Theological Journals

Historiographer: “Early Witness to Globalization,” Rev. Kyle is providing a history of an Episcopal clerk and US Navy Chaplain (1803-1865), Chaplain Fitch Taylor. He travelled the sea seas and wrote about it. He died within a 100 days of Lincoln’s assassination and is buried in the cemetery at Brooklyn Naval Station.

Table Talk (June 22): the walk-through of Exodus 16-19 brings out the main features of the text—divine provision of quail, manna and God’s protection and redemption.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): “PRC Missions in the Philippines:” Rev. Daniel Kleyn notes that the seminary in the Philippines has resumed face-to-face instruction and he’s glad for that.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham sets forth OT figures who looked to the afterlife and fellowship with God.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): “Everything in Nature Speaks of God: Understanding Sola Scriptura Aright:” Jordan Steffaniak may be setting up a straw man over “biblicism” and “sola scriptura.” Reformed hawks are circling on even Modern Reformation. Jordan, please read WCF 1-3, thank you.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “Permaculture for Ecotheology: An Innovative Experiment,” Troy Bierma finishes tomorrow, ending our pain and the wasting of our time. Awful.

Westminster Magazine (Spring 2022): in “Jerusalem and Athens, Pt. 1: Proclaiming Christ on the College Campus,” Rev. Juan Martinez discusses the prophetic, priestly and kingly aspects of religion amongst the strident fundamentalists of modernity.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer will argue that ongoing models of trinitarian discussion cannot and should not unseat the classical, Creedal models.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach should have cut this article by at least 40%. We have Barth’s puerile objections to federal theology already. Let’s end it.

Anglican & Episcopal History (Sept 2014): BOOK REVIEW: BOOK REVIEW: Hilary Larkin’s “Making of Englishmen: Debates on National Identity, 1550-1650):” reviewer, Joseph Wolniak notes that the Admiralty recognized the military and social usefulness of upping the game on church life aboard ships and ashore. An “Evangelical” (albeit Anglican) variety emerged.

Churchman (Winter 2018): BOOK REVIEW: Richard Bauckman’s “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses” (Erdmans, 2017): Michael Dormandy, the reviewer, gives high praise to the work on “eyewitnesses” and notes its salutary effect within the academic community in favor of the Gospel witness. Nice, in light of the emo-crowd of experientialists badmouthing doctrine.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), in “Beyond Male and Female? How Redemption’s Relationship to Creation Shapes Sexual Ethics,” Sam Ashton concludes, politely, DeFranzia’s whacky theory that eunuchs are a third gender. Bizarre.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor is a master at natural and special revelation and in describing the conversion and state of mind to the regenerate who cultivates the mind.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa wearisomely reviews “calendar days” with a retour of Levitical festivals.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Justification of Ordained Office of Deacon Restricted to Qualified Males, “Dr. Robert J. Cara offers an excursus on church history and diaconesses (for dealing with women issues, e.g. bathing sick, elderly women, etc.)

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 argues for Leviticus 19, Deuteronomy 6 and Proverbs 3.34 as reverberations 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 complains of the independentism of voluntaristic missions societies.

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, notes that Sasse’s ministry unfolded in crises in Germany: WW1, the rise of the Nazis, and WW2.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2007): “Cyril, Nestorius, and Schleiermacher on the Relation between the Incarnation and the Atonement:” Nathan Hieb gives a blurb on Cyril, Nestorius, Ephesus 431, Chalcedon 451, and then proposes to invite Schleiermacher to arbitrate. Well, this should be good. Grab a box of popcorn.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): “Cephas and Christ” the Editor, as in the previous article, is not theology’s finest writer.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay comments on victimhood as a strategy of dealing with guilt and self-exoneration.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): several professors offers brief blurbs on interim course offerings online. Some fascinating offerings that are tempting.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Context: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Fosdick’s Sermon,” Dr. Sean Lucas of RTS comments on the vacuity of a session at First Presbyterian, NYC, that invite Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, to supply the pulpit. Experience over doctrine was the mandate versus doctrine over experience.

“Theologians You Should Know: Apostolic Fathers to the 21^st Century,” Dr. Michael Reeves offers a apologia in his introduction to meet some of the celebrity (his word) theologians of the ages.