{"title":"God of Order","authors":"Joshua Schendel","doi":"10.53521/a342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a342","url":null,"abstract":"The doctrine of the beatifying vision of God may be derived not only from Sacred Scripture’s promise to the faithful that they shall ‘see God’ (Matt 5:8; 1 Cor 13:12; 1 John 3:2), but also (and perhaps more fundamentally) from Scripture’s testimony that God ‘is not the God of disorder but of peace’ (1 Cor 14:33). An analysis of the concepts of nature, on the part of humanity, and agency, on the part of divinity, within a broadly Aristotelian framework elucidates why early modern Reformed scholastics exposited the beatific vision as the ultimate end of humankind as a fitting implicate of the biblical testimony that God is a God of order. ","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"376 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133134228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before Charles Strong: Broad Kirk Ministers in Victoria and Tasmania","authors":"S. Bonnington","doi":"10.53521/a328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a328","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores the presence and influence of Broad Kirk Church of Scotland Ministers John Service (1833–1884), Peter Sinclair Menzies (1839–1874), and John Stobbs (1840–1882) in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria and Tasmania during the 1860s and 1870s, immediately before the arrival at the Scots’ Church, Melbourne of the Broad Kirk Minister, the Rev. Charles Strong (1844–1942), with whom all three had various associations. All four were also disciples of John Caird (1820–1898) and Norman MacLeod (1812–1872). Extensive new material is presented to supplement the account of C. R. Badger, the only current biographer of Strong, who touches on Service, Menzies, and Stobbs in a cursory manner.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115300348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eternal Torments in the Westminster Confession","authors":"Jared Hood","doi":"10.53521/a331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a331","url":null,"abstract":"The Westminster Confession’s teaching on ‘eternal torments’ has nuances that need to be explored, and the historical context can be brought into sharper focus. Despite an almost deceptive simplicity, the chapters are contextually poignant. Also considered is just how vital eternal torments and eschatology are to the document. Puritanical eschatological expectation was rife in the 1630s and 40s, and Christ’s return was held to be the principal issue, so chs 32–33 are no mere addendum. The proposal is that eschatology, with eternal torments, forms one of the Confession’s metanarratives and is a contender for that which has architectonic status. Eschatology is woven throughout. It is an eschatological Confession.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123458245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PREACHING WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR: Previously Unpublished Sermons on Hebrews 11","authors":"P. Barnes","doi":"10.53521/a337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a337","url":null,"abstract":"By Robert Bruce, edited by David Searle (Fearn: Christian Heritage, 2019), 624pp., hbk, £29.99. \u0000ISBN 9781527103634","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133263524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JOHN THROUGH OLD TESTAMENT EYES: A Background and Application Commentary","authors":"Martin Pakula","doi":"10.53521/a334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a334","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>--</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123545439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE STORY RETOLD: A Biblical-theological Introduction to the New Testament","authors":"Philip Kern","doi":"10.53521/a333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a333","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>--</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113960063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE TRINITY AND THE COVENANT OF REDEMPTION","authors":"P. Foster","doi":"10.53521/a336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a336","url":null,"abstract":"By John V. Fesko (Fearn: Mentor, 2016), xx + 414pp., £24.99. \u0000ISBN 9781781917657","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116246472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}