Theological Journals

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “PRCA and the True/False Church (4),” Rev. Joshua Engelsma discusses the history of Synods 2017 and 2018 with subsequent affirmations of the unconditionality of the covenant of grace and justification by faith alone. Some fellas and a few consistories have fallen out with the PRCA. Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): “Jesus’s Promise of the Spirit and the Teaching of the Faith: From Kerygma to Catechesis,” Dr. Douglas Sweeney discusses “written and unwritten verities,” citing Basil of Caesarea. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Craig Carter finishes the article where he started—calling for a participatory metaphysics in reading (hint! hint! God is involved) and reading with the church fathers, not the flat-line metaphysicians whose ideas rise no higher than a room’s ceiling. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma is an excellent sleeping aid for those suffering from insomnia. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): “The Fear of God:” Dr. Garcia surely gets the theology right as he speaks of the sacred assembly, but he “idealizes” it rather than speaks “from the ground.” Having said that, we say, “Dr. Garcia, time for some good Reformed Prayer Book Churchmanship” with an Anglican Cathedral tradition in music. Then, you can have the pulpit for 30 minutes. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs nails the thesis down: God is an eternal Communicator, e.g.m intra-Trinitarian communication. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach repeats earlier belchings and non-issues raised by Barth. Much ado about nothing from Barth. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Drew Maciag’s “Edmund Burke in America,” Dr. Gillis Harp concludes the article on the political Burkeanism in American conservativism. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Alec Motyer and John Stott (eds.): “Roots: Let the Old Testament Speak:” David Ruddick gives high praise to this 416-page volume of 17 chapters with no footnotes but with indices, tables, etc. Motyer’s OT scholarship is granular but also macroscopic. The OT is the predicate for understanding the NT. Stott is the post-humous editor (?) of Motyer’s work. ??. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton continues the bizarre view of a “eunuch,” literally a castrated male for the sake of the kingdom, as a third gender role, valorized by Christ in Matthew 19.12