Theological Journals, Part 2

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): “New from the Churches:” an outstanding report on church news that shows life, evangelism, catechesis, Christian schools, singspirations, Psalm-singing…a tribe and isolated group that maintains solid Reformed practices and bears witness as light and salt to decadent Protestant theologies. Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham shifts from Psalm 16.9-22 to Psalm 49 with its expressions of hope and the afterlife, not being abandoned to Sheol with the wicked. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): “Everything in Nature Speaks of God: Understanding Sola Scriptura Aright:” Jordan Steffaniak sets up his false strawman and knocks it down accusing “biblicists” of things that is unimaginable, but, then, he’s from a Baptist background where confessions and liturgies—official ones—have been historically pooh-poohed. Nice that Jordan is maturing here, but it has the odors of lovelessness and ingratitude. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church, Gerard M, Cisar nicely located the Beatitudes in the context of OT wisdom literature. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer will engage just two models of social trinitarianism. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach notes that Barth’s soteriological universalism is a forlorn hope and wish, inefficacious grace. Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: Isabel Rivers (ed.), author of “Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymns in England and Wales” (OUP, 2011): reviewer, Nancy Ratcliff, discusses the hymnodic traditions of Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Unitarians and other dissenting traditions in England and Wales, first as inhouse products, but later resulting in cross-pollination effects. Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in in “Evaluating the Place of Main Images of the Atonement in Common Worship’s Order Two and its Significance for the Mission of the Church,” Alexander Evans discusses another aspect of the atonement: the law court and divine justice, mentioning Anslem’s satisfaction perspective. So far in this excellent article: substitutionary atonement, sacrificial atonement and blood-shedding (a life for a life and a death for a death), and, now, satisfaction as divine justice. This in an Anglican publication? Delightful.