Theological Journals, Part 1: 12/20/2022

Historiographer (Autumn 2022): “Recovering the Easter Vigil Liturgy:” Mr. John Rawlinson discusses Dr. Massey Shepherd’s liturgical work on this subject. Dr. Hoche has taken the insights to formulate a reworked, Ambrosian text.

National Catholic Register (20 Nov 2022): in “Public Schools vs. Parents,” Matthew McDonald shows the face-off in one New Hampshire county which included trans-gender coaching to two children without parental notice, consultation or permission. The "woke" crowd is in/around the schools. The LBGT-activists are marching. 

National Catholic Register (6 Dec 2022): “School Board Success,” Matthew McDonald tells the story of school boards, CRT, transgenderism, and more. Glad the RCs are on these stories including legal challenges. 

Anglican Journal (Oct 2022): “Education Directory:” Trinity College, Un. of Toronto, is discussed and degrees offered. This school is across the street from Wycliffe College and just over from Dad's alma mater, Knox College.

Anglican Journal (Nov 2022): “On My New Role with the Anglican Communion,” the Canadian Primatette, Linda Nichols, offers nothing notable. Looking over at the top shelves of books for the "Real Bishops." Sit down, Linda, and learn.

Anglican and Episcopal History (Aug 2022): in “Huguenot Anglican in Seventeenth Century Virginia,” Rev. Lonnie Lee notes that French Huguenots to Virginia  brought their entrepreneurial skills to the new colony. Many bought land. Others served on plantations. Many were glad to be free of France and persecutions by French Papists. 

Anglican and Episcopal History (Aug 2022): “Peter Martyr Vermigli.” Dr. Daniel Graves comments on Vermigli’s concept of “mutual indwelling”—Christ in the believer and the believer in Christ—for Holy Communion’s efficacy. Vermigli’s “Preface” is discussed with a dedication to his patron, Thomas Cranmer. Vermigli follows the traditional rhetorical template. Erasmus, we would add, was a master at it--hey, remuneration was in view and he could be obsequious, the alternative to his satirical skills. 

Anglican Theological Review (May 2022): in “Reforming Tradition: Anglican Spirited Continuity,” Dr. Ross Kane has about 100 configurations of the wax nose called “Anglican traditions.” Blah, blah. Of course, “discerning of the Holy Spirit’s work” include women’s ordination. Looking at the watch and shaking it to make sure it works. Of course, “via media” is tossed into the mix of this “capaciousness.” Well, with that Anglican fluidity, the next discernment of the "Holy Spirit" will be approving sodomy and pansexuality. Anglicans lack a strategy of defiance, just as they got rolled in historical criticism 100 years ago. 

Anglican Theological Review (Aug 2022): “`Love is our Lord’s Meaning:’ Spiritual Formation in Julian of Norwich and Desmond Tutu,” Frank England finishes this weird article with long-talking. What that had to do with Tutu is a mystery. 

Anglican Theological Review (Nov 2022): “Editors’ Notes:” comments are offered about the “supercessationist views” of “white supremacists” in Virginia. An MDiv from Yale, Mary Davenport will review Anglican sermons from 1609 onwards. Two 1609 promo-sermons are evaluated, thus used to promote interest in the new colony. This should be good. The biblical hermeneutic of Christians "superceding" Abraham and promises of land, etc., informs these colonizers. Those bad white guys. As usual with logicians, we'll be watching for imported values and innuendos. 

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2022): ”Prophecy Arguments in Apostolic and Contemporary Time,” Drs.Gauche, Newman, and Bloom argue based on a 1999 article in JETS that sane, statistical and exegetical arguments are needed to counter the anti-supernatural worldviews of the academy. This should be good. Miracles and fulfilled prophecies are still powerful anti-dotes and arguments to sweep the antisupernaturalists off the field.

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Jun 2022): in “Evangelicals, Justice and the Civil War,” Dr. Obbie Tyler Todd on the defenses of slavery by Southern Baptist writers, for the “good order” and “welfare” of society and the church. Presbyterians were in the mix too, e.g. Dabney and Thornwell. 

Trinity Journal (TEDS, Spring 2022): BOOK Reviews: Thomas Renz’s “Nahum, Habukkuk and Zephaniah” (Eerdmans, 2021): this replaces Dr. O. Palmerson’s volume in the NICOT series. It’s some 700 pages. He dates Nahum in oral or written form, 664-622 BC, noting the God is bigger and more powerful than Assyria. 

Table Talk (September 2022): in “Preaching to Persuade,” Rev. Naphajour notes the Dr. Michael Kruger claims that “persuasion” is missing in modern preaching.