Theological Journals, Part 1

Anglican Journal (June 2022): discusses the budgetary surplus of $8 million dollars from 2020-2021, a result of COVID with restricted spending for clergy travel, education and expenses. More largely, as Canadian Anglicans are in a numbers decline, the CFO notes that $$s are down and the surplus must be carefully handled. Trinity Journal (TEDS, Spring 2022): in “The Ancient Church Calendar,” Dr. Philip Derstine wonks away on the calendrical issues. Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “’You Share Our Story’: Historiographies of the Lambeth Conference,” Dr. BENJAMIN GUYER discusses Anglicanism in the post-imperial period. Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “Archbishop Michael Ramsey and the Lambeth Conference,” Dr. PETER WEBSTER discusses the 1968 Lambeth Conference with preceding questions of the “Death of Theology” movement and other political, social and theological turmoils. Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): in “Anglicanism, the Lambeth Conferences, and International Relations in the Twentieth Century,” Dr. ANDREW CHANDLER discusses the 1920 Lambeth Conference and comments on international issues arising from WWI. Table Talk (July 2022): in “Anticipating the Coming of Christ,” Rev. Joel Smit convincingly argues that Christians should have a high expectancy of Christ’s Second Coming, a real belief in that as shown by ordering one’s affairs accordingly, being read. Standard Bearer (June 2022): in “The Leaked Draft of the Supreme Court Majority Opinion,” Rev. Audred Spriensma comments on the overturn of Roe (and it was that) by returning the issue to the states for regulation. Bibliotheca Sacra (Jan-Mar 2021): in “A Chronology of the Life of Christ with Emphasis on the Nativity and Epiphany,” Kurt Simmons, J.D., wonks away over 25 Dec and 6 Jan as very early dates on the liturgical calendar. Modern Reformation (May/June 2022): in “Restoring Eve,” Kendra Dahl is still wandering around on the curses and judgments of the serpent, Adam, Eve and their posterity. Modern Reformation (July/Aug 2022): in “When Doctrine Divides the People of God,” Dr. Rhyne is interviewed and says what the title says. Doctrine divides. He brings in the 5th century Gallic theologian, Vincent Lerins. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church, Gerard M, Cisar works on the phrase “blessed are the peacemakers” and “blessed are the meek.” Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer notes that Dr. Habet’s Third Article Theology is sensitive to and adheres to the Christological Creeds. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021): in “Should Effectual Calling and Regeneration be Distinguished,” Dr. Cornelius Venema works through the precisionist thinking of Francis Turretin. For those loving studied and fuzzy ambiguities, Turretin’s not your man. Frankly, I want a “precisionist” opthamologist who’s doing the cataract surgery on 12 Jul 2022. Poor Jim Packer, complaining about precisionism in the WCF while supporting precisionism in the BCP. Global Anglican (Spring 2022): in “John Owen on the Dangers of Biblicism,” Rev. Rich Duncan (CoE, Peterborough, UK) discusses the unhinged exegesis of the English Socinian, a man named Biddle in the article. Socinianism, English and Continental, is on offer.