Theological Journals, Part 1: 9/3/2022

Anglican Theological Review: in “Kathryn Tanner and the Receptivity of Christ and the Church,” Dr. Mike Higton (U. of Durham, UK) helps by showing that maternal support of Jesus by Mary, Jesus’s rearing, reading, hearing and learning in the synagogue and “receptivity” of Jesus from His surroundings. No sign of Chalcedonianism, however. Reformed hawks are circling. Trinity Journal (TEDS, Spring 2022): in “Repetition with Variation in the Dialogue and Narrative of Judges,” Dr. Elizabeth Backfish elucidates some variations in the Samson narrative of Judges 14 that shed highlights on Samson’s desire for a Philistine wife, doing that “which was right in his own eyes.” Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): BOOK REVIEW: Timothy Day’s “I Saw Eternity the Other Night: King’s College Choir, the Nine Lessons and Carols and an English Singing Style:” reviewer Nancy Radlof discusses Day’s history of the glorious “English Cathedral tradition” of music. A gift for someone’s wife, a soon-to-be Doctor in sacred music and performance (pipe organ). Such a tradition of music keeps one family in the Prayer Book tradition despite the bizarre history of contorted Anglicanism. Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): BOOK REVIEW: E.L.W. Prehn’s “Saint James of Maryland: 175 Years:” reviewer Samuel Richards discusses the origins, staffing, students, network and influences of this school, including its affirmation of slavery in the antebellum period. The reviewer rejects one essay that attempts to turn the school in an ”Anglo-Catholic” direction, contrary to facts. Anglican and Episcopal History (June 2022): BOOK REVIEW: Tay Thomas’s “Angel on a Wing: the Story of Bill Gordon:” reviewer Nancy Radloff comments on the helpful, well-research bio of Bill Gordon as a missionary bishop of Alaska, a book that speaks anew we are told. And, on our side, seeing an aspect of church history that speaks to our times. Table Talk (August 2022): Exodus 21.28-35: discussion of injuries inflicted by animals. The foreseeability of injury is a factor for application. If any animal has been dangerous in the past and the owner takes no protective measure, a foreseeable event, and that animal kills a human, the owner of the animal must be put to death. An eye for an eye. Table Talk (September 2022): in “Man in Covenant Relationship with God,” Dr. Richard Belcher discusses the covenant of works, the covenant of life, and the covenant in generic, Westminsterian theology. One auditor has never heard the term “covenant” in any single sermon anywhere in an Anglican context, yet it is foundational to the Bible. What does that say for BCP-Churchmen? Read others. Standard Bearer: (July 2022): in “God’s Wondrous Works: Christ the Door,” Rev. Laning discusses Christ as the Door to the sheepfold.