Theological Journals

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): Letters to the Editor: Dr. David Trier attempts to extricate himself from his own imputations anti-Communism and racism amongst “white evangelicals and fundamentalists, to their discredit. The letter of complaint to the Editor is spot-on. Dr. Trier’s self-defense drops like a bag of rocks to the ocean floor. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Fundamentals for the Evangelical Future,” Dr. Daniel Treier carries on about evangelicalism complicity in anti-Communist politics and in racist policies. No footnotes, no books, and no statistics are offered by this overly-simplistic characterization. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma proves the point of the PRTJ journal article about how Neo-Kuyperians and the common-grace hustlers have missed the boat and lost the Gospel, Reformed identity and Confessional Churchmanship. Plug in the paper shredder for the baffle-gabbing gab-fest of irrelevance. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Mattson offers his panegyric on Dr. Gaffin, his Professor in the 2000s. He was “Gaffinized” he said. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 317-36): in “William Perkin’s Doctrines of Faith and Assurance Through the Lens of Modern Faculty Psychology,” Matthew Payne arraigns Kendall and Foster is misreading Perkins through their own theological categories rather than Perkins’ categories. That is, an a-historic reading of Perkins. Where have we seen that before? Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach is doing little but repeating Barth’s complaint about the pactum salutis—it’s complexification raised to high order of magnitude resulting in obfuscation and irrelevance. Sit down, Mr. Barth. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014). BOOK REVIEW: Dell O’Donnell’s “The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven:” reviews the lead-ups, events and follow-ups in terms of sermons, essays and dialogues about the female ordinations in the TEC. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Heinz Schilling’s “Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval,” Dr. Mark Thompson concludes the review calling it the “book of the year.” Various attributes are assigned to Dr. Schilling: lucid, contextualized and appreciative. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Love and Sex: Applying the Song of Solomon in a Contemporary Cultural Context,” Emmanuel Mukeshimana’s describes two marital courtship patterns in Uganda: (1) arranged marriages and, more recently, (2) marriages where the lovers do the picking, tell the parents in search of parental blessing, and the marriage itself. The author aligns the latter with the structure of the Song of Solomon. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng makes the point; modern Neo-Kuyperians are lost in the woods and have twisted even Kuyper’s cautionary and Confessional angles. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara outlines the Form of Government (FOG) and its history on the question of only males for the diaconate. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris notes that Hebrews contains 32 OT citations with an explicit OT quotation. He will look at other dimensions: text, use, hermeneutics. Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2019), ), in “An Oppressed People in a Groaning Creation: Toward an Eco-Public Theology of Undocumented Farmworkers,” PTS student, Emily Wilkes, evinces or demonstrates the “socio-political” emphasis in these post-millenarian, Dystopian, non-theological Utopians. It’s surely not Confessional, exegetical, or historical. Why doesn’t she just write for some other journal? Or a political journal? She’s lost the Biblical message, en toto in this article. Let the girl read Dr. Cranmer’s wonderful work, “Confutation of Unwritten Verities.” To wit, we follow Scriptures not the fancies of our minds. If you add or subtract from God’s Word, God will handle it. Themelios (Dec 2021): in in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Dr. Roland Elliot outlines one approach to Levitical law: moral, ceremonial and civil. He will argue that this is insufficient. We’ll see.