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IJST, October 2009 (issue devoted to Calvin)

Editorial: Calvin amongst the Systematicians? - Stephen R. Holmes

From Calvin to Gillespie on Covenant: Mythological Excess or an Exercise in Doctrinal Development? - Carl Trueman

Union and Communion: Calvin's Theology of Word and Sacrament - Michael S. Horton

Imputation as Attribution: Union with Christ, Reification and Justification as Declarative Word - Mark C. Garcia

John Calvin's Soteriology: On the Multifaceted 'Sum' of the Gospel - J. Todd Billings

A Mirror for God and for Us: Christology and Exegesis in Calvin's Doctrine of Election - David Gibson

'Deny Yourself and Take up Your Cross': John Calvin on the Christian Life - Randall C. Zachman

Reviews

Paul D. Molnar  reviews Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison – By Matthias Gockel

Mike Higton reviews Christology in Cultural Perspective: Marking out the Horizons – By Colin Greene

Rick Elgendy reviews Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire – By William T. Cavanaugh

Christopher Holmes reviews Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context – By Heinz Eduard Tödt

IJST and Modern Theology, July 2009

IJST

Assimilation and Otherness: the Theological Significance of Negritude - A. N. Williams

'Fullness of the Spirit' and 'Fullness of Catholicity' in Ecclesial Communion = Evan F. Kuehn

Religionless Christianity and the Political Implications of Theological Speech: What Bonhoeffer's Theology Yields to a World of Fundamentalisms - Tom Greggs

Calvin's Metaphysics of Our Union with Christ - Philip Fisk

T. F. Torrance on Biblical Interpretation - Darren Sarisky

The Spirit in the Church: The Universal Christ, Particular Spirit and Christian Unity - Mark Weedman

Modern Theology

Disenchantment, Re-enchantment, and Enchantment - Patrick Sherry

Prometheus and Kant: Neutralizing Theological Discourse and Doxology - Anthony C. Sciglitano

Black Holes and Revelations: Michael Henry and Jean-Luc Marion on the Aesthetics of the Invisible - Peter Joseph Fritz

Economy of the Gift: Rethinking the Role of Land Enclosure in Political Economy - Todd S. Mei

Review Essay: Phenomenology - Metaphysics - Theology - Adriaan Peperzak

Review Essay: Irresponsible Love: Rethinking Intellectual Disability, Humanity and the Church - Medi Ann Volpe

Pratical Theology 1.3 (2008)

The third edition of the journal Practical Theology has just been published.  Practical Theology is the new name for Contact. This latest edition has some good articles that caught my eye (amongst others):

Theological Reflection and Providence - Paul Ballard

When pastoral care comes alive again - an initial response to Stephen Pattison - John Horder

Confessions of a Practioner: Creative Tensions in Teaching the Christian Ministry of Preaching - Ian Dickson

Retail Faith: Relationships of Theology, Economics, Need and Desire in the UK Christian Bookstore - Eric Stoddart, Mark D. Johnson.

IJST, April 2009

Development of Doctrine, or Denial? Balthasar's Holy Saturday and Newman's Essay - Alyssa Pitstick

The Descent into Hell as a Solution for the Problem of the Fate of Unevangelized Non-Christians: Balthasar's Hell, the Limbo of the Fathers and Purgatory - Gavin D'Costa

'One Commixture of Light': Rethinking some Modern Uses and Critiques of Gregory of Nazianzus on the Unity and Equality of the Divine Persons - Ben Fulford

'The Cruciality of the Cross': P.T. Forsyth's Understanding of the Atonement - Theng-Huat Leow

The Grammar of Pneumatology in Barth and Rahner: A Reconsideration - Travis Ables

Reviews include Anthony Thiselton's The Hermenuetics of Doctrine and Robert Dale Dawson's The Resurrection in Karl Barth.

Baptist Quarterly, January 2009

This is the first edition to be published by new editor Ian Randall and also includes an article by me, which I'm really pleased about. It was written back in 2006 for the Baptists Doing Theology in Context Consultation, when I was still a church youth worker in Stevenage. I'm now a 2nd ministerial student at Regent's Park College in Oxford. This edition also includes John Colwell's excellent Dr George Beasley-Murray Memorial Lecture, which is a must read for all Baptists interested in the future of the Union.

Catholicity and Confessionalism: Responding to George Beasley-Murray on unity and distinctiveness - John E. Colwell

Celebrating Diversity: Towards an inclusive church - Andy Goodliff

A Missionary Family in China - Michael Ball

A Letter of John Pendarves from 1656 - Larry J. Kreitzer

IJST, January 2009

A very interesting set of articles in this edition of IJST. It was ten years ago it began and it began then with an article by Colin Gunton on systematic theology. The topic is again picked up here.

