Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): in “God’s Righteous Anger Satisfied,” Dr. Ross of Erskine Seminary presents the classical, penal, substitutionary atonement, propitiation and expiation.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in “Prayer as a Training School for Confession,” Abraham Kuyper comments on the means of grace, from baptism, schooling, catechesis, confirmation and confession. Prayer all the way along.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham comments on the many-sided shades of the 100 references to Sheol, not just as the grave but with an afterlife.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): “Does the Augsburg Confessional Teach Anything Outside of Scripture?” is a piece of translation involving Fredrich Balduin’s rebuttal in 1623 of a counter-reformation article by Cardinal Pazamany, SJ.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma belches page-by-page.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “Jerusalem and Athens, Pt. 1: Proclaiming Christ on the College Campus,” Rev. Juan Martinez explores Tertullian’s famed question, noting the challenges to speaking in a post-modern world with the “strident fundamentalism of our secular age.” Nicely initiated and a clear-talker.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs has nailed his thesis down: God, providence and human utterances, vocal, non-verbal whispers and body language as grammar.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach tells us again how much Barth dislikes predestination (and God, we would add, despite his prolixity and deviancies).

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Hilary Larkin’s “Making of Englishmen: Debates on National Identity, 1550-1650):” reviewer, Joseph Wolniak notes the issue: “Englishness,” “plain,” “loyal” “free” and other leitmotifs in the literature of the period..

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton reset and autocorrects DeFranzia’s misreading of Matthew 19.12. Took him long enough to make DeFranzia’s thesis a man-made eunuch. DeFranzia argues for sexual polymorphism said to include eunuchs.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor comments on faculty psychology in redemption, notably, the cultivation of the mind.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa baffles onwards about liturgical calendar days.

Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE JAMES, 1-2 PETER AND JUDE,” Dr. Mark Taylor begins to deliver on his promise. The other articles in this edition are “keepers.” Some good Biblical scholarship.

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 is still confounding the arguments of Mr. Taylor on this inhouse Presbyterian debate.

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 little further on Sasse’s view of the pastoral office. Let’s move it along.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2007): this edition offers up a series of articles on the atonement. We’ll see where this goes. The 2019 edition went to the paper-shredder.

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Old Testament Hope: Psalm 2, the Psalter, and the Anointed One:” Dr S. D. Ellison argues that Psalm 1 represents the Messianic David as an individual and Psalm 2 of the Davide and His people. To wit, this is a structuring matter according to Dr. Ellison.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Confirmation and Defense of the Faith:” William Cunningham thinks approaching the Biblical texts as secularists do leads to…wait for it…secularism.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay continues to hammer home his point about post-modern guilt-cults.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): in “Mental Health Matters to God A Praxis Approach,” The Rev. Dr. Jack Gabig notes the curial and curative place for mental healing. His larger point is that God deals with the mind.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Context: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Fosdick’s Sermon,” Dr. Sean Lucas of RTS begins the history of the movements. Fosdick’s sermon was a homiletical war cry.

“Theologians You Should Know: Apostolic Fathers to the 21^st Century,” Dr. Michael Reeves lists the several theologians he’ll introduce.