Theological Journals, Part 2

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa further comments on the GKN’s allowance of festival days. Also, a few additions done by the CRC. Not sure about the PRC. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara makes little progress on Romans 16.1-2, other than to know that daikon-word group occurs 29 times in the NT, 25 of which are generic uses of serving. ??. We’re not sure of this without a semantic data check. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris concludes his article: Hebrews is suffused with the OT and shows a way of reading the OT. 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 complains of the presumptions of quoted propositions by Mr. Taylor. This isn’t going anywhere fast and the backdrop is not clear or emerging. The debate appears to be over independent boards of missions versus denominationally controlled missions boards. The reviewer favors the latter. 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, baffle-gabs about Sasse’s reflection on the pastoral office. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), the note is made that the PTS is student-run. Um yes, and it surely shows. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Old Testament Hope: Psalm 2, the Psalter, and the Anointed One:” Dr S. D. Ellison argues that the Psalter is a Messianic text of Royal Psalms, variously. We’ll see. Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor has dropped the hammer on his own foot by mitigating the importance of the historicity of the Biblical accounts to religious conviction. Sheer dicta and we’re not getting systematics, exegesis or church history thus far. Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay comments on the post-Christian world that, rather than devoid of absolute morality and full of relativism, has a censoriousness, almost masochistically so. Masochism, his word. Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): in “Mental Health Matters to God A Praxis Approach,” The Rev. Dr. Jack Gabig makes an excellent point. The title captures it. We’d float it into the loci of systematics for development. Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Spirit of American Liberalism,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung brings the story to a close. Fosdick can throw out the essentials of the faith, call himself a heretic (as he does) and still get an American ear.