Theological Journals, Part 4: 8/29/2022

Reformed Faith and Practice (May 2022): in “Geerhardus Vos and the Interpretation of Romans 1:3-4,” Dr. J. V. Fesko, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, discusses Dr. Vos’s resume—instructor at the Reformed Seminary in Grand Rapids, 188-1893, followed by institution as Chair of Biblical Theology at Princeton in 1893. Further, he gives the early development (which is quite undeveloped) of Dr. Vos on Romans 1.3-4, neglecting to account for significant English scholarship. Concordia Theological Journal (January 2022), in “Scaer and Preuss on Justification,” the author comments on Preuss’s “exegetical” and “theological realism.” Real, historical events as reported in the Bible. One sees here the corruption invading Concordia Seminary in the 1950s-1960s before the cleansing in the 1970s. The corporate whining over that cleansing is remembered here. Net result? The decadents ones were driven off and Concordia re-established its Confessional identity and history. Sounds like what Dr. Al Moehler did at Southern in Lexington and Dr. Criswell at Southwestner in Fort Worth for the Baptists. Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): in “The Perfectly Triune God,” Rev. Marco Barone is giving some basics on the Trinity—it sounds like strong echoes from Prof. Hoeksema’s “Reformed Dogmatics.”