Theological Journals, Part 3: 9/21/2022

Concordia Theological Journal (January 2022), in “Scaer and Preuss on Justification,” we get a full picture of Robert Preuss’s courage in resisting the doctrinal declension amongst American Lutherans.

Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): Protestant Reformed Theological Journal 55,1 (Fall, 2021): BOOK REVIEW by Prof. David Englesma: The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls: Justification in Biblical, Theological, Historical, and Pastoral Perspective, ed. Matthew Barrett. Foreword by D. A. Carson. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2019. Pp. 912. $60.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-1433555411. [Reviewed by David J. Engelsma]. High, high praise is given by Prof. Engelsma, including Shepherdism and the “liberated” Reformed with their conditional covenant (and return to Romanism covertly). Prof. Englesman highly praises all the contributions, especially Dr. Jay Fesko, long known here as a solid academic and Churchman.

Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (5.2: 2020): Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (5.2: 2020): in “Surely a Catholic Church: The Orthodox Church as the Church” John Mark Reynolds makes his foray into Orthodoxy. We’re watching. He absolves Orthodoxy of it history of doctrinal recriminations, but we’ll see where he goes.

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (1837): the Editor includes a brief clip from John Owen’s “Death of Deaths in the Death of Christ” along with comments on universal or limited atonement.

The Biblical Repertory/Princeton Review (January 1837). The Editors review “Melancthon’s Letters:” we get the soft, irenic letters of the early Melancthon to Erasmus in 1519, including Erasmus’s crafty response with a gentle backhand by allusion to Martin Luther. That relationship will later turn quite sour.