Theological Journals

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Learning to Read Scripture Like the Fathers,” Craig Carter notes decadent and even conservative hermeneutic that focus on “authorial and single” intention—the human authors—yet exclude the divine intention. The result? Exclusion of the divine intention flattening the text. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma continues to put his head in the sand and think with his bottoms-up. This is Neo-Kuyperianism run amok. Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): Dr. Suttano reflects on the practical and pastoral approaches of Dr. Gaffin, commenting on a meeting at a local McDonalds, talking theology and eating Chicken McNuggets. 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 is starting the wrap-up of points previously noted. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach finally gets us to another useful point, to wit, Karl’s diktat about the Biblical witness (as non-revelatory) until there’s some “revelatory response.” Where have we heard this before? Convenient to Karl as he had no “revelatory response” to the 7th commandment. It’s Karl response to decadent dismissals from decadent historical criticism, the bastard of German theologians (some). So, to date, Karl doesn’t like predestination, the pactum salutis or the inspiration of the Canon. Nothing new yet. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Grant Tapsell’s “Early Stuart Church: 1660-1714:” the reviewer, John Hattendorf, outlines the historical and political issues of the period but also the CoE-issues. Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Jesse Child’s “God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England: the reviewer, Mike Print, discusses the difficulties of the Anglo-Romanists or recusants in Elizabeth’s England—the religion was political and the political was religious. Pope Pius V made it harder with his bull Regnas in Excelsis that excommunicated Elizabeth and absolved Anglo-Romanists from their oath of allegiance to the Queen. Anglo-Romanists wanted to retain their loyalty to the Queen but retain their religion. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Love and Sex: Applying the Song of Solomon in a Contemporary Cultural Context,” Emmanuel Mukeshimana’s continues the exquisite exposition of the Son on marital and conjugal love. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Neo-Kuyperian Theology of Glory and Reformed Higher Education,” Brendan Looyeng successfully drops the dime, er, the hammer on the Neo-Kuyperians. Calvin Theological Journal, or Tony’s article on Eco-Permaculture, proves Brendan’s charge. The spheres of secular and sacred are blurred. An interesting note on Kuyper that he was a church drop-out for the last half of his life. Ecclesiological weakness for him, but also Neo-Kuyperians is on offer. Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara begins a semantic reconnaissance tour of the lexical parameters of the diakon-word group. He’ll work that while trying to retain English readers unacquainted with Greek. Southwestern Theological Journal (Fall 2021), in “THE USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,” Dana M. Harris notes that the OT texts spoke in their day, but the author of Hebrews also notes that those same texts “speak” the divine word and intention to his contemporary audience. Did you get that Barth? The “text” speaks? Need hearing aids Barth? You’re not as smart as you think you are, Sir Karl. 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’s review of Gesenius is not getting overworked and is being useless at this point. We’re done with the internecine squabbles and partisanship in the German schools. Give us the bottomline on Gesenius’ Lexicon (something used at WTS and RES). 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, has wasted more time that can’t be recovered. Plug in the paper-shredder. Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Leviticus in Light of Christ,” Roland Elliott continues to explicate the divine intention in the structuring of Leviticus. “God said.” Did you get that Barth or are you hard of hearing?