Theological Journals

Table Talk (June 22): in “Vengeance Belongs to the Lord,” Rev. Bill Green wisely admonishes the reader to caution and recognition that vengeance belongs to the LORD. Ain’t gonna be any freebies. Salutary and lucid. Yet, as previously noted, there are times for righteousness indignation, e.g., the strident fundamentalists in the religious universities of secularism.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): in in “Prayer as a Training School for Confession,” Abraham Kuyper offers pablum here—get a BCP, Abraham and get over it. Liturgical prayers matter for adolescents. Not a helpful article.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham notes that Sheol is personal, feared and spread across the OT Canon.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Protestantism: A Maritime History:” Dr. Purvis comments on nautical matters, including Knox’s experience as an oarsman on a French galley ship.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma offer more serial belchings and methane emissions.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “Jerusalem and Athens, Pt. 1: Proclaiming Christ on the College Campus,” Rev. Juan Martinez explores the “religious nature” of universities with their strident fundamentalism of hostility to Christian discourse. Not always, but almost.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in in “What’s in a Word: The Trinity,” Dr. Pierce Taylor Hibbs, we feel, goes to far in fancies on language—its internal structures—and the Trinity. He frames it well, but it is almost too wonkified to be true. We accept the thesis that every word uttered anywhere is under divine providence. We got that.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach painfully rehearses Barth’s chokings. Shaking the watch to see if it’s working. Enough already of Barth.

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: BOOK REVIEW: Hilary Larkin’s “Making of Englishmen: Debates on National Identity, 1550-1650):” reviewer, Joseph Wolniak, comments on Larkin’s anti-Romanist rhetoric in the nation’s identity of the period. Unfortunately, the reviewer doesn’t further elaborate on this sense much.

Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Jon Balserak’s “Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction:” the Rev. Dr. Gerald Bray hits a homerun in his review: the book is lucid, brief, well-researched, comprehensive and aware of global Presbyterianism as well. We may buy the Oxford volume based on this Professor’s review.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton buries DeFranzia’s sexual polymorphism. What a gig this is.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor exquisitely argues for the sanctified use of the mind—the faculty connected with the immortal soul just as the physical eye is connected to earthly perceptions. Exquisite article by this Covenanter. Dispatch him over to GTS, VTS and TESM.

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 his work on the OT, wisdom literature and the law in James.

The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews Art. 1V.—Plea for Voluntary Societies and a Defense 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 in a quibble-exercise with Mr. Taylor.

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 else on Sasse of note.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2007): we get an outline of articles, this time, appearing to be by credentialed writers, not seminary students. The subject: the atonement. We’re told there is no consensus, we are told, hence no benchmark for any given view. This should be fun.

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Old Testament Hope: Psalm 2, the Psalter, and the Anointed One:” Dr S. D. Ellison continues to defend the two Psalms as Davidic and prophetic of the true Davide. Looks promising.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Cephas and Christ:” the Editor notes how Matthew 16.18 has been dismissed by the decadent Protestants as a saying of Jesus. This is 1908, now.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay is hitting consistent homeruns. We would add it is an exposition, without saying it, on Rom. 18-3.20. Homo religiosa est homo sapiens, knowing God, notwithstanding Barth’s toxic, dogmatic, lengthy and loud belches on natural theology.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): Janessa Fisk, Director of Admissions at TESM, outlines a new, long-week for retreatants to discern their calls to vocational ministry. The 2^nd such event will be held in June 2022. We’re watching TESM.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Context: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Fosdick’s Sermon,” Dr. Sean Lucas of RTS wonderfully relates the development of fundamentalism, the five fundamentals, as arriving out of the PCUSA’s 1892 declaration in favor biblical inerrancy, the Virgin birth, and penal atonement.

“Theologians You Should Know: Apostolic Fathers to the 21^st Century,” Dr. Michael Reeves makes an initial foray into the academies’ religion of progressivism by citing C.S. Lewis’s discovery. “…And what he saw in modern culture, perhaps more than anything else, was a suf[1]focating enslavement to the beautiful myth of progress, the dream that history is evolving ever onward and upward, that newer is better.”