Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): Rev. Cangelosi describes the foolish of anger with attendant consequence, noting that wise men are slow to anger and slow to speech. A clear, popular, and pastoral approach. Commendable and provocative, in the good sense. Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): Rev. McGowen’s “Disney and the `Don’t Say Gay Bill’ in Florida:” Rev. McGowen splits wide open for all readers the depth to which Disney’s corporate culture has descended. Programming, cartoons, and more advancing the queer culture. 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 the growing set of literature of catechesis: Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodoret of Cyrus, John Damascus and others. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Mapping Theological Education in `New Normal’ Indonesia,” Dr. Amos Winarto Oie argues against the Charybdis of sentimentalism in theological education. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma finally brings in God and creation. OK. The article still belongs to a Journal of Agriculture. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Nathan Shannon writes an article on “Honor the Emperor,” attempting to sustain the thesis but offering little by way of the subject of lawful disobedience. R2K retreatism? Peter was told to shut-down his preaching in early Acts, but refused the unlawful order. Arguably, he disobeyed in a humble and decent way. ??. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs is stretching the evidence by analogizing the Trinity—along three directions—to a 3-fold structure in language. A nice analogy, but too fanciful at this point for credibility. One is reminded of Prof. Frame’s insistence on the Trinity and the three-fold hermeneutic that he foisted on students. Ugg!! Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach needs to end this article on Barth. Barth abstracted into the ecosphere with his own fancies. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Scott Mantesch’s “Calvin’s Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609 (OUP, 2012): Glenn Morris, the reviewer, discusses the consistorial notes of the 130 pastors in/about Geneva revealing the pastoral issues including discipline, a fairly disorderly set of behaviors, variously. Often, such met with counsel and admonition. Domestic abuse, sexual misconduct, gambling, gossip and more. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Mark Strauss’s “Mark: ZECNT:” the reviewer, Adam Young, commends the commentary as suitable for graduate, undergraduate and seminary students. Workable for scholars as well. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton is still baffle-gabbing about “eunuchs” in the OT while defanging DeFranzia’s claim that this is another gender. Weird. Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor capably and confessionally describes the true Christian whose affections are set on Christ above. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa gives the history of the growth of festival and saints’ days in church history. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara gives a simple shot at 1 Tim. 3.8ff. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris shifts the discussion to structural issues. 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 is objecting to GA opponents opposing the Church Missions board, a denominational board versus the Home Mission Society, a trans-denominational, voluntarist affair. 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, tries to put forward Sasse’s argument for the “pastoral office.” Straining at a gnat at this point.