Theological Journals

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Craig Carter proposes a few things: (1) adopting the hermeneutics of the “premoderns” and adopting patristical hermeneutics (??) and (2) without the fathers, we would not have Trinitarian and Christological creeds. Well, reading the modern PTJ confirms that. Modern Reformation (Jan/Feb 22), in “Fundamentals for the Evangelical Future,” Dr. Daniel Treier speaks of five forms of “unbiblical fundamentalism” as joyless, quick to anger, inclined to favoritism, inclined to discrimination, failed at communal living, divisive, and non-ecumenical. Where does one even go with those claims? No statistics, no footnotes, no books recommended and no gratitude. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma wastes the readers’ time. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Matson notes that Dr. Gaffin was a creature of his overhead projector and avoided power-points. Also, that Dr. Gaffin reworked his conclusions before students 3-4 times. 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 notes that Aristotelian categories shape Perkins’ cognitive environment in soteriology: formal cause, material cause, efficient cause and final cause. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach is offering techno-mumbo-jumbo out of Barth’s mumbo-jumbo. The Profs at PTS are all “post-Barthian” one is told. Bring back Turretin please. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Dell O’Donnell’s “The Philadelphia Eleven” tries to make gold out of dirt without saying anything exegetical, theological or historical about female ordinations. As expected. And we got that malicious and wicked Katie Schori Jefferts from that crew. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Love and Sex: Applying the Song of Solomon in a Contemporary Cultural Context,” Emmanuel Mukeshimana’s exposits, quite magnificently, the divine beauty and glory of marriage. This could be adapted and used as a sermon for young adults (and parents of such). Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng has made the point: the Neo-Kuyperians have lost the Biblical message. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara notes that ARP churches, at the local level, are free to ordain female deacons alongside male deacons. He will argue for just the male model. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris discusses the LXX as the basis for OT citations. The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (Volume 9, Issue 1, 1837, pages 29ff.). James Waddel Archibald reviews “A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee. Translated from the Latin of William Gesenius, Doct. and Prof. of Theology in the University of Halle-Wittemberg. By Edward Robinson, D. D. late Prof. of Sae. Lit. in the Theol. Sem. Andover. Boston. 1836. pp. 1082. & vo. Rev. Alexander is getting into the woods on background to Gesenius’s work. It’s more about Gesenius, Hupfeld, Ewald and other than about the Lexicon that is allegedly under view. Concordia Theological Journal (Winter 2020), BOOK REVIEW: Prior, Karen Swallow. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2018. Dr. Swallow has written on the “virtues” in reading great books—in the act of reading itself and being shaped/formed by good ideas. 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 skillfully, blissfully, happily and benightedly twists and distorts “food, incarnation, land, Creation, the Cross, the Beast of Revelation” into her convoluted, constipated, and bizarre categories about farming, global economics and undocumented aliens. A hot, steamy crap-burger with no cheese. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott gives a competent, skilled and accurate “structure” of Leviticus. We think he has captured the “cognitive and affective” environment and intentions of Moses. Very nice, thus far.