in Leviticus, but also the New Covenantal reading of that. Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor is mish-mashing around on science, but coming to some sense on religious consciousness vis a vis Christianity. Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay notes how Freud “demoralized guilt” yet it persists. Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): Dr. Brad Root highlights the service of Dr. Thompson as the Dean President of TESM, or, TSM for 25 years. An honorable search committee has been established with Bob Duncan as the Chair. Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Spirit of American Liberalism,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung notes that Fosdick’s sermon in May 1921 “revealed” the fissures between the comfortable, non-cantankerous modernists and the cantankerous (our words, but also Fosdick’s) “fundamentalists.” While calling for peace and gentility in the famous pulpit of First Presbyterian, NYC (established in 1721), calling for peace, he delivers a war crying sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win.” This edition has five articles on this centennial of Fosdick’s war-whoopery.