Theological Journals, Part 1

Anglican Journal (June 2022): informs the reader of a Canadian Archbishop Mark McDonald who was guilty of sexual abuse. We would add that the “restorative and rehabilitative” justice crew have no room for retributive or penal justice. The Archbishop, we predict, will be denounced but not executed for these capital offenses. Jesus notes these types should be thrown overboard with a millstone around their necks, but the naturalists read the Bible selectively.

Trinity Journal (TEDS, Spring 2022): in “The Ancient Church Calendar,” Dr. Philip Derstine discusses the lunar and solar calendar in relation to Israel’s calendar.

Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “’You Share Our Story’:  Historiographies of the Lambeth Conference,” Dr. BENJAMIN GUYER discusses the term of “moderate High Churchmen” as the characteristic of LC attendees.

Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “Archbishop Michael Ramsey and the Lambeth Conference,” Dr. PETER WEBSTER discusses the storms of the 1960s and Ramsey’s role as the ABC.

Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “Anglicanism, the Lambeth Conferences, and International Relations in the Twentieth Century,” Dr. ANDREW CHANDLER comments on the decolonization of South Africa and the involvements of the Lambeth Conferences on peace, war, and de-racialization.

Table Talk (July 2022): discusses the 6^th commandment and the occasions of taking human life: those guilty of capital offenses (homicide…and we would add others), self-defense, and just wars. APPLICATION: killing Putin is lawful. Same for Hitler.

Standard Bearer (June 2022): “Letters to the Editor:” several are given on the articles of May 2022’s edition on sexual abuse in PRCA churches. Sexual abuse is soul-murder, warranting, on our view the death penalty. The SB does not go there, but we do.

Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “A Chronology of the Life of Christ with Emphasis on the Nativity and Epiphany,” Kurt Simmons, J.D., continues the pecular and wonky article about dating both the Nativity and Epiphany, citing Africanus and Hippolytus. VALUE: encouragement to see on-going scholarship. Godly thinking continues.

Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Restoring Eve,” Kendra Dahl notes that Eve did not usurp Adam’s role and authority as she did God’s role, authority and Word.

Modern Reformation (July/Aug 2022): in “Lost and Found: Calvin’s Sermon on the Scrap Heap,” Dr. Zachary Purvis describes the transcriptional process of getting Calvin’s sermons and theological lectures into print. A transcriptionist did the work. The article describes the discovery of an 8-folio volume of Calvin’s found in Geneva in 1823. Calvin preached without notes. Farel said to Calvin that he needed to write out his theological sermons as he did other writings. But, Calvin was overworked and too busy.

Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church, Gerard M, Cisar discusses the wide implications of “mourning” in the OT as applied to Jesus’s statement, “Blessed are those who mourn.” VALUE: slow-walking this aides meditation.

Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer discusses the laudatory, 10-fold principles of Habets’s Third Article Theology. Dr. Teer lauds these 10 principles.

Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021): in “Should Effectual Calling and Regeneration be Distinguished,” Dr. Cornelius Venema learnedly discusses the narrower use of the term “regeneration” in Reformed Theology. VALUE: listening to a learned scholar versus what parades around in naturalistic clown cars in other circles.

Global Anglican (Spring 2022): in “John Owen on the Dangers of Biblicism,” Rev. Rich Duncan (CoE, Peterborough, UK) introduces Owens as a deadly opponent of Rome, Arminianism and Socinianism. Rev. Duncan proposes to look at Socinianism and biblicism through the lens of Owens. VALUE: to sit still, sit down, and listen to this CoE Curate.

“The Fundamentals—A Testimony to the Truth, Vol. 1:” in “History of Higher Criticism,” Dean Dyson Hague discusses what an earnest, private, devout yet untrained Churchman is to do in the face of the academic, hostile, decadent, Germanic critics. Dean Hague is as clear as a flare in the sky and is as emphatic as an exploding bomb. But, oh wait! This Anglican Professor is a fundamentalist! Oh no!

“Theologians You Should Know: Apostolic Fathers to the 21^st Century,” Dr. Michael Reeves discusses gets into the “Letter of Barnabas” for the last post-apostolic theologian.

Princeton Theological Review (Vol.22, No.1, Spring 2007): in “Justice, Mercy, and Forgiveness: Jesus’ Cross to Bare,” Sharon L. Baker honks her horn with her sloganeering against Anselm’s view of the atonement and, even, Aquinas’s drift to the idea of the non-necessity of a sacrificial atonement. VALUE: seeing the author dismiss Pauline epistles in a footnote as a convenient skirting of justification as a forensic act. Nice try, Lass.