Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): in “The Roots of Biblical Anger,” Jeremy Pierre notes that anxiety, discouragement, and broken relationships can be the unseen, deeper, and controlling roots of expressed, unbiblical and overt expressions of anger. Nicely done and totally without wonky-talking.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “Disney and the `Don’t Say Gay Bill’ in Florida,” Rev. McGeown comments untangles the total submission of corporate culture, including Disney, to the ever-expanding power of the vocal LGBT-crowd. An excellent article by this Pastor.

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 Justin Martyr and liturgical developments.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Mapping Theological Education in `New Normal’ Indonesia,” Dr. Amos Winarto Oie discusses the peril of “sentimentalism” as connected with social media and a celebrity culture.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma, a young yapper, on our view, invokes the ecological guilt-trip.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Nathan Shannon writes an article on “Honor the Emperor,” noting that submission is due the magistrate. But, what of lawful disobedience to unlawful orders? What of a Christian using the levers of government himself?

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs gives a grammar lesson as an instance of instantiation, classification and association that goes on in every word of every language given by the Always-Communicating God. Words are integral to the created and providential order.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach is going nowhere fast on Barth’s denial of the gracious covenant of works and the gracious covenant of redemption. It’s overworked.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton discusses “man-made” or castrated eunuch as unclean in Dt. 23.1.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor ably and confessionally describes the “identity” of the true Christian. One sees his Confession and catechisms at work. A man with HIGH STANDARDS as opposed to drifty-low-to-no standards, without standards. Notable.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa curiously and interestingly describes these Continent Reformed Churchmen as keeping the Sabbath, but also Circumcision Day, Good Friday, Easter, Ascensiontide, Pentecost, the Day of Thanksgiving and New Years Day.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara further discusses the care for widows as per Paul’s Pastoral Epistles.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris speaks of chain-quotations. This is getting to wonky, but it fully underscores the divine authority and continuing use of the OT by the Triune God.

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. The Princeton Reviewer continues to rather quibble with Mr. Taylor without giving us the larger map of his direction.

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 the Christology must be the beginning-and-end of the Church, not social programs and therapy with man as the beginning-and-end. Paging Harry Fosdick for his burbings on this subject.

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott finally brings his subject to a close, thankfully. He doesn’t get much further beyond the old 3-fold distinction of moral, civil and ceremonial, the medievalists or Reformers.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor invokes the post-apostolic apologists as models for his era—the early 20^th century.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay discusses the almost infinite extensibility of guilt. That is, worldwide communication, e.g., a starving child in a Third World country or our “inter-connectedness” with nature, inter alia, argues for this persistent and unresolved sense of guilt.  

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): Dr. Thompson argues for the purchase of an old Presbyterian Church and its remodeling and repurposing for use by TSM.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Spirit of American Liberalism,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung is doing a brilliant job in showing where Fosdick lies on the Machen-divide of “Christianity or Liberalism.” Martin Luther King Jr. called Fosdick America’s greatest preacher. Fosdick, what was he? He had no Confession or STANDARDS. Fosdick described himself as a “heretic” and would should take him at this instance as knowing himself.