Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): in “Be Angry and Sin Not,” Dr. Ed Welch utters profound caution regarding anger while saying there is a place for it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “The Prophet Habukkuk and His Message,” Rev. Ron Hanko gives a straight-up, directly and Biblical review of Habukkuk bearing the very “heavy burden” or carrying God’s Word of judgment. Recommended.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham will argue that there are distinct and dual destinies for the righteous and unrighteous expressed in the Psalms. This should be good.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Between Scylla and Charybdis: Mapping Theological Education in `New Normal’ Indonesia,” Dr. Amos Winarto Oie thankfully ends his article.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma is still in a burb-a-thon. A wild article of irrelevance. Not recommended at all.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Nathan Shannon writes an article on “Honor the Emperor,” Dr. Shannon is over-talking the issue without resolving the question: when is civil disobedience lawful? We continue to ask why Peter and John disobeyed the Sanhedrin’s dictum to cease preaching in Jesus’s name? Or, when told to be silent, Jeremiah continued to preach and write? Or, why Hugh Latimer refused to trim the sails when so ordered?

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs continues the thesis that all words are things of providence.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach has already show enough of Barth’s dark whinings. Enough, bring this article to an end.

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: “Pro Communione: Theological Essays on the Anglican Covenant:” Robert Wright, the reviewer, contains serious complaints about spelling errors and a reader of the review gets little about the Anglican Covenant. Neither the book nor the review of the book are recommended.

Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Philip Turner’s “Christian Ethics and the Church: Ecclesial Foundation” (Baker, 2018): James Hughes, the reviewer, gives chapter overviews but notes that the book does not answer to its title. Hence, on our view, not recommended.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton is still in a logomachy with DeFranzia’s weirdo-thesis of eunuch being a third gender-or-other. Not recommended.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor ably discusses the impact of regeneration in the life of the saint. Recommended.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa gives the internal debate in the GLN over festival days outside the Sabbath.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara comments on Romans 16.1-2 on Phoebe. Deaconess?

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, offers Sasses’ discusses about the role of the minister.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), ), the editors note that PTR is a student-run outfit. This was shocking. Will monitor like a circling hawk over the tall grasses. That itself explains the crummy articles (minus one).

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Old Testament Hope: Psalm 2, the Psalter, and the Anointed One:” Dr S. D. Ellison will deal with internal developments in the Psalter including messianic theology.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” the Editor argues that Christians cannot cut themselves off from the Christians of the ages. Concur. A question arises: who do we apply the lessons of Church History? Applied history?

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay argues that guilt is pervasive, is growing, and inescapable, a form of “Western masochism.” Pondering. Recommended.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): Dr. Thompson gives an update on the glorious acquisition of an old Presbyterian Church for remodeling and use for larger conferences.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Spirit of American Liberalism,” Dr. Kevin DeYoung is able summarizing Harry Emerson Fosdick. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.