Concept, Image and Story in Systematic Theology - Paul S. Fiddes

What is Systematic Theology? - Nicholas M. Healy

What is Systematic Theology? - A. N. Williams

Principles of Systematic Theology - John Webster

Ignoring God Triune? The Doctrine of the Trinity in Dutch Theology - GIJSBERT VAN DEN BRINK AND STEPHAN VAN ERP

Reviews include Wrestling with Angels by Rowan Williams, The Barth Lectures by Colin Gunton, Persons: The Difference between 'Someone' and 'Something' by Robert Spaemann.

Modern Theology, January 2009

No werewolves in theology? Transcendence, immanence, and becoming divine in Gilles Deleuze = Jacob Holsinger Sherman

Envy's narrative scripts: Cyprian, Basil and the monastic sages on the anatomy and the cure of the invidious emotions - Paul M. Blowers

Poetry against evil: A Bulgakovian theology of poetry - Ryan McDermott

Through a different lens: Rethinking the role of sexual difference in the theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar - Barbara K. Sain

"Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good": An orientational approach to suffering and evil - Matthias Gockel

K. H. Ting's contribution to the contextualization of Christianity in China - Mikka Ruokanen

Friendship as a mode of theological engagement: David Ford's exploration of Christian wisdom' - Iain Torrance

Studies in Christian Ethics, Feburary 2009

Studies in Christian Ethics will now have 4 editions a year. This edition is the first publishing papers from the September 2008 SSCC on the Sermon on the Mount. The next edition will see the other papers.

Usus Gratiae: How Am I to Hear the Sermon on the Mount?
Susan Frank Parsons

Prayer and Morality in the Sermon on the Mount
Oliver O'Donovan

Rain on the Just and the Unjust: the Challenge of Indiscriminate Divine Love
Jennifer A. Herdt

The Sermon on the Mount and Political Ethics
John Battle

The Sermon on the Mount as Realistic Disclosure of Solid Ground
Glen H. Stassen

Reading the Sermon on the Mount in an Age of Ecological Catastrophe
Richard Bauckham

Review Article: A Closer walk on the Wild Side: Some Comments on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age:
John Milbank

Reviews include
Christopher Roberts, Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage (New York: T&T Clark International, 2007) reviewed by Mark Thiessen Nation

Jason Byassee, Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007) reviewed by Brian Brock

John Swinton and Brian Brock (eds), Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church (London: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2007) reviewed by Amos Yong

John Kelsay, Arguing the Just War in Islam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007) reviewed by Nigel Biggar

Baptist Quarterly, October 2008

This edition of the journal is the final one to be edited by John H Y Briggs, who has been editor since 1985. Ian Randall now takes over.

Whatever happened to the covenant community? Baptist church meetings in the nineteenth century - Malcolm J. Egner

George Cosens: Black Baptist Pastor and Evangelist - David Watts

1689 and all that: An exploration of the Function and Form of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith - Jon Mackenzie

A rural pastorate, 1955 - Peter Egginto

A chronological calendar of Baptist Autographs at the John Rylands Univeristy Library of Manchester, 1741-1907 - Timothy Whelan

REVIEWS (include)
Ken R. Manley, From Woolloomooloo to 'Eternity': A history of Australian Baptists - reviewed by Roger Hayden

Ed Timothy Larsen & D. J. Treier, The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology - reviewed by John Briggs

William K. Kay, Apostolic Networks in Britain: New Ways of Being Church - reviewed by John Colwell

Eds. James Krabill, Walter Sawatsky and Charles Van Engen, Evangelical, Ecumenical and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation - reviewed by Nigel Wright

Eds. Stephen Orchard & John H Y Briggs, The Sunday School Movement - reviwed by David M. Thompson

Thorwald Lorenzen, Towards a Culture of Freedom: Reflections on the Ten Commandments Today - reviewed by Brian Haymes

Scottish Journal of Theology, November 2008

'The Policing of Signs: sacramentalism and authority in Rowan Williams' theology' - Theo Hobson

'Moltmann's dismissal of divine impassibility: Warranted?' - Daniel Castelo

'How to speak with intellectual and theological decency on the resurrection of Christ?: A Comparison of Swinburne and Wright' - Gijsbert van den Brink

'Bridging the gulf between biblical scholars and theologians' - Macio Mitchielin

'Directed, ordered and related: The male and female interpersonal relation in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics' - Lisa P. Stephenson

'The Emergent church and neo-correlational theology after Tillich, Schleiermacher and Browning' - Jeff Keuss

'Critical Postliberalism: Linkbeck's cultural-linguistic system and the socially extrasystematic' - Noel Heather

'Article Review: Oliver O'Donovan's The Ways of Judgement' - Jonathan Chaplin

Article Review: Hans Boersma's Violence, Hospitality and the Cross and J. Denny Weaver's The Non-violent Atonement' - Joseph Mangina