Latest Issue of Themelios

The latest issue of Themelios is up and includes:

• Editorial: On Abusing Matthew 18
• Minority Report: Know Your Limits: The Key Secret of Theological ControversyCarl Trueman
• Trinitarian Agency and the Eternal Subordination of the Son: An Augustinian PerspectiveKeith E. Johnson
• A Spirited Humanity: The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Colin GuntonUche Anizor
• Review Article: Magnum Opus and Magna Carta: The Meaning of the PentateuchStephen Dempster
• Pastoral Pensées: The Hopelessness of the UnevangelizedRobert H. Gundry

Latest Expository Times

The latest issue of ExpTim includes these articles:

Lisa Isherwood

Dancing Theology on Earthquakes: Trends and Direction in Feminist Theologies

Larry W. Hurtado

Early Devotion to Jesus: A Report, Reflections and Implications

Paul Foster

Q or Not Q (Review Article)

New Journal Dedicated to Pauline Studies

Dear biblioblogosphere, I'm proud to announce the launch of a new journal dedicated to Pauline studies published by Eisenbrauns. It is called Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters. On the homepage you can find info on subscriptions and submissions. It's edited by myself with Nijay Gupta (see his blog) as the associate editor and we have an international editorial board. The sample issue is available on-line and the inaugural article is by Dr. Susan Grove Eastman (Duke Divinity School) on "Philippians 2:6-11: Incarnation as Mimetic Participation" - quite a treat to read! The next issue of JSPL will include Paul Foster "Eschatology in the Thessalonian Correspondence", Michael Gorman "Justification and Justice", Richard Bell "Paul's Theology of Mind", and a review of Douglas A. Campbell's Deliverance of God by Michael Gorman and Chris Tilling.

Latest SBET

The latest issue of SBET includes:

TOM HOUSTON
Globalization: Opportunity or Threat? (Finlayson Lecture)
132–143

KENNETH R. ROSS
The Church Moves South: Elucidation and Implication
144–160

J. V. FESKO
Luther on Union with Christ
161–176

ASHISH VARMA
Sin, Grace, and Virtue in Calvin: A Matrix for Dogmatic Consideration
177–194

BRUCE ASHFORD & DAVID NELSON
Meaning, Reference, and Tetxtuality: An Evangelical Appropriation of Hans Frei
195–216

Latest TynBul

The latest issue of Tyndale Bulletin 61.1 (2010) includes:

Larry Hurtado

The Origins of Jesus-Devotion: A Response to Crispin Fletcher-Louis

A rather robust counter-response to Fletcher-Louis by Hurtado. I confess that I was sceptical of Fletcher-Louis' criticism of Hurtado as teaching a three-stage christological development. Hurtado does not suffer fools or theologians gladly.

Jonathan Moo

Continuity, Discontinuity, and Hope: The Contribution of New Testament: The Contribution of New Testament Eschatology to a Distinctively Christian Environmental Ethos

I heard this paper at the Tyndale Fellowship and it was a treat. Highlight of the essay is the discussion on 2 Peter 3 which is the anti-green text in the NT (why save the planet if it is only going to be destroyed one day any way?). Moo contends that in 2 Pet. 3.7 the fire is cleansing rather than destructive for the created order. He writes: "We are left with the cataclysmic fire of God's judgement, but its function in the context is primarily to lay the earth bare before God, to reveal it as it is and to leave human beings and their works without any place to hide" (34).

John C. Poirier

'Theological Interpretation' and its Contradistinctions

Here Jack Poirier continues his critique theological/canonical interpretation (see his article 'The Canonical Approach to the Idea of Scripture,' ExpT 116.11 [2005]: 366-70) and he responds by saying that historical-criticism is indeed capable of being theologically grounded. Evidently his hermeneutics are definitely not derived from the KJV (i.e. Kevin J. Vanhoozer)!

Erkki Koskenniemi

Forgotten Guardians and Matthew 18:10

Back in seminary I did an exegesis paper on Matt. 18.10 and found it fascinating. In fact, I was discussing this passage with a student only last night! I don't think it refers to 'guardian angels' but to angelic beings who are ready to unleash a barrel of apocalyptic whoop-ass on anyone found messing with new converts to faith in Christ. In Matthew the role of angels is normally limited to acts of judgment. For Koskenniemi, this verse refers to a group of very mighty angels (see Tob. 12.15) who pay special attention to those hurting children in order to punish them after their death.

Peter Head

Editio Critica Maior: An Introduction and Assessment

Every exegete should read this short summary and evaluation of the ECM since it is the new thing in text critical studies. Strange coincidence again, tomorrow I'm taking my students through the ECM edition of Jude, esp. Jude 5.

Latest EQ

The two latest issues of Evangelical Quarterly 82.1-2 (2010) include the following articles:

Allan M. Harman

The Impact of Matthew Henry's Exposition on Eighteenth-Century Christianity

M. Habets

Walking in mirabilibus supra me: How C.S. Lewis transposes theosis

Paul Sands

The Imago Dei as Vocation

Benno van den Toren

Challenges and Possibilities of Inter-Religious and Cross-Cultural Apologetic Persuasion

Gregory R. Goswell

Keeping God out of the Book of Esther

Gary L. Schulz

Why a Genuine Universal Gospel Call Requires an Atonement that Paid for the Sins of All People

Carsten Timothy Lotz

A Critical Evaluation of Youngmo Cho: Spirit in the Writings of Luke and Paul: An Attempt to Reconcile These Concepts

Derek Flood

Substitutionary Atonement and the Church Fathers: A reply to the authors of Pierced for Our Transgression.

- Good to see two Aussies getting a guernsey.

- Glad Yongmo Cho's work is getting attention, albeit critically

- Gary Schulz's article will cheese off most Calvinists

Latest Trinity Journal

The latest issue of Trinity Journal 30 NS 2 (2009) includes a number of articles celebrating the life and work of TEDS professor and missiologist Paul G. Hiebert (see his list of works here). Other articles in the issue include:

Kevin Giles

"Michael Bird and Robert Shillaker: The Son is Not Eternally Subordinated in Authority to the Father"

Michael Bird and Robert Shillaker

"The Son Really, Really is the Son: A Response to Kevin Giles"

Dane C. Ortlund

"The Insanity of Faith: Paul's Theological Use of Isaiah in Romans 9:33".

Latest SBET

The latest issue of the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology includes:

Kevin F. Scott

"The Church and the Urgent Patience of Christ"

James Read

"More than the Spirit of Mission? Revisiting the Work of the Spirit in the Book of Acts"

Jason Hood

"Christ-Centred Interpretation Only? Moral Instruction from Scripture's Self-Interpretation as Caveat and Guide"

James Eglinton

"Image Rights and Iconoclasm: A Study on the Relationship Between Christology and Idolatry"

Benjamin Myers

"The Impossibility of the Secular: Double Prevenience in Karl Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation"

New Journal: Early Christianity

Mohr/Siebeck has launched a new journal called Early Christianity (EC). The journal seems concerned to break out of the limitation of the "New Testament" and the "first century". Sounds good, but I wouldn't exactly call the "New Testament" something that has "hindered the development of the discipline" which sounds oh so Wredian.

Latest Issue of EQ

The latest issue of Evangelical Quarterly 81.2 (2009) includes:

Benjamin Sargent
The dead letter? Psalm 119 and the spirituality of the Bible in the local church

Jason B. Hood
Evangelicals and the imitation of the cross: Peter Bolt on Mark 13 as a test case

Keith Innes
Towards an ecological eschatology: continuity and discontinuity

Derek Tidball
Post-war evangelical theology: a generational perspective

First Issue of Ecclesia Reformanda

The first issue of Ecclesia Reformanda: British Reformed Theology 1.1 (2009) is available and includes the following articles:

Editorial

The Maximalist Hermeneutics of James B. Jordan
R.S. Clarke

The Poetry of Wisdom: A Note on James 3:6
Sarah-Jane Austin

John Owen's Doctrine of Union with Christ in Relation to His Contributions to Seventeenth Century Debates Concerning Eternal Justification
Matthew W. Mason

Thinking Like a Christian: The Prolegomena of Herman Bavinck
Matthew P.W. Roberts

Latest JTI

The latest issue of Journal of Theological Interpretation 3.1 (2009) includes:

Daniel C. Timmer
"Character Formed in the Crucible: Job's Relationship with God"

William A. Tooman
"Edward's Ezekiel: The Interpretation of Ezekiel in the Blank Bible and Notes on Scripture"

Douglas S. Earle
"The Christian Significance of Deuteronomy 7"

Micahel D. White
"Charles Hodge, Hermeneutics, and the Struggle with Scripture"

Kent L. Yinger
"Reformation Redivivius: Synergism and the New Perspective"

Michael F. Bird
"What if Martin Luther Had Read the Dead Sea Scrolls?"

Matthew M. Bridges
"Reunderstanding How to 'Understand the Scripture'"

Hans Madueme
"Review Article: Theological Interpretation after Barth"

Latest Tyndale Bulletin

The latest issue of TynBul 60.1 (2009) includes the following articles:

Kit Barker
Divine Illocution in Psalm 137: A Critique of Nicholas Wolterstorff's 'Second Hermeneutic'

Hetty Lalleman
Jeremiah, Judgment and Creation

Robert Simons
The Magnificat: Cento, Psalm or Imitatio?

Christopher M. Hays
Hating Wealth and Wives? An Examination of Discipleship Ethics in the Third Gospel

Jake H. O'Connell
Jesus' Resurrection and Collective Hallucinations

Christoph Stenscheke
Reading First Peter in the Context of Early Christian Mission

Jan Henzel
Perseverance Within an Ordo Salutis

Michael P. Theophilos
The Abomination of Desolation in Matthew 24:15

Latest European Journal of Theology

The latest issue of EJT 17.2 (2008) is out and includes:

Myriam Klinker-De Clerck
The Pastoral Epistles: authentic Pauline writings

Klaus Wetzel
Die Missionsgeschichte Deutschlands im Kontext der europaeschen Missionsgeschichte

Leonardo De Chirico
Ethics and the Internet, Starting from Theology

Nazaareno Ulfo
The Challenge of Cyberculture

Thomas Gerold
Liebende Selfsthingabe als anfanghafter Glaube? Eine Antwort an Lydia Jaeger

Latest BBR

The latest issue of BBR 19.1 (2009) includes:

Richard S. Hess
Questions of Reading and Writing in Ancient Israel

Gary N. Knoppers
The Synoptic Problem? An Old Testament Perspective

Craig Blomberg
Jesus, Sinners, and Table Fellowship

John G. Nordling
A More Positive View of Slavery: Establishing Servile Identity in the Christian Assemblies

G.K. Beale
The Overstated 'New' Perspective?

New Reformed Journal

I've just learned of the launch of a new British Reformed Evangelical Journal named Ecclesia Reformanda. It has a good editorial team including HTC's own Ros Clark. The front webpage states:

Ecclesia Reformanda is a new journal for pastors, theological students, and scholars, that seeks to serve the Church in its ongoing reformation according to God’s Word. The editorial board believes that historic Reformed theology offers the best expression of the theology of Scripture, and so the journal is confessionally Reformed. However, a genuinely Reformed theology is always looking for God to shed new light on his Church from his Word. It is therefore always reforming.

Ecclesia Reformanda is distinctively Reformed, with a contemporary cutting edge. It presents some of the best in British Reformed thinking and writing to serve the Church, her teachers, and her Lord.

The journal covers all of the theological subdisciplines, and early issues will include articles on intertextuality in Romans 2, poetry in James, the place of children in the new covenant according to Jeremiah 32, Jim Jordan’s hermeneutics, Herman Bavinck’s theological method, and John Owen’s doctrine of justification. Future editions will contain articles on ethics, public theology, and pastoral counselling.

Helmut Koester on a Hundred Years of NT Scholarship through HTR

In the centennial edition of Harvard Theological Review Helmut Koester has an article on "New Testament Scholarship through One Hundred Years of Harvard Theological Review" (HT: ETC). There are some good histories of NT research by Stephen Neil/N.T. Wright, John Riches, W.G. Kummel, and of course William Baird. This article is a good browse over trends in 20th century scholarship.

Latest TrinJ

The latest issue of Trinity Journal 29.2 (2008) includes:

David Jackman

Preaching that Connects, Part 2 Internal Transformation: Pastoral Patterns and Practice

Thomas H. McCall
I Believe in Divine Sovereignty

John Piper

I Believe in God's Self-Sufficiency: A Response to Thomas McCall

Thomas H. McCall

We Believe in God's Sovereign Goodness: A Rejoinder to John Piper

Gregory S. Magee

Uncovering the "Mystery" in 1 Timothy 3

Michael F. Bird & Robert Shillaker

Subordination in the Trinity and Gender Roles: A Response to Recent Discussion

Steven R. Tracey

What Does "Submit in Everything" Really Mean? The Nature and Scope of Marital Submission

HT: Andy Naselli.

Latest TynBul

The latest issue of Tyndale Bulletin 59.2 (2008) includes:

Nicholas P. Lunn

The Last Words of Jacob and Joseph: A Rhetorico-Structural Analysis of Genesis 49:29-33 and 50:24-26

Kim Huat Tan

The Shema and Early Christianity

Brian S. Rosner

'Known by God': The Meaning and Value of a Neglected Biblical Concept

Barry N. Danylak

Tiberius Claudius Dinippus and the Food Shortages in Corinth

Armin D. Baum

Semantic Variation within the Corpus Paulinum: Linguistic Considerations Concerning the Riches Vocabulary of the Pastoral Epistles

William R. Baker

Searching for the Holy Spirit in the Epistle of James: Is 'Wisdom' Equivalent?

Daniel K. Darko

No Longer Living as Gentiles: Differentation and Shared Ethical Values in Ephesians 4:17-6:9

Latest BBR

The latest issue of Bulletin for Biblical Research 18.2 (2008) includes:

ARTICLES

How Big Was Nineveh? Literal versus Figurative Interpretation of City Size
Charles Halton

"The Disciple Jesus Loved": Witness, Author, Apostle—A Response to Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Andreas J. Köstenberger and Stephen O. Stout

Jewish Opposition to Christians in Asia Minor in the First Century
Eckhard J. Schnabel

Seeing Things John's Way: Rhetography and Conceptual Blending in Revelation 14:6–13
David A. deSilva

REVIEW ESSAY

Judgment and Justification in Paul: A Review Article
Michael F. Bird