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 will discuss the Spirit’s role in teaching, the canon, the magisterium for Rome, the ecumenical councils as inspired for the Greeks, Pentecostals with on-going revelation and more. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Craig Carter comments on Brevard Childs’ effort to read the OT canonically, yet, not resolving the tensions with decadent criticism. Dr. Carter will assess reading the Bible as did Irenaeus, Tertullian and other fathers—to read without the assumptions of decadence and negativity evident in the decadent seminaries, eroded by unbelief. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “The Narcissism of Small Differences,” Mike Horton offers a few meaningless comments without anything notable. Try again, Mike, to make a point. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma continues to think with his bottom while burying his Neo-Kuyperian head in the sand. The PRTJ nails it on common grace, something that assaults Biblical grace. We’re on board with the PRC here. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Garcia offers some salutary comments on the worldview of Proverbs and the fear of God as the foundation to security. Yet, modernity traffics and monetizes human fears. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs astutely notes that God is a God of words and even makes it an “essential attribute” of God. God uses words inside and outside the Trinity. The Word speaks things into existence. Potent. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach further notes poor Barth’s detestation of election. He also dispatches Barth’s view of revelation (again). Barth’s dead and even the systematicians at PTS are “post-Barthian.” Another fad has come and died. It’s buried in the graveyard of theological errors. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Rzeznik’s “Church and Estate: Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia,” Frederick Borsch discusses “Quaker-turned-Episcopal” gentry in Philadelphia. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton will attempt to discuss what’s in the title. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng notes the demise in higher institutions in the Reformed world. Ask 3 questions: (1) What is the antithesis? (2) Is God’s Word inspired? (3) Whom does God love? These will give an unfolding that is shown in doctrine, worship and piety. See Tony’s bizarre article in Calvin Journal on eco-theology as Exhibit A. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara has outlined several NT texts for serial review. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris is still defining “echoes and allusions” by the author to OT texts. 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 brings his meandering review to a close without adding much else. Onwards to a discussion of the 1836 GA and its comments against Princeton reviewers. That should be good as an impending split as at hand between the New Lights and Old Lights. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott is still outlining Leviticus, but gloriously notes that the annual Day of Atonement is central to the entire book. Alleluia! Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor is still wresting with “religion” and “science” as two disciplines emerging in 1908.