Theological Journals

Historiographer (Episcopal Church): Francis Kyle concludes the story on Navy Chaplain Fitch Taylor, a man known to God and those to whom he ministered as an evangelical Episcopalian.

Table Talk (June 2022): discusses the battle with the Amalekites with Aaron and Hur upholding Moses’s arms during the battle. A sign and seal of the covenanted mercies, if you will.

Table Talk (July 2022): we’re still working June 2022 when July showed up. This edition is on the “salt and light” of Christians and God.

Standard Bearer (May 15, 2022): “A Testimony from Berean PRC:” David Nirse gives a wonderful testimony of divine and redemptive grace in his life from his beginnings until his maturation. Wonderful and encouraging.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “`Not Abandoned to Sheol:’ The Psalms and Hope for the Righteous after Death,” Dr. Kyle Dunham lays out the “hope of the afterlife” in the OT.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): “Everything in Nature Speaks of God: Understanding Sola Scriptura Aright:” Jordan Steffaniak is complaining again about “biblicism” in curious ways. We’re not sure what the gig is, but we’re watching. We’ll know more as we go.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church, Gerard M, Cisar is off to a stunning start by claiming that few have pondered the Beatitudes. ??. We’ll se what develops.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer introduces Karl Rahner’s trinitarianism, a Roman scholar who ranks alongside Barth in reorienting, it is claimed, Trinitarianism to systematics (a serious overstatement).

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021, 7-34): in “Still No Peeking: Karl Barth’s Conflict with Federal Theology,” Dr. Beach finally drops the hammer on Barth’s doctrine of grace. Unfortunately, Karl’s doctrine excludes predestination, dual destinies and dual finalities. We’re wondering what Karl’s eschatology looks like, but looking at the watch and moving elsewhere. His Romerbrief was a bag of rocks thrown overboard.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022), 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 is discussing atonement in the CoE’s modern Eucharistic service: it includes atonement, reconciliation, satisfaction, and substitution. Whoa!

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor discusses natural and special revelation, perceived by the dually destined.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “Introduction to Church Holidays from Gereformeerd Kerkrecht,” Peter Vander Schaa is wearily telling us about ecclesiastical holidays.

Reformed Theological Journal (Sept 2020), in “Christian Platonism” and Christological Interpretation: A Response to Craig A. Carter, Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition,” Daniel J. Treier of Wheaton College expresses his difficulties with “evangelical ontology.” We’re watching.

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 speaks of Abraham, Rahab and Elijah as OT models in James’s “cognitive environment” (our words).

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 notes is still baffle-gabs but we got a hint and whiff about the “new school.” Is that really the context?

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, offers nothing further of note on the pastoral office from Herman Sasse.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2007): “Cyril, Nestorius, and Schleiermacher on the Relation between the Incarnation and the Atonement:” Nathan Hieb discusses Nestorius’s sermon on whether Jesus’s mother was theotokos or christotokos?

Themelios (Dec 2021): in “Old Testament Hope: Psalm 2, the Psalter, and the Anointed One:” Dr S. D. Ellison discusses dating issues for the Psalter, including Psalm 2.

Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 9, 1908): in “Cephas and Christ” the Editor is going nowhere fast.

Hedgehog Review (Sprin 2017): in the “Strange Persistence of Guilt,” Dr. Wilfred M. McClay argues ably for lefty corporate guilt and blame-shifting. Quite provocative.

Seed and Harvest (Winter 2021, Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry): several Professors give course descriptions for inter-rim online and residential studies at TESM. Tempting, but busy.

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Context: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Fosdick’s Sermon,” Dr. Sean Lucas of RTS speaks of the 1924 Auburn Affirmation (1300 TEs and REs) denying foundational doctrines or making them options. Confessionalists as Fundamentalists were lost to the PCUSA.

“Theologians You Should Know: Apostolic Fathers to the 21^st Century,” Dr. Michael Reeves baffle-gabs in his introduction to his volume. Nice, helpful and engaging. An easy read.

Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (5.2: 2020): “An Introduction to Catholicity: An Editorial Preface to this Special Issue: Ryan a. Brandt and Matthew Emerson offer their beginnings on “catholicity.” This should be interesting as we watch evangelical Baptists talk about “catholicity.”