Theological Journals

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): “Jesus’s Promise of the Spirit and the Teaching of the Faith: From Kerygma to Catechesis,” Dr. Douglas Sweeney, Beeson Divinity Professor, argues that Jesus’ promise of the Holy Spirit made the Canon and Church History a possibility. He also indicates that John 13-17 was essentially done in the Upper Room discourse, but some NT exegetes differ. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Dr. Craig Carter interestingly claims that many evangelical scholars have one foot in the academy (with naturalist metaphysics) and one in the church (inspiration). The divided mind is problematic for the pulpit and does not accord with the “precritical” writers of the fathers. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma and the Journal itself are EXHIBIT A and B of Neo-Kuyperians run amok. See PRTJ below. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): David Chen reflects on his 2010s interactions with Dr. Gaffin. David is a missionary in China (??) as was Dr. Gaffin’s family before the communist expulsion of ministers. Affinity existed between the student and Professor on Chinese missions. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in “William Perkin’s Doctrines of Faith and Assurance Through the Lens of Modern Faculty Psychology,” Matthew Payne concludes his solid article on Perkins’ view of regeneration. Solidly Reformed and pastorally concerned. Nice work. Good scholarship and good writing. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach continues to give us Barth’s grunts and burps about the historical record not being revelatory. Sheer Barthian diktat. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Jesse Child’s “God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England: the reviewer, Mike Print, notes that most Anglo-Romanists were loyal to Elizabeth 1 and James 1, eschewing acts of disloyalty. The Spanish Armada of 1588 and the Gunpowder Plot was for the “terrorists,” not loyal English recusants. Very interesting. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Love and Sex: Applying the Song of Solomon in a Contemporary Cultural Context,” Emmanuel Mukeshimana’s concludes this glorious article on sex, romance, and marriage. Almost a must-read, if we might. Best article of the year, thus far, in terms of applicability in the pan-sexual days of ecclesiastical darkness. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng hammers home the point that the Neo-Kuyperians in higher institutions have missed the very warnings evinced by Kuyper himself. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara continued the recon-tour of the lexical range of the daikon-word group, variously. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris comments the formulas: God said, it is written, etc. The author again notes that God spoke, speaks and will speak in His Word. Paging Barth. Barth, did you read this article? Get the memo? The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews “A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee. Translated from the Latin of William Gesenius, Doct. and Prof. of Theology in the University of Halle-Wittemberg. By Edward Robinson, D. D. late Prof. of Sae. Lit. in the Theol. Sem. Andover. Boston. 1836. pp. 1082. & vo. Rev. Alexander compares Winer’s and Gesenius’s grammars, noting that both are solid. Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor notes that religion and science are the pressing issues of his day, unlike Deism in the days of Paley and Butler.