Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): Rev. Parsons is commenting on “Anger” in God, the life of the believer and the culture. Provocative and clear-headed.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “Disney and the `Don’t Say Gay Bill’ in Florida,” Rev. McGeown comments on the real Florida bill and the misrepresentation of it by the LGBT+ revisionists and liars. The bill prohibits pansexualit lessons for K-Grade 3 and gives parents controls over what their children learn. We add this: "I am sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling engine for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.” -- Dr. Archibald Alexander Hodge

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): “Jesus’s Promise of the Spirit and the Teaching of the Faith: From Kerygma to Catechesis,” Dr. Douglas Sweeney turns to the Syrian document, the Didache, as an expression of the post-apostolic era under the Spirit’s government.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Mapping Theological Education in `New Normal’ Indonesia,” Dr. Amos Winarto Oie offers serious warnings about theological training as “intellectualism.”

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma is wasting time and pages saying little of warrant other than become a tree-hugger.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Nathan Shannon writes an article on “Honor the Emperor,” long-gabs about our citizenship on earth with honor to the Emperor and our heavenly citizenship with honor to the King of kings.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs focuses (again) on the intra-Trinitarian speech, a point he has sustained earlier.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach is failing on one front: to distinguish where he begins and end and where Barth begins and ends. Aside from Barthian quotes, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between Dr. Beach and Barth.

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Alan Krieder’s “Worship and Mission After Christendom:” Ruth Meyers, the reviewer, comments on the Missio Dei, founded in the 20^th century (a laughable remark). Krider is a Mennonite.

Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Peter Stanford’s “Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident,” Michael Frost, the reviewer, notes that this Romanist journalist is taken by Luther for his freedom of conscience, power of conviction and willingness to take on and confront powerful interests. There is little about the theology of it, however.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton is still discussing “eunuchs” in the Bible, either congenital eunuchs or man-made eunuchs. Only in the theological journal.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor is defining what constitutes a genuine Christian, using standard Reformed faculty psychology with the predicted Biblical results. Very reorienting.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa comments on the BCO and the four festival Sundays in addition to the Zondag (Sunday).

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara comments on the Pastorals, widows, and male deacons.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris wonks out un-usefully in a cluster-bomb without a clear point.

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 notes comments on the confusions in the arguments of Mr. Taylor of the GA. Is the old school/new school the subtext? It’s 1836.

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, notes that Sasse argued for the true church as Ubi Christus, ibi ecclesia.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019): BOOK REVIEW: Charles Long’s “Ain’t Gonna Tell Nobody,” Corey Patterson, BA from University of Georgia, is called to assess the theology of Cone’s book. It’s a surface review. What’s going on at PTS? All the articles and book reviews are by juniors? Where are the PhDs and scholars?

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott has created a forest of words about Leviticus with long sentences.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor is still meandering around on science and religion.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay argues that guilt has been demoralized, disunited from robust justice, and forgiveness is for the sake of the forgiver and his mental health. ??. The interesting part is about the relativizing of robust justice, e.g., an horrific wrong and injustice.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): “Formed by the Vision of the Cross,” Rev. Mackey sets forth the whole-orbed view of “formation” for students and faculty—academics, yes, but also living with the cross and Christ’s glory in view.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Spirit of American Liberalism,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung highlights Fosdick’s anti-fundamentalist, but genteel, rant against classicists in his sermon at First Presbyterian, NYC, entitled “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” Fosdick did not believe in miracles, the Virgin Birth, the inerrancy of the Scriptures, and penal, substitutionary atonement. The liberals were not tolerant, liberal, kind and genteel, but became arrogant, dismissive, condescending and destructive of their own constituencies. Fosdick believed Fundamentalists would disappear. The opposite is happening. Sorry, Harry. Also, of note, the poor boy was never catechetized as a lad. Further, he did his MDiv at GTS already circling the historical drain…even then, but especially in 2022. Nice architecture, nice library, but flatliners